How much credit does the feng shui of Seattle deserve for all its success?
To answer this question, we have to take a closer look at the geographic features of the city and their geomantic significances. There are two outstanding geographic features in the city that contributes geomantically to the economic and technological successes of Seattle. The first and the most outstanding feature in the dominance of water. Water, water, water it is almost everywhere in Seattle. Seattle has the Pacific Ocean as its western border. This great ocean has also never been violent to Seattle; the Pacific is truly accommodating in this part of the world. War or violent weather is not heard of here. Indeed, all is quiet on its western front. In addition to the vast expanse of water on its western border, the Seattle area boasts of seven freshwater lakes. Lake Washington, a huge freshwater mountain lake extending twenty-two miles from north to south, borders the city in the east. In between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington is Lake Union, which lies to the immediate north of
