Letters | Why did Hong Kong’s feng shui masters fail to predict the protests? And where are they now?

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A windmill topped by a pig is on display at the Lunar New Year fair market at Victoria Park, Causeway Bay, on February 1. Predictions for Hong Kong’s future are commonly made during the Lunar New Year festival. Photo: Dickson Lee

Published: 6:20am, 6 Sep 2019Updated: 6:20am, 6 Sep 2019

On witnessing the turmoil occurring almost daily on our streets, I tried to seek some solace in past editions of the Post, to see what the most renowned of Hong Kong’s feng shui masters predicted for us at the beginning of this Lunar Year. In an article headlined “Sinking economy, stock market setbacks, transport woes and infectious disease outbreaks: Hong Kong feng shui masters make their predictions for Year of the Pig” (February 5), I was shocked, horrified and amazed to find that not one of these so-called experts came even close to predicting what would happen to our city.

For instance, James Lee foretold of an infectious disease outbreak in the spring, which we are still waiting for, while Eric To stated that Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor needs to “keep calm and work harder”. Given that the proposed extradition bill is believed to be Mrs Lam’s sole doing, perhaps working less hard would have avoided this mess.

I hope that these feng shui masters, whom I note are keeping a somewhat low profile, can come out to reassure Hong Kong that, even though they utterly failed to predict these ongoing events, their divining skills remain strong and true. I would hate to think that the general public might come to believe they are nothing more than charlatans and that feng shui is a complete load of rubbish.

T. Sharpe, Whampoa