"auspicious location" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a location with favorable characteristics or prospects. For example, "The company chose to open its new headquarters in an auspicious location near the heart of the city."
And Edinburgh, said Qin Gang, was an "auspicious" location for the pandas, beating Moscow zoo by having the most ideal latitude: pandas prefer cool, damp climates, between 5C and 25C.
A couple years after the Beijing visit, while I was looking for a place to live in Shanghai, a realtor assured me that the apartment we were viewing was in a very auspicious location.
In addition, visitors will find that the city's auspicious location — smack between Parma (of cheese and prosciutto fame) and Bologna (with its eponymous ragù), each about a 45-minute drive away — foretells its many fine gustatory pleasures.
And yet in the early 1980s, the UK would hardly have seemed an auspicious location for this revolution to begin.
He was a student of the Fifth Dalai Lama and requested his permission to build a hermitage for eight to sixteen monks in the foothills above his native Nyangbran and invited the Fifth Dalai Lama to perform a "site investigation" (sa brtag) to determine the most auspicious location on which to build the monastery.
The real problem in commercial property in much of the rich world is the vast number of properties in less auspicious locations.
Feng shui (pronounced fung shway and literally meaning wind and water), incorporates elements of Chinese philosophy and natural science to pinpoint auspicious locations.
Feng shui, the slightly mystical system of belief that incorporates Chinese natural science and philosophy to align buildings and pinpoint auspicious locations, is also popular among hard-nosed New Yorkers.
One obstetrician here said she has lost patients by refusing to deliver their babies by Caesarean section at the precise time dictated by a master of feng shui, the ancient art of choosing auspicious locations and dates for harmonious balance.
SHINDE, India — When a Chinese truck company wanted to open a factory in India, its president looked at sites that had a mountain in back and a river in front — especially auspicious locations in the traditional practice of feng shui.
Their locations have often been selected with great care: in China feng shui ("augury") experts picked sites calculated to provide "good wind and water"; Koreans traditionally hired geomancers to divine auspicious locations, out of the range of vision of "baleful spirits".
