WHO WE ARE
C.C. Lee and Miguel A. Castillo are the Founders of Feng Shui Institute of Houston.
Miguel A. Castillois is the President and Juan Rojas is Vice President of the Feng Shui Institute of Houston.
Together, they have developed the Green TEA Approach® to modernize and simplify Feng Shui and Green Building for a broader audience. TEA (Total Environmental Alignment®) reveals the secret criteria and methodology that Feng Shui Masters use when assessing a house or business. C.C. and Miguel provide insight into this wisdom through the TEA Scorecard®, the first-ever Feng Shui scoring system. They host quarterly Feng Shui meetings and teach continuing education courses at Rice University and the Jung Center of Houston.
FSIOH
Our intention for Feng Shui Institute of Houston is to help others practice a useful tool to improve your life and bring harmony between you and the spaces where you spend most of your life. The relationship between you and your home, office, and automobile are all essential elements that affect your daily life. Feng Shui provides you with ways to improve that relationship so that you can be more productive, optimistic, and ultimately have an everlasting state of health and wealth.
THE FENG SHUI COMPASS
The traditional feng shui instrument used to read the magnetic direction of your home (or any location) is a device called a luo pan. Sometimes it’s a circular or square piece of wood painted red or yellow with golden accents. In the center there is a magnetic compass with concentric circles radiating out around it. The circles rotate around the center compass, and each ring has information inscribed in Chinese characters. One of the rings includes the names of the 24 directions that a skilled classical practitioner is trained to use in your feng shui evaluation.
THE TOOLS
Feng-Shui are five elements, which the Chinese believe that these five elements are the fundamentals of the universe, composing everything we know such as the human body, plants, mountains, etc. They are Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth. There are three different relationships among these five elements. One is the productive cycle: i.e., generating and nourishing relationships. Second is the reductive cycle meaning remedy or exhaustion of one agent's energy. Last, is the destructive cycle; i.e., control or destruction. To understand and memorize these three cycles for the five elements is a must for the Feng-Shui practice. Also, these five agents correspond to eight orientations/ directions as follows:
Metal | West, Northwest
Water | North
Wood | East, Southeast
Fire | South
Earth | Southwest, Northeast, Center/Middle
Elements not only have direction, but color that leaves a direct influence on Qi. Surprising enough, color has more influence than the material itself. When deciding on a color for a new dining table, think more about the shape and color of the table than the material itself.
Metal | White, Silver
Water | Black, Blue
Wood | Green
Fire | Red, Pink, Purple
Earth | Yellow, Brown, Beige