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Kathryn Weber
Feng shui expert Kathryn Weber shares with you each week how to help you get unstuck, become prosperous, find love, good fortune and bring opportunities to your life with easy feng shui changes to your home and office.
This is my final Five Minute Feng Shui podcast.
Remember always, YOU ARE YOUR BEST FENG SHUI! When times are good, indifferent and/or bad, you can make things better with your own feng shui. Never, ever forget this!
It has been a pleasure recording these podcasts over the past 5 years and hearing from you, all my listeners! And as Gene Autry sang, "Happy Trials to You, Until We Meet Again...Happy Trials to You, Keep Smiling Until Then!"
The Year of the Rabbit is coming and with a gentleness that only a bunny can bring. It will offer us a sweet exhale like you do when you sit down in your favorite chair after a long day.
The rabbit is associated with the moon, as you may often see the outline of a rabbit when the moon is full.
The tiger that precedes the rabbit is the sign of the month of February and the rabbit is the sign associated with the month of March and the Pisces zodiac sign.
This podcast discussed the good fortune energies in 2023, Year of the Water Rabbit.
After the past few years that have been marked by upheaval and uncertainties, the energy coming to 2023 will be replaced by a new light, hopeful, and sweeter energy.
The Year of the Tiger was the first to bring in springtime energy as it is the first of the 3 spring zodiac animals of tiger, rabbit, and dragon. The rabbit represents the fullness of spring when nature is flowering, and green growth appears.
The energy of the rabbit will offer us a respite from the cold austere energies of the past few years that were aligned with the metal element and winter-time animals of the pig, rat, and ox.
The five elements are the five building blocks of feng shui. The elements are made up of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. If your home or office feels “off” or uncomfortable, it might be out of balance. Just taking a quick look around your home or office will help you to diagnose if there is too much or too little of an element.
In a perfect feng shui world, you’ll find all five elements present in a room. This helps to keep the room feeling comfortable, harmonious and balanced – and thus making you more productive, effective, and successful.
In feng shui, you can look at someone’s office and home and often see the level of success they enjoy. But can you take those same traits and apply it to something more personal, like your handwriting? Just like there’s a flow and movement that translate into qualities in your life, there’s flow of handwriting that can indicate – and even influence — personal qualities.
The art of handwriting analysis, graphology, is much like feng shui.
Graphology is undertaken seriously by those who practice it, and those who don’t, often treat it esoterically. But, look at some interesting facts about handwriting analysis, or graphology. The CIA, FBI and many police departments in the US look at handwriting to understand the minds of those they’re investigating.
How does graphology relate to feng shui? In feng shui, the mind and thinking are related to the hand, so by extension, the style of writing someone has provides some insight into that person’s personality and can influence their lives. In my own feng shui training, my teachers encouraged students to look at our signatures to make sure they looked successful and prosperous, with an emphasis of writing that had bold strokes that tilted up and to the right.
There’s one image that gives you support at work and represents wealth, resources, strength and support and that image is a mountain. Mountains, whether images, real, such as the Rocky Mountains or Himalayas, or symbolic, such as a screen, all give support in feng shui. This is a critical concept in feng shui because without support, there is struggle and a feeling of rolling a boulder up, well, a mountain.
Support from behind
The idea of being supported makes a lot of sense when you think about it. If you sat on a stool all day, your back would ache. But when you have a comfortable and high-backed office chair, you are supported and can work longer and more effectively at your job.
The same is true in your home.
Having a support at the rear of the house symbolizes the black tortoise, a celestial creature that provides support and adds vigor and longevity to your life and home, helping to protect you from unpleasant surprises and misfortune. The black tortoise is represented by a slight rise at the rear of your home, supporting your home, much like the tall back on an executive chair supports you as you work.
Windows are a natural part of the exterior of a home or office building. In a sense, they’re the eyes of the building. Their openings let in light, views and without them, life would dark, dull, and depressing. Yet, having not enough windows is just as bad as having too many. Because of their energy, windows can affect our home’s feng shui – and ultimately – our lives.
Like all things in feng shui, balance is important. The same is true with windows. Too few and it’s dark and we feel hopeless, too many or too large, and we feel scattered, frenetic, and exhausted. The key is to balance enough light and views with privacy and exposure.
If you’ve ever wanted to make a change, a move, or leapfrog to another place in your life, this is the star that will help you do it. In feng shui, the White 1 star is a star that can bring you all those things, plus these benefits:
- Opportunities
- Victory over the competition
- A new way of being or living
- Sudden luck, like a star falling in your lap
- Increased income
When you look at benefits like these, it’s no wonder that the one (1) star is so popular in feng shui. This star is part of a group of stars called the White Stars. These include 1, 4, 6, and 8 (and sometimes 9). The stars in this group are considered to be the most favorable.
The 1 star is governed by the planet Jupiter, and whenever this planet appears, it is said to create good luck. Like western astrology that confers good luck with Jupiter for expanding good luck, so, too, is the 1 star. When it shows up, luck expands wherever it flies.
If there was ever a star that represents wine and roses, the 4 (four) star is it. In feng shui, the number four and the 4 star represent education and romance, but it also has other benefits that are like a motorcycle with a sidecar filled with roses.
For entrepreneurs and the career-minded, any kind of publicity, marketing, writing, podcasting, sales or speaking falls under the purview of the 4 star, making it a great star for students, teachers and writers.
This is the star whose home sector is the wealth sector and represents that tiny green shoot that signals vibrant new growth and life.
The 6 star is one of the most favored and highly regarded of all the stars in feng shui. This star has a bountiful energy star that bestows favor and brings achievements, power, influence, authority — and perhaps the best of all its attributes — windfalls, favors, and opportunities laid at your feet.
The 6 star is like a big cosmic shower of meteors that rain down like diamonds from the sky and into your lap.
Better still, the 6 star represents the energies of helpful people that bring assistance when you need them.
There are numbers in feng shui that are regarded as the most favorable for luck and wealth. That’s because when the numbers 1, 4, 6, or 8 (and sometimes 9) — represented by the qualities of success, promotion, attainment, love, travel, and prosperity — show up in your home either as a natal, annual, or monthly energy, good fortune comes your way.
Let’s start with the number that is the most favored of all, the number 8.
The 8 star is related to the northeast corner of education, wisdom, and good decisions and is an earth star. Until February 2024, the number eight also relates to both water and earth, and because of this can bring much prosperity and success in two realms: relationships and wealth.
There are many ways to go about manifesting your desires. The first and most direct is to take action. Action is critical, but what about when you’re forming your idea? How do you manifest your heart’s desire faster and more easily – and most importantly – more exact to what you want?
Chi, or energy, whether it is that of a room or your own personal chi, can all be changed. I always say that ‘chi flows where the eye goes.’ This is why when you enter a house that has a wide picture window or a door opposite the entryway, your eye (and the home’s energy) goes out that door or window. For the homeowner that views this daily, their energy goes out the door or window with their vision, and they often suffer from lowered finances, difficulty making progress in their lives or have health problems.
Rolling 7’s on a craps table in Las Vegas has always been considered lucky, but that’s where that luck ends. In feng shui, the number seven is considered very unlucky and full of misfortune. Worse yet, it can cause theft, violence, and injury. From 1984 to 2003, the number seven was extremely lucky, but that changed in 2004, when we entered Period 8, a time that runs from 2004-2024. If you count seven as a lucky number, be sure to look at its implications in feng shui.
The White Tiger in feng shui represents the west or right hand side of our homes (as you look out the front door). The White Tiger is associated with courage, protection and dignity.
The White Tiger brings good luck and fortune when it is represented by a small rise on the right side of the house and is most often associated with the compass direction of west. It is the yin to a dragon’s yang. The White Tiger protects a home from negative forces and is sometimes associated with wealth.
The square and rectangle are considered two of the most auspicious shapes in feng shui. Rectangles represent growth and are considered to be very auspicious shapes, with its upward shape representing a tree. The square represents the grounding element of earth, and is considered the most beneficial shape for building houses.
But few houses are a perfectly even-shaped design
If your relationships are tired and money flies through your hands your house might just be the wrong color. Maybe life is a constant struggle and you can’t put your finger on the one small thing blocking your success. The answer could be as simple as the color on your house. Feng shui dictates that the paint color on your house can affect your wealth and abundance.
From the earliest fairy tales of genies and fairy godmothers, we all have wishes that we would love to see magically happen. Luckily in feng shui there is a wonderful technique for activating the energies associated with all of the usual aspirations that everyone wants: love, wealth, health, happiness, good fortune.
It involves using gems and crystals, and when used correctly, can almost magically bring about anything you desire.
It happens to everyone. Your brakes go out, the air conditioner dies and your dog has to have surgery. When bad luck happens, it happens in threes, as the saying goes. And when that much happens all at once, it can take a toll on your finances. Suddenly, that darling pair of shoes goes away, and maybe you get behind on your rent or car payment.
That’s when you need money fast, and feng shui can help!
Creating a healthy, energetic home or office relies on diligence. It’s much easier to let your home or office become cluttered and messy than it is to keep on top of papers, throw out old magazines, or otherwise dispose of the things that you no longer need, want, or use.
For that reason, many people don’t bother with this kind of routine maintenance, and that’s what decluttering is: just another part of regular home maintenance.
It’s easy to close the closet door or shut a jumbled drawer, but you know it’s there and every time you go to open that drawer or door, that mess is there waiting for you. Simply knowing it’s there and not going away can be a source of stress.
That’s why regular cleaning — and decluttering — is so important.
When Napoleon Hill wrote “Think and Grow Rich” he concluded that a very important aspect in the process of gaining wealth was tied to sex. He said that “The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability.”
This “seat of power” and the ability to create is uniquely tied to feng shui, too. What’s especially interesting about sex and money in feng shui is that the wealth sector is also associated with the number four.
Crystals have long been thought to possess mystical qualities. Certain crystals and stones have long been associated with having healing abilities, the ability to focus thought or intention or even transmutation. And this is no longer an issue of belief.
We know scientifically that crystals, specifically silicon crystals, are the chief reason for ever faster processing speeds in computer.
But there are other stones and crystals in feng shui that have different applications and uses for creating beneficial energy for clearing your thoughts!
Today, we understand that good gut health is essential to our overall health. In feng shui, this area is represented by the southwest and when the gut sector of your home is challenged or your home is constipated with clutter, the flow of your body and life can make you feel stopped up.
One of the most wildly popular feng shui books is Karen Kingston’s Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. And one of the topics she covers in the book – that few others have dared to touch – is the subject of the elimination system and its tie to your personal feng shui.
While it’s not a pretty subject to talk about, Karen deftly connects clutter in the house with the symbol of the internal clutter we all deal with daily: our colon.
One of the greatest joys of living is having someone who belongs to you and whom you belong to. Just knowing you have a partner in life to lean on provides us with fulfillment. Singles will say they have the love of friends and family….but.
The “but” is that they don’t have a partner – a wife, a husband, a girlfriend, or boyfriend. They say it’s just not the same as when you have someone in your life that you are committed to and who is committed to you.
And it’s true. Having a loving partner in your life gives you a feeling like no other.
In feng shui every direction, such as north, south, or northeast has a number, color, element and a shape associated with it. Each shape has a distinct meaning. For instance, the tall, rectangular shape of wood is associated with growth. The shape associated with “big metal” or the northwest is round. This is also the shape of coins – or “change” – and wealth.
Go into almost any Chinese restaurant and you’ll see beautiful chandeliers. You might wonder if this is an effort to dress up the interior of the restaurant, and while it might be, chandeliers have a much more important symbolic place in restaurants, and indeed, your home. These chandeliers are thought to bring up the quality of the dining experience because chandeliers are thought to invite wonderful chi – and they do!
When traveling, whether for business or for pleasure, you can still enjoy the benefits of feng shui. You might have even noticed that enjoy your travel more (or less) when you travel to certain places that are in one direction. Maybe you find that you enjoy travel equally well, but more so to some places than others.
There’s a saying that success is just the accumulation of good habits. It’s true. The more you do to help yourself and to be successful, the more successful – and prosperous – you’ll become. Success and the wealth and acclaim that comes with it isn’t as much a secret as much as it is a habit.
It may not seem like fame and recognition are important, but they are. This part of feng shui and your life directly relates to how others see you and how you present yourself in the world.
When you have good fame luck, opportunities often find you and others promote you and open doors for you.
When fame and recognition energy is low, it seems like you’re lost in a crowd with little or no recognition and no opportunities for introductions, recognition, or that boost your reputation and social status.
There are few homes with perfect feng shui. Fortunately, rather than hanging a windchime or adding flutes to a beam, you can make simple decorative changes can be made that will look and feel more natural. These decorative elements can help remedy difficulties such as poison arrows that come from a front door and back door alignment or odd windows and slanted walls. Here are nine important feng shui decorating fixes that you can use in your home that will look good and help your home’s feng shui.
As educated and advanced people, we now know that unseen forces, like radio waves, gravity, and even solar flares, do exert an influence over us and our lives.
We’ve come to understand that energy is a real, living thing and the acceptance of chi – the flowing river of energy that resides in our bodies, our homes, and the Universe, is also real. So, it should come as no surprise that the energy of chi can also exert an influence on us that’s either beneficial or detrimental.
The problem with feng shui today is that although feng shui is more popular than ever, it’s that surge in popularity that’s given rise to myths about feng shui that can actually cause more harm than good.
The bed is a critical piece your ability to be rested and supported as you sleep, and indeed, your life. When the headboard of your bed is compromised, it will create problems for you in your life in your relationships, health and difficulties with money, and even getting proper rest. Many beds simply don’t have a headboard at all, and this gives the sleeper absolutely no support, sleep quality is impacted and many find they feel like they have to “go it alone” in the world.
Based on that, you might think have any headboard is better than none, but that’s not exactly true either.
Some headboards can cause more harm than good.
Good feng shui has a number of definitions. It includes everything from good landscape layout, auspicious topography that includes mountains, lakes, or oceans, and good design, including auspicious or inauspicious shapes, harmonious arrangement of elements, and a host of other factors. But did you know that good feng shui can also include very subtle environmental clues, too? It’s true.
For instance, have you ever walked into a home or office and felt uncomfortable at once? Or, perhaps your children became unruly or your baby started to cry. These are all signs that the feng shui of the space is not right.
One of the most common questions in feng shui is what color to paint a bedroom. Bedroom color is an important choice because we always want our bedrooms to support our rest and relaxation. Colors that are soft, muted, and easy on the eyes are always preferable to bright and energized colors, such as a crimson red or bright blue.
Think of terms of the restful quality of the colors you select, whether it’s for wall color or your bedding.
In feng shui, there are a lot of ways you can use mirrors to your advantage. Some of the most popular ways are to reflect a beautiful view, add more light to your room, or make the room look larger. But equally important are the ways not to use mirrors, or the feng shui mirror don’ts.
Paying attention to your office can pay in rich dividends for your career. You’ll notice that once you make changes, corrections, and enhancements to your office, you’ll feel differently in it and enjoy your time in your office more.
What’s more, everyone who comes into your office, or cubicle, will notice what you have done and will be influenced in their thoughts about your space — and that will make them feel differently about you and help build your career.
When you experience little or no growth in your life, it could be because the growth portion of your home is blocked, impeding your progress. This podcast specifically addresses the wood energy of the east and southeast.
Feng shui is often used to improve your life in love, money, and happiness. But what about when you have a problem, like feeling your life never grows or improves, or if you have an addiction?
There are ways to use feng shui to help you move past trauma, manage self-defeating behaviors, and see your life’s circumstances change becoming more positive and rewarding.
Originally used as temples for the practice of devotion and enlightenment, pagodas are prized and auspicious figures for desks and homes. They may be placed in your home or office for protection or as a symbol of rising fortunes, whether through study or professional advancement.
In feng shui pagodas are synonymous with education.
Dutiful Asian parents often display them on their children’s desks to promote good study habits and for scholastic success. But the pagoda is also a symbol of protection and enhancement.
Here's a breakdown of February 2022 monthly energies as we start the Year of the Water Tiger.
Tired of take out or frozen dinners for one? Or you might be ready to go on a date with someone instead of a movie for one. Maybe you don’t know how to meet someone after a long relationship has ended. The good news is that the Chinese New Year is an auspicious time to begin the New Year with an eye toward the future – and that includes the future of your love life!
Regardless of your relationship status, now’s a great time to use feng shui and spur the romantic energies of the lunar New Year to help you attract a new love.
Lunar New Year: As part of preparing for the Lunar New Year, many Asians and Chinese prepare their home as they would for an important guest, taking time to do a thorough decluttering of old items, giving their home a deep cleaning, and adding auspicious decorations such as flowers and oranges. The home is given a thorough going-over to rid the house of old energy and prepare it for the new energy of the New Year.
The Year of the Tiger is coming and with it will be sweeping change. The big, yang water energy that comes in like the tiger will make everyone sit up and take notice, just as you would if a grand tiger came striding into the room.
The tiger is a solitary creature by nature, and like water which is represented by the number one, this is a combination of energies that can bring major shifts.
Life is about to swiftly change and open up again after feeling slammed shut the past two years.
The third sign of the Chinese Zodiac, the tiger is a symbol of passion, power, and growth. Although it is represented by the late winter, the tiger is the first sign of spring, when buds and green grass bursts forth from the ground, and so, too, does the tiger.
Holidays are special times to gather family and friends together to enjoy festivities, gifts, and special foods. This is especially true at Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa when we seek to share the bounty of the year by giving gifts and celebrating with those closest to us.
It is a fun and beautiful time of year when homes and shops are decorated in glittering lights and bountiful greenery.
Decorating for the holidays is also great feng shui because it puts attention – and intention – on your home.
Creating good feng shui that promotes wealth, happiness, and opportunities can extend way beyond your front door or the way you arrange your bedroom. Feng shui can be incorporated in the accessories in your home to the car and clothing colors you select.
Once I began making feng shui my lifestyle, I noticed that make those choices made more of a positive impact.
Good feng shui at Thanksgiving allows involves showing gratitude and thanks for those who are important in your life. Your spouse, children, parents, siblings, close friends, and neighbors. There is no better way to have good feng shui during the holidays than to connect with those who matter to you most in a grateful and thankful manner!
If you’re confused by feng shui and about how to assign the corners of your home, you’ll be happy to know that there is a secret weapon in the feng shui arsenal: the compass.
Some feng shui experts recommend locating all the sectors of your home by orienting off the door to the room, or the direction of the house by assigning the front as north.
This can often be confusing because there may be more than one entryway to a room, and what if your front door actually faces west or southeast?
There are two elements that are key in feng shui: Fire and Water. The importance of water has been covered at length, but the element of fire is often overlooked, though it shouldn’t be. Fire is an essential element and brings many benefits. It keeps us warm and cooks our food.
The color of fire is red and the color red activates, effectively turning the power on to wherever it’s used or placed. Using it the right way can bring material rewards, recognition, fame, pleasure, and happiness.
The month of November 2021 is a dress rehearsal for the 2022 Year of the Tiger.
Energies for the month of November 2021 will be the same energies for all of 2022. Understanding your home and zodiac sign with a brief look and peek behind the curtain into 2022.
Water is the element you need to help assist you with creating a transformation.
Water is powerful for change. It's what we’re nourished in and born out of as babies in our mothers’ wombs.
In feng shui, water is like a mirror of chi, only it is seen whereas chi is unseen. When we want is a change in our lives, it's water that has the power to wipe our slate clean and deliver us to a new reality.
Look at how a single drop of water has the power to cast a ripple across a wide expanse.
Seasons are very meaningful in feng shui, and the fall is one that is full of prosperity and good fortune symbolism. In the west, many homeowners like to decorate their homes with decorations of fall and around harvest themes.
The look and feel of these decorations are one of abundance and prosperity, but they also bring great feng shui and augur good fortune for your home and family.
Too often we fall into the rut of day by day living to the point that we can’t imagine anything different or anything better and our life’s vision gets cut off.
Most of the time, the thought of something better in our lives never enters the picture because we’re so busy just trying to get through the day, get the bills paid on time, the kids fed, car gassed, and attend to all the other little details of our life that the big things slip silently by, and we can’t see anything different for ourselves.
A house that is still and quiet is the type of home that creates yin energy – and over time that kind of energy can depress the person with even the brightest and happiest outlook.
To lift the energy of your home, try incorporating the clear, pure sounds of a singing bowl or brass bell. The sound of a bell or singing bowl emits a tonal frequency that cuts through yin energy and dispels it from your home.
In feng shui, deferred maintenance on a house means deferred money. In other words, if you’ve put off replacing that cracked window or cutting down a dead tree, you’re likely not receiving all the money you could be if your home were in good repair.
Why is repairing your home so important to feng shui?
In a word: chi.
The chi, or energy, of a home declines when it’s got leaking faucets or roof, when the paint is peeling or when it’s dirty and cluttered.
Stairways do more than just provide a way for us to get from one floor to the other. If placed properly, stairways can help the energy that exists in our home, called chi, to move up and down easily and smoothly.
If stairways are not done well, they can inhibit the proper flow of energy throughout the home. Worse still, poor stairways can create problems or even harm us.
Every school year parents and students dutifully trudge through the malls in search of the perfect sneaker or the cool new outfit for the coming school year. However, it’s unlikely that the new shoe or shirt will benefit them as much as a new design in the bedroom.
That’s because a bedroom makeover will create new interest and energy – what feng shui calls “chi” – in the bedroom that will benefit a child.
There’s a lot of talk about women entrepreneurs and business owners these days, but do they have special feng shui needs? Absolutely. Women are opening businesses at a record pace. They account for $1.9 trillion dollars in sales, and they employ almost 8 million people (NAWBO.com).
Trees are an important life source and vital members of our outdoor community. Often called “the lungs of the Earth,” trees take the carbon dioxide that we breathe out and return it to us as oxygen. They also prevent groundwater run-off and soil erosion. It is obvious that trees are a crucial part of our living Earth and treasured members of our landscape family.
One of the most common concerns in feng shui is an energy block, such as a tree opposite a door, or a wall facing the door of your home. Blocks can stop and prevent energy from moving properly and will cause blocks to everything ranging from pregnancy to money, illness to opportunity.
However, the same could be said of energy siphons, but unlike blocks, siphons can actually cause serious harm.
Energy siphons are the holes and drains on your home – and your life’s – feng shui that prevent income, happiness, success, marriage or good health.
One of the greatest joys in life is friendship. It’s one of the aspirations of feng shui – the gift and wealth of having friends and enjoying an active social life. This area is reflected in the south sector of the house. This sector also refers to the fame and recognition area of the home, as well as your reputation and family name.
Having friends to do fun things with, share your troubles with and who you enjoy being with truly is a gift. But what happens when your social life has dwindled and you find that you don’t have as many friends as you once had, or maybe you’d like to find people who you enjoy spending time with?
This is a COVID update for the continuing health concerns and worries caused by the coronavirus. The new COVID delta variant continues to make the coronavirus one to be focused on and to take steps to ensure your continued safety as we encounter additional work stoppages, shelter in place confinement, and quarantines.
Right now, it’s a good idea to make sure you follow the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control guidelines to help ensure you and your family’s safety.
One of the most critical concepts in watching your star rise? You have to see it to believe it. Fame and recognition belong to the eyes and heart in feng shui. It’s why movie stars and celebrities captivate us; all eyes and cameras are on them.
Even if you’re not on the big screen and paparazzi don’t follow you around, you can surround yourself with your own success, and that influences the energy around you, and that ripples out into the world.
There are many questions about how to divide up your home when you are trying to understand its feng shui but no more so than when you have an open concept home. When you have a home that’s open concept, how do you apply feng shui to a large open space?
There are many questions about how to divide up your home when you are trying to understand its feng shui but no more so than when you have an open concept home. When you have a home that’s open concept, how do you apply feng shui to a large open space?
In addition to the life benefits it provides, feng shui also offers a roadmap, so to speak, of not just how to decorate your space, but why, and this is never more important than it is when it comes to decorating your child’s bedroom.
Naturally, children must feel safe, secure, and cared for to thrive, and feng shui offers guidelines that help foster those feelings. Feng shui believes that children can enjoy good health, growth, and happiness when the environment supports them.
Another fascinating aspect of feng shui is to see the correlation between your life and your body.
Even more interestingly, your body has a way of talking to you in feng shui terms just like your home does.
Many times before we take a big step in our life – especially a step that requires our faith and courage – we become ill. Illness isn’t always a sign that something’s wrong. Instead, it’s often a sign of our growth. It’s your body’s way of pulling in and helping itself to marshal its full energy before taking on a big endeavor.
It’s no secret that a successful relationship can be the key to happiness. But sometimes, even the strongest of relationships needs some help from time to time. Feng shui is an ancient art and science that has been used for centuries to create harmony in both homes and businesses. It can also be used as a way to enhance your bedroom and love life to improve intimacy with your partner.
The allure and fascination with beauty has captivated philosophers, artists, and poets for millennia. The beauty of a woman’s physical being has long been a source of esteem and admiration, but we also need our homes to be a source of beauty and inspiration.
This type of beauty can be explained by the concept of beautiful energy, called sheng chi.
Sheng chi is a positive and beneficial chi energy that brings benefits wherever it exists, and it’s the secret ingredient in every beautiful home.
When life is frustrating and it seems like you can’t break out of a pattern of frustrations and problems, the energy that needs to change in our life is your personal energy. Feng shui has an amazing ability to provide opportunities and shifts in your life when you work with it, but if you are stuck in a personal energy trap, you may find that when the opportunities do come along, you may let them go by, not follow up, or that you fail to take advantage of what is presented to you.
That’s why it’s so important to look at both your personal energy as well as the energy of your home in feng shui.
There are times in life when it seems like all the odds are stacked against you. The world may feel like it’s turned its back on you, or that whatever you touch doesn’t work out. Maybe things keep breaking or relationships are challenging you at every turn. Sometimes something we don’t expect happens: an accident, a serious disease, or a natural disaster.
Whatever the cause, when the bad luck of your life seems to stack up like cars in rush hour it’s hard not to feel desperation creeping in.
Feeling dedicated to your job and life is admirable. But there are times when it just all becomes too much. It might start with feeling frustrated, rushed, and aggravated. Or, you may simply feel anxious like the other shoe is going to drop…all the time.
When this happens, it’s a good sign that you are reaching burnout.
Feng shui is often called the Chinese “art of placement.” But it is deceptively deep. There is so much depth to feng shui that at first blush it’s easy to just chalk it up as a decorating method or fun esoteric technique.
The number one relates to the north and to water. It is associated with the wave shape. That’s because even one small change can create big waves!
The number one is a special number in feng shui because it relates to transformation.
The Bagua map that’s most widely used to apply to our home and to determine where our love, wealth, and opportunity or career sectors are can also be used to apply to the body. Each sector of the Bagua corresponds to a portion of your body. When there are problems in a particular portion of your home, they can often times show up as a problem you have with your health.
Basements, while useful, can possess an energy that is literally like the room itself in that it’s below the ground. There are other things to contend with such as a lack of natural light, low ceilings, or the presence of extra moisture.
Adding the proper feng shui elements will help protect the health and well-being of all who spend time in a basement environment.
Wind chimes are one of feng shui's hardest working remedies. Their role is to bring aid in many forms - from lifting chi from a troubled area to suppressing energy in corners where there are negative stars to bringing you good news and help from influential people!
With all they can do, wind chimes are a valuable source and important tool in your feng shui arsenal. In short, wind chimes have two main roles: to cure or energize.
All plants have benefits, but there are some guidelines that will help you place your plants in your home auspiciously, including plants for wealth and prosperity. Very often a room without a plant appears lifeless and sterile, but the question isn’t so much about which are good and which are bad feng shui plants, but it's how and where they’re placed that matters most.
If finding the right love and a soulmate to share your life is what you’re looking for but you haven’t found it yet, try feng shui. When you’re ready for a serious commitment, use these tips for attracting love and set your intention for activating your home with a forever love energy.
By activating the love corner of your home, you can create the kind of energy that attracts love and helps you manifest your soulmate and loving partner in life.
Finding a way to improve your home’s look and feel is an important part of feng shui. Although the art of placement is often about making changes to your home to create a change in your life, sometimes we need to change our homes simply because we don’t like the way they look or function.
You don’t have to have a reason to employ feng shui other than you simply want to go from an environment that you endure or put up with to one you enjoy.
Simply put, tolerating your home creates negative energy.
In feng shui, the springtime holds the energy of ripening chi. There are rituals and activities that are suited for the spring season. The energy of the sun begins growing stronger, the days become longer, and the earth shows its growing energy in blooming flowers, trees blossoming with bright green leaves, and nature coming alive again.
Look at these suggestions for creating new growth energy and working with the growing and ripening chi of springtime.
There are many people who consider themselves lucky and just as many who don’t. Luck may seem like it only happens to certain people or those people born under a lucky star. Yet, others seem to have luck at their command. In the West, luck is often viewed as something you either have or don’t have, and the thinking is that if you don’t have luck, you’re not going to change that.
But that’s not the Eastern view of luck. In Asia, and in particular, China, luck is viewed as a trinity.
The southeast sector is one of feng shui’s most favored corners of the bagua. Called the wealth sector, this corner is related to money you save such as investments, and the money you grow. Money for these purposes is often linked to IRA’s, 401Ks, and other investments. This sector's about the growth of prosperity and new ways to earn money.
The southeast corner relates to money you want to save, invest, and grow for the future.
The front door plays a very special role in feng shui. Often described as the “mouth of chi,” the front door, is the entryway for energy, wealth, and opportunity into your home. Learn the key points, including the colors of prosperity, for your front door.
We are headed into our first full month of the Ox! It comes in with a dose of romanticism, hearts, and flowers.
The education and romance star glides into the center heavenly heart sector, just in time to help lift our energy and add some optimism and lightness.
All of this with the March 2021 feng shui flying star energies and horoscopes.
The northeast is the corner of education and wisdom. Enhancing this corner will help you make better decisions and improve your quality of thought. It's also the personal growth corner.
Of the eight aspirations, the two most often asked about are money and love. These two areas of life have a major stake in our happiness, especially our relationships. You can buy almost anything, but you can’t buy love. Having love luck in your life and relationships is a type of fulfillment that can only be given from one person to another.
At the Lunar New Year, there is so much preparation around the house with the cleaning, repairing, and decluttering. But once the days wind down close to the Chinese or Lunar New Year, it’s time to concentrate on having fun, decorating your house to welcome the new year, and enjoying small simple rituals that augur good fortune and that celebrate the energy of the coming year.
Let’s talk about ways you create wonderful good fortune energy in your home with some fun and easy decorations.
The Chinese, or more correctly, the Lunar New Year is the annual celebration that coincides with the first New Moon of the year. For many Chinese and Asians, this is a very auspicious time – a birthday, actually, of the New Year. This birthday, when observed correctly, is believed to usher in good luck and abundance all year long.
The New Year is always a time of reprioritizing and refocusing on the coming year. The Lunar New Year, sometimes called “Chinese New Year,” is also a time of taking great care to prepare yourself and your house for the coming shift in energies we move from one year to another.
The start of the Lunar New Year has a long history of rituals and observations with making repairs and deep cleaning topping the list in preparation for the start of the Lunar New Year. A great emphasis is placed on cleaning as a way of preparing the home for the new energy coming in and for removing last year’s old, stagnant energy.
There are so many questions about what matters the most in feng shui, and they’re all understandable. It seems like there’s one rule and then another takes that rule away. So, when it comes to personal feng shui, annual and monthly feng shui, afflictions, and form feng shui, how do you manage the feng shui priorities?
Everyone wants to know at the beginning of the feng shui new year, will the year of the ox be a lucky year? It’s a fair question too.
But let’s start in the current year where the reigning 7 star is doubled as it moves into 2021, and was a contributor to the pandemic we’re in currently.
You could say that the 7’s energy was similar to tinnitus.
Everyone wants to know at the beginning of the feng shui new year, will the year of the ox be a lucky year? It’s a fair question too.
But let’s start in the current year where the reigning 7 star is doubled as it moves into 2021, and was a contributor to the pandemic we’re in currently.
You could say that the 7’s energy was similar to tinnitus.
Every year is a new set of energies and challenges. These are often characterized by the element and the animal sign of the year. In 2021, that animal is the ox.
The sign teaches us about what will help us be more successful in the year ahead, and by adapting the qualities of the animal, we can make the year go more smoothly.
This episode highlights the reigning 6 star, also known as the Heavenly Fortune Star, for 2021
Every year is a new set of energies and challenges. These are often characterized by the element and the animal sign of the year. In 2021, that animal is the ox. The sign teaches us about what will help us be more successful in the year ahead, and by adapting the qualities of the animal, we can make the year go more smoothly.
Few things are as lovely as a beautifully set dining room table filled with gleaming china, crystal, and silver. It coveys a special feeling when you sit at a table that is as beautifully set and prepared as a special holiday meal. There can be no doubt that your dining room is an important room in the house for daily dining and special celebrations and holidays. That’s why dining room feng shui matters.
Many times, depression and hopelessness can be rooted in a lack of purpose or fulfillment. And, at one time or another, almost everyone has experienced some sort of despondency, whether through health worries, relationship, job difficulties or problems that seem insurmountable. A period of the blues that lingers, though, is unhealthy. Here’s how you can help depression and hopelessness with feng shui.
But, what’s it actually like working as a feng shui consultant? The day to day is pretty much like any other business. Working as a feng shui consultant means being an understanding, non-judgmental, and patient person. In the course of my consultation career, I’ve been asked about how to handle difficult love relationships, a major illness like cancer to mystery illnesses, infidelity, career problems, and money issues. You have to be ready for anything... and want to help.
There’s a lot of information about how to improve your money luck in feng shui, but little that talks about how to actually handle it. One of the biggest areas of unhappiness and frustration in our lives is often our relationship with money – how we spend, save, invest, accumulate and earn money. Learn which color folders to place bills, investments and pay stubs in and how to manage your money with feng shui.
In feng shui, a clean house is a lucky house. Does your house promote good luck? Think on this: A house that’s neat, but not cleaned, is a house that’s just getting by, and that represents a life that’s just getting by, not truly flourishing. Remember: Dirt and dust equal stagnant and stuck.
In feng shui, roads are treated like waterways because they conduct the movement of traffic, much like water moves and flows. The way roads move past our house and the way roads are in relationship to our house can directly affect the type of chi we have in our homes and the luck in our lives.
After 30+ years of feng shui practice and consultation, these are Katie's best-loved and important feng shui tips. She shares her favorite feng shui secrets she's used successfully throughout the years. Now you can use these tips to open the channels of flow, prosperity, and abundance in your life. Be sure to listen in for a secret URL to get her FREE e-book "Top 100 Feng Shui Tips" and where to download your copy!
There’s a very important part of feng shui jumps to the head of the feng shui line, and it’s the part that is protective feng shui. This type of feng shui can help you from being cheated by someone, manage gossip and politicking at work, preventing relationship loss, major accidents, or illness, and can help ensure you against the difficulties in life. Using protective feng shui also improves your man luck — the luck you create in your life.
When you want to apply a feng shui bagua map to your home, you’ll need to know what to include and not to include in your map. This can often be confusing because you may not be sure what and what not to include, especially when it comes to your garage, deck, patio or porch. If you’ve been confused about whether to include these features in your home’s feng shui, this episode will help answer those questions.
If you’d like to be prosperous and fill your life with helpful people, you need extra heavenly assistance to get there. That’s where the northwest corner of helpful people in feng shui comes in and puts just the right people in your path right when you need them. It’s great for networking, international travel and rubbing shoulders with influential people. Learn how to activate this corner to have people come to you offering heavenly assistance.
One of the areas of the home and your environmental feng shui that’s often missed is the position of the phoenix. And it’s this position and portion in the landscape that creates the relaxation that comes from having enough money, prestige and success – and why it’s so important to activate!
Effective and easy feng shui bamboo flute technique for granting wishes. Good for buying a house, selling a house, getting a promotion, job seekers, divorce, legal papers, and anything that you desire. Learn this easy way to help you make your wish come to you easily and quickly!
No matter how your bad luck or losses began, you just know you want it to stop. Look to feng shui to help either explain the losses -- or stop them.
Think all feng shui is about Zen and meditation? Think again. Yang energy -- that loud, bright, get things done -- kind of energy is vital to making a house or office be productive and grow. Tips for increasing yang energy in your home and life.
Most feng shui problems with houses can be fixed. But are there ever feng shui problems too big to fix and that you should move for? Yes. Find out if your home has these signs that are telling you to move on.
A feng shui wealth bowl is different than a wealth vase. It’s designed to be displayed, brimming with auspicious ingredients. Tips to build your own wealth bowl with easy to find items at your local craft store and Chinese emporium makes them a fun activity.
When you find yourself full of worry, it’s easy to stress about it and give into that worry. We can often visualize worst-case scenarios and fill our minds with unpleasant scenarios and images. The more we give in to the worry, the stronger the energy we are giving to the thing we don’t want. Here are some feng shui tips to help you manage worry and fear by making changes around your house.
Many feng shui consultants and experts write about beams and how harmful they are in the feng shui of your home or office. And, while beams are problematic, there are so many homes in the US and abroad that have beams in their architecture, making them a common design feature. So what can be done about them – and are they always harmful?
Just as you look for underlying medical reasons that might impair fertility, you might want to examine your home to see if it supports conception. With a few simple feng-shui fixes, you can create a home that encourages positive energy and conception.
The feng shui horse is a favored symbol. It’s the animal most associated with prestige, position and material abundance. Horses are also representative of strength and yang energy, enlivening any room with their presence.
From time to time, everyone has experienced a dilemma when there's too much month at the end of the money. Expenses can come up suddenly such as an unexpected trip to the emergency room, or an expensive house repair presents itself. It can happen to anyone.
By looking at potential leaks and losses from the outset, you can help stop the drain on your money and then you can confidently apply feng shui to attract prosperity to your life.
Almost all relationships need help, and feng shui can help you rescue yours. Feng shui tips to infuse some new energy to help create a loving, passionate, caring feeling again.
In these chaotic times, the question turns to how to keep your home and life peaceful when the world outside your door feels like it's turned upside down. Using feng shui is a powerful way to create a feng shui home that becomes respite from the difficulties outside your four walls. These tips help you create a peaceful home environment no matter what's happening in the outside world.
Water features are one of the best ways to activate your home's feng shui for health, wealth, and income. Seeing water is immediately soothing, and that's why so many of us vacation at places where we can enjoy a view of water. Follow these feng shui recommendations for using water to boost your income, assets, health, and create more wealth in your life!
The key to activating your feng shui is using the right enhancers. Often called feng shui cures, these items are ones to help you boost great energy like a Vitamin B12 shot to your home or office. These enhancers aren't anything particularly special either. In fact, most of them are ordinary items that can be used in unique ways to help improve the energy in your home and life. So, before you worry about turning your home into a Chinese emporium, keep in mind that these feng shui enhancers are things you probably already have in your home.
Grand homes, like the Palace at Versailles in France, the Medici Estate in Florence, or Biltmore House in North Carolina are all beautiful landmarks in their own right, but they are also noted for their glorious gardens.
That’s because the architects and designers of these estates understood that what creates a magnificent estate is more than just the structure — it’s also the natural environment that surrounds the home.
Every year feng shui moves and shifts from one sector to another and one zodiac sign to the next. But some feng shui energies that move from corner to corner each year, and that have the greatest potential to do harm, require particular cures, or remedies, as I prefer to call them.
These remedies are ones that will be necessary from year to year, making them essential for annual feng shui.
Are there some colors better for you than others, and if so, what are they? To find out, it’s important to know what your personal birth element is. What is your feng shui birth element? Just like the day you were born is a personal lucky number, the year that you were born has an element associated with it, and that element is your personal birth element. That means that one of the five elements is luckier for you than the others and can improve your life, bring you more money, and success.
Applying feng shui to a standard house comes with its own set of rules, but if you’re trying to create good feng shui to a single room or create a feng shui studio apartment, that comes with its own set of needs and challenges. No matter whether you’re renting a studio apartment or trying to apply feng shui to your one-room living situation, you can make it happen and give your home good feng shui!
Feng shui is can be used to symbolize our intentions and for manifesting our wishes. This type of symbolic feng shui uses a three-dimensional item that represents your goals and ambitions. Look at the feng shui ideas below for ways you can manifest your dreams and wishes!
Feng shui doesn’t just have to be about baguas and front doors. It’s also a terrific way to personalize your wardrobe. One of the best personal activators – and protectors — is jewelry. Jewelry also is a wonderful way to attract attention and give your personal energy a big bump. The feng shui of jewelry, earrings, rings, necklaces and bracelets is explained.
Much has been written about whether clocks represent good feng shui or not. Like most things in life the definitive answer isn’t a yes or a no. It’s the exception to the rule to find an instance where a feng shui answer is black and white. But as far as clocks go, the answer is to whether they’re good feng shui or bad depends on how they’re used, how they’re received, and where they’re placed. When placed right and used properly, clocks are not a concern in feng shui. When they aren’t, that’s when trouble begins.
Barbara thought her office was helpful and arranged well, but then her sales started taking a downward trajectory. Learn how to use feng shui to arrange your home office, and how Barbara’s office rearrangement helped her sales and saved her single-mom salary. Tips include must-do’s for every office that includes desk position, activating your lucky corner, and the importance of the space in front of your desk.
Help create a sanctuary of calm in your home to help you manage the stress of the COVID-19 and coronavirus crisis. Organizing and decluttering and creating visual rest in your home can help create a peaceful and tranquil environment. Learn more tips for organizing and how it’s different than clutter. Applying organizing to your home and life helps manage stress.
Feng shui is used in the west to create more opportunities, success and wealth. But in the East, feng shui is used for all that and to create harmonious relationships, too. Feng shui is a terrific tool for improving family relationships. As anyone who has had strife and struggles at home can tell you, a harmonious home is truly a blessing. This podcast covers how to keep your family strong during the COVID-19 crisis and strengthen your relationships.
It is said that purple was a favorite color of Cleopatra. It has continued to be a color associated with royalty, with high honor, such as the purpleheart awarded American soldiers wounded or killed in war. Obviously, purple is a very special color. That is also true in feng shui. In feng shui, there is one color that is suitable in any direction. That color is purple, and it’s good for health, love, income, success and good fortune in all ways.
This year has been unprecedented with health concerns and worries caused by the coronavirus. Now called COVID-19, the coronavirus is 2020’s biggest disrupter, and not the good kind, either. These steps are guidelines for creating an energized and healthy home from a feng shui perspective.
One of the most problematic and troubling feng shui difficulties is when the front door is aligned with a door or a window at the rear of your home. There are a number of problems that can result from a front door poison arrow, the most important one is the amount of money and energy that flies through the door. When energy rushes through the door, your home’s most important symbol of income and opportunity, you might find that money is hard to hold onto.
Getting started in feng shui can present you with a lot of terms and information that can seem confusing, and many times, overwhelming for beginners and anyone trying to understand or undertake applying feng shui to their home. Taking it slowly and going step by step is the best way to understanding feng shui and for getting right, and most importantly, seeing results.
When you feel like life circumstances are out of your control or that you can't seem to be in the driver's seat of your life, there could be a reason why. Using the command position in your bedroom, office, living and dining room is one way to exert control in your life and make you feel like you're more in charge of circumstances and outcomes become more favorable for you. This podcast talks about the importance of the command position in feng shui and how to use it in your home and office.
One of the best aspects of feng shui is the ability to help you cope with loss, trauma, and the emotional turmoil that can naturally occur in life, but that can seem especially painful after divorce. It’s often more difficult to re-adjust after divorce than it is an emotional trauma because a home is a shared space for couples. No matter whether you stay in the home you shared with your spouse or if you moved on, feng shui can help you heal and begin moving forward again in both your home and your life. This episode is also helpful to anyone looking for a "reset" in life.
When you’re looking for love, too often the choices for finding a suitable partner or mate is online dating websites, bars and the connections of friends. But if you want to find a new love, all it takes is some good feng shui, your Chinese zodiac sign, and some flowers. Even if you're not actively looking for a new relationship, try this technique to widen your social circle and improve your friendships and social life!
Feng shui focuses a lot of thought and energy on the front door but it's the home’s sidewalk or garden path that determines the quality and type of energy to that home. Your home's sidewalk can either promote your income and opportunity or prevent it. Tips for better sidewalk feng shui.
In 2020, The Year of the Rat brings so many wonderful new changes and opportunities. Women and men will really enjoy the Year of the Rat because there is so much GREAT ENERGY coming to both, and both were challenged in the Year of the Pig. The fresh breeze blowing through the window for both the northwest and southwest sectors will help lift the troubling energy away from the center sector.
Birds are one of feng shui's most important creatures. As animals, we admire their faith and loyalty as many birds form tight loving bonds and many mate for life. As a feng shui symbol, birds offer many benefits. Tips on how to use bird symbols in your home and work.
Vision boards are a great way to promote your success and achieve your goals. Learn how to apply feng shui to your vision board for even greater success.
Sometimes less is more -- especially at the New Year. How to accomplish more by doing less this year.
Fun is great feng shui. Learn which symbols and things you can do to increase your fun and bring you and your family greater happiness and prosperity, too, while you're having a great time.
When it comes to classical feng shui, the most important energy to follow is the annual energy. These are the most potent and current, and of all the energies and afflictions, the 5 Yellow is by far the one that has the potential to cause the greatest physical and financial damage. The 5 yellow is called the bone breaker because of its ability to inflict major injury, like broken bones. These 7 tips will help protect you from this feng shui affliction.
Holidays are special times to gather family and friends together to enjoy festivities, gifts, and special foods. Create great feng shui for the holidays. Use your Christmas Tree, wrapping and decorations for greater intention, meaning and activation!
"Love is the Seed" author, Lisa Hromada, discusses the role of spirituality and feng shui in this extended episode.
It stands to reason that if your wallet is a symbol of your finances, it’s a good idea to see what your financial symbol is actually symbolizing. Is there a perfect wallet out there with great feng shui? There are certain qualities that make some wallets better than others, that's for sure. These tips explain good wallet feng shui, including how to select a wallet that will work for you, helping you attract and hold onto more money.
Rolling 7’s on a craps table in Las Vegas has always been considered lucky, but that’s where that luck ends. In feng shui, the number seven is considered very unlucky and full of misfortune. Worse yet, it can cause theft, violence and injury. If you count seven as a lucky number, be sure to look at its implications in feng shui.
How to use evil eye charms in feng shui to protect yourself against those who have bad intentions or wish you ill.
Working in cubicleville? Even if you work inside of four padded walls, that cubicle doesn’t have to limit you. How to take your cubicle from boring to boardroom.
Applying feng shui to yourself is just as important as applying it to a home or office because you are the vessel that transports you through life. Read the 7 ways to help you get your personal feng shui in sync, in harmony, and in a productive and prosperous mode!
The relationships that are giving and caring, feed you and fill up your heart, giving you energy and positive good feelings. The ones that don’t, frequently drain you and leave you feeling like you’ve been bled dry like a vampire with their energetic fangs stuck in your neck. Use these 6 tips for handling energy vampires with feng shui.
If your feng shui is not working the way you had hoped, the reasons could be simple. This article helps you find out if it's mixing types of feng shui, your housekeeping or even your landscaping that's holding you back.
Today more than ever, the job market and our modern life means that we need the right people to come along at the right time who can help us. In feng shui that’s the helpful people corner.
When you activate the northwest corner of your home, office, or desk you stimulate your mentor luck as well as blessings, networking contacts, and the potential for international business and travel. Use these 6 tips to boost your luck!
Feng shui is much deeper and more involved than what kind of artwork should go over the sofa. And there’s often confusion about the connection with astrology. How does a technique for arranging your living room connect to astrology? And is there a connection with astrology? The answer is yes to both.
There's differences between feng shui consultants, but sometimes the recommendations are no longer recognizable as feng shui. It’s the kind of strange things that has people doing positively weird stuff, crazy rituals and stuff that’s just hands-down odd -- and not good feng shui.
Listen to these common feng shui questions to get your questions answered. Questions like whether feng shui is different for those below the equator in Australia or New Zealand, or whether to follow your personal directions when placing your bed, etc.
When you have debt, the worry, dread and fear can sometimes build up. Here’s some ideas about the feng shui of debt and ways to help you speed up getting out of the hole and over to the plus side on the accounting sheet.
Creating wealth energy and prosperity is one of the principle reasons to use feng shui. There are numerous ways to improve your income and creating more opportunities to make money through promotion, job advancement, and business opportunities. One of the favored feng shui wealth enhancers is creating a wealth vase.
There's a lot of confusion around feng shui, with much of the confusion centering around directions. The most common type of feng shui practiced in America, and much of the west, is called Black Hat Sect. It’s also sometimes called Western feng shui. The type practiced in Asia is called traditional or classical Chinese feng shui. Here are six differences you need to know.
There's a lot of confusion around feng shui, with much of the confusion centering around directions. The most common type of feng shui practiced in America, and much of the west, is called Black Hat Sect. It’s also sometimes called Western feng shui. The type practiced in Asia is called traditional or classical Chinese feng shui. Here are six differences you need to know.
In feng shui, the eight corners of luck are related to the different directions and corners of your home. In all, there are eight types of aspirations – those things that make our life enjoyable. Let’s discover the sectors one by one and how to activate and enhance them.
Being able to coordinate your eye with your hand motions and movements aids and facilitates understanding. Interestingly, just like learning has a hand-mind connection, so does feng shui. In fact, in feng shui the thinking mind is represented by the northeast, but the hand is the symbol of the northeast. Tips for your hands and thinking.
The color green relates to new growth, expansion, hope, new beginnings and the southeast direction. It is this direction that is also associated most with wealth.
When it comes to feng shui and our lives we sometimes have to stop or interrupt the flow of energy that's taking us in a negative direction. That's because when life isn't going the way we want, it could be not so much a case of bad luck, but a simple case of energy flow.
Feng shui isn’t a difficult concept to use when you’re traveling and staying in hotel rooms. Plus, by using a little feng shui while you’re on the road, you can keep yourself energized and refreshed. Here are tips on how to feng shui your hotel room.
There’s a piece of office equipment that often escapes your notice. Too often we put our work attention squarely on the electronics that occupy our work lives. Computer equipment, software programs, and email take a major priority over what is often the foundation of your work environment – your desk.
The heart of almost every home centers around the kitchen. Whether it’s doing homework with children or preparing meals, almost everyone (guests included) gather in the kitchen. Besides the bedroom, the kitchen is one of the most important areas of family luck in feng shui thought.
In feng shui, metal is the element you don’t often hear much discussion about. Most often metal is regarded as a cure for negative energies, especially earth afflictions such as the 5 Yellow and Black 2 that cause both illness and financial difficulties.
Beds are one of the most energetically-packed pieces of furniture in our homes. We sleep in them every night, having dreams both sweet and worrisome. Our sick days are often spent in bed, and of course, our closest, most intimate relationship is spent -- and symbolized -- by a bed. Over time, those soft sheets, comforters, pillows and mattresses absorb a lot of emotion.
Next to the front door, the bedroom is the single most important room in the house. The bedroom is where you re-energize each day. It's so important that you spend time creating a bedroom that supports your good health, rest and overall relationship.
It also symbolizes your love relationship. It should reflect that two people share the room as equals. When it's poorly decorated or one partner’s taste is predominant, it's out of balance and that can affect the couple's quality of rest – and romance!
The placement of artwork, symbols and images has can have both positive or negative implications on what happens in your life and how you view yourself, overall happiness, if money is a abundant or lacking, or if your health suffers.
Getting ready for a new baby requires a lot of thought and planning about everything from what diapers the baby will wear down to the decoration and arrangement of baby's room. Today's parents want to create a haven for their little one that will help their baby feel comforted and nurtured, as well as stimulated enough so that they thrive. Increasingly, parents are going beyond the traditional coordinated "theme" rooms and incorporating feng shui to ensure baby not only has an attractive, but also harmonious, environment.
Getting ready for a new baby requires a lot of thought and planning about everything from what diapers the baby will wear down to the decoration and arrangement of baby's room. Today's parents want to create a haven for their little one that will help their baby feel comforted and nurtured, as well as stimulated enough so that they thrive. Increasingly, parents are going beyond the traditional coordinated "theme" rooms and incorporating feng shui to ensure baby not only has an attractive, but also harmonious, environment.
Getting ready for a new baby requires a lot of thought and planning about everything from what diapers the baby will wear down to the decoration and arrangement of baby's room. Today's parents want to create a haven for their little one that will help their baby feel comforted and nurtured, as well as stimulated enough so that they thrive. Increasingly, parents are going beyond the traditional coordinated "theme" rooms and incorporating feng shui to ensure baby not only has an attractive, but also harmonious, environment.
Few things are as painful as a relationship that goes awry. Whether it’s grown cold or there is an interloper, the pain is still hard to cope with. Strong relationships and marriages are built on mutual affection, friendship and trust. Keeping your relationship secure and strong is sometimes harder than letting it go.
Many times, depression and hopelessness can be rooted in a lack of purpose or fulfillment. And, at one time or another, almost everyone has experienced some sort of despondency, whether through health worries, relationship or job difficulties or problems that seem insurmountable. A period of the blues that lingers, though, is unhealthy. Here's how you can help depression and hopelessness with feng shui.
Some houses have features and qualities that make the house so attractive that it almost sells itself. Many homes simply contain too much stuff and this makes it difficult to sell your home easily. In addition to decluttering your home, there are several feng shui tips that can help your house more appealing to prospective buyers. If you’re willing to invest just a couple of weeks, or weekends, you can get a grip on clutter within your home and enhance your home's curb appeal. And sell your home faster!
A clean house is more than just a luxury – it is a necessity. That’s right, a necessity. We need a clean house as much as a clean office or desk, because of all it offers us: efficiency and relaxation. Efficiency, because a clean house means you can find what you need when you need it. It also means that you will spend less time worrying and frustrated over the mess in your house and this allows you to relax and recharge.
One of the most persevering elements is wood. Just think about the sheer force of will a simple blade of grass shows by growing in cement. This very nature of growth and overcoming is the very essence of the wood element – the element of new beginnings.
Create a look that supports your style and creates good fortune, more success and greater luck and opportunities. Start with the colors you wear by using feng shui to help you select the styles and colors that correspond to your personal luck and good fortune.
Numbers are an integral part of feng shui, with each direction having its own corresponding digit.
Certain numbers, such as 1, 6, and 8 are considered especially auspicious and confer excellent luck to anyone with these numbers in their address or telephone number. Other numbers aren't so lucky.
From antiquity to today, few colors have the power and influence that the color red has. In feng shui, red is the color of protection, good fortune, prosperity and success.
Tips to refresh the chi of your home at the start of the New Year. Learn how to cleanse your feng shui cures and symbols.
Not everyone is a supermodel or looks like Chris Hemsworth in the film, Thor. Yet, we all, in our own ways, can look our very best. Here are ways you can look and feel your best – and attract love, wealth and open doors in your life by lifting your personal chi.
How to prepare for Chinese New Year with tips and suggestions for the days leading up to Chinese New Year.
Setting and reaching goals is a great way to create milestones in your life. It feels good to achieve something you've
Tips for creating a new year for yourself and meeting your goals and changing your life.
Use these tips on how to prepare your home for the New Year that includes decluttering, cleaning and restocking your home for an auspicious start to the New Year!
The Year of the Pig is bringing with it a delightful surprise – prosperity. That’s because the wealth star is moving in as the reigning star for the year. With a delightful pair of the prosperity star and the pig, often symbolized as a bank, are coming together in 2019 to bring us opportunity, prosperity, and good fortune.
Learn how to improve your feng shui to create more recognition and fame energy. Feng shui your home, bedroom and office to help you gain status, success and recognition.
Besides being beautiful, conch shells are also considered one of the eight precious objects in Buddhism. In feng shui, conch shells have a variety of meanings as well. This is a very versatile feng shui activator that can be used in so many ways to bring auspicious energy to your life. Here are six important ways to use these beautiful shells.
Think your mind has no control over your money? Learn key principles about how what you think and your personal feng shui affect your ability to create more wealth and prosperity in your life.
White is a power that protects and brings opportunity, helpful people and is empowering. It's especially helpful for overcoming or transitioning through difficulties like illness, divorce or for standing out in your career when you're lacking recognition. It's a helpful color that will make you excel and is a great color to wear year round.
Working with clients, companies, homeowners and readers for as long as I have, there are a number of questions that I’m asked about working with clients and their feng shui. These are some of the most common questions that I’ve been asked over the years.
There are relationships with people who are the energy vampires, people who are stuck in their negative energy and only derive joy out of bringing others into their well of pity, self-loathing, complaining, or drama. Here are 6 tips to protect and refresh your personal energy with feng shui.
The front door plays a very special role in feng shui. Often described as the “mouth of chi,” the front door, is the entryway for energy, wealth, and opportunity into your home. Learn the key points, including the colors of prosperity, for your front door.
If you want the color of success – and all the material rewards – that go with it, then there’s a color for that. Choose from 6 lucky handbag, purse and wallet feng shui to create and manifest prosperity, success, and income for yourself.
Single too long? Learn these tips to help you attract new love to your life. Whether you’re looking for the right man or woman, a gay or straight relationship, this episode covers the important corners of your home that must be activated to attract Mr. or Ms. Right to your life — and it’s not just the romance corner. Learn why you need both the romance and heaven corners of your home activated to manifest love.
If you are in a financial bind or need money quickly, this episode is for you. You'll learn feng shui tips on how to generate more money and start accumulating it -- not just watching it go out the door. Learn good feng shui money habits that will help build your bank account.
This episode covers the popular subject of clutter and how clutter affects your life, including relationships, opportunities and your money. You’ll also learn what clutter isn’t — and how to determine what to keep and what to get rid of — and how it’s holding you back and keeping you stuck.
Could you be making these mistakes in your bedroom? Find out the one thing many bedrooms have — and that kills romance. Practical tips for making your bedroom the perfect place for romance.
If you think there’s only one wealth corner in feng shui, think again. There are actually five wealth corners! You’ll learn which one is the most important one (and one most feng shui experts never talk about). You’ll also hear 3 tips to put into practice right away to help bring more money into your life, protect the breadwinner and accumulate more money.
In this first episode, I share how my husband lost his job and we had to sell our house. Nothing was going right, and then I found feng shui, my house sold and my husband was hired. From that time of difficulty, I quickly became addicted to all the improvements feng shui made in my life — from selling a house, to finding a new job, and building more wealth. Includes 3 important, but quick 5 minute tips that you can use to invite good chi and wealth to your home and life.
What is it really -- and what does wind and water really mean? I'll explain what feng shui really is -- a study of time and why you can have a great year one year and the next falls apart on you. Learn how energy, flow and balance in your home can create blockages in your life. Plus, you'll get 3 tips to unblock and unstick energy that's stopping opportunities (and money) from flowing to you.