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How Do You Apply the Feng Shui Birth Element and the Feng Shui Kua Number?

feng shui kua and feng shui birth element tips Your personal feng shui birth element and your Kua number are two factors that should always be taken into consideration when using feng shui to create a healthy and happy home. How do you put these two feng shui factors together with minimum confusion and maximum results?

First of all, it is best to treat these two feng shui pieces of information separately. I suggest to start with finding your own feng shui birth element and using this feng shui info to create a healthy home. You will need to understand the interplay of the five feng shui elements to know which feng shui elements to avoid and which feng shui elements to emphasize. For example, if your feng shui birth element is Fire, you know that Wood and Fire colors are best for your energy, while Water and Earth elements/colors should not be too strong in your space.

Knowing your Kua number will give you insight into your best feng shui directions, meaning which directions nourish you with the most supportive energy. You can benefit from your best directions by facing them throughout the day, for example in your office, as well as by positioning your bed, if possible, to face one of your best feng shui directions. Photo: Digital Vision / Getty Images
Friday May 16, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

What is Period 8 Feng Shui?

feng shui period 8 tips You might have heard that you need to use different feng shui cures, or maybe even make specific feng shui changes to your house in the period 8 feng shui. What is a period in feng shui and what is period 8 in particular?

Feng shui period is a term used in the flying star school of feng shui (called San Yuan) to define the movement of lucky energies. Flying star is a feng shui school that deals with the time factor. Each time period in feng shui lasts for 20 years and, as there are 9 periods, a complete cycle takes 180 years. Feng Shui Period 8 started on Feb.4, 2004.

The feng shui bagua trigram that represents period 8 is the Ken Trigram. Ken Trigram is representative of the feng shui element of earth (mountain symbol), youthful energy (young man symbol) and the direction of Northeast.

You can draw the auspicious energy for the period 8 feng shui with some simple adjustments that harness the lucky energy of the feng shui earth element of the period 8, such as, for example, light yellow/earthy colors and yellow crystals. Photo: (c) Rodika Tchi
Wednesday May 14, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Is Your Art Creating a Good or A Bad Feng Shui Bedroom?

feng shui bedroom art tips When you wake up, what do you see? When you go to sleep, what do you see? Seeing art or inspiring images first thing in the morning is good feng shui, but you have to look a bit deeper and understand what does your bedroom art really represent.

From a feng shui stand-point, it really does not matter how famous the artist is, or how much you paid for the piece. What matters is its energy (feng shui energy) and what this energy does for your bedroom and for your love life.

Look at every decoration piece in your bedroom and see if it really belongs there. See if your bedroom art is contributing to a feeling of love or a feeling of sadness. See if the mirror can be repositioned so that it does not face the bed. In feng shui, little things make a big difference. Photo: Manchan / Getty Images
Monday May 12, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Gift Your Graduate with a Feng Shui Consultation

feng shui consultation gift for graduates If you or someone in your circle of family or friends is graduating, this is the perfect time to celebrate with feng shui! The ancient art and science of feng shui has numerous applications for all life stages, circumstances and celebrations.

Along with all the great gifts you are planning for the graduation event, I will encourage you to take a moment and think of a gift that will truly last. A gift that will make it easier for the graduate to adjust to the new stage in their life, as well as help them make the best of the changes and challenges that future may hold.

A gift certificate of a feng shui consultation can be a very smart idea, especially if your graduate is moving into a new space soon. Photo: Stockbyte / Getty Images
Friday May 9, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Your House Bagua and Your Garden Bagua (Ba-Gua)

house and garden bagua tips Is your house bagua (ba-gua, or energy map) the same as your yard, or your garden bagua? In other words, when you define your house bagua, do you include your garden in the house bagua?

Yes, you absolutely do! And then you focus on the needed feng shui elements to bring the desired balance of all five feng shui elements in your garden bagua. For example, if you plan to have an outdoor water feature, you know that best feng shui areas for it are East (feng shui health and family); Southeast (feng shui abundance) and North (feng shui career.) And if you are contemplating a Zen rock garden, best areas for the earth feng shui element are Southwest, West, Northwest and Northeast.

You cannot always have it perfect, but you can always make it better by using some smart feng shui tips to strengthen you bagua (ba-gua.) Photo: (c) Brian van den Heuvel
Thursday May 8, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Feng Shui Unlucky Directions and Your Bedroom:
Feng Shui Forum Tips

feng shui kua numbers for a couple If you know your feng shui kua number, you can find out your lucky and unlucky feng shui directions. Based on your date of birth, you have four lucky directions, and four unlucky ones. You are also either in the East or in the West group category.

Basically, the meaning of lucky and unlucky feng shui directions is that you receive better, more auspicious energies from some directions, and inauspicious energies from other directions. Once you know your most auspicious feng shui directions, you will focus on facing them often (especially when working or sleeping); as well as spending more time in those areas of your house.

Read the feng shui forum discussion on the most unlucky feng shui direction (called chueh ming) in your bedroom.

As always, the best way to apply feng shui is in a wise, balanced and consistent way. Remember, the purpose of feng shui is to empower you with efficient tools to improve the quality of your life, not to fill you with fear. Photo: Reggie Casagrande / Getty Images
Wednesday May 7, 2008 | permalink | comments (1)

Do You Need Feng Shui Symbols for Protection?

feng shui fu dogs I am re-reading a brilliant book called "Earth Harmony: Places of Power, Holiness and Healing" by Nigel Pennick (compare prices.) If you are interested in understanding the craft of earth harmony, as the author puts it, this is a must read. The book is loaded with feng shui-like examples from all over the world - from Madagascan Vintana to Hindu Vastuvidya to the old European system of Location.

Once you have been applying feng shui tips for a while you begin to understand that every ancient culture has its own form of balancing earth energies and on a deeper level they all connect.

Some of the most popular feng shui cures are the feng shui cures for protection and good luck. Should you look into feng shui tips for protection? Yes, you should, especially for your main door. However, the desire for protection should not come form fear, but from a basic understanding that there is a wide variety of energies all around us, and some of those energies are best left outside our homes.

Whenever you are applying feng shui it is very important to apply it intelligently, meaning if you do not understand a feng shui cure or just do not like it, trust your judgment and find a different way to achieve the same result.

For example, in traditional Chinese feng shui the ba-gua mirror is often used outside homes for protection. Would you use a bagua mirror on your main door? I know I wouldn't. What I would do, though, is understand what the bagua mirror does, feng shui-wise, and then look for a visually acceptable way to substitute it. The "Earth Harmony" book (compare prices.) has many old European designs for protection that can work beautifully with the architectural style of your home.

Photo: (c) Feng Shui Best Buy
Tuesday May 6, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Feng Shui Color Fest: Tips and Tricks for A Happy Home

feng shui color tips How do you want to feel when you enter your home? When you come into your kitchen? Your bathroom? Is it passion or peace you are looking for? I would say the best feng shui home is a home that satisfies, or nourishes, all your emotional needs.

Your home needs to have different rhythms in different areas, and this is where the feng shui color tips come as big help. You can choose color according to the mood you are seeking, as well as the feng shui energy a specific area of your home needs.

Your bedroom wants passion and healing; your bathroom - a relaxing spa mood, and your kitchen wants to be a joyful place to cook and nourish your loved ones. The easiest way to quickly change the energy in your home is with wall color. You can certainly also work with re-upholstering your existing furniture pieces, new art, photography, or various decor items that bring the desired color energy.

Create a happy home the easy way, the feng shui color way! Photo: Siri Stafford / Getty Images
Thursday May 1, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Clean Closet, Clean Mind:
Clear Closet Clutter with Feng Shui

feng shui clutter clear tips Here is the thing about the closets - most people think of closets as "out of sight, out of mind" deal. Not true. It is important to understand that with the feng shui energy, the "out of sight" does not work. You cannot cover, conceal or pretend not to see low energy, because in the world of feng shui energy, there are no boundaries.

Unfortunately, most homes have busy, cluttered and just plain ugly closets. If you are working on improving the feng shui energy in your home, do not neglect your closets, put them high on your feng shui to-do list.

If your closets are overcluttered and busy, having the doors closed will not help you much. More than that, in feng shui closets are connected to your innermost, your deepest, often hidden feelings about yourself. Think of the state of your closets as a feng shui test of your self-esteem. How high is your self-esteem? How clean, peaceful and beautiful is your inner world?

Open your closets and take a look. Photo: Adam Gault / Getty Images
Friday April 25, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

Feng Shui, Earth Day and Why Listen

feng shui history Feng Shui started thousands of years ago with ancient sages listening to nature and trying to understand the earth's rhythms.

The basic truth that humans can stay healthy and happy only when living in tune with nature evolved into a complex body of knowledge with many different schools.

When you feel yourself getting confused by all the difference in feng shui schools and opinions, go out in nature and just try to listen. Come back home refreshed by vibrant earth energy and then listen again.

Listen to what you can do to align your house to the natural rhythms. Listen to see where your house is saddened by bad feng shui and find a way to heal it.

Start by always respecting Mother Earth and going with its flow of energy and wisdom. If your house is in tune with the natural rhythms, your life will be in tune with it, also. Call it feng shui or give it your own name - but keep developing this connection to Mother Earth. Stay open to it and keep listening for your own good.

Happy Earth Day! Photo: (c) Rodika Tchi
Tuesday April 22, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

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