Qiao Fu

Fu Fortunes - A Feng Shui Letter

Every month the qi of a home shifts — certain corners wake up, others ask to be left alone. The letter tells you what moved, and what to do about it. Each month I write one fengshui letter: where the month's energy has settled, which sector of your home to activate and which to quiet, and one small ritual to do with your own hands. It is the same tradition I read from in person — the flying stars, the five elements, the almanac — delivered as something you can hold, pin above your desk, and act on. Each letter is set like a Tang-dynasty travel document (通关文牒) and stamped by hand in vermilion — a different seal every month. Letters are written, stamped, and posted from Los Angeles. Some carry a hand-drawn talisman — a 符, the charm the practice is named for — different each time, drawn for the week it is posted.