Home Genie "Vastu Shastra Compass | Feng Shui Energy Direction Tool for Home & Office | Accurate Vastu Compass with 360-Degree Guidance"

I gifted this to our next door neighbour (my MIL, who is very spiritual) and this made her burst into tears (of happiness). I was quite surprised, actually!It comes packaged in a cardboard box (shame it had the postal label on the front, but, oh well) and the compass itself comes covered with an adhesive brown paper on the back - easy enough to remove.This Home Genie "Vastu Shastra Compass Feng Shui Energy Direction Tool" is perfect for her as she thinks very carefully about the layout of her home and its energy flow. She's into interior design (and a highly skilled woodworker, seamstress and DIYer, but I digress).Instructions say:- Place the compass flat in the centre of your room- Align it with North to check Vastu compliance- Use it to guide element placement for optimal energy balanceI won't pretend to know exactly how this works but she was absolutely thrilled by this compass and I know she will use it conscientiously.

Very nice item, easy to use, interesting concept.

I suspect that P T Barnum's ancestor invented this, and the phrase is best translated as 'one born every minute', but this is an attractive, if useless object. There are no instructions, and many of the words on the wheel are, therefore, unintelligible, not being in English. Originally, feng shui also required an astrological reading - more tosh, but it required accurate information about positions of planets and stars, and mathematical sophistication, so there was a valuable contribution to real scientific discovery (and casting horoscopes is rather fun). A good addition to any collection of nonsense, and it does look nice and attract comment.