My understanding is that fung shui, despite all its rules, is really about aesthetics. A fung shui expert comes and looks at your property and tells you how to make it work better, aesthetically. The stuff about bad winds and etc is largely window dressing unless you happen to be near a volcano or a factory that is putting noxious stuff into the air. Or too many ions or sand or whatnot.
Those things are probably an issue in Santa Fe. You’ll want a house oriented in a way that is protected from searing winds, whether summer or winter. You’d want a place that cools naturally; that diffuses the brightest suns; that creates a sense of peace and coolness and safety.
We’re talking adobe and exposed beams, right? This is traditional architecture and it is so for a reason. The people who have been building like this for centuries have discovered how best to live in local conditions. In Santa Fe, exposed beams are auspicious, not the opposite. They have to be, or feng shui is worthless.
Trust your own aesthetic ideas and your sense of the energies of a house. Notice the light and the way the walls and ceilings move. Find places where you feel just right. Look at the views from the windows. Look at the care that the owner and neighbors take for their gardens and yards and property. This is the stuff that needs to be balanced.
You want a house where, when your friends walk in, they say it has a good energy. Together. Part of that is the house, and part of it is how you decorate it and arrange the furniture and part of it is the energy you put into it. You have to live there. You are the ultimate feng shui expert about your place. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to get their hand in your pocket.