Phoenix Suns' Feng Shui fouls block team building, attract injuries
Their practice facility is a magnet for depressive energy, failure, and confusion -- but this could be changed with the help of classical Feng Shui
Sometimes you try your hardest to do things right and they still go wrong, that being the story of the Suns organization since new ownership took over in late 2022. I won’t describe the last several disappointing years for the team, you can find all of that elsewhere. I’m here to talk about one thing: the problematic set-up of how the Suns’ practice and training facility is situated in, and surrounded by, roads, buildings, mountains, and more. I practice classical Feng Shui — NOT the westernized, watered-down version of Feng Shui that is limited to interior decoration and other nonsense about having a "fame sector” or “health sector” inside. In real Feng Shui, everything inside, outside, and surrounding a building matters and sometimes, success depends on it. I have not done an audit of the Suns facility, but I can tell just by what’s obviously visible on the outside that the team will have problems until a few changes are made. (Read my post on the Feng Shui of the Arizona Diamondbacks)
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Things took a difficult turn for the team, in Feng Shui terms, approximately springtime 2022. That’s because Feng Shui energy changes over time and in February 2024, when a new, 20-year Feng Shui Period began, that negative plot twist started getting pretty sinister, and fast. That’s because this is a building built in Period 8, but now we’re in Period 9 and what worked then doesn’t work any more. So there’s an acceleration of the Suns’ problems now.
I live in the neighborhood (the facility sits, just north of Camelback on 44th Street at the Paradise Valley/Phoenix border) and am a big Suns fan. I’ve passed the facility thousands of times since construction began about 6-7 years ago. It’s mighty frustrating, as I just want to see the Feng Shui get addressed (most of the world’s largest corporations and most wealthy people use classical Feng Shui, including Disney, Wells Fargo, Bank of Hong Kong, Microsoft, Wynn properties, and so many more). It’s a nice-looking building and I know a lot of thoughtful planning went into its design; still, a building can be attractive and well-made and have lousy Feng Shui (examples of this are Buckingham Palace and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water). That’s what’s going on here. In Feng Shui terms, this is building is struggling and that means those working inside of it will also struggle to one degree or another, more and more over time.
The great news is that with a full audit, classical Feng Shui offers what are called countermeasures that can offset harmful influences. Sometimes you place these outside — no, we don’t use windchimes or buddha statues or other tacky knick-knacks. Real Feng Shui lets us make changes by changing the rooms in which certain things are done, moving furniture and landscaping, sometimes adding or removing certain features, and more. Classical Feng Shui works like acupuncture does on the human body, except the meridians run along the Earth’s surface. Working with the way this energy flows is the key to tapping good qi (pronounced, “chee”), which is the name of the beneficial energy that we want to enter and circulate in a building for health, prosperity and happiness.
I’ve driven through the parking lot and seen three sides of the building clearly as well as looking at it on GPS. Just from doing that, I can identify some of the issues. There are likely more inside the building. Here’s what I see and remember, there are countermeasures that could be taken to completely eliminate and at least significantly lessen the harmful impact of these things:
The building sits on an intersection and road formation that is not helpful. Roads are like rivers in Feng Shui, and should not be straight and rushing past with heavy traffic. The qi doesn’t get an opportunity to enter the building and collect there. Health just “rushes past,” and doesn’t stick around long enough to do any good.
There is no Dragon’s Lair present. This is the structure that can be a natural formation of land and trees, or human-made from other buildings or structures that protects and shields the building and those inside it. There isn’t one here at all. In this respect the building is abandoned, standing alone and being constantly bombarded by harsh, destructive energies. The front/main door, and other key doors on the exterior of the building may be sitting on problematic compass degrees. I can’t know this without getting compass readings there. There could be what’s called a Void line in a key place and that is a problem.
Water features inside the building, and also bathrooms, may be located in such a way that they are effectively “flushing out” all the good health that should be circulating inside. On the other hand, there may need to be a water feature placed in a certain area inside to maximize the influence of what are called helpful Flying Stars. This might be a fountain, water wall, etc.
The placement of rooms used for cooking, food prep, and dining, as well as they way they are designed, could be problematic; there may also be Flying Stars therein that should be neutralized. Inside a building, many of the same features and Flying Stars that are harmful to health are also equally harmful to relationships and team morale.
Rooms used for treatment, recovery, therapy, and even diagnosis of injuries should only be located in certain areas determined by an audit of the building. If they’re in the wrong sector the entire staff and everyone they work on will have a hard time.
One side of the building has spaces, perhaps rooms, on the upper floor that are supported on the outside by pillars. Such rooms are always unstable energetically, they are not grounded and any activity happening in them or anyone spending a lot of time in them will get more and more ungrounded and even sometimes depressed and discouraged. Such spaces are terrible for physical and mental health and should only be used for storage or unimportant activities that don’t require anyone being in them for very long.
There has been on-and-off construction going on across the street and located nearby, on several sides of the facility. This is always a problem. It breaks-up the flow and collection of supportive qi energy and is famous for taking the best intentions and well-laid plans and causing them to go wrong. One can block against this but countermeasures have to be taken.
That’s what’s visible while sitting at the traffic light next to the building, or having a glass of wine across the street. Undoubtedly more problems are to be found inside. To be clear, there will also be some good things in the Feng Shui of this building, and those good elements can be enhanced and magnified to create better “luck” and prosperity for the entire Suns organization.
When properly audited and countermeasures are accurately placed and executed, positive changes can happen very quickly, sometimes immediately. Because bad Feng Shui steadily gets worse over time, it’s imperative to correct the course asap. That doesn’t mean nothing good will happen for the Suns this season, with the current bad Feng Shui at work; but it does mean it’s going to be much, much harder for them to realize their goals and take their rightful place as one of the best, if not the best, team in the League.
Katarina Lang, MArch, MA, advises clients on classical Feng Shui projects for residential, investment, commercial, and corporate properties. She works with individuals, businesses, and corporations from all over the world in person and virtually to improve their well-being, encompassing career, relationships, health, creativity, and wealth. In addition to holding master’s degrees in both Architecture and Anthropology and being a master of classical Feng Shui, Katarina graduated from culinary school and is a professional Dowser.
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