I received a call from one of my Kiwi feng shui students the other day, asking me, ‘OMG! What’s going on in London?’ The call came of course, after the most recent and it must be said very provocative attack on bystanders at a London Mosque. My immediate response was to answer her by explaining the earlier two attacks at the Manchester Arena, and on London Bridge and the Borough Markets in terms of their feng shui and the Four Pillars of Destiny (Chinese Astrology). My answer was as follows: ‘Well the two May 2017 attacks in both Manchester and London were Rooster Year/Rooster Days, so they were days of Penalty. The month of May was the Month of the Snake and the timing of both attacks were between the hours of 9pm and 11pm, the Hour of the Pig. (This takes into consideration that the UK is currently one…

On a recent working trip to Thailand, I stumbled upon some interesting examples of feng shui at work, whether by accident or by design. I had been to Bangkok midyear 2015, just a week or so before the horrifying bombing at the Erawan Shrine. This famous shrine attracts thousands of worshippers every day, both locals and tourists alike, but has become a real draw card especially for the increasing numbers of Chinese tourists now swelling the airways of Southeast Asia. Here, on the 17th August 2015 terrorists exploded a bomb left in a backpack, killing 20 people and injury a further 125. During that visit, I had noticed two very nasty drawn bows extending directly onto the Erawan Shrine site from the BTS (Bangkok Mass Transit System), or Skytrain as it is affectionately called. Drawn bows in classical Chinese feng shui are formed by sweeping convex forms, whether they be…

The shocking and senseless bombing at 7 pm on the 7th August at the famous Erawan Shrine, one of Bangkok's busiest shopping and business precincts may well have been aimed at foreign visitors who along with many locals crowd the Shrine at this time of day. Whatever the insane motivation for such a bloody, cowardly act, the Four Pillars of such an event make for interesting analysis. This is a fascinating and intriguingly accurate ancient Chinese system for understanding any major event. Based on the ancient Chinese Xia or Farmer's Calendar, it is predicated on the idea that everything within the universe can be divided into Yin and Yang and that the way in which Yin and Yang interact is through a process of interchanges or transformers; usually translated as the Five Elements of Chinese Metaphysics. In turn, the calendar observes two primary aspects, a cosmic or heavenly aspect and…

An update on 2014 - the Year of the Yang Wood Horse For those of you wondering what on earth is going on this year, and why suddenly, the world in so many disparate places, seems on the brink of all out war and contemplating just where it will all end, I thought it time for an update on my Annual projections. At my Annual Talk in February, I explained that this year would likely see the world come to open hostilities; possibly even war. Let's review again just why this is. Yang Wood The Horse 2014, the Year of Yang Wood sitting on the fire of the Horse holds the key as to why there is both so much intractability in politics this year, and why it is so easy in the political realm especially, for these dynamics to burst into open aggression. First of all let's look at…