Feng Shui is just badly translated by Westerners. It’s not some magical art, it’s another case of Chinese confusing people. Consider how Organic Nomenclature (chemical naming) is done in Chinese. Chemicals like “azulene” are named in such a way that the literal translation is “mysterious wild grapes” when the practical meaning is just “azulene” in that context.

Feng Shui is /NOT/ “magical home energy power”

It’s better translated as “interior design with consideration to aesthetics”.

Shocked so many people don’t understand this.

When lots of practitioners in the West are of the "magical home energy" kind, does it make any difference what the Chinese term really means?

If in Chinese it just means the equivalent of "interior design", who here would object? There's no mystical implications, and everyone everywhere agrees interior design experts can have good advice (and are also capable of outrageous misses and dumb advice as well).

In the West, calling it Feng Shui has implications. Bear in mind it was brought up in a discussion of Tarot, so let's not be disingenuous and pretend there's no undercurrent of the mystical here.

I’m in agreement with you. But what I am saying is that the practice itself is fairly normal and has been turned into something far beyond what it ever was.

I think many people in the West just have brain damage.

Your argument sounds good on the surface. But this is true of any two professionals. If you find any two scientists, engineers, doctors and ask them for professional opinions separately you will likely get different answers. They may come to hold the same opinion after collaborating.

It's not true of any two professionals. Ask two biologists about the behavior of a given animal they are experts about and you will get more often than not the same response ("is it diurnal? Does it feed on insects? Can you find it in Africa?").

Ask two carpenters about which tool to use to cut a given piece of wood, and you'll get answers within a given subset of tools.

Ask two poker players about which hand is better (for the same variant of poker) and you'll get the same answer.

Ask two Feng Shui practitioners about how to best position your furniture and you'll get wildly different answers. And it's even worse with Tarot psychics.

That's because, unlike carpentry or biology, there's no rhyme or reason to Tarot, Feng Shui or palm reading: there's no real system to them for their practitioners to draw answers from, they are bullshit. You cannot grab the Big Book of Feng Shui and tell one of the two experts "nope, here it states very clearly that, according to the Laws of Feng Shui, what you are advising is wrong."

In fact, it's the sine qua non of that kind of fringe stuff: the ability to make shit up on the spot to best suit their customer/audience is a perk of their trade, but of course it harms reproducibility.

The person reading your future in coffee stains needs to creatively make shit up as they go, which means a different coffee future reader will give you a completely different answer. Or Feng Shui expert, or Tarot reader. And you cannot even tell them they are wrong, because there's no right or wrong, because everything is made up.