Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success: Arranging Your Office for Success and Prosperity--with Personalized Astrological Charts and Forecasts [Paperback]

T. Raphael Simons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 1998

T. Raphael Simons's extraordinary manual Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success brings to Westerners previously inaccessible information that has been in circulation among the power elite of China for centuries. Everyone, from CEOs to secretaries, freelancers to entrepreneurs, can use these simple techniques to gain and keep the leading edge.
        
In Taoist teaching, feng shui and astrology are profoundly linked. Simons is the first writer on feng shui to provide date-of-birth charts enabling us to find the personalized guidance on career tactics and office space arrangement that we need to succeed.

With Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success you can:
Find your date of birth on easy-to-use charts and read about your career strengths and weaknesses and the areas of business for which you are best suited
Read about different office personality types and how you can deal with each one effectively
Look up your fortune according to the direction of your office door
Deflect negative energy through the use of objects and colors
Consult tables to find your business forecast for any year and month
Discover how to arrange your office furniture and decor to enhance your opportunities for success
Understand how to remedy problematic spaces
Learn how to consult the I Ching for help in making business decisions

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Judging from the favor in which psychics, astrologers, and similar occult practitioners are now held by senior business executives, Simons' second book on feng shui should draw a substantial audience. Departing from the usual advice on selecting and arranging furniture, this aspect of feng shui, as articulated by Simons, first tackles careers and relationships. A multitude of charts, each carefully explained and cross-referenced, leads readers to discover the success forecast for the next month. That kind of training is followed by a consideration of work space; rather than explaining generalities, each chapter focuses on one or two elements, with the ultimate objective being to produce remedies in terms of workplace shapes and power points. There are, in fact, honest-to-goodness door fortunes, based on direction and birth stars, such as "Be meticulous at work, and take care to refrain from entanglements and quarrels. Do not take the goodwill of others for granted. Sincerity will lead to success." Beats a fortune cookie every time. Barbara Jacobs

From the Author

DEAR READERS

In reading over some of the reader's reviews, two points appear very much in need of clarification, namely, the nature of the Chinese calendar (upon which the Chinese astrological and compass methods in my books are based) and whether or not my books are just for beginners.

There are two Chinese calendars. One is Solar and one is Lunar. Both are combined in the "Li Shu," or astrological ephemeris. The Solar calendar, upon which 9-Star astrology is based, begins every year on about February 4th, i.e. 15 degrees Aquarius (the mid-point between Winter Solstice and Vernal Equinox). The Lunar calendar, upon which the Ba Tzu astrology is based, always begins on the 2nd New Moon after the Winter Solstice. Both systems are clearly described in my books, 9 Star in my first two books, Ba Tzu in my third. My astrological, and therefore calendrical, calculations are absolutely correct.

As to whether my books are for beginners or not, they are, indeed, for beginners, but they are for advanced students as well. They go as far as any book in a non-Chinese language can possibly go without going into nonsense. There are, of course, more advanced techniques, but the interested student must undergo personal training in order to learn them. I privately teach the most advanced classical fengshui techniques, which include the complete Ba Tzu astrological system with its Lo Pan compass methods. To learn these, the student has to first to learn a basic set of no fewer than about 50 Chinese characters in order to read, and make calculations with, the Li Shu, and so forth. Notwithstanding, what is in my books works very well. My books are 100% traditional, straight forward and designed as step-by-step manuals. If you use them, you will get very positive results.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1st edition (October 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609802305
• ISBN-13: 978-0609802304
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #874,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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