Feng Shui and Pharma Company

“Dear Mohanbhai, I must admit that your Feng Shui suggestions have really improved our business and our standing in the market. I can unhesitatingly say that you are the best!” This was just the beginning of this letter, which went on to extol Feng Shui. The writer of the letter was the Managing Director of a pharmaceutical company.

Pharma-business, like any health-related activity, is a good business to be in. This particular company was manufacturing several across-the-counter products as well as prescription medicines. For several decades, year after year, they showed positive results and good profits. However, 2001 and 2002 were two really bad years.

For reasons of security, I can’t go into details, but as the background unfolded, I realized that this bad performance was mysteriously linked with the purchase of an additional property that was annexed with the original unit. While enlarging this unit, they demolished a wall between the two units – one large and the other, new, small – and unwittingly altered the Feng Shui of the plant. The location of the Pa Kua sectors changed. The Tui, K’an, Ken and Sun corners, earlier in just the right parts, were now isolated or placed in unholy directions and spots, which emitted the negative energy. Tui, for instance, is a trigram that relates to Creativity. Its location, in the Later Heaven Sequence, is west. It was now right out of the plant. Similarly, the K’an that influences the Career & Opportunities part and the Sun (Chinese word, pronounced soon) that represents the Wealth corner were now in the area that was occupied by garbage, waste and had a toilet for the women working in the plant. The absence of the Ken, in the new floor plan, explained the sudden `drain` of experienced staff.

The wall that was demolished was located in the South-South-East, the direction occupied by the Grand Duke of Jupiter!!! This has always caused havoc, and a secret method to pacify the angry Duke had to be used.

Incorporating Feng Shui changes in a pharmaceutical unit is a little complex, as the Drugs Controller’s office has laid a rigid set of laws that have to be strictly observed. I wasn’t stranger to these rules, as, on at least two earlier occasions I had made Feng Shui changes in other pharmaceutical companies.

What is also important is that the element of my client was Earth and the element of his father, who had started the business years ago, was Water. Both Earth and Water represented this trade. Here I was on very sure ground and believed that the success for this company wasn’t far.

Nine months after the MD of this company followed me, carrying a vase and a flute with a red ribbon tied on it, things started happening. “My unit is working to full capacity and we are selling well, indeed,” my client exclaimed briefly. Whether it a large pharmaceutical company or a small medical store, the governing principles are the same. It is a business that is ruled by two elements: Earth and/or Water. Fire and Metal, respectively, can easily turn this into a lucrative business.