# Feng Sui Makes Life Better: yes or No?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 20, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feng-sui-makes-life-better-yes-or-no/88619 "2001-10-20T20:13:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feng-sui-makes-life-better-yes-or-no/88619/21 "2001-10-23T02:27:28Z")

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Oh, and for Dave - according to the standard ‘mucky’ F/S, pointy doesn’t equal bad unless it is pointed at you directly (the angle edge or point, that is) - overlooking a ‘fire shape’ isn’t enough to constitute bad all by itself. Actually, if your natal number indicates that you are an earth person (rather than, say, metal or wood), overlooking a fire shape is ideal for you! Fire feeds Earth in the generative cycle. But if you are a wood person, it will sap your energy, and if you are a metal person, look out!! (Hey, your secretary is probably not a F/S expert, no more than most of us are interior design experts - and given the complexity of some of the rules, most people won’t get it ‘right’ by winging it, or even by reading a book or two…) Oh, and being higher than the element is considered positive in many cases, too.

(Lessee… grapes would be wood energy as a plant, but metal energy as a shape, so putting grapes under a pyramid should just make them turn into raisins real fast?)

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