Can Feng Shui Influence Politics?

One can wonder how much Feng Shui can influence politics or a political career. Feng Shui and Politics     Back in the early 1990s when I was a new Feng Shui practitioner, I saved an article from a major magazine, which mentioned the “feng shui” of the Oval office. My memory is a bit fuzzy right now, but either Clinton or Gore had gotten a reading on the West Wing, and I believe it was handled by a very well-known feng shui consultant based in New York, Pun Yin. Around the same time, she began advising Trump, and he was quoted in several articles about how he takes Feng Shui seriously since he works with so many Asians with real estate projects. The article about Clinton and Gore wasn’t a serious expose on the art and science of Feng Shui. Rather, I recall that it was more about glamorizing the relatively young ages of the new President and Vice-President and how hip they were. (Compare that to pre-campaign season 2020 with most of the front runners being elderly folks.) Certainly, some of Obama’s luster was in his relative youth. The concept of Feng Shui has worked its way into the western culture over the last few decades, and now people casually use the term feng shui, most appropriately, if not ironically. I was watching a Netflix comedy Special recently with actor/comedian Colin Quinn remarking that having armed guards at all our U.S. Schools (as a solution to mass shootings) “didn’t sound like good feng shui.” And he would be right on that count. Throughout history, the average Joe did not have such easy access to feng shui information, which is why a lot of myths and superstitions came into being. When you hear about something third-hand or taken out…

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