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Cats and Feng Shui
Nicki Chen recently published two posts about me.
28/01/2025
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Nicki Chen, author of When in Vanuatu and Tiger Tail Soup – A Novel of China at War, recently published a post about me and a guest post.
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The guest post is titled Cats and Feng Shui. Here’s a snippet:
I am not very knowledgeable with regards to Feng Shui, but I have always found certain concepts interesting. Feng Shui is a very complicated theory, and there are different schools of Feng Shui. One school of Feng Shui may say one thing, another school may say something else, making it a bit more complicated in practice than it sounds in theory.
My Chinese ex-husband used to mention certain Feng Shui strategies often. He used to tell me that I can’t put a certain object in a certain spot, because it would cause bad Feng Shui, for example.
One thing he always used to say was that cats have bad energy, which is a common belief in China. My older son used to love watching a cartoon featuring an old man and a cat, and he was very much in love with the cat.
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Have you ever heard of this belief?