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Lucky Feng shui for 2012 ( February 5 ’ 2012 to February 4 ’ 2013)

2012-01-05T14:19:00.000-08:00

2012 is the year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac animal.
This year 2012, will be like a year of new beginning.

The symbols of this year 2012 are Sun, heaven, high class, luxury , caring , car.
Good to show respect for everything. Donation, keep on going, quick action.

Lucky color for 2012 : Baby pink, silver ( Platinum ), white, gold.

Lucky item : Gold or platinum jewelry (ring , necklaces, bracelet )
rose quartz, pearl necklace and earings , round watch, hat, globe, crown ,mirror. Computer, umbrella.

Lucky keywords : Pure, strength.

Lucky foods : Melon, water melon, pear, chestnut, orange, apple, banana, ice, ice cream, cake, nuts, sushi, candy, hot foods.

Lucky animals : Dragon, big snake, phoenix, lions ( foo dogs ), horse, dog, crane , carp.

Lucky plants : Herbs, Pomegranate, chrysanthemum.

Lucky area, place : Castle, temple, church, shrine, museum , art gallery, skyscraper, mountain village, city, downtown, track and field, high class street.

Which directions are lucky for 2012 ?

Warning directions for your traveling & moving this year are southeast, north, south, northwest.

Never go traveling ( even business trip ) to southeast, north, south, northwest directions from your house. If for some serious reason , you have to go to those directions, at least bring a lucky charm and try to smile often.

Unlucky directions

Southeast,
North,
South,
Northwest

Lucky directions

West
East
Northeast
Southwest

How to protect your life and bring good luck for this season ?

* Cleaning your space often especially, southeast, north, south, northwest.
directions of your house.

* Go traveling to lucky directions.

* Eat good luck foods and drink mineral water.

* Go to the museum, art museum.

* Appreciate art, nature.

* Listening to positive and active music.

* Have a good luck charm, such as jade pendant or Chinese coins.

* Place good luck feng shui item such as red jade dragon figurine, jade horse figurine, pi yao, phoenix figurine, bronze pair of Qi Lin or coin sword or bronze dragon figurine in your house.

* Polish your potential.

* Care for beauty and be social.

* Never get angry, your luck will gone immediately , if you get angry, say the word “ thank you” many times with smile.

* Gratitude for what you are having and receiving.

To attract wealth luck,

* Treat your friends or others.

* Donate.

* Eat desert.

* Wear a gold coin pendant or a ring.

* Clean your bathroom every day.

* Communicate with people who have wealth luck and exchange the money and always put the money in your wallet.

* When you receive money, feel gratitude for it from bottom of your heart. With strong emotion, it will bring you more money multiplied.

* Clean all the coins in your wallet with salt water.

* Put money in a picture frame and decorate it in your wealth area of your house.
* Decorate fish figurine or fish image in your wealth area of your house.

For more information about feng shui for 2012, please visit the link below,

Annual Feng shui flying stars for 2012 (From February 5 '2012 to February 4 '2013 )

Feng shui Tips for health - Your house’s missing pieces

2011-09-19T14:26:00.000-07:00

If you or your family often get health problems or injury, you may want to check your house’s missing piece.

What is a missing piece of your house ?

This has to do with the shape of your house.

Ideal shapes of houses are rectangle or square shapes in feng shui. But most of houses and apartments are made with some missing corner, when looking at it based on feng shui arrangement shape.

L-shape floor plan

If you are living in a house which has rectangle or square shape, there are no missing pieces in your house.

But a dark place, dirty place, or place having bad smell are not good feng shui for health at all.

If you have difficulty finding out your health problem even after going to see your doctor, and you have been having the same health problem, it’s good to recheck your house’s missing pieces and bad feng shui for health.

* Missing piece in East corner of your house ( or room ), may affect the following,

Liver , throat, legs, especially for oldest son.

*Missing piece in Southeast corner of your house ( or room ),

Stomach problem, nervous disease ,neuralgia, chronic fatigue, especially for oldest daughter.

* Missing piece in South corner of your house ( or room ),

Eyes, blood, heart, ears, breast, especially for second daughter.

* Missing piece in Southwest corner of your house ( or room ),

Digestive organs, stomach, the spleen, the abdomen, especially for mother.

* Missing piece in West corner of your house ( or room ),

Lung, the respiratory organs, teeth, the chest, especially for the third daughter.

* Missing piece in Northwest corner of your house ( or room ),

Head, face, neck, bone, lung, especially for father.

* Missing piece in North corner of your house ( or room),

Sexual organs, the bladder, the kidneys, the urethra, especially for second son.

* Missing piece in Northeast corner of your house ( or room ),

Lower back, a joint, arthritis, nose, especially for third son.

In the missing piece of your house or your room, good to place or display plant, crystal, mirror in the corner of the missing piece area to cover the bad feng shui.
In the dark place, good to display sunshine painting or photo image in the area.

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Feng shui symbols for your health & longevity

2011-07-22T10:46:00.000-07:00

When we are healthy enough, we don’t feel it’s so important, but if you have good health, it means you have one of the biggest happiness in your life.

In feng shui the spaces where qi energy flows smoothly make your feeling good and bring good health.

There are also feng shui symbols for health & longevity which can help you to have long healthy life.

Here are some feng shui lucky symbols for your health & longevity.

1. Crane

Crane signifies long life and good health.
Cranes are usually shown with other longevity symbols such as pine tree and a stone, also crane and peach in paintings.

2. Turtle

Turtle is known as the strongest longevity symbol and it isgreat to have real turtles in your house if you can.

If it’s difficult to have them , have the image of a turtle at the back side of your house or display decoration of turtle ( figurine) in the north area of your house. ( but avoid to display it in your bathroom and kitchen )

Turtles live very long, and have determination. Good to have it for your great fortune and your healthy long life whether real or image.

3. Turtle dragon

Turtle dragon has multiple symbols and not only the symbol of longevity and good health but also for prosperity, success, new beginning and protection.
This mystical feng shui creature has dragon head and dragon symbolizes success, courage, determination and power.

Turtle dragon is sitting on gold ingots bed and it symbolizes prosperity and wealth.

Turtle dragon’s with a baby turtle on its back symbolizes wonderful descendant’s luck. Great to display it in the North or East area of home or office. ( except for bathroom, kitchen and bedroom )

4. Deer

Deer symbolizes longevity and wealth. Deer brings speed, endurance and long life.

Also it represents longevity of income and wealth. It’s an excellent image to have in the office, especially when draped with a necklace of lucky good fortune coins.

5. Bamboo

Bamboo symbolizes longevity and fortitude in the face of adversity. Having bamboo plants in your garden ensure that there will be longevity in any business you undertake. You will be blessed with your position and your wealth.

6. One of 3 wisemen Sau ( god of longevity )

God of Longevity, called Sau is one of the most famous and popular Taoist deities. Sau symbolizes illness free long life as well as happy old age surrounded by lots of love.

Sau is usually displayed with other two wisemen Fuk and Luk in the living room or dining room. For more information about Fuk Luk Sau you can read it here.

7. Wu Lou

Wu Lou is a symbol of good health and contains elixir of immortality. Wu Lu is a bitter gourd container, it’s said to be the best cure for those who are ill.

Placing metal Wu Lou by your bed will ensure that illness bad energy will keep going away.
The most effective Wu lou are made of brass.

8. Peach tree

Peach and peach tree symbolizes longevity. Displaying peaches ( real or decoration in the center of the home is excellent for family’s health.

From my personal experience, displaying several peaches ( real or decoration ) in the southeast area of the room or house ( except for your bathroom ) can bring good romance opportunity.

For health and longevity, displaying peach tree ( decoration ) or peaches in the east area of your house can keep good health and long healthy life.

9. Pine tree

Pine tree also symbolizes longevity and also strength in adversity. Having pine tree in your garden is also known as bringing good fortune especially healthy long life and wealth.

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Feng shui - Lucky Symbols of 5 elements

2011-07-13T12:02:00.000-07:00

Which Chinese 12 zodiac animals do you belong with ?

You can know the things which bring you good luck based on your zodiac animal sign.

I have sorted the 12 zodiac animals with 5 main feng shui elements which are wood, fire, earth, metal, water - below.

Wood

12 animals : Tiger, Rabbit

Celestial guardian : Green dragon
Directions : East, Southeast
Season : Spring
Colors : Blue, Green
Material : Wood
Taste : Sour taste
Body : Liver
Stone : Turquoise
Design : Stripe ( vertical shaft )
Shape : Column

Fire

12 animals : Snake, Horse

Celestial guardian : Phoenix
Direction : South
Season : Summer
Color : Red
Material : Plastic
Taste : Bitter
Body : Heart
Stone : Rose quartz
Design : Star
Shape : Triangle, Cone

Earth

12 animals : Cow, dragon, sheep, dog

Celestial guardian : Yellow dragon
Direction : Northeast, Southwest
Season : late winter , early spring, late spring, early summer, late summer, early autumn , late autumn, early winter.
Color : Yellow
Material : Ceramic, Pottery
Taste : Sweet
Body : Spleen
Stone : Tiger eye
Design : Check, Border ( horizontal shaft )
Shape : Flat, trapezoid

Metal

12 animals : Monkey, Rooster

Celestial guardian : White tiger
Directions : West, Northwest
Season : Autumn
Colors : White
Material : Metal
Taste : Hot
Body : Lung
Stone : Moonstone
Design : Polka dot, Oval
Shape : Round

Water

12 animals : Rat, Boar

Celestial guardian : Black turtle
Directions : North
Season : Winter
Colors : Black
Material : Glass
Taste : Salty
Body : Kidney
Stone : Hematite
Design : Wave, Cloud
Shape : Wave

My personal experience - I belong with Rabbit in the 12 zodiac animals, and whenever I was wearing striped design shirt in the important day such as job interviews, I really had lucky days.

It fit with my qi energy, you can also find your lucky items based on your 12 zodiac animal sign and have lucky days !

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Feng shui - How to have more wealth luck ?

2011-06-06T10:29:00.000-07:00

Savings

If you want to increase your savings, pay attention for the place where you keep all your financial goods such as savings balance notebook, check book, etc..

The best area for keeping financial goods - Northeast, or north or wealth area of your house.

You can check your wealth area of your house at the link here.

http://www.mercurytreasures.com/feshwedi.html

* Good to hold the financial goods with black or purple color cloth.

* Avoid to keep your financial goods including your wallet in the west and south corner of your house ( or living room ).

* West areas may increase spending more money rather than saving.

South area can burn your wealth luck and may have unexpected events occur which make money fly away. Unless your wealth area is south or west.

* Have a piggy bank or lucky cat bank figurine and display it in your wealth area of your house. And put money ( even penny or dime ) into it everyday with appreciation.

* Put a bamboo plant near the sink.

* Always keep clean your bathroom and kitchen.

* Good to display small bamboo or crystal or coal near the sink. These three items can clean Qi energy , and make the energy flow well around the space.

* Good to face your lucky direction when you are sitting in your house or office.

* Use long wallet which can hold money without bending. The best color is black or brown to save money. Avoid Red color wallet, it makes spending money.

* Good to put money up side down in the wallet. It’s believed to not to spend the money.

* Avoid to put credit cards and debit cards in your wallet, always put them in a card purse.

* Always keep organized and keep clean your wallet.

Other ways to save more money

Use southwest area of your house.

* Display red & white color flowers. ( change the water every day.)

* If it’s your bedroom, display crystal ball.

* Display a cactus.

Feng shui and Words energy for wealth luck

Do you often say, “I can’t afford it.”

or

" I don’t have money” ?

If so, avoid to use these words no matter the situation.

Words have power to make things good or bad depending on what you say and think in your mind.

This word energy flows around the space and goes to the universe.

And universe will catch the words “ can’t “ and “ don’t “ and will keep you in the state of “ can’t afford it “ and “ don’t have money “

Better to say

“ I have enough. “

Because the universe will hear you saying "you have enough" and so will give you enough, and more.

Feng shui & Beauty, Anti-aging

2011-06-05T01:04:00.000-07:00

Feng shui for your beauty luck 1

Your personal Romance direction

If you care for beauty, and wish to improve your looks, you can place a mirror in your personal romance direction ( called EN- Nen ) of your bedroom.

You can check your romance & beauty direction at the link here.

http://www.mercurytreasures.com/feshyopeludi.html

ou can check it based on your Kua number.

Your love, romance direction also works for your beauty and anti aging , depending on what you display in the area.

After putting a mirror on the wall, put a poster or big photo of your ideal star ( famous person ) facing to the mirror.

And whenever you see yourself at the mirror, you will then also see your ideal star through the mirror, and by doing this, beauty energy will be sent to you and help you to have the ideal look of you.

Point : Smile whenever you see yourself in the mirror.

Mirror has multiple powers to bring your wishes come true.

Feng shui beauty tips : Wash your face with mineral water. And also write the words “ thank you !” on the bottle with magic pen.

And also drink it, at least 4 or 5 glasses of water a day.

Feng shui for Beauty luck 2

Put live flowers in the South area of your house or room.

Display Red or pink colors of Roses, Tulips, Gerberas with a vase made of porcelain in the south area of your room. And change the water everyday.

From my personal experience, whenever displaying a pink color of these flowers, I had opportunities to meet many people when I was single.

To improve your beauty,

Good to do aroma therapy .
Best essential oils for beauty are roses, lavender, rosemary, chamomile.

Feng shui for anti aging

If you wish to stay young forever, pay attention for East area of your house and room.

East symbolizes youth, fresh, and the sun rises from East, this direction is the source of all life.

When you get up every morning, good to have a habit to do sun bathing in the East direction.

Best color for anti aging - red, maroon, orange ( these colors make your skin look active )

Feng shui for beauty & health

Putting rose quartz or green aventurine in your closet near your inner clothes.

These two gem stones have power to improve beauty & love, and also for health, getting rid of stress.

Quan Yin ( Kwan Yin) / Kuan Yin - Goddess of Compassion

2011-05-06T22:32:00.000-07:00

If you have been suffering from unfortunate events in your life, such as family trouble, illness, disabilities, financial trouble, etc.. Quan Yin ( Kwan yin/ Guanyin ) is well-known as the Goddess of Compassion who can clean all the negativities and energy around your place , change bad luck into good fortune. Quan Yin ( Kwan yin ) is one of the most universally beloved of East Asian Buddhist deities.

She is also generally regarded by many as the protector of women and children.

She is one of the deities most frequently seen on altars in China's temples.

Also spelled Kuan Yin or Guan Yin, she is the very embodiment of compassionate loving kindness.

As the Bodhisattva of Compassion, she hears the cries of all beings.

In many images, she carries the pearls of illumination or pours a stream of healing waters from a vase, blessing her devotees with physical and spiritual peace.

She is often shown with a dragon; the age old symbol of the highest spiritual essence, embodying wisdom, strength, and the divine powers of transformation.

She is also sometimes referred to as Guanyin Pusa, in simplified Chinese 观音菩萨, in traditional Chinese 觀音菩薩.

In Sanskrit, her name is Padma-pâni, or "Born of the Lotus."

In Chinese she is called Quan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy and Compassion.

She is an extremely popular Goddess in China and is worshiped in Chinese communities throughout East and South East Asia.
　
There are also legendary stories about Quan Yin which say that she can even turn hell into heaven.

This Goddess comforts all, the troubled, the sick, the lost, the senile, the unfortunate, anyone needing her help. She stands tall and slender, a figure of infinite grace.

Quan Yin is also worshipped in Taoism , and she is noted for her disposition to save the lost, her purity, wisdom, and her marvel and miracle working power.

Many Buddhist scriptures state that one can invoke Quan Yin 's assistance by simply calling out her name.

According to the Huayen Sutra (Buddha-vatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra), Quan Yin uses all kinds of ways to attract people: she makes gifts, uses words of love, and transforms herself into persons like those that she deals with.

The "Universal Gateway" chapter in the Lotus Sutra lists thirty-two typical forms in which Quan Yin may appear.

For instance, if a boy or girl is about to gain some enlightenment, Quan Yin may transform herself into a boy or a girl to teach the child.

If a monk is about to attain some enlightenment, Quan Yin may transform herself into a monk. In short, she can appear as a monk, a nun, a king, a minister, a celestial being, or a normal person like you and me.

The purpose of such transformations is to make people feel close to her and willing to listen to her words.

According to legend, Quan Yin made the following statement.

"I am cultivating this method of great compassion and hope to save all living beings," Quan Yin said.

"Any living being who calls my name or sees me will be free from all fear and danger. I will activate that being's spiritual awareness and maintain it forever."

Sakyamuni Buddha confirmed Quan Yin 's vow:

"If a suffering being hears the name of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and earnestly calls out to the bodhisattva, Avalokitesvara will hear the call and redeem that being from his suffering" ("Universal Gateway," Lotus Sutra).

In other words, Quan Yin strives to eliminate suffering and to help people live in peace and harmony.

A deity like Quan Yin may appear in either male or female form. Statues of these beings merely help us feel their presence.

The Quan Yin (Kwan Yin ) statue

Quan Yin may be shown either in a standing or in a sitting position, and on top of her crown there is always an image of a Buddha, which is generally thought to be Amitabha Buddha.

In her hands, Quan Yin may hold a willow branch, a vase with water, or occasionally a lotus flower.

The willow branch is used to either heal people's illnesses or bring fulfillment to their requests. The water symbolizes the cleansing of people's sins or illnesses.

Quan Yin 's right hand often points downward, with the palm facing outward, the posture of granting a wish. This is the typical image of Quan Yin in China and Taiwan.

Many other forms also exist. The expression "thirty-three forms of Quan Yin " in Sino-Japanese Buddhist art refers to thirty-three different appearances of this deity.

One of the most well-known forms of Quan Yin is the one with a thousand eyes and a thousand hands. The thousand eyes allow Quan Yin to see the suffering creatures in this world, and the thousand hands allow her to reach out to help them.

She doesn’t really need all those eyes and hands to be able to help, she can do fine with one pair of eyes and hands, or with just her spirit, but it’s a popular representation of her, showing her power and compassion.

The Different Names of Quan Yin in Asian countries

In Chinese - Quan Yin ( Kwan Yin )
In Japanese - Kannon,
In Korean - Gwan-eum
In Thai - Kuan Eim (กวนอิม) or Phra Mae Kuan Eim (พระแม่กวนอิม)
In Vietnamese - Quan Am or Quán Thế Âm
In Hong Kong ( Cantonese ) - Kwun Yum or Kun Yum

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Chinese guardian temple lions - Foo dogs ( Fu dogs)

2011-04-29T22:06:00.000-07:00

Guardian temple lions, also called foo dogs ( fu dogs ) are traditionally used as the symbol of protection against any kind of bad luck in China and Taiwan.

You may already have seen these foo dogs in front of Chinese banks, or the gate of China towns.

Temple Lion statues appeared in China with the coming of Buddhism.

They symbolizes defense and protection and are often seen guarding entrances and gateways to buildings.

Many Chinese family and business people have the pair of foo dogs for protection.

The Lion is the symbol of majestic strength, great courage and strength of character.

When a Temple Lion is seen playing with a ball, it is to signify the moon pearl which symbolizes blessings and protection against evil, and the ball also represents the sun, which is Yang.

These are the same thing with two different names.

They are often placed outside of the door with their backs to the door or inside the entrance door with their backs to the door.

In Feng Shui, the most powerful symbols are of 4 creatures, they are Dragon, Qi Lin, Pi Yao and Lion ( Foo Dogs).

Especially the guardian temple Lions (Foo Dogs) are the strongest power for protection.

Besides the power of protection, it’s also known as improving career & wealth luck.

They are sold in pairs ( male and female ) and placing only one is bad luck.
Traditionally, real foo dogs are made of jade or bronze.

Where to display the foo dogs ( temple lions) ?

Outside of your entrance door facing out side.

They will protect you and your family from being robbed or cheated, as well fending off burglars and harmful people.

The right position for these foo dogs is Male foo dog which is holding a globe should be in the right side ( looking from the foo dogs eyes, facing out side) and female foo dog which is holding a baby on the left side.

If you place them inside of your home or office, the foo dogs faces should be facing outside.
( not facing towards inside of your home ).

Foo dogs are often displayed on pedestals but it’s also fine to display without base and the male goes on the right side and female goes on the left side.

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Feng shui tips - Music has power to change your day ?

2011-04-19T15:20:00.000-07:00

Do you often listen to music ?

As you know, music can change your mood, good or bad.

In Feng Shui, you are your environment.

Your home and office are a reflection of your inner and outer world.

Your mood influences the energy flow around your space.

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When the music plays in the environment, it optimizes the flow of energy into our brain and body and also in the environment.

Plants grows well when we play music the plant loves, or when the vibration fits with plants in the room.

Especially, it’s said that Mozart music is powerful and somehow his music fits with plant‘s vibration.

For my personal tastes, I often play Chopin, Camile Saint Saens, Tchaikovsky, Massenet and our plants grow really well for a long time.

When you want to check the level of energy in your environment, plants are good idea to see the proof besides your own energy.

If there is sha chi ( negative energy ) flowing around the space, plants die fast , and the plant catches the sha chi energy.

You can try good music which fits with plant’s vibration level in order to flow good energy around the space.

Harmonizing music may increase flow of chi energy. Also if you want to get high energy rather than relax, dancing music also increases the flow from my experience.

The point of doing Feng shui is flowing energy smoothly in the environment, and playing music is one of the ways to flow energy around the space.

Our moods are influenced by the environment where we live.

Everyone listens to music which they love.

What kind of music do you love to listen to most of your time ?

Before I was getting into feng shui, one day I did notice that music influences my luck of the day.

There were several music and songs which I love , however whenever I played them , I had bad days. The lyrics of the song is quite sad or painful.

So I don’t recommend to play sad music which make you feel down.
Meditation music also.

There are music which make you feel scared or feel down.

Good to listen to any music which make you feel up or calm or relax. It helps the energy flow around the space and it influences your day.

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Feng shui tips - Major Space cleaning before you move into a new place

2011-04-06T11:44:00.000-07:00

Whether you are going to buy a brand new house or a used house, it is very important to have major space cleaning before you move into a new place because it influences your life.

If possible, it’s good to have space cleaning one week before the date you move into the new place.

Especially if it’s a used house, previous occupant’s energy is still there.

If possible, it’s best to buy a house which the previous owner left for good luck reason, such as a promotion, marriage, success, rather than no good fortune occupants.

How to do major space cleaning ?

1. First ,consciously notice all the feelings that you are having before you start cleaning.

If you are not feeling good, or feel harm, or not well-balanced feeling, get full recovery from your problem first. I don’t recommend to do space cleaning until your feeling is fine.

2. Get rid of stuff you don’t need. Clothes, documents, magazines, etc.. And then clean your house normally, with vacuum cleaner, wipe everywhere with environmentally friendly green cleaner, including bathroom and kitchen.

What items do you need to do major space cleaning ?

1. Sea salt
2. Sage
3. Singing bowl
4. Essential oil or scent candle or incense ( sandalwood )
3. Music

1. Heat the sea salt in a frying pan, no oil, and shake pan while heating. And then cool down the sea salt.

3. Sprinkle the sea salt around your space, and keep it there about 10 minutes. ( in your sink , bathtub, toilet bowl also.)

4. Vacuum the space and remove the sea salt with it. ( flush it in the sink, bathtub and toilet bowl. )

5. Wipe all the furniture, electric stuff, decorations, and floor in your house.

6. Clean window with glass cleaner first, then use salt water with the wipe out.

5. Burn sage in the incense burner in all the rooms including all the corners of each room in your house.

6. Make a singing bowl ring with sound in all the rooms, into each corner. Do it slowly.

7. Burn essential oil or incense in all the rooms.

8. Decorate with fresh flowers.

9. Play music which sounds calm & positive and makes you feel good.

If you have any gemstones or crystals, put these items in a bowl with sea salt water for a while.

And after that put each gemstone in sunshine, by placing them in your balcony or somewhere they can get sunshine.

You can also burn incense and put the smoke around each stone.

While you are cleaning, make sure your feeling is full of joy and happiness and appreciation for all the blessings you have and all the blessings you are receiving.

And sprinkle sea salt all over the room of the house again and keep it like that for a week until you move into the house.

After that, open all the windows, and vacuum the floor, and burn the sage incense and also ring the singing bowl for sound in all the rooms, into each corner again.

It’s also good to throw away the trash which has sea salt in the vacuum cleaner before move into the house.

It is also believed that to display a horse after the space cleaning, before moving into the house, will attract good fortune.

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Feng shui Tips - What do you need to check before you buy a house ?

2011-02-19T19:38:00.000-08:00

Choosing a house may be one of the most important things in your life, because it influences your future, good or bad.

* Choosing a house which is located in the lucky direction from your present place of the month & year will bring good fortune to you and your family.

You can check your lucky direction at feng shui flying stars webpage at feng shui flying stars

Select the lucky direction for both the year and the month.

2011 annual feng shui flying stars - 2011 annual feng shui flying stars

The lucky directions ( for traveling & moving ) in 2011 are Northwest, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast.

Also please check the monthly flying stars and it’s good to select the month which has the same lucky directions as yearly stars above.

There are houses which bring you prosperity, good health, promotion, career success, family happiness, good relationship based on how the house is located on a land.

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Everyone wants to have a house which brings you happy fortune, and in order to avoid to have bad luck, I have listed here what you need to check before you buy a house.

Outside of the house

1. Road should not directly aim to your house. The entrance door should not face an oncoming straight road.

2. The house should not be located in a dead end street.

3. The house should not be located in a T-junction.

4. The house should not be located in a corner lot.

5. The house should not be located in a Y-junction.

6. The house should not be located in a U-shape.

7. The house should not be located in a sharp bend.

8. There should not be a high building in front of your house and/or your house should not be surrounded by high buildings.

9. There should not be a grave, hospitals, garbage dump, airport, cemetery, funeral parlor, police station, military camp, fire station, factory, high tension power lines near your house.

10. The land should not be located between two roads.

11. A house should not be located along the highways or noisy road.

12. Check to see if your house is level with surrounding roads or higher or lower than these roads. It’s better to choose a house which is higher level than the road.

13. If a house is located along the curve with a road, be sure your house is on the inside of the curve with the road embracing your home. ( this is known as very good feng shui )

14. A house should not stand on top of a hill or steep incline.

15. A house that stand on stilts is unlucky, especially when viewed against an exposed hillside.

16. Square shaped houses are good feng shui.

17. Make sure there is no sharp poison arrow energy such as a high wall nearby, a transmission tower, a tree trunk, a tall straight building, the edge of two walls, a telephone poll, a triangular roof line, a straight road direct to the entrance of the house.

18. Direction of the entrance door. East, Southeast, South or Northwest are all good entrance direction in feng shui.

19. Check sitting direction of the house. Normally, opposite direction from the entrance door, or main window where there is balcony. You can check the symbol of each sitting direction at the link here.

20. The house should get a lot of sunshine.

21. The lot should not be deep front yard, shallow backyard.

22. The lot should be square or rectangular shape. The most unfavorable shape is especially a triangle lot .

23. The front door is not to be impeded by things like a single tree or utility pole placed curbside in direct alignment with the entrance.

24. The front door should not be below street level.

Inside of the house

There is no perfect house in feng shui. There is always something unfavorable or hazards , and I listed only the major bad feng shui which can be difficult to fix .

And it’s better to avoid to buy these kinds of houses below.

Unlucky houses

1. There is a car port in your house in the first floor, and it’s located directly under the second floor.

2. There is stairs direct to the entrance door.

3. There is a bathroom direct to the entrance door.

Auspicious and lucky houses

1. A house situated on a cul-de-sac containing an island because Chi energy can flow, moving in a circular motion, dispersing its benevolent energy.

2. A house situated on a meandering path is protected from the threat of accidents, glaring lights, and poison arrow chi. This brings prosperity, good health, and promotion.

Another important thing is the sitting direction of the house.

How to determine your house sitting and facing directions ?

Your house’s sitting direction is the direction your house leans towards. And the sitting direction is the opposite side of facing direction.

You can find more information about it and also find the sitting direction and meanings for 24 directions at the link here.

Luckiest sitting directions of houses for prosperity, good health, promotion, and any kind of success are

* Northwest sitting, southeast facing house

* North sitting, south facing house

Lucky Feng shui for 2011, ( From February 5 '2011 to February 4 '2012 )

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2011 is the year of the rabbit in Chinese zodiac.

This year 2011 ‘s keyword is abundance , joy , smile, elegance.
Good to pay attention for your feeling every moment. Do what makes you happy and gives you joy with kindness. Feel richly whatever you do. Avoid to be stingy or have poor attitude.

To attract good luck opportunity, good to communicate with many people, meet new people, and smile often and help people.

Spend money which make you happy.

Lucky color for 2011 - Pastel yellow, passion pink, lavender, green, gold ( wealth luck ), ivory.

Lucky item : Gold jewelry, moon stone, round shape, oval shape, polka dot design, Combination of passion pink & lavender color flowers.

Lucky keywords : Abundance, joy

Which directions are lucky for 2011 ?

Northwest, Southwest, southeast, northeast, present place

Warning directions for your traveling & moving this year ?

East, west, south

Never go traveling ( even business trip ) to east, west and south directions from your house. If for some serious reason , you have to go to those directions, at least bring a lucky charm and try to smile often.

How to protect your life and bring good luck for this season ?

* Cleaning your space often especially east & south directions of your house.
* Attend parties, marriage ceremony.
* Eat chicken or chicken soup. Hot spicy foods.
* Drink tea, coco, coffee, milk.
* Go to restaurants, places you can feel abundance.
* Have a good luck charm, such as jade pendant or Chinese coins
* Place good luck feng shui item such as bronze pair of Qi Lin or coin sword or bronze dragon figurine in your house.
* Gratitude to what you are having and receiving.

To attract wealth luck

* Treat your friends or others.
* Donate
* Eat desert.
* Communicate with people who have wealth luck and exchange the money and always put the money in your wallet.
* When you received money, gratitude for it from bottom of your heart. With strong emotion, it will bring you another money multiplied.
* Clean all the coins in your wallet with salt water.
* Put money in a picture frame and decorate it in your wealth area of your house.
* Decorate fish figurine or fish image in your wealth area of your house.

For more information about feng shui for 2011, please visit the link below,

Annual Feng shui flying stars for 2011 (From February 5 '2011 to February 4 '2012 )

Balance your emotion - Using the Seven Chakras

2010-11-02T00:28:00.000-07:00

Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning spinning wheel.

These are a system of seven energy centers located along the spine.

Each chakra corresponds to an area of the body, a set of behavioral characteristics and stages of spiritual growth.

Practicing yoga and focusing your energies during different postures can help you to align your chakras and get all the wheels spinning in the same direction and speed.

Chakra

Understanding how to fine tune and control your chakras through yoga and meditation can help bring balance and peace to your mind, body and spirit.

There are seven chakras, each associated with a different part of the body along the spine from the perineum to the crown of your head.

Each chakra is associated with a particular body location, a color, a central emotional/behavioral issue, as well as many other personal aspects including identity, goals, rights, etc.

The seven chakras

Muladhara- base of the spine

Svadhisthana- abdomen, genitals, lower back/hip

Manipura- solar plexus

Anahata- heart area

Visshudha- throat

Ajna- brow

Sahasrara- top of head, cerebral cortex

Through the movements and postures of yoga, you can learn to focus your concentration and energy to and from the various chakras in your body.

This can allow you to compensate for areas that may be out of synch with the rest of your body or not active at all.

By balancing the energy among all seven of the chakras, balance can be achieved.

This spiritual energy is known as Kundalini energy.

In its dormant state, it can be visualized as a coiled up snake resting at the base of your spine, the Muladhara chakra.

Since the chakras act as valves or pumps regulating the flow of energy through your system, controlled and purposeful movements such as yoga can be extremely beneficial in realigning your chakras in a way that can cause great benefits to you in your physical and emotional well being.

Feng shui Yin & Yang in balance for personal Qi Energy

2010-08-11T13:46:00.000-07:00

Everything in the universe is made of energy.

Your body, your car, plants, trees, furniture, rocks, thoughts, light, everything else, everything around us is energy whether it’s matter or ether, solid or liquid, physical or emotional, chemical or nuclear, rock, paper, or scissors.

Energy vibrates at different speeds, some fast, some slow, some fine, some dense.

Thoughts are a fine, light form of energy which means they are quick and easy to change. Matter is dense, slow-moving energy.

Thoughts are light energy and they are powerful.

Personal Qi energy is the interface between your body’s energy and environment’s energy.

Personal Qi energy is often referred to as the “ Aura.”

Generally, you extend your aura when you feel comfortable, happy, safe and this makes you seem more approachable to others.

When you are feeling down, fearful, unhappy, this typically causes you to retract your aura field, pull it in closer around you.

You are constantly expanding and contracting your aura due to your reactions to the people around you and your environment .

Feng shui can help you be more aware of how your physical environment influences your aura.

With Feng shui you realize that everything influences, from position, to color, to shape, to texture, it all affects your energy.

Everyone has yin and yang energy and no one is entirely yin or yang. But depending on the situation at any given point in time you have a predominant energy in your body.

This energy shifts with the seasons, the time of day, or even food choice.

This is important because what you need from your home will change according to seasons, times of day, and moods.

As your body shifts, so must your space.

Good to pay attention for how you are feeling today and check your feeling in the each list below.

Yang energy attributes

* Light
* Confident
* Enthusiastic
* Logical
* Outgoing
* Direct
* Focused
* Quick movements
* Social
* Value decisiveness and change
* Energetic
* Active
* Adventure

Too much yang energy

* Feel hyperactive
* Do not express emotions easily
* Always thinking about the future
* Wander through life
* Have a hard time staying home
* Throw everything away
* Tend to control others

Yin energy attributes

* Heavy
* Independent
* Creative
* Imaginative
* Sensitive
* Gentle
* Curiosity
* Introspective
* Nurturing
* Slow movements
* Quiet
* Shy
* Physically oriented
* Value comfort and safety

Too much Yin energy

* Often get depressed
* Cry frequently
* Dwell on the past
* Feelings of hopelessness
* Do no want to leave the house
* Hold on to things too long

Once you found out your yin and yang attributes, you will have a good idea of where you fit in the spectrum. And this will give you an idea of how to balance your yin and yang energy.

By balancing your yin and yang, you can have more control over your moods, emotions and be better able to focus your energy towards your goals.

Feng shui - Improve Your study luck

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If you are feeling lack of concentration for examination or creative work, good to place your work desk in your study area of your office or room by facing your good luck direction.

If you don’t know your personal good luck directions, you can check it
here.

For your child, If possible, it’s ideal to have your child’s room in study area ( listed below ) of your house.

Placement of your work desk

* Place the work desk in the far right corner, diagonally from the door.

* Always sit facing one of your four lucky directions while working.

* Desk is not directly with your back to the door.

* There is no furniture with sharp edges pointing toward the desk.

* Avoid to set your work desk in a way where it directly faces the bathroom ( toilet ) door or staircase.

* Avoid to set your work desk in a way that places you directly underneath an exposed overhead beam. ( it may give you pressure and headaches. )

Feng shui lucky item to improve your education & career luck

Crystal pagoda

Pagoda symbolizes creativity. It’s used for career, education luck in feng shui. The Pagoda has the potential to improve your creativity in writing, business and schoolwork when it is displayed on your work desk.

Crystal world globe

It is known as one of the most effective ways to activate luck for examinations and scholarships for your young child’s room when displaying a world globe made of crystal in the study area of your child’s room.

Feng shui education area based on the direction of your entrance door

For your child’s room, you can also use it based on the direction of your child’s room door.

Entrance direction ( or the direction of your child’s room door ) - South
( facing to south when you open the door from inside )
Education area - Northeast

Entrance direction - North
Education area - South

Entrance direction - West
Education area - Northwest

Entrance direction - Northwest
Education area - Southeast

Entrance direction - Southeast
Education area - East

Entrance direction - East
Education area - Southwest

Entrance direction - Northeast
Education area - West

Entrance direction - Southwest
Education area - North

Feng shui 9 Flying stars for 2010

2010-02-06T17:50:00.000-08:00

Feng shui 9 Flying stars for 2010
( February 5, 2010 to February 4, 2011 )

Which directions are lucky for 2010 ?

2010 is the year of the “Tiger” and 8 white earth star in the center.

The symbol of This year is “Change“, “ Renewal“.

What you do this year will have a big influence on whether the future will be good or bad . It’s the changing year, you may finish one of your projects, or need to finish what you have been doing for your life, your relationship.

Always watch out for your attitude everything you do , whoever you meet in any situation.

8 white earth star also symbolizes , mountain, yellow, relatives, knowledge, hometown, inheritance, as well as new beginning.

Warning directions for your traveling & moving this year are South , Southwest, West, and Northwest.

Unlucky directions

Southwest
Northeast
South
Southeast

Lucky directions

Center
North
West
Northwest
East
　
For more info about annual feng shui flying stars for 2010 , please check the link below,

http://www.mercurytreasures.com/anfeshflstfo1.html

Also for info about monthly feng shui flying stars for 2/5 - 3/6, 2010 , please check the link below.
　
http://www.mercurytreasures.com/feshflstfor24.html

8 Powerful good luck Chinese symbols for business and wealth

2009-11-05T21:14:00.000-08:00

It was about 12 years ago when I started getting interested in feng shui and Chinese good luck symbols.

I had some health issue at that time and went to a hospital. I had to wait for my turn for more than 2 hours, sitting at the hospital chairs with many other patients.

Every time I went there it was always like that. The chairs and sofas were not enough for all the patients, and most of them were standing in the waiting room for their turn to come.

In the front door, there was a dragon head ship made of green color stone, ( I didn’t notice it was jade at that time ), an aquarium, and also on the reception counter there was a mythology creature figurine.

I also saw a Happy Buddha statue ( also called laughing Buddha ),
And also on the doctor’s desk, there was also another dragon figurine, and the female doctor was wearing a beautiful big jade stone ring on one of her fingers.

One of the reasons the doctor was so popular is she used natural herbal medicine which is good for the human body and also other alternative methods. The price was quite expensive compared with other hospitals.

But at that time I was more curious for her decorations which I had never seen except for Happy Buddha statue ( also known as Hotei in Japan)

Her jade ring looked almost like emerald, as a fashion ring but later I thought It might be for her protection and for good fortune.

And I was also wondering about the dragon head sailing ship which was displayed in the front door. It had impressive decoration.

Later , I found out that the symbol of a sailing ship is well known as to brings wealth from wind and water in China. Especially when it’s dragon head is made of lucky stone “ jade”, the power increases.

That hospital looked quite successful, always filled with so many patients even though higher fee.
　
Here are a few good luck Chinese symbols which are good for business and wealth.

1. Kuan Kung - God of business

Kuan Kung is one of the most famous & popular Taoist deities and was a military leader who lived in China during the Three Kingdoms Period, in the third century A.D.

He was known as a God of war and later known as a god of business ( & wealth ). There are different kinds of version of Kuan Kung and for business success & protection, Kuan Kung wearing dragon image robe,
armour complete with banners and flags, having long sword, is the best to protect your business and increase your wealth. The best place to display Kuan Kung is northwest area of your office or store.

Also displaying this image behind where you sit at work will get powerful support from important people.

2. Dragon head sailing ship

Sailing ship has been used by many business people in China to attract wealth from the wind and water.

By filling the ship with “ gold” “ Chinese ancient coins or gold ingot ” it becomes wealth ship. They display the sailing ship near the entrance of the office or store. If the ship appears to be sailing in to your business or home from your lucky directions, it will bring income and success.
　
　
3. Horse

Horse symbolizes fame, honor and it ’s believed to bring company recognition when it is displayed in the south corner of your office or house. In order to get success with any industries, increasing your fame is one of the most important.

4. Phoenix

Phoenix also symbolizes fame ,honor, popularity and also new opportunities. By placing the image of phoenix in the south area of your office , it will help to open many potentially beneficial opportunities. Good for increasing career, business luck . Phoenix alone expands yang energy and brings financial success and prosperity.

5. Happy Buddha

Happy Buddha, also called laughing Buddha, ( Hotei in Japan ), is always a symbol of happiness and it is believed to bring good fortune and joy into the home.

There are many kinds of happy Buddha images, and happy Buddha with coins, carrying a big sack which is filled with money and gems brings wealth luck. Happy Buddha’s fat body and big smiling face shows joy and happiness.

Also happy Buddha holding a ingot brings wealthy life. Happy Buddha also carrying a wu lou symbolizes good health.
It’s good to have happy Buddha at least one at home and in office.

6. Water feature ( aquarium, table top water fountain )

Water signifies wealth. Always care for sink and bathroom, if the tap water is loose and constantly water falling down, money is just flying away. Water feature such as table top water fountain can brings wealth luck when it is placed in the wealth area of your office ( store ) or house.
　

7. 3 legs money frog

Three legs money frog with a coin in it's mouth is known to attract wealth and money into the home. Frog is a symbol of money-making success and is one of the legends surrounding eight immortals.

Three legs money frog attracts money and collects money and grabs money. Many Chinese business people display the three legs money frog in their cash counter to attract money.

Number one or three or six or nine frogs at home are the best numbers to display the three legs money frog.
　
　
8. Foo dogs ( guardian lions )

If you go to China town, or Chinese bank, you may already have noticed that there are always a pair of guardian foo dogs in front of the gate or entrance.

Those foo dogs are traditionally used as the symbol of protection against all kinds of bad luck.

There are no rules for which size the foo dogs should be, however the size which is fit with the building, or house or office they are guarding. Always good to display on the stand or table.
The material usually used is jade, bronze and old stone.

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Feng shui tips - Listen to your heart,for your health, wealth, success and happiness

2009-10-27T13:39:00.000-07:00

Most of the reasons why people care for feng shui is to improve their wealth, love life , health, success and have happy life.

Everyone wishes to have a happy life.

Unfortunately, many people I have seen don’t have all of these.

If one is wealthy, they have the issue with their health, or family issue or not satisfied with their relationship.

If one is healthy, and have good relationship, they have financial issue.

Or one doesn’t have strong desire to have some of these, they are satisfied with their life as long as they can survive.

However, there are also people who have all of these, wealth, health, love and success with less ups and downs in their lives .

What’s the difference ?

It’s all about energy.

When we look at the source of it, Feng shui is about energy and how to well balance your space and mind.

How energy around you flows in the space, how your personal energy influences your life wherever you are.

Have you ever wondered why bad luck sometimes happens in a sequence or at the same time?

Because when we get a problem, our feeling becomes down, stress, frustration, irritation, anger, cry, depression all rises.

Those negative emotions attract more negative things in life.

Whatever you give , however you express your emotion, words, it returns to you.

So the point for the solution when you have a problem is to change your inner mind, your focus, thought immediately to positive.

Don’t worry if you don’t actually feel positive. Just the change of focus to something uplifting is very helpful.

And once you’ve done it a few times, you get better at it.

Giving gratitude for something or to someone are the easiest ways to change your thoughts.

Your inner is reflected in the outer.

If you feel your life going wrong recently, or for a long time, pay attention for your every day habit.

There are many beliefs in feng shui, like your house directions , which directions are for wealth, romance, work, fame, family happiness, health, children, color feng shui etc..

But the point is that it makes a well- balanced space and makes to flow the chi energy smoothly, remove all the clutters from your space.

It connects to your inner mind, and you also need to listen to your heart, how you feel with the space you are in.

Even though your lucky direction shows East, if you don’t feel comfortable with that direction you are facing, it doesn’t help.

If there is a high building standing in front of your house, or if there is noisy high way in front of your house, or if there is huge trash box in front of your house, those things don’t make most people’s feeling good.

You may want to pay attention for total balance of Inner and outer.

When you fill your inner with harmony, this will help to improve your life.

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Feng shui bedroom - Change your bedroom and make your wish come true

2009-10-14T15:28:00.002-07:00

The bedroom is the place where your personal energy is recharged and relieved from your daily activities, mentally and physically.

In feng shui, the bedroom influences your personal luck.

We all get energy, good or bad while sleeping and if the bedroom is in a comfortable situation without any clutters, and allows good chi energy while sleeping, your luck will increase naturally.

Depending on how you decorate your bedroom, it influences your sleeping and energy.

Position for your bed

* Good to place to the left or right of the door but not directly facing the door.

* Make sure there is no convex part on the ceiling which is directed to your head while sleeping. If there is, it influences your health condition and some other luck, and this is bad feng shui.

* No mirror in front of your bed. If you have to place mirror there, then good to cover it with cloth.

* Bed should not be on the same side as door.

* Good to place chest between wall and bed or just place the bed next to wall. Having a space between bed and wall is not good feng shui.

* Placing a bed next to the window doesn’t make your sleeping well, and it can influence outside energy directly to you ( because outside energy can be bad or good ).

* If there is a bathroom in your bedroom, make sure the bathroom door is not directly facing to your bed. Place the bed different side, and away from the bathroom door.

* If your bedroom door and bathroom door are facing, and you can not avoid direct from those two doors, and have to place the bed between the doors, place a screen or cabinet next to the bed for both sides , or make a curtain around the bed to block those clutters.

* Double bed which has two mattresses is known as bad feng shui for couples, it may cause the couple to separate in the future. Always one mattress.

Feng shui bedroom for romance, love and happy marriage

Good to place your bed which is your head in your love romance direction or your luckiest direction.
If you don’t know your luckiest, love direction, you can find it here.

If there is no way and you can’t place your bed in your lucky direction, displaying rose quart near your bed ( on your head side ) can solve the problem.

If you are married , and would like to increase your marriage life,
Good to place the bed based on your husband’s lucky direction.

If you wish to have baby, good to place your bed in your luckiest direction ( or your love direction).

Feng shui bedroom for your wealth, career, work, business

For career, work, business

Color : blue, or blue and white stripe design ( for your bed cover, pillow case, curtains )

Best place for your bed : luckiest (Sei qi) direction

Note : Sei qi direction (Luckiest direction ) - active, power, social, positive mind, prosperity, respectability.
　

For wealth

Color : yellow and white, ( for your bed cover, pillow case, curtains )

Best place for your bed : Peace direction ( Fuku I ) or romance direction ( En Nen).

Note: En Nen direction ( Romance direction ) - Determination, optimistic mind, harmony, longevity, romantic relationship, supporter.

Fuku I direction ( peace direction ) - peace , stability, passive, savings, fixing family trouble.

Also If you own business, best bedroom to improve your business luck is in your northwest direction. Good to decorate with luxury image look.

Feng shui bedroom for your health and beauty

For health

Color : green

Best place for your bed : health direction ( Ten I ).

Note : Ten I direction ( Good health direction )- stress relief, healing power, harmonious relationship

For beauty

Color : Lavender, pink, white

Best place for your bed : luckiest direction, love, romance ( En Nen) direction

Feng shui tips - How to attract good luck using your entrance

2009-10-07T21:15:00.000-07:00

In feng shui, entrance is kind of like the source of the place which influence all the luck in your house, your health, wealth, love relationship, family happiness, career, success.

How to attract good luck using entrance ?

* Keep clean
* Bright area

Those are basic to attract good luck for all the directions.

If there is a window near your entrance , and sunlight is always shining there, this will flow chi positive good energy.

If there is no window, good to keep turning on the light while you are at home, except for while sleeping.
( The outside entrance light is good to keep on during the night)

There are also color, decoration, how you decorate your entrance, depending on the direction, can bring you good fortune.

Here are some lucky items and lucky colors which attract good luck based on your front entrance direction.

North entrance

Lucky items - Bronze turtle or turtle dragon, glass material stuff, crystal,

Lucky color - Main color : ivory. Supporting color : pink

East entrance

Lucky items - Dragon figurine or image, wood wind chime, plants

Lucky color - Main color : light blue, or green. Supporting color : ivory,

Southeast entrance

Lucky items - Live flowers, plants, aroma pot , scent candle

Lucky color - Main color : blue or green. Supporting color : ivory

South entrance

Lucky items - Phoenix, horse figurine or the image , those two figurine or image on south direction bring your fame luck, and increase your popularity.
Also summer island ocean image, summer scenery image,

Lucky color - Main color : lavender. Supporting color : green or blue

Southwest entrance

Lucky items - Crystal, porcelain material decoration,

Lucky color - Main color : white, yellow, brown. Supporting color : lavender

West entrance

Lucky items - Tiger figurine or image of tiger, clock, gold or silver material item.

Lucky color - Main color : pink , white. Supporting color : yellow & brown

Northwest entrance

Lucky items - Luxury decoration

Lucky color - Main color : white, light gray. Supporting color : yellow or brown

Plants and entrance rug mat are always good to put in the entrance. Those stuff can flow the power of chi energy around your house, and catch bad energy.

Items you should not place in your entrance

Stuffed animals, dry flowers, sports equipments.

In feng shui, dead stuff such as stuffed animal decoration and dried flowers belong with sha energy ( negative energy ) , anything that belongs with sha energy should not be in your house to avoid to expand the bad energy around your house.

Except for decoration and plants, any other stuff such as sport equipments or other equipments, shoes expand sha energy and should not be placed in your front entrance.

Those items are good to place in your storage. Shoes are good to always keep in your shoes closet in your entrance.

For more information about feng shui tips, please visit here

The Power of 3 wisemen, Fuk, Luk, Sau - Feng shui for all kinds of happiness, wealth , health, love and success ,

2009-09-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

The Power of 3 wisemen - Fuk, Luk, Sau

Feel no luck in your life recently ?

First thing I recommend for people who feel no fortune in their life is always keep cleaning your space, especially your bathroom and kitchen. Also northeast area of your house. Those areas influence your wealth luck.

Also, every week, good to burn incense such as sage all over your house to remove all the negativities.

Decorating lucky Chinese symbols in your house also can bring great fortune.
There are many myths in Asian history.

One of the most important legendary Chinese symbols , is known as the Three star Gods, also called three wise men, Fuk, Luk, Sau ( Three Lucky Immortals or Star Gods).

Many Chinese families decorate the three lucky immortals in their homes,

because they symbolize everything that people want in their life, prosperity, wealth, health, longevity, happy family life, love, power, authority, wisdom, joy and Success.

The meaning of each wiseman is listed below,

"Fuk" deity carries an imperial scroll and sometimes children accompany him. He symbolizes family happiness, harmony, fulfillment, good relationships and mutual love.

"Luk" deity carries the Ru Yi ( authority ) or gold ingot and magic scroll to symbolize power, authority and wealth.

Luk would help your financial issues, would bring you great opportunity to improve your wealth luck. He ensures your career success and enhanced income luck and authority.

"Sau" , called “Sau Seng Kong” is known as the god of longevity.

The deity of immortality, and carries a peach ( symbol of immortality) in his hand and is accompanied by crane and deer, all of which symbolize longevity. ( recent years, Sau has been drawn with children to signify descendant’s luck. ) and in older depictions, he carries wu lou (gourd) which has medicinal value.

His image represents good health and longevity.
Sau also shown with an extended forehead and domed head which symbolizes intelligence and wisdom.

Best places to display the image of three wisemen is your living room ( at the main area higher level than human shoulder ) or dining room if your kitchen and dining room are separated.

For offices or stores or companies, entrance area ( high place ), so that when you or your guests enter your entrance door from the outside, the 3 wisemen are facing you directly.

Show your gratitude everything you have right now to three lucky star gods, they are very powerful lucky star gods, they would bring you great fortune, get rid of all the bad luck or trouble you are having.

Feng shui symbol - Three lucky star gods, Fuk, Luk, Sau

Why keeping your mouth shut is important to attract good luck ?

2009-06-27T21:27:00.000-07:00

There is a mystery I’ve been wondering about and that is why does it seem that we always get good luck when we were keep our mouth shut while in the process of doing something.

I noticed that while I was doing job hunting, looking for a partner, or going traveling, etc..
And people around me also experienced the same things.

Since I noticed that, I started keeping my mouth shut in the process of whatever I planned to do.

Let me give you some examples,

While I was looking for a job, I tried many companies, also registered in five temporary job centers. And I got some job offers from the temporary job centers.

Soon after I got the offer, and before going to the interviews, I told about it to my mother, and my friends who were worried about me.

And in that process, when the benefit of the offer was good, I told about it to everyone with excitement and big expectation as if I already got the job.

However, it always failed and I could not get those jobs.

And when I was not so expecting , and didn’t tell anyone about it , things always went well and I got a good job.

Also about marriage,

I have several close friends who often share our relationship situation with each other, and before marriage, starting from “ how’s it going with your boyfriend ? ” , we always loved to share the details whenever something new happened in our dating life.

And it was always nice things happening when we did NOT expect the result, and didn’t talk much.

For my marriage, since I knew that, I didn’t tell anyone about my opportunity to meet my husband.

It was very hard not to tell to my best friend when I was asked about my present situation at that time.

And I made a big surprise to everyone including my family when it became sure decision , right before my husband and I got married.

However, one of my friends who is still single, who is still looking for her future husband is still telling everyone whenever she had a new opportunity, expecting , dreaming to marriage life with new boyfriend.

But still repeating.

I’m originally the kind of person who loves to tell people around me the process for any
plans. And it’s quite hard for me not to tell anyone my true feelings.

But there is also research about one of the secrets of success strategies.

“ Don’t talk to anyone about your plans except for those who directly assist you. “

This way you can concentrate your inner fire, your concentration to succeed.

It’s not so easy to use our minds the right way though.

Dream big as if it is already happening, but not with expectation for it to happen , don’t expect the result, don’t tell about it to anyone, but just do it.

If you use your mind the right way, it will bring good luck and you will succeed.

The Weather influences our feeling ? Do you have a habit to complain ?

2009-06-04T13:14:00.000-07:00

No matter how we fix our living places based on feng shui science, if you have a habit to interpret things negative way, or look for negative things, it all becomes your personal energy, and influences your future.

Depending on the places where you live, the weather, the scenery, the air, the temperature, these are all influencing our every day feeling.

If you are not in the comfort zone of your living, it may be more easy to get irritation, annoyed, frustration and may be easy to see things negative way.

Are you loving where you live ?

The most recent research of study shows that the top most unhappy / depressed cities in the USA are

1. Portland, OR
2. St. Louis, MO
3. New Orleans, LA
4. Detroit, MI

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/02/0226_miserable_cities/2.htm

This data was based on depression, suicide, crime, divorce, cloudy days and unemployment rates, although this doesn’t mean all the people who live there are feeling unhappy.

Portland, OR

Overall rank - 1
Depression rank - 1
Suicide rank - 12
Crime (property and violent) rank - 24
Divorce rate rank - 4
Cloudy days - 222
Unemployment rate (December 2008) - 7.8%

I was actually surprised to see this result about Portland is selected as the most depressive city in the USA.

I have never visited this city, but my image of Portland, seeing movies and photos is a very beautiful peaceful place.

But I never knew cloudy days of Portland is 222/yr and unemployment rate : 7.8%, and depression rank is number one.

Here is more about it and some comments about Portland.

http://www.blueoregon.com/2009/03/no-business-week-portland-is-not-the-most-unhappy-city-in-america.html

For Second unhappiest cities ranking is St. Louis, MO, I understand why it was ranked as number one crime place because I used to live there for about a year.

Especially East St. Louis area was known to be dangerous and the downtown St. Louis was like a ghost town.

Overall my impression of people over there was not so cheerful and friendly, this impression magnified when I moved to AZ because in general the people in AZ are very cheerful and friendly.

Besides doing feng shui, clearing inner personal energy is also important to improve our life.

Here are some suggestion to uplift your personal energy when your feeling is down.

1. Think like you are already valuable and blessed since you were born.

Everyone was born alone with nothing, no clothes , no knowledge etc.. if you have clothes to wear, you are already blessed.

When we start living our life, we get many things, but also when we lose something we got, we feel depressed.

Imagine what you have with gratitude and saying the words “ Thank you “. by appreciating things, our feeling becomes sweet, and this is the best way to clear our mind energy.

2. Communicate with people who make you feel good.

3. Walk around nature under the sun 30 minutes. ( if your living place is too sunny, choose a safe place in the evening time when the sun almost goes down or cloudy days may be better. )

4. Go to see scenery of mountain or beach. Both ocean and mountain have power to relief your stress.

5. Listening to music which make you feel happy.

6. Taking a warm bath.

7. If you are a very active person who are not good at relax and love to always moving around, doing sports or dance which you love will make your feeling good.

Any other tasks you can think of , based on your personality.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Boar ( Pig )

2009-03-10T12:26:00.000-07:00

What is Boar’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the years 1947, 1959,1971, 1983 or 1995 then you’re a Boar ( Pig ).

The boar may be the most generous and honorable Sign of the Chinese Zodiac. Boars are nice to a fault and possess impeccable manners and taste.

They are perfectionists and can be perceived them as snobs, but this is a misconception.

Boars are simply possessed of a truly luxurious nature, one that delights in finery and nice things (in surroundings, food, lovemaking and otherwise).

This Sign believes in the best qualities of mankind and certainly doesn't consider itself to be superior. Boars also care a great deal about friends and family and work hard to keep everyone in their life happy.

Helping others is a true pleasure for the Boar, who feels best when everyone else is smiling.

A Boar with no one around to appreciate its giving nature is a sad thing indeed. Boars are so magnanimous they can appear almost saintly; this can lead some less-than-well-intentioned souls to stomp all over this Sign, and the bad news is, the Boar will take the blows.

Boars are highly intelligent creatures, forever studying, playing and probing in their quest for greater knowledge.

They can be misinterpreted as being lazy, however, due to their love of reveling in the good stuff; this Sign could happily spend hours on end making love, napping, taking a long bubble bath or dallying over an incredible spread of rich foods.

Boars tend to make wonderful life partners due to their hearts of gold and their love of family. Even so, Boars can be rather exclusive, choosing to spend time with those who will appreciate them most and ignore the rest of the populace.

Boars would do well to realize that there's more to life than being needed.

When they open up their world to a diverse group of people, they will truly bloom.

The most compatible match for a Boar is the Rabbit or the Sheep.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Dog

2009-03-09T16:06:00.000-07:00

What is Dog’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the years 1946, 1958,1970, 1982 or 1994 then you’re a Dog.

Dogs in both the East and West are loyal, faithful and honest and always stick to their firm codes of ethics.

It's generally quite trustworthy itself -- except for the occasional little white lies the Dog tells in order to make things go more smoothly.

The Dog makes a wonderful, discreet and loyal friend and is an excellent listener. This Sign tends to root for the underdog and its keen sense of right and wrong makes it duty-bound to the core.

The Dog's motto seems to be, Live right, look out for the little people and fight injustice whenever possible.

Dogs can also be rather dogmatic, too. They don't go in for light social banter; instead, they go straight for home, discoursing on the topics that are most important to them.

At these times the Dog's narrow-minded or stubborn side can become apparent; this Sign has trouble staying light and calm when an important issue is at stake.

This Sign can also be very temperamental; mood swings characterize its emotional life and often the Dog needs to run off to be alone in order to recuperate.

Part of the problem is the result of this Sign's load of irrational fears that turn into niggling anxieties that turn into hurt feelings and occasional grouchiness.

This sensitive Sign needs to warm up to others over time and gradually learn to trust them. Without that trust as a foundation, Dogs can be judgmental and coarse.

The Dog's discerning nature does make it an excellent business person, one who can turn that picky, guarded nature into a keen sense of the truth of another's motives.

Where love is concerned, Dogs often have a tough time finding the right match. Dogs need to work on controlling their irrational worries and would also be well-served to relax their mile-high standards, which can sometimes wind up alienating the ones they love.

The most compatible match for a Dog is the Tiger or the Horse.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Rooster

2009-03-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

What is Rooster’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the years 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981 or 1993 then you’re a Rooster.

The Rooster is described as a pioneer in spirit, devoted to work and the quest for knowledge. It is selfish and eccentric and is best matched with Snakes and Cows.

Roosters are quick thinkers and are practical and resourceful, preferring to stick to what is tried and true rather than taking unnecessary risks.

Roosters are keenly observers of their surroundings and those around them. It's hard to slip anything past a Rooster, since they seem to have eyes in the backs of their heads.

This quality can lead others to think the Rooster is psychic, but that's not generally the case; instead, this Sign enjoys a keen attention to detail that makes it a whiz at anything requiring close analysis.

Roosters make great lawyers, brain surgeons and accountants, to name a few of this Sign's possible occupations.

Above all else, the Rooster is very straightforward and rewards others' honesty in kind.

Roosters tend to be perfectionists and expect to be in control, especially over their appearance. Primping and posing for the Rooster can go on forever.

Being noticed and admired is an aphrodisiac for Roosters, and they can go a long time on a few kind words.

Roosters also adore being out on the town, especially if they're in the company of adoring friends.

The Rooster will also be the best-dressed one of the bunch -- style counts with this Sign, regardless of the cost.

Roosters need to learn to value their heart and soul as much as their good looks.

Their excellent people skills and sharp minds are qualities that others will appreciate as much as a pretty face.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Sheep

2009-03-08T13:03:00.000-07:00

What is Sheep’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the year 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991 or 2003 then you are a Sheep.

You’re elegant and creative, somewhat timid and prefer anonymity.

You are most compatible with Boars and Rabbits, but don’t mix it up with the Cows.

Sheep tend to have a hard time with romance; anyone who couples up with a sheep must know, this Sign has a sensitive streak a mile wide and can be subject to bouts of anxiety over seemingly inconsequential things.

Sheep needs plenty of love, support and open reassurance from their lovers. If a relationship is marked by conflict, the sheep will often pull away -- either physically or simply by retreating into the safe haven of its imagination.

If the romance is going well, however, sheep won't hesitate to tell their partner what they need -- and they can be quite insistent about it.

This sign will definitely return the favor, however; the sheep has a luxurious side that delights in indulging a lover's every wish.

Appearances are also important to the sheep, which may explain why these folks can spend hours primping and posing.

Sheep are generally most comfortable in their own minds (which other, more linear-thinking Signs may have trouble deciphering).

This Sign makes a great craftsperson or artisan, or perhaps a teacher of New Age studies -- any occupation that allows its mind the full range of freedom.

Sheep tend not to be very well-organized, precluding many more dry business endeavors.

In fact, Sheep tend not to be very materialistic in general, finding plenty of riches in their own imagination.

However, especially when in love, the sheep can be quite a lavish gift-giver.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Horse

2009-03-08T12:40:00.000-07:00

What is Horse’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the year 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990 or 2002, then you are a Horse.

You’re popular and attractive to the opposite sex. You can be ostentations and impatient. You need people, but should marry a Tiger or a Dog. Avoid the Rat!

Horses crave love and intimacy, which is a double-edged sword since it often leads them to feel trapped.

Love connections tend to come easily to Horses, since they exude the kind of raw sex appeal that is a magnet to others.

This Sign tends to come on very strong in the beginning of the relationship, having an almost innate sense of romance and seduction.

Horses are seducers in general; check out any A-list party and you're bound to find the Horse in attendance.

This Sign possesses a sharp wit and a scintillating presence; it really knows how to work a crowd.

Surprisingly, Horses tend to feel a bit inferior to their peers, a misconception that causes them to drift from group to group out of an irrational fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Horses tend not to look much at the big picture; instead they just follow their whims, which can result in a trail of prematurely ended relationships, jobs, projects and so on.

This Sign really knows how to motivate others, though, and get a lot accomplished.

Once they find some peace within themselves, they can curb their wandering tendencies and learn to appreciate what's in their own backyard.

Horses are the nomads of the Chinese Zodiac, roaming from one place or project to the next.

All of this Sign's incessant activity and searching may be to satisfy a deep-rooted desire to fit in.

Paradoxically, Horses feel a simultaneous yearning for independence and freedom.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Snake

2009-03-05T15:14:00.000-08:00

What is Snake’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the years 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989 and 2001, you are snake.

Wise and intense with a tendency towards physical beauty. Vain and high tempered.

Snakes are interesting mix of extroversion paired with introversion, intuitive reasoning paired with business savoir-faire.

Snakes are considered to be lucky with money and will generally have more than enough to live life to the fullest, regardless of how important it considers money to be; this may be due to the fact that Snakes tend to be rather tight with cash.

They're not stingy; they're simply more mentally than physically active.

Snakes tend to hang back a bit in order to analyze a situation before jumping into it.

Their charming, seductive quality actually belies a rather retiring nature; this Sign is perfectly happy to spend the whole day curled up with a good book and, thus, can be mislabeled as being lazy.
Snakes are somewhat insecure deep down and tend to be a rather jealous, possessive lover, behavior that can end up alienating loved ones.

Despite these less-than-stellar tendencies, however, the Snake often proves irresistible and is a generous, loving partner.

Slightly dangerous and disarmingly smart, the Snake's philosophical and intuitive mind generally supersedes logic in favor of feelings and instinct.

Snakes will rely on their own gut reactions and intuitions before turning to others for suggestions.

This makes this Sign a great hand in any business venture, possessing the caution and smarts needed to get ahead.

In general, of course, Snakes are generous and genteel, charming and appealing. Snakes must try to learn humility and to develop a stronger sense of self.

Once Snakes realize that confidence comes from within, they will finally be comfortable in their own skin.

The most compatible match for a Snake is the Rooster or the Cow.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Dragon

2009-03-05T14:44:00.000-08:00

What is Dragon’s character in Eastern astrology ?

Dragons are one of the most powerful and lucky Signs of the Chinese Zodiac. Its warm heart tempers its fiery and rambunctious nature.

If you were born in the years 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988 or 2000, you’re a Dragon.

This is a giving, intelligent and tenacious Sign that knows exactly what it wants and is determined to get it.

Dragons possess a certain natural, charm that ensures they can always influence their peers and often find themselves the center of attention in social situations.

This Sign is truly blessed, too. Dragons are considered to be very lucky in love. Dragon's friends are always keen to hear what this firebrand has to say and when it comes to dispensing advice, the Dragon has the floor.

Its ego can get in the way, but even so, this larger-than-life creature has a knack for creativity and leadership.

According to Dragons, it's their natural born right to lead the way -- because who else could do it so surely and so well.

As lucky as they are, Dragons have a good chance of achieving considerable material wealth during their lifetimes, although it isn't mere money that's this Sign's main motivation.

Power is what the Dragon wants and truly believes it deserves. Dragons are quite the opportunists, forever searching for ways in which to consolidate their considerable power.

Contrary to all this strength and fire, a weakened Dragon is a sad sack, a creature that refuses to take defeat with even a modicum of grace.

The leadership role is the only one for the Dragon, the better from which to give orders and be king of the hill.

They make solid leaders, too, knowing instinctively what needs to be done to stay on top.

Crossing the Dragon is never a good idea -- this beast can singe.

A valuable life lesson for this clever creature would be to absorb the principles of flexibility, compassion and tolerance.

Being high and mighty can serve to inspire others, but it also keeps Dragons from living their lives to the fullest.

If Dragons can learn to balance their quest for success with an appreciation for the little things, their life will be more than worthwhile.

The most compatible match for a Dragon is Monkey or Rat.

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Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Rabbit

2009-03-04T13:16:00.000-08:00

What is Rabbit’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the years 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987 or 1999, you’re a Rabbit.

Timid and attractive, the Rabbits of the Chinese Zodiac tend to act more like bunnies, whether they like it or not!

This Sign is extremely popular and has a wide circle of family and friends. Its compassionate nature leads it to be very protective of those it holds dear, but where romance is concerned, the Rabbit's sentimentality can lead it to idealize relationships.

The sweet, sensitive Rabbit often ends up giving more of itself to a partner than is realistic or healthy.

The good news is, when this sign goes off-balance, the Rabbit's core group of friends and its stable home life help bring it back to center.

The Rabbit is a rather delicate Sign that needs a solid base in order to thrive. Lacking close, supportive friends and family, the Rabbit might just break down in tears at the first sign of conflict.

Emotional upsets in this Sign's life can even lead to physical illnesses.

Rabbits dislike arguments and other conflict and will try anything to avoid a fight; this results in something of a pushover nature.

Rabbits can also lapse into pessimism and may seem stuck in life -- often to mask their insecure natures.

Rabbits tend to move through life's lessons at their own, rather contemplative pace; it's a waste of time to become exasperated with this Sign's seeming disinterest in facing its problems and conquering them.

With the right partner -- meaning someone whose high principles won't allow it to take advantage of this sensitive, giving Sign -- the Rabbit can make an incredibly loving and protective partner or family member.

Rabbits love to entertain at home and always make sure their house is comfortable and tastefully-furnished.

What Rabbits need most is a stronger sense of self-worth and the security that comes with it. Their discerning natures, coupled with some hard-won assertiveness, will help these happy creatures go far.

The most compatible match for a Rabbit is the Sheep or the Boar.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Tiger

2009-03-04T12:24:00.000-08:00

What is Tiger’s character in Eastern astrology ?

On our Chinese restaurant menu today, here’s how they describe the Tiger:

If you were born in the years 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986 or 1998, you’re a Tiger.

Tiger people are aggressive, courageous, candid and sensitive. Look to the Horse and Boar for happiness. Beware of the Monkey.

Tigers are born leaders. The Tiger is the third Sign of the Chinese Zodiac.

It is a Yang Sign and most closely associated with the Wood Element.

The Tiger is a very changeable person, with a potent natural ability that is often in great danger of being abused. They are either leaders or rebels.

They can be vain, quarrelsome and overly aggressive at times, but their inherent charisma and vast reserves of charm are usually sufficient to extract them from any problems that may arise from their lack of foresight.

Their idealistic outlook on life can take quite a few knocks on the head from this abrupt reality until it finally collapses -- at which point the Tiger personality can lapse into its less attractive aspects.

Tigers are courageous beyond compare and generally come out ahead in battle, be it in the boardroom or the bedroom.

Seduction is one area where the Tiger is definitely king. Noble and warm-hearted, Tigers have a natural, raw appeal that's extremely attractive to other Signs.

They're not just about attraction, though; ever on the side of right, Tigers will fight the good fight to the bitter end if the cause is worthy.

Opponents are wise to fear this feline.
A lesson that Tigers would be well-served to learn is moderation in all things.

Once they can find their center and direct their considerable energies toward worthwhile endeavors (as opposed to racing through life), they will accomplish much.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Cow

2009-03-03T13:37:00.000-08:00

What is Cow’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in the years 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985 or 1997 then you were born under the sign of the Cow in Chinese astrology.

Our Chinese menu that we pilfered from lunch today says that you are bright, patient and inspiring to others.

You can be happy by yourself, yet make an outstanding parent. You should marry a Snake or Rooster. Avoid those Sheep.

The Cow is a steadfast and solid, a born leader. It’s dependable and has what it takes to achieve great things.

They are methodical, not plunging in without considering what the right steps are to get a project finished. They believe in doing it right the first time.

In the business world, because the Cow can be strong leader, it can also be a bit stubborn or dogmatic.

They prefer to lead and don’t like to be pushed around.

While the Cow is smart, trustworthy caring and honorable, it can also be a bit judgmental and this characteristic can keep them from having the close friends and relationships that they desire.

Some good advice for the Cow is to learn to value qualities in others, and to listen to what others have to say.

Sometimes it pays just to say nothing.

Chinese 12 zodiac animals - Rat

2009-03-03T12:17:00.001-08:00

What is Rat’s character in Eastern astrology ?

If you were born in 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984 or 1996 then you are a Rat in Chinese astrology !

According to today’s Chinese menu, you are ambitious yet honest,. Prone to spend freely.

Seldom make lasting friendships. You are most compatible with Dragons and Monkeys and least compatible with Horses.

While in the West, we associate rats with sewers, vermin and disease, this animal is viewed a bit differently in the East.

The Eastern rat is appreciated for its quick wits and ability to accumulate and hold on to wealth.

Rats are a symbol of good luck in the East. It’s a stylish and charming sign in Eastern astrology.

It’s sharp and funny will take good care of those it considers its good friends.

While rats are convivial types, they are also shameless promoters of their own agendas.

This Sign’s charm and powers of persuasion are often used to their best advantage.

Rats are motivated by money and possessions. They’re quick-witted and sharp-tongued and love a good debate.

Rats enjoy being on the outside looking in, as they like to learn by observing. They’re forever observant, always tucking away information in their brains for use at some future time if they need it.

Rats don’t like to be bored and are always looking for challenges to keep their already-sharp wits even sharper.

Feng shui Five elements & Yang and Yin

2009-01-05T14:05:00.000-08:00

Beside Yang and yin, there is another basic feng shui and it is called five elements that are wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

Symbols for five elements

Wood - work, study, development, grow, new relationship, information, communication.

Fire - beauty, fame, honor, popularity, intelligence, feeling.

Earth - marriage, family , stable, effort, savings, real estate, inheritance.

Metal - money, wealth, helpful people, victory, elegance, noble, smile.

Water - love, relationship, sex , secret , pregnant, sacredness.

Feng shui 9 Flying stars for 2009 , ( February 5 , 2008 to February 4 , 2010)

2009-01-03T13:49:00.000-08:00

2009 is the year of the cow in Chinese zodiac animal.

This year 2009, will be like a year of roller coaster for the world. Things will always be going up and down , and you also will see the result of what you have been doing. I call this year is like a black and white year also.

It will be rich or poor, good or bad, high and low, there is no middle. Start again if things don’t go well, or change to new thing and forget about the thing if it didn’t work. Quick decision before it‘s too late. Good to take a big risk if you will be able to remove all the fear in your mind.

Action, action, action.
This year is a change, and an action year.

Theme of this year is “ beauty & inspiration “

Lucky color for 2009 : Yellow green ( keep good balance, wealth luck), orange ( energy improvement ), brown ( savings, asset,) , beige ( peaceful relationship), red ( passion ),

Lucky item : Animal print design, butterfly , clover leaves, incense sandalwood, orange blossom, sage,

Lucky keywords : passion,

Which directions are lucky for 2009 ?

Warning directions for your traveling & moving this year ( for eveyone ) are North, west, south, southwest.

Never go traveling ( even business trip ) to south, southwest, west and northwest directions from your house. If for some serious reason , you have to go to those directions, at least bring a lucky charm and try to smile often.

Unlucky directions

North
West
South
Southwest

Lucky directions

Southeast,
East,
Northwest,
Present place,

How to protect your life and bring good luck for this season ?

* Cleaning your space often especially north, west, south, southwest directions of your house.

* Eat colorful vegetables ( green , red, orange , yellow, black ) drink mineral water.

* Go to see musical, ballet, concert.

* Listening to positive and active music. ( upbeat )

* Go to spa.

* Have a good luck charm, such as jade pendant or Chinese coins.

* Place good luck feng shui item such as red jade dragon figurine, jade horse
figurine, pi yao, phoenix figurine, bronze pair of Qi Lin or coin sword or bronze dragon figurine in your house.

* Polish your potential.

* Care for beauty and be social.

* Never get angry, your luck will gone immediately , if you get angry, say the word “ thank you” many times with smile.

* Keep taking trustful action.

Feng shui for all kind of good luck, Is space cleaning really bring great fortune ?

2008-09-22T17:42:00.000-07:00

Space cleaning is always necessary thing in feng shui because cleaning the space has power to remove all the negativity. Without doing it, how can we attract more luck into our life ?

It’s also believed that your living space reflects your mind and life.

I was taught by my parent to keep always room clean, especially bathroom, kitchen and entrance are the major place to see how their life going when we visited our friends houses.

I’m originally a lazy person who want to do things as easy as possible, but every time when I clean my space, I felt fantastic.

Living in a clean neat place just make ourselves feel great. If things are well-organized, it’s more easy for things to go smoothly.

From experience about bathroom in one of the company I used to work,

When I started working for the company, I noticed that, there was bad smell in a hallway where there were bathrooms for men and women.

The smell came from the bathroom. The company was in a old building and there must be something wrong with drain in the pipe.

And in the bathroom, ( I know only women’s bathroom though ) , the mirrors above the sinks were all not clear because of old mirrors. Everything looked old and not neat. Even there were cleaning person coming for it every two days, it didn’t help much.

The president of the company often yelled at his employees , because of the sales were going down and down and also the managers also yelled at their assistants. There was full of negativities in the office.

I was working for the company as a temp for a while, and after I quit, later I found the company had to closed because of bankrupt.

Negativities are everywhere and people are easy to be influenced by them depending on the spaces you are always in.

Also positivities are everywhere if you only look at it, and it’s also easy to be
influenced by them.

There is another story,

One of my friends who had been hard time to get a job she wish suddenly called me with excitement and said

“ After I cleaned my apartment, I got a phone call from the company I was applying for a job ! I got a job !”

" Great ! "

I know her space was not neat when I visited her apartment. Full of stuffs everywhere, including the hall way.

Her husband and her often had argument and her complains about her husband never stopped even though they are in love each other.

I’m not sure she has been clean her spaces every day since then but at least space cleaning worked and she got immediate result.

People are usually lazy , don’t like to clean the space everyday. But when they clean the space, minds also refresh and have good feeling.

It’s also make to flow positive clean energy.

The point is that while you are cleaning the living space, enjoy the moment.

While cleaning the room , throw all the stuffs you don’t think you need , great to ring singing bowl and burn incense each room to increase more luck.

I know many people who received great luck since cleaning spaces, myself included.

Some received immediate luck, getting extra income by someone, by winning lottery, got promotion, or someone who admire approached, had new romance opportunity , brought back lost love, illness relieved and recovered, have good family relationship, kid’s problems solved, and many more..

I have also read real reviews which was written by the people who truly experienced. Especially, bathroom and kitchen are the place to bring wealth luck when it is kept clean. and since the person started cleaning his spaces, including bathroom, soon he got promotion that he had never received for 2 years and his income increased.

All the dirt, mess are negative energy , so if you feel stressed out and things don’t go well in your life , I do recommend to clean your space immediately.

When was the last time you cleaned your space ?

Do you clean your space every day ?

If not, you may want to clean your space right now.

Wipe your work desk , computer and everything on the desk with wet cloth and remove all the dust. Then organize your work space.

One of the strongest space cleaning is sprinkling sea salt everywhere on the carpet, on the floor, and hold it for a while ( about an hour ), then vacuum all the rooms, wipe out all the floor, sofa, items, table, bookcase, chest, lamps, especially bathroom and kitchen.

Then burn incense each room, and then ring singing bowl every room including bathroom and kitchen.

Set up so that your guests are welcome to your space any time.

This is the quickest way to attract great fortune into your life.

Feng shui - 5 elements in human bodies

2008-09-16T15:13:00.000-07:00

We all have our main element as one of our symbols of our main personality. Plus 5 other sub elements which show more detailed personality depending based on the subject.

But basically, the main symbol influences each person’s original personality the most and influences our life and relationships.

I’m going to offer for all my customers who would like to know their main symbol element in my feng shui online store.

And today, I would like to talk about what each element has power and influence on people’s lives when they have balanced energy for each element.

Fire energy in the body

Well-balanced fire energy will give you active character, out going, joy, cheerfulness, polite, expressive and will keep you feeling motivated and passionate.

Too much fire energy can easy to make you feel anger and intense reactions. Short temper, and as a result, becomes over aggressive , overheated and offend others. Also taking action without thinking things through adequately.

Not enough fire energy can leave you feeling cold, distant, unattached from life and other people. You might even keep inside your anger rather than express it.

Earth energy in the body

Well balanced earth energy gives a feeling a sense of safety and security. You feel centered, grounded and respect your physical body. Responsible , trustful and steady.

Too much earth energy cause over protectiveness . Too much worry about future, and too care for you and your family’s protection.
You might feel stuck or worried that your loved ones will leave you or get some trouble. You can have a difficult time dealing with change and allowing abundance into your life.

Not enough earth energy creates a feeling where you might be careless about your own protection. You might tend to lack focus with your body and your head might be more in dreamland.

Metal energy in the body

Well balanced metal energy allows for clear, well thought out communication among family members. No single person dominates conversations, each speaks in turn like a catch ball. You are able to assert yourself, without being abrasive or rude. You like to know people and helpful to others. Brave, determinative and have great strength.

Too much metal energy can make energy sharp , critical to others- enhancing feelings of sarcasm, feel nosy, self-righteous. Or need to belittle others. With too much charge in the air. It is hard to relax, contributing to increasing stress.

Not enough metal energy can make you feel scattered and confused. Because metal increase the ability to concentrate and focus, it can also heighten difficulty in verbal communication.

Water in the body

Well balanced water energy helps you feel abundant, at ease, and in harmony with the world. You can feel and express your emotions without getting overly emotional and not being over dramatic. Finances stabilize and there is a feeling of security.

Too much water energy creates a tendency to be overly emotional and putting themselves as victims.
There might be frequent crying and distress with no way to get the emotional body in harmony with the mental, physical and spiritual body.

Also it also can result in depression and stagnation. Too much moving water can result in the feeling that life is moving too quickly and you cannot keep up.

Not enough water energy leaves you feeling drained and emotionless. Make you narrow-minded, unstable. Often changing your mind. Things don’t flow , finances are strained ; people are not as helpful , everything requires an enormous amount of effort. You might feel that things are scarce and that there is never enough.

Wood energy in the body

Well balanced wood energy is the essence of human kind-ness, steady, understanding and gentle, sympathy sharing. You listen with empathy and truly desire to support others.

You think things through carefully, are a good listener, and find others’ opinions interesting rather than threatening. Practical, independent, challenging and direct. Making perfect plan before take an action.

Too much wood energy makes for stubborn people. Like the oak tree, you might grow rigid and lose the flexibility of the bamboo. You tend to become focused on your goals, issues and concerns , ignoring others.

Not enough wood energy creates a situation where things change randomly, without control or reason. There is no rooted ness , you might start a project and then change to a new project without finishing the first.

If you find that you have too much or too little of a given element, you can use the constructive and subduing cycle to bring your body back into balance.

Feng shui elements with constructive cycle,

Fire generates earth
Earth forms metal
Metal condensation produces water
Metal produces water
Wood feeds fire

Feng shui elements with destructive cycle

Fire melts metal
Earth muddies water
Metal pierces wood
Water drowns fire
Wood breaks up earth

Feng shui elements with subducing cycle

Fire burns wood
Earth reduces fire
Metal moves earth
Water corrodes metal
Wood absorbs water

Feng shui - Yin & Yang balance

2008-07-15T19:40:00.000-07:00

The space you live influences your feeling. If you are often feeling sentimental, get depressed, always thinking about past, one of the causes may be coming from your living space.

Is your room balanced with yin and yang ?

If your room is full of yin energy, it may give you too much yin energy and it may make you feel too much sensitive, over react , slow movements, feeling of homelessness for your life.

If your room has full of yang energy, it may make you always away from home, and not able to express your emotion easily, and make you feel hyperactive, and not practical enough.

Basically,
Yang energy makes you out going, quick action, confident, direct, focused, light, logical, strong, value decisiveness, change,

Yin energy makes you quiet, physically oriented, value comfort and safety, imaginative, sensitive, soft, nurturing, slow movements, heavy, introspective.

There is off course natural personality based on your birth date. Also the weather influence your feelings.

There is a story about one of my friends, who decorated her room with all black color. Black is her favorite color, so she thought she would be happy. However after she set up, all her furniture ( table, dresser, chest ) , bed cover, curtains, even carpet with black color, her feelings became always down. Because the room looked very dark.

Color coordination is very important. Especially , if you are single who want to attract love, romance, and happy marriage, it’s good to avoid, too much black and blue in your space.

Feng shui symbols for design fabric

2008-04-03T17:36:00.000-07:00

You might never have thought that feng shui , besides color, the design of fabric also has some meaning which influences your luck.

Whenever we decorate interiors at home and office, and also when we arrange our fashion, there seems to be hidden feng shui power through the design.

Based on your lucky color, or each symbol of the color, if you also pay attention to the design , it will attract more luck which fits with your desire.

For example, from my experience for job hunting,

I always had a great experience for job hunting whenever I was wearing blue and white color striped shirt with dark blue suit in interviews. I always passed the examinations and could make good impression to the supervisors who were interviewing me.

For interviews, I always thought depending on the person who interviewed me, there was always match or not. Some supervisors made me feel uncomfortable to talk, and some I felt relaxed talking.

And when I was wearing the blue and white shirt, I met supervisors who I felt relaxed talking with. Since I had good experience with the blue and white shirt, I called the shirt, my good luck shirt for job hunting.

For love,

Pink color usually attracts love opportunities. And besides that, flowers, heart, ribbon design attract love.

Here are some examples for meaning of design,

Checkered

It symbolizes earth element in feng shui. This design brings family happiness & good friendship.

Stripe

It symbolizes wood element in feng shui. Stripe design brings career, job, examination luck, make good impression to boss and managers at companies. If you need trust from others, this design will help. Also when need high energy, this design help it.

Polka dots

It symbolizes metal element in feng shui. Polka dots design brings wealth luck. Also has power to increase all the luck. Good to have this design in your space to attract great fortune.

Heart

It symbolizes both water and earth elements in feng shui. Heart design brings love opportunity and happy relationships, beauty and healthy life. When you wear this design, you may have warm , calm and sweet feelings.

Ribbon

It symbolizes earth element in feng shui. Ribbon design brings love and new opportunities, good relationship, and balancing friendship. If you don’t have a opportunity to meet new people, this will help.

Flowers

It symbolizes wood element in feng shui. Flower design brings love, romance, and beauty . Especially, good to use it for your clothes. Also for your bed cover.

Border

It symbolizes earth element in feng shui. Border design brings family happiness, and healthy life. When you are feeling down, good to wear the border design clothes to make you feel better.

Stars

It symbolizes fire element in feng shui. Star design gives you power and energy and cheer. When you have strong purpose to get to the goal, this design will help your desire come true.

Clouds

It symbolizes water element in feng shui. Cloud design has power to increase your social life and also love life. When you are in trouble, this design will help to turn the things around.

Animal prints

It symbolizes fire element in feng shui. Tiger, zebra, leopard, etc.. when you want to appeal your originality and uniqueness, all the animal prints will help it.

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Useful Feng shui Article

2008-03-11T13:37:00.000-07:00

Use The Potent Tool of Feng Shui Wealth Tips

To Turn Around Your Luck

by Amit Bhalla

It may sound a slightly unbelievable if I tell you that a 3000 old Chinese practice can actually solve most of the problems in the various aspects of your life.

But often truth is stranger than fiction and the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui (pronounced as fung shway) can truly bring about remarkable changes in the aspects of your career, health, personal relationships and of course wealth.

The basic assumption of many such practices is that whatever energy you give out to the universe will evidently come back to you. Feng shui also operates on the principle of balancing out the various energies and elements in an individual's living space.

So if you are looking at attracting the goddess of wealth into your home or office, maybe Feng Shui wealth tips are just the thing for you.

Clearance of clutter from in and around your space is crucial in applying the Feng Shui wealth tips and tricks. A lot of unnecessary clutter is believed to cause blockage in many areas of your life including wealth and career.

So clean your house or office from things that have not been used for two years or more.

This tip works to enhance the positive vibes in every area of your life. Also, the water element in feng shui is believed to be a major factor in activating and enhancing your wealth luck.

Feng Shui wealth tip suggests bringing in a flowing water body in your home or office and the waterfall fountains are one of the best ways to achieve this objective.

However, the correct placement of objects play a significant role in deciding the effects that Feng Shui wealth tips will have on your life.

For instance just as flowing water can activate your career luck and wealth flow, the wrong placement can also lead to infidelity.

It is thereby crucial that you seek the guidance and counsel of a reliable Feng Shui practitioner before you decide to implement any tips for enhancing any area of your life.

When discussing about the water element in enhancing wealth luck, you could also opt for placing some active goldfish in an aquarium. The soothing portraits and pictures of flowing water can also do the trick if properly placed in the right direction.

Also, Feng Shui wealth tip suggests the activation of our very own personal wealth corner in the house or office. The southeast direction or corner is representative of the wealth aspect of our lives and we would do well to keep this area clean and properly lighted at all times.

Ensure that the energy can flow smoothly around this corner to keep your wealth luck positive and active. The proper use of colors can also work wonder when you are trying to get the Feng Shui tips to change your life for the better.

So, what are you waiting for?

Select the right guide and implement the advice to ensure that you are surrounded by peace and prosperity from all corners.

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Feng shui for wealth luck

2008-03-08T14:00:00.000-08:00

How to Increase your income using feng shui ?

If you want to increase your income, you may want to pay attention for your wealth area of your house.

You can check your wealth area by the direction of your entrance. Also there is the feng shui eight directions methods and this way, you can know the directions of gambling luck( such as stock, lottery , investment ) , business, fixed income, asset, savings, debt, real estate.

If you don’t know where your wealth area for your house is ,
you can check it here .

Today, I would like to talk about wealth for fixed income luck !

In feng shui , keeping clean all areas of your house is necessary to attract more luck, and after that, displaying turtle dragon ( bronze is the best material ) in the wealth area is believed to bring more money into your life.

Feng shui Turtle dragon is one of the most popular feng shui creatures and it has dragon head, body of turtle, baby turtle on back, sitting on bed of money and gold ingots.

This feng shui creature doesn’t only attract wealth, but is also for your healthy life, longevity, career promotion , business success, and protection.

And for wealth luck, the turtle dragon is for fixed wealth luck, slowly but surely increasing money in savings and if you are having financial problem right now, your life will be getting stable.

If you have habit to spend too much money and can not save, displaying turtle dragon in the wealth area of your house will help.

This is not for people who are expecting to get large amount of money suddenly, but you will not be poor and will help to alleviate suffering about your bills.

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Feng shui - Power of numbers

2008-02-11T11:56:00.000-08:00

How to attract luck by your birth date ?

In feng shui , it’s believed that numbers have hidden power and each person has their own personal numbers from their name and the date they were born.

And by knowing the meaning of each number, you may know your personality and based on it, you will know how to increase your own luck.

Birth date - 1, 11, 31

It symbolizes beginning of season , things, and action. You have power of determination and once you decide to start something, you will slowly get to your goal no matter what hazards come into your life. Sometimes you may feel left out from others, and don’t feel comfortable to belong with a group or organization, but your strong ambition , and not being influenced from others is always the key to attract luck.

Birth date - 2, 12, 22

It symbolizes both yang and yin. You have more than two faces , and sometimes you may be misunderstood because you are rather complicated . Because you think a lot, it’s easy to get wishy washy when trying to make a decision, the key is always take quick action before you think too much.

Birth date - 3, 13, 23

It symbolizes cheerfulness & development . It was given three advantages of Intelligence, beauty and originality. Warning for Relationship and alcohol trouble . The key to increase your luck is be always optimistic, think more positive way, future instead of past.

Birth date - 4, 14, 24

Was born in Lucky star and is protected by four gods. Especially wealth god is behind you. The more you work hard, the more your income will increase. You have strong opinion and sometime it causes to have trouble with relationship, friendship. Keeping harmony with others is the key to increase your luck.

Birth date - 5, 15, 25

It symbolizes five elements. And well balanced. Social, and good at communicating with others. Little bit sensitive. Doing many things through your hobbies and work will increase your luck.

Birth date - 6, 16, 26

Has mysterious power. You are nice to everyone and fair , and can attract great new opportunity for your desire. Sometimes your stubbornness may cause to attract bad luck. The more you struggle with your life in your youth, the more you will have happy life in your older age .

Birth date - 7, 17, 27

It symbolizes heaven, celestial. You have independence, going your own way and won’t be influenced from others, warning - easy to get trouble with others from your strong opinion. In good way, having good diplomacy will increase your luck.

Birth date - 8, 18, 28

Has strong mind toughness. No matter how difficult situation coming into your life , you will always survive. Determination, effort type. Not good at relationships, In older ages, you will have happy life.

Birth date - 9, 19, 29

It symbolizes perfection. Ultimate yang energy, Clear headed, intelligent, Unique , and a feeling person. Your uniqueness may be cause of left out from others ( especially in a group or an organization ) and being alone. The key is having good communication with others to increase your luck.

Birth date - 10, 20, 30

It symbolizes perfectionist, Everything have to be perfect. Once you started something, will do it until you get it. If it’s going wrong way, it may be cause of big trouble in the end. Keeping cheerfulness and take it easy will increase your luck.

Feng shui 9 Flying stars for 2008

2008-01-18T20:21:00.000-08:00

Feng shui 9 Flying stars for 2008
( February 4 , 2008 to February 3 , 2009)

2008 is the year of the rat in Chinese zodiac animal.
This year 2008 is not the year for starting something and also expecting your result quickly. It’s determination season, effort and step by step slowly. Not good to take a big risk. This year is a seeding year.

Lucky color for 2008 - pink, red ( energy improvement ), white ( peaceful relationship ), silver ( asset, savings, happiness ), gold ( wealth luck ), metallic,

Lucky item - light pink rose flowers, polka dot design

Lucky keywords - forgiveness , help, support,

Which directions are lucky for 2008 ?

Warning directions for your traveling & moving this year are South, Southwest, west and northwest.
Never go traveling ( even business trip ) to south, southwest, west and northwest directions from your house during the time. If for some serious reason , you have to go to those directions, at least bring a lucky charm and try to smile and say " thank you" often, this can remove negativity.

Unlucky directions

South
Southwest
West
Northwest

Lucky directions

Center ( present place )
North
Northeast
East
Southeast

How to protect your life and bring good luck for this season ?

Cleaning your space often especially northeast, east directions of your house.
Eat fishes, tofu, cheese, yogurt, drink milk, mineral water
Go to concert, theaters , singing , reading books, listening to positive music
Go traveling to beach, lake, river, ( where there is water )
Have a good luck charm, such as jade pendant or Chinese coins
Place good luck feng shui item such as bronze pair of Qi Lin or coin sword or bronze dragon figurine in your house.
Bring pink rose design item

For more info about feng shui flying stars for 2008, you can check it here

Feng shui - beware ! Your killing directions

2007-08-09T14:52:00.000-07:00

Do you know your killing directions in feng shui ?

In feng shui, it’s believed that killing directions give you bad energy and will bring you trouble and misfortune.

I was wondering about this when I got into feng shui and have tested it using my lucky direction and unlucky direction.

One of my killing directions is north. And one of my lucky directions is west.
So I put my work desk in the north side of my office, and I was facing north when sitting at the desk.

The very next morning , I received a claim from one of my customers about our delivery option , also suddenly I had a problem with sending my emails , and also more computer problems came up. Then another customer made a complaint about my email didn’t reach them and also many more.

I tried to keep thinking in a positive way and removed all the negativities from my mind , however, I got another computer trouble. My computer suddenly became frozen.

But I also wanted to test this for 3 days, and during this time the computer problem was not fixed and 3 days later I changed my work desk to west side facing one of my lucky direction in feng shui.

After I put my desk to west direction, somehow, my computer trouble disappeared. This sounds hard to believe , but it was gone and everything became fine after I changed my work desk direction. It’s still mystery.
Also all the claims were solved, and they sent me thank you emails.

This is one example, and it was not so terrible experience, but it could be worse and it would influence my health if I didn’t change my desk location.

Feng shui for your kitchen

2007-04-27T13:08:00.000-07:00

In feng shui, it’s considered that your kitchen influences your wealth & health.

There is fire and water in all kitchens and in feng shui 5 elements, fire and water is an unfavorable combination and you would need wood to keep good balance between these elements.

Keep good balance with fire and water

Fire such as stove, microwave , water such as sink, refrigerator,
Avoid to put fire items next to water items. Always put wood items between them.

Wood items : wood material cutting board, bamboo plant, plant,

Bad feng shui in kitchen

* Putting microwave or oven toaster on the refrigerator, good to put wood board between them.

* Keeping kitchen knife out of shelf,

* Keeping dirty dishes and cups in the sink

* placing dust box with no lid

Good luck point

* Dirty kitchen brings bad health and financial loss, so always keep your kitchen clean.

* Often take out your trash and keep clean air.

* Put green leaf fabric or green color kitchen mat.

* Put plant or live flowers.

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Feng shui tips for your house entrance ( inside )

2007-04-26T16:38:00.000-07:00

Lucky feng shui -

Change your entrance and attract luck into your home

In Feng shui , the entrance is like the face of your house and it’s considered the most important place. The Entrance is not only the place where everyone goes in and out but it’s also the place where all the qi ( chi ) energy flows in and out.

If you wish to attract luck into your life with feng shui seriously, please pay attention to your house entrance first.

Is your house entrance clean ?

Good feng shui

* There is a window and natural sun light comes into your entrance .
* Keep clean and tidy. Remove all the clutters such as your shoes , umbrellas, etc..
* Put entrance mat . Mat has power to remove negative energy and keep and let good chi energy into all the areas of the house smoothly.
* Put plants. ( But not cactus ) Plants also have power to remove negative energy.

Bad feng shui

* There is no window, and it’s dark and humid.
* There is water features such as an aquarium. ( Placing an aquarium at entrance is also considered to bring positive chi energy, however, depending on the directions, it can be bad luck. So I recommend not to place it. )
* Placing dry flowers ( dead flowers ) and stuffed animals .
* Placing hobby stuffs such as golf clubs, ski board ( snowboard ), etc..
* Placing shoes. Good to put all the shoes into the shelf or shoe case.

Which direction is your entrance facing ?

East entrance

Color : light blue or light green plus creamy white
decor : dragon figurine ( on the right hand side looking from the entrance door), wood wind chime, wood furniture

Southeast entrance

Color : blue or green plus creamy white
Decor : live flowers, plants, scents such as aroma oils ,

South entrance

Color : lavender, green,
Decor : phoenix picture or figurine, horse picture or figurine, summer scenery picture or calendar, painting,

Southwest entrance

Color : white , yellow, brown and lavender
Decor : crystal, gemstones, ceramic items,

West entrance

Color : pink, white plus yellow and brown
Decor : tiger, metal items such as gold, silver, bronze . Clock,

Northwest entrance

Color : white, light gray , also good to add yellow or brown
Decor : high quality decor, luxury decorations, brand items, lamp,

North entrance

Color : creamy white, white, also good to add pink
Decor : turtle figurine , crystal, glass items, lamp

Northeast entrance

Color : white, yellow, brown, good to add lavender
Decor : crystal , cloth material stuffs , mountain picture,

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Feng shui 9 flying stars for 2007 , ( February 4, 2007 to February 3 , 2008 )

2007-01-17T17:36:00.000-08:00

Feng shui 9 Flying stars for 2007
( February 4 , 2007 to February 3 , 2008)

Which directions are lucky for 2007 ?

2007 is the year of “ Boar “ ( or pig )". Beware your illness care. People may easy to get disease from animals or birds for this season.

Warning directions for your traveling & moving this year are Northeast , present location , Southeast and Southwest.

If you are planning to rebuild your house or office building, good to put off until Next year to avoid misfortune. Never go traveling ( even business trip ) or go for hunt animals to Northeast direction from your house.

If for some serious reason , you have to go to these directions, at least don’t go to the places where there are wild animals and birds.

How to protect your life for this season ?

Have a good luck charm, such as jade pendant or Chinese coins
Place good luck feng shui item such as bronze pair of Qi Lin or coin sword or bronze dragon figurine in your house.
Try Yoga or Tai-chi to develop your body strength.
Often wash your hands and gargle whenever you got home from outside.
Take natural herb “ red pepper ( Cayenne pepper) with garlic.
Eat balance foods every day .
Sleep well.
Be easy going and avoid to get negativities such as anger, complain, depression, irritation from your mind and focus on your dream and your goal of life.

Lucky directions for 2007 is West and East. For more info about annual & monthly feng shui flying stars , please check here.

Chinese good luck symbols - part 2, What Chinese feng shui symbols attract love and romance ?

2006-08-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

In feng shui compass school method, Southwest is the place for love, romance, marriage and family .

and it is believed that an image of a couple in the Southwest side of your home or room can attract love, romance and happy marriage.

I have very good experience using this area for my relationship. What I did was to
display the image, picture of my favorite type of person on the wall at the Southwest area of my room .
Also an image of a love couple, of a dream house surrounded by a beautiful flower garden. Also a pair of rose quartz figurines.

In the southeast corner of my room, I placed a small plant with red ribbon around the plant's bowl which was given by my friend as a wedding favor.

As a result, when I was single , I had so many opportunities to meet people who look like the image picture of my favorite person.

Here are some Chinese feng shui symbols for love, romance and happy marriage and also mystical symbols to increase your love opportunity.

Pair of love birds ( or mandarin ducks )

Love birds symbolize happy marriage and couple. Placing pair figurines show that you are not alone, you always have a partner in your life.

Dragon & phoenix couple

Dragon & Phoenix couple image represents emperor and empress ( husband & wife ) which symbolizes happy marriage with a lot of wealth, and brings luxury ife.

Peach tree

Peach tree symbolizes longevity in Chinese tradition, however in my experience, displaying a peach tree image or peach flowers brought great love opportunities. I was placing fake peaches ( fruit ) in the Southwest corner of my room.

Pink flowers & plants

Placing live pink color flowers in the southeast corner of your house is believed to bring alot of new relationship opportunities. Also placing alot of plants in the southeast corner can get the same.

Basically, according to feng shui compass school method, southwest is the place for relationship & family, and southeast is for wealth , but I realized this area ( southeast) also has the power to increase new relationship opportunities when you place colorful flowers or plants with red ribbon.

Flower design blanket and curtain

Colorful flower design symbolizes love and romance. Avoid to use dark color flowers such as blue flowers.

Rose quartz happy buddha

Rose quartz symbolizes love, romance and good relationship. Happy buddha ( laughing buddha) also is called " Hotei " symbolizes joy and happiness. The combination of rose quartz and happy buddha are a powerful good luck symbol for love opportunity & marriage.

Phoenix, horse, bird

If you want to bring popularity into your life, displaying the image of phoenix or galopping horse or bird at the south corner of your home can help .

Chinese double happiness symbol

Double happiness is an excellent feng shui symbol for wedding luck.
The meaning of the word is " Joy, Happiness " in Chinese and it is written twice.
If you wish to find romance and a future partner, great to placethe double happiness symbol in the southwest corner of your house or room or carry it in your handbag or purse.

Wedding favors

Wedding favors are a very powerful item when you receive it from your friend or family who are full of happiness at the wedding party. Place the wedding favor in the southwest or southeast corner of your house or room.
Joining happy events is always good luck, unless you don't get negative mind when you are by yourself.

Crystals

Natural crystal quartz is extremely effective to activate earth energy of southwest corner and it will attract romance into your life. Especially when you place crystal ( or hang it ) by the window which catches sunlight , it will expand yang energy around the space.

Travel to good direction for love

To go traveling in the love direction ( you will need to check this, because every year, every month , it's different. ) can bring you love luck , during traveling and in your close future. If you want to change your love luck, this is also very effective.

Chinese good luck symbols - part 1, Power of Chinese dragons

2006-07-12T11:11:00.000-07:00

Chinese dragon

Chinese dragons are believed to be the most powerful and important symbol in feng shui and Chinese folklore.

Chinese dragon is the symbol of protection and success. It is regarded as the Supreme Being among all creatures temples and shrines have been built to honor them.

There are nine dragons , the earth dragon, the wind dragon, the sea dragon, the water dragon, the sky dragon, the fire dragon, the golden dragon, the mountain dragon and the heavenly dragon.

Chinese Dragons control rain, rivers, lakes, and seas. Being the divine mythical animal, the dragon can ward off wandering evil spirits, protect the innocent and bestow safety to all.

Dragon is traditionally associated with East direction and it is believed that Placing image of dragon on the East side of home or office will protect from negative energy and will bring great fortune.

Chinese dragon & Phoenix - for happy marriage

Chinese dragon and phoenix are the perfect couple which symbolizes Yang (dragon )and Yin (phoenix ) in feng shui.

Phoenix alone takes yang character but when phoenix gets together with dragon or placed beside a dragon, it becomes yin.

Dragon and phoenix couple symbolize emperor and empress and they represent a happy marriage blessed with success and prosperity.

The Dragon and Phoenix couple brings not only strengthens relationships. It can even relight the fires of a kindling relationship with the fiery energy of the Phoenix.

The perfect Chinese symbol as well for people who are singles looking for true love when the image is placed in Southwest corner of your home .

Turtle dragon ( Dragon head tortoise ) - for wealth , career & business success, long life, protection

This unique creature turtle dragon symbolizes awesome powers of two of them and four spiritually endowed creatures of lucky Chinese symbolism.

The creature has the head of dragon, the body of turtle, and is sitting on coins and gold ingots. And there is a baby turtle on the back.

Turtle symbolizes longevity . It is believed that the turtle ( tortoise ) will be able to live 3,000 years without food and air.

Chinese Dragon symbolizes success , power, courage and determination.

Gold ingots symbolize wealth and prosperity.

Chinese ancient coins symbolize increasing income.

Baby turtle symbolizes wonderful descendant luck.

Great place to display this powerful image is North corner of your home when the material is made of metal or on your work desk.

Dragon head sailing ship - For all the success

Sailing ship is described as smooth sailing success and riches which bring wealth and prosperity from wind and water.

It is among the most popular symbols of business & career success in Chinese culture.

Sailing ships are usually displayed near the entrance of store or office at lower position than coffee table and with many coins or gold jewelry on the ship.

A long time ago, many old-style Chinese entrepreneurs used the sailing ship as their logo since it symbolized the winds bringing more business, more trade and therefore more revenue. Next to the dragon, the sailing ship is the most popular symbol that is used by Chinese businessmen.

Dragon head sailing ship is a combination of two success symbols , that become more powerful and expand yang energy around the area. It is said to bring favorable luck for all your goals even personal accomplishment.

Position of the sailing ship has to be coming in, not going away and no higher than coffee table .

Dragon dance

In Chinese new year , Dragon dance is held for celebration to welcome new year and is a important occasion for openings. Dragon dance is believed to create positive Qi energy .
Similar dance is taken in wedding ceremonies in China.

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2006-02-28T06:09:00.000-08:00

Feng Shui Colors For The Bedroom

By FengShuiByTroy

Feng Shui is about balance and harmony in our environments. The bedroom is a very important room (we spend the majority of our day there), so many people naturally ask how to improve their bedroom using color selection according to Feng Shui. As we discuss bedroom colors, it is also imperative to recognize the importance of the other rooms in your house. Enhancing your bedroom without enhancing the other beneficial areas of your home does not provide you with the full benefits of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is about balancing the energy in your complete and total environment.

With that said, here are some Feng Shui tips to consider for your bedroom

Don't overdo the bright colors in your bedroom. Bright colors are alive and moving, so the more bright colors that are used, the harder it will be to stay asleep. This also applies to plants and especially water. Plants and water manifest yang energy, and cause the same issues in the bedroom as bright colors. The colors associated with plants and water are green, black, and blue. Bright colors to avoid are reds, strong oranges or bright yellows. Florescent colors are out of the question!

Pictures of moving water can also cause problems. If youve got a picture of a waterfall, river, or ocean in your bedroom, its a wise idea to move it. Unfortunately, aquariums in the bedroom can also cause sleeping issues and should be moved. Although you should avoid red in the bedroom, a little touch of red can spice up your sex life! (Red is fire, so lit candles count as red.)

Dark colors (shades of brown) should be used in the décor of the bedroom, but not on the walls. Painting the bedroom walls a dark color might help you sleep, but wont help you feel rejuvenated in the morning. Darker colored décor should be used to the point of tilting the rooms ambiance yin, without making you feel like youre party to a funeral. You dont have to just use browns, pick darker colors and designs that are relaxing for you.

If youre room is already very dark (wood paneled, for example) and you cant make changes to it, you might want to consider changing any yellow light producing light bulbs to brighter, whiter bulbs. Opening the blinds during the day will also dramatically improve the rooms feeling. If its dark at night, balance it with brightness during the day. (Clearing any room occasionally by opening all the blinds is extremely beneficial.)

In painting the bedroom, using pastel colors is your best bet. The best colors to use depend on the compass direction of the rooms location. To determine the compass direction of your home, draw your houses outline on a piece of paper, and split the home into 9 equal sections (3 down, 3 across). Use a compass to find which direction is north, and label each box according to that compass direction (North can be in a corner). Here are the color combinations:

- NE, Center, or SW: Rooms located here should be painted pastel earthy colors, including light shade of yellow.

- NW or W: Rooms located here benefit from metal, so use a shade of white.

- SE or E: The SE and East benefit from the color green, but you may want to only use these colors if the room will be used as a study. Then a shade of green would be perfect. Otherwise, use pastel earthy colors including shades of yellow. White is not helpful here, as it destroys the productive properties of the SE and East. These directions are associated with wealth.

- S: The South benefits from red. If you want to use red here, use it sparingly as too much will cause restlessness in bed. Use shades of white for the walls.

- N: The north benefits from blue and black (water). Since you cant use water, try white instead, as white (metal) will help with the benefits of water without using water.

I know this might be a letdown, as some of you reading this were hoping to hear painting a room florescent orange would make you an international movie star overnight! But Feng Shui is about balance and harmony, so using light, pastel colors is your best bet when painting the walls.

There are some other critical Feng Shui tips that you should be aware of, including determining which compass directions will bring you the most luck - and which ones you should avoid at all costs. Visit www.FengShuiByTroy.com to learn more.

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There are some other critical Feng Shui tips that you should be aware of, including determining which compass directions will bring you the most luck - and which ones you should avoid at all costs. Visit www.FengShuiByTroy.com to learn more.

2006-02-28T06:04:00.000-08:00

Feng Shui In The Garden

By Gwen Nyhus Stewart

"The Ancient Art of Placement" called Feng Shui (pronounced phung schway) literally means "wind" and "water." The Chinese believe this cosmic energy, called Chi or "the green dragon's cosmic breath, is the life force energy that pervades human existence. The basic tenet of Feng Shui is to capture this vital energy creating balance and harmony in our environments. Feng Shui is predicated on the core belief that we, the earth, and every living thing on it are interconnected.

Feng Shui is the oldest form of gardening dating back several millennia to China. It is based on the philosophy that man and nature must live in harmony with one another and that all life is infused with the invisible energy called Chi. This force circulates throughout our environment and is essential to our well-being, health, and happiness. The Chinese sages believed that any man-made feature could affect the flow of Chi so established the rules of placement that are central to this philosophy.

In the Feng Shui garden, balance and harmony are the key factors. Balance and harmony are achieved by careful attention to detail and the balance of Yin and Yang energy. Yin energy includes the earth, rocks, ponds, plants, flowers, and trees. Yang energy includes the home, brick, wood, nails, and other solid construction. The fundamental characteristics of Feng Shui gardening are:

· Curved lines rather than straight allow natural energy to flow more easily.

· Feng Shui gardens are never crowded.

· Feng Shui gardens are designed to look as natural as possible.

· Mixing shapes and sizes is a vital element in Feng Shui gardens.

The Chi, or cosmic energy, needs to flow freely and smoothly through its surroundings in order to create harmony and balance in the garden. Yin and Yang together constitute the two forms of energy central to the concept of Feng Shui principles and define the quality of the energies in any space.

Yin energy constitutes the feminine energy and its elements are shadows, darkness, winter, night-time, wet, soft, receptive, passive, negative, inner, north, creation, earth, and is symbolized by the moon. Yang energy constitutes the masculine energy and its elements are light, openness, vigour, growth, summer, daytime, spirit, dry, hard, active, positive, sky, heaven, south, outer, energetic, and is symbolized by the sun. Yin and Yang energies are complementary to each other.

The Feng Shui of your house influences your life from a personal point of view. The Feng Shui of your garden influences the outer aspect of your house and influences the more public view of your life. The front garden is more Yang while the back garden is more Yin and the private side of your life. The best way to examine the Feng Shui of your garden is to treat your entire property as a single unit.

Plants that exhibit Yang energy include large-leafed plants that create a powerful presence and create good Feng Shui when placed beside water features such as a pond or fountain. These plants contrast nicely with feathery foliage plants such as ferns. Plants that exhibit Yin energy include ferns that help to dissolve any negative energy in the garden. Hanging plants will lift energy or allow energy to flow. It is a good idea to hang baskets around areas where you like to socialize. Window boxes encourage beneficial Chi toward the home.

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Gwen Nyhus Stewart, B.S.W., M.G., H.T., is an educator, freelance writer, garden consultant, and author of the book The Healing Garden: A Place Of Peace Gardening For The Soil, Gardening For The Soul and the booklet Non-toxic Alternatives For Everyday Cleaning And Gardening Products. She owns the website Gwen's Healing Garden where you will find lots of free information about gardening for the soil and gardening for the soul. To find out more about the books and subscribe to her free Newsletter visit www.gwenshealinggarden.ca

Gwen Nyhus Stewart © 2004 2006. All rights reserved.

2006-02-28T05:58:00.001-08:00

10 Feng Shui Tips For A Better Life

By Glenn Murray

Ever walked into a house that felt like home? Ever reminisced about the best year of your life, and wondered why everything came together for you? It could be Feng Shui.

Simply put, Feng Shui is about creating a harmonious environment. It's the ancient Chinese Science and Art of placement, intended to improve our health, harmony, longevity, career and wealth.

Pronounced, Fung Shway, it was a jealously guarded secret for thousands of years. Now, the benefits of Feng Shui can be enjoyed by anyone. In fact, Feng Shui is a part of everyday life for many Australian businesses, home owners, decorators, and architects.

June from June Turner Designs and Lifestyles has been an expert Feng Shui practitioner for 13 years. Feng Shui can be simple or involved whatever you're comfortable with. Decorate a room or buy a home that is perfect for your family.

The key is energy (or Qi Chee). June offers ten quick tips that can improve the flow, transformation, and containment of Qi in your life:

1) Remove shoes before entering a home. Don't take your problems in with you.

2) Cook at least one meal a day and eat at the table as a family.

3) Never have knives on show even in a block.

4) Always sit or stand facing the door (or its reflection).

5) Keep the toilet lid down and bathroom and laundry doors closed.

6) Don't sleep under white blankets or doonas.

7) Don't sleep with your feet facing the bedroom door.

8) Don't sleep next to the wall that has the metre box on it.

9) If your front door is in line with a tree or the door of the house opposite, place a Ba Gua mirror above the outside of the door.

10) Never have a Ba Gua mirror in the house. They are far too powerful.

It's no coincidence that some of these tips are just common sense. You've probably been practising Feng Shui for years without even knowing it!

According to June, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a few little changes can make the world of difference. But most solutions are specific to the individual.

For more information, contact June Turner Designs and Lifestyles on Sydney  43992018.

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* Glenn Murray is a website copywriter, SEO copywriter, and article submission and article PR specialist. He is a director of article PR company Article PR and also of copywriting studio Divine Write. He can be contacted on Sydney  4334 6222 or at glenn@divinewrite.com. Visit www.DivineWrite.com or www.ArticlePR.com for further details, more FREE articles, or to download his FREE SEO e-book.

2006-02-28T05:58:00.000-08:00

10 Feng Shui Tips For A Better Life

By Glenn Murray

Ever walked into a house that felt like home? Ever reminisced about the best year of your life, and wondered why everything came together for you? It could be Feng Shui.

Simply put, Feng Shui is about creating a harmonious environment. Its the ancient Chinese Science and Art of placement, intended to improve our health, harmony, longevity, career and wealth.

Pronounced, Fung Shway, it was a jealously guarded secret for thousands of years. Now, the benefits of Feng Shui can be enjoyed by anyone. In fact, Feng Shui is a part of everyday life for many Australian businesses, home owners, decorators, and architects.

June from June Turner Designs and Lifestyles has been an expert Feng Shui practitioner for 13 years. Feng Shui can be simple or involved whatever you're comfortable with. Decorate a room or buy a home that is perfect for your family.

The key is energy (or Qi Chee). June offers ten quick tips that can improve the flow, transformation, and containment of Qi in your life:

1) Remove shoes before entering a home. Don't take your problems in with you.

2) Cook at least one meal a day and eat at the table as a family.

3) Never have knives on show even in a block.

4) Always sit or stand facing the door (or its reflection).

5) Keep the toilet lid down and bathroom and laundry doors closed.

6) Don't sleep under white blankets or doonas.

7) Don't sleep with your feet facing the bedroom door.

8) Don't sleep next to the wall that has the metre box on it.

9) If your front door is in line with a tree or the door of the house opposite, place a Ba Gua mirror above the outside of the door.

10) Never have a Ba Gua mirror in the house. They are far too powerful.

Its no coincidence that some of these tips are just common sense. Youve probably been practising Feng Shui for years without even knowing it!

According to June, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a few little changes can make the world of difference. But most solutions are specific to the individual.

For more information, contact June Turner Designs and Lifestyles on Sydney  43992018.

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2006-02-28T05:53:00.000-08:00

Significance of Colors in Feng Shui practice

By Andrew Jones

Have you ever wondered what feelings do you have when you look at bright red rose in the garden?
Can you imagine if a garden that does not have colorful flowers but only the green foliage? Early in the morning when you see a newly opened flower in your garden, your heart is filled with joy and happiness. Each flower in the garden has a different color and hue that affects you differently. While the white lily touches your soul for its serenity, the red rose with its vibrant energy elicits a feeling of love and passion. The feeling is different because the flower is reflecting a different color and Feng Shui uses this natural magic of colors to transform your life.

A rose is red because it reflects red color and Feng Shui makes use of this reflected energy to create a balance between yin and yang energies that suits your personality or your environment.

You may be aware of two types of energies (yin and yang) that the colors in Feng Shui represent. You can think of yin energy as like a plant growing from the earth. It comes from the soil, raising itself upward and moving toward the sky. As yin energy moves up to the sky it becomes diffused and dissipated. Yin energies have an element of dreaminess about them and the colors like blue, white, green and purple according to Feng Shui are believed to have yin energies.

If your home office is full of creative and dream-inducing objects or colors, Feng Shui may ask you to get rid of them (at least some of them) and introduce in their place more vibrant colors that will help you get in the right spirit to do some work and be enthusiastic.

Every association you have with a color contributes in some way to how you are. That is why colors play a meaningful role within the practice of Feng Shui. It is very essential for you to understand why toning down or playing up certain Feng Shui colors in your home will help you to achieve the goals you have set for yourself in your life.

The guiding principle in using Feng Shui Colors should be to achieve balance rather than excess. Whether you are planning the color scheme of your home, office, garden or personal appearance, the following characteristics of the colors in Feng Shui practice will give you an insight into how they can be used in Feng Shui design.

Yin Colors & Feng Shui

Yin colors according to Feng Shui are the colors which bring about healing and relaxation. The relation between colors and Feng Shui can be better understood by taking the example of some colors as given below.

Blue: Blue color according to Feng Shui has yin energy and it is calm and soothing. This color has great significance in Feng Shui as it reflects love as it heals and relaxes. Blue creates a feeling of peace and trust. Since it is the color of the sea and sky, Feng Shui associates it with adventure and exploration. Navy blue it the color of intellect and wisdom.

Black: Black color in Feng Shui symbolizes money and income, black is great for careers, especially when combined with metal. It is the Feng Shui color of emotional protection and power.

Purple: Purple, the color which lies at the end of the spectrum, has a great significance in spiritual Feng Shui. The color is excellent for physical and mental healing and Feng Shui associates it with spiritual awareness.

White: The color in Feng Shui represents poise, confidence and purity. Because of its yin energy, Feng Shui uses this color mostly in combination with gold or silver to generate an atmosphere The other yin colors of Feng Shui are pink and green which also have their individual properties that are used in Feng Shui practice.

Yang colors and Feng Shui

Yellow: Yellow color in Feng Shui is considered to be as auspicious as red. Yellow represents sunbeams, warmth, motion, cheerfulness and friendliness. However, according to a noted color Feng Shui consultant, prolonged exposure to large amounts of intense yellow can cause anxiety.

Orange: With a lot of yang energy the orange color has great significance for spiritual Feng Shui practice as it strengthens your concentration. You might use this color when your creative well runs dry. Orange color in Feng Shui is used to give you a sense of purpose. Orange is the color of organization.

The other yang colors of Feng Shui are Tan/Beige, Brown, Red, Mauve, Maroon and lavender and gold. Each color has its significance such as money, luck or romance. These colors can be used in different combinations with Feng Shui elements for balancing the chi of your Feng Shui home, Feng Shui bed room, or Feng Shui office.

Colors & Feng Shui also have a lot to do with the direction in which your home sits. There are different colors that Feng Shui defines for the use in exterior facades of your house. Exterior colors of your house in Feng Shui practice can be used for matching or enhancing the basic house type that you have.

For example if your house is facing towards the south, painting its exterior with white, grey or blue enhances the flow of chi in your home. For houses facing towards East, the colors in earth tones or metal tones are thought to be of much use for enhancing the positive energies of the house.

The above article has been written with the sole aim of introducing you to the significance of relationship between colors and Feng Shui. But in actual Feng Shui practice there are many other factors which need to be given importance, it is very essential for you to understand the core of Feng Shui.

Once you know what is Feng Shui, you are in better position to understand the significance of Feng Shui tips. Remember that opening your heart to universe is more important than knowing meaning of colors and Feng Shui practice, because it is from there that you allow the healing energies to flow in your heart and living environments. The book on The Spiritual Feng Shui has been specially written for Feng Shui study for beginners to bring home the significance of spiritualism for Feng Shui practice.

Andrew Jones is an expert author on Feng Shui related topics. Colors Feng Shui

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2006-02-28T05:43:00.000-08:00

Feng Shui tips for everyone

By Andrew jones

Feng Shui is a process that affects your internal landscape just as much as it affects your physical environment. In order for your spirit to be nourished by the enhancements you make to your home, you must start the entire process by looking inward, and this is an important Feng Shui tip that most Feng Shui consultants like me would offer to all Feng Shui beginners. This in fact is the essence of spiritual Feng Shui which looks at the Feng Shui at a higher level than the other types of Feng Shui which mostly aim at improving at a niche level; be it your office, home or bedroom.

The Spiritual Feng Shui sees the whole concept of Feng Shui at the universal level, the level to which your soul belongs and relates. If you practice spiritual Feng Shui you can never think of improving your life at the expanse of harming your neighbor or your environment. The Feng Shui tips that are offered in the article not only aim to highlight the important points one has to remember before practicing it; it also introduces the Feng Shui beginners to the new horizons that the spiritual Feng Shui can open up for them.

Though the spiritual Feng Shui communicates to your environment, your home, your office through the bodily objects, it heals your soul to know how it works it is important for you to remember the following Feng Shui tips. All these free Feng Shui tips have valuable advice contained in them so try to imbibe them before you start your practice.

There is nothing religious about the Spiritual Feng Shui. It talks about purifying your soul, not only the empty or occupied spaces in your house. The purified soul has the radiations that are reflected from you to have strong positive energies; in Feng Shui practice, these positive energies referred to as Chi, which is the universal energy and the guiding principle.

As one would never build a new home on a rotting foundation; likewise, it is essential to clear away the debris of negativity before you create your new Feng Shui space. Only then can your spirits soar with true energy and vitality.

As you come to recognize the importance of cleansing your old attitude and beginning anew, what ever Feng Shui enhancements that you use for a Feng Shui home design seem to be working for you.

Here are some free Feng Shui tips for everyone: Look deep into yourself and dont be afraid to do so! That is the only way to develop and change in a beneficial way. Be honest with yourself you deserve truth and awareness. Open your palms, close your eyes and reach your arms up and out, as though you are waiting to be picked up or embraced. (This is necessary for unifying your soul with the universe). Imagine the energy radiating from your heart, your lungs, your palms and that the energy is touching everything in its path. Beam the energy away from you, sending it into the farthest corners of the universe. Repeat this mantra: I am open to positive change in any form it takes.

Before you start feng shui decorating with various Feng Shui elements, my sincere Feng Shui advice to all the Feng Shui beginners is to strictly follow the spiritual Feng Shui tips.

May be as your Feng Shui study goes deeper and deeper you would not mind spending some money for buying e books on Feng Shui, but the absolutely free Feng Shui tips that you just now have are the like the foundation stones for the spiritual Feng Shui practice. Remember that these free Feng Shui tips are going to help you a great deal in your long Feng Shui journey.

Once you are positive about accepting changes in your life the Feng Shui is there to help you in what ever you do; remember that Feng Shui is about focusing intentions, rather than just coasting on auto-pilot. Feng Shui is about getting you back into the drivers seat of your life, it is about accepting responsibility for yourself and your actions not only in this materialist world but also the metaphysical or spiritual world.

Nurturing yourself with Feng Shui practice and making use of the philosophy of Feng Shui in the home design will help you regain your own sense of destiny and purpose within the universe. Before you start any Feng Shui practice, whether it is about understanding Feng Shui Bagua or knowing Feng Shui Elements remember that Feng Shui is a spiritual discipline. It is just not about doing furniture placement using Feng Shui interior design but knowing yourself and your universe better so can get the positive energies from the universe and its objects. Feng Shui elements are nothing different from the elements of universe. If you follow this important piece of Feng Shui advice and bring to practice the above mentioned free Feng Shui nothing can stop you from deriving benefits of Feng Shui.

The Feng Shui masters have provided you with the technical know-how and valuable Feng Shui tips for evaluating your home and implementing Feng Shui techniques and cures. But it is up to you, and only you, to envision and bring about the specific environment and quality of life that you desire.

If you integrate all the above home design tips into your Feng Shui practice you would soon start noticing the positive changes it is having on your life.

Andrew Jones is an expert author on Feng Shui related topics - Feng Shui tips

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2005-12-14T14:08:00.000-08:00

Annual Feng shui flying stars for 2006

(From February 4 ,2006 to February 3, 2007 )

Zodiac animal for 2006 - dog
Lucky color - lavender purple
Lucky directions - North, Northwest, Southwest, East
Warning directions - West, Southeast, South, center

For 2006, Never go traveling and moving to West, Southeast and South directions from your house to avoid misfortune such as accident,illness, financial problem, break up.

Lucky directions

North - 8 white earth

Luckiest direction for this year 2006. Total Happiness, business success, steady progress in finance and good fortune.

Goog to place items -
Wealth & success - red pi yao with crystal ball, jade horse figurine
Health - Jade quan yin, Jade happy buddha
Love- rose quartz happy buddha, rose quartz birds

In July, need to place metal remedies such as 6 Chinese coins or coin sword or bronze (brass) dragon or bronze turtle dragon

In October, Brass wu lou, or bronze Fuk luk sau, or bronze happy buddha.

Northwest - 4 green wood

That's symbolizes academic achiement, creativity, writing & romance, examination, family & Children.

Good to place item - crystal pagpda , crystal world globe, world globe.

In March and December, need to place metal remedies such as 6 Chinese coins or coin sword or bronze (brass) dragon or bronze turtle dragon
In June, Brass wu lou, or bronze Fuk luk sau, or bronze happy buddha or bronze quan yin with dragon to protect your health.

Southwest - 9 purple fire

That's symbolizes success & promotion, happy marriage & have a baby

Good to place items - bamboo wind chime, wood happy buddha, amethist.

In February and November, need to place metal remedies such as Brass wu lou, or bronze Fuk luk sau, or bronze happy buddha or bronze quan yin with dragon to avoid any misfortune.

East - 1 white water

That's symbolizes wisdom, fame & good fortune.

Good to place items - Bronze turtle dragon, Bronze or brass dragon, bronze happy buddha, bronze fuk ruk sau, One bronze large feng shui coin ( but not in your bathroom and bedroom ).
If your bathroom is here, hang a metal wind chime in front of the bathroom door, not inside.

In September, need to place remedies such as 6 Chinese coins or coin sword or bronze (brass) dragon or bronze turtle dragon to avoid any misfortune.

In March and December, good to add Brass wu lou, or bronze Fuk luk sau, or bronze happy buddha or bronze quan yin with dragon to protect your health.

In August, good to add 6 Chinese coins or coin sword or bronze (brass) dragon or bronze turtle dragon.

Unlucky directions

West - 5 yellow earth

The most dangerous star 5 yellow earth move to west. If your bedroom or office is located in this direction, please be special care of this direction.
5 yellow earth star symbolizes catastrophe, casualties, lawsuits,and sickness. Never go traveling and moving West direction from your house during the year.

Remedies : Bronze Qi Lin, 6 Chinese coins, coin sword, bronze Tsai Shen Yeh, Bronze Kwan Kung, Bronze quan yin with dragon, brass dragon, brass wu lou.

In April, July (2006) and January (2007), good to add more metal remedies.

Southeast - 2 black earth

Illness star 2 black earth move to Southeast. That symbolizes sickness and miscarriage.
To protect your health, place brass Wu Lou there and also great to place Bronze Qi Lin, Bronze happy buddha or brozne Fuk Luk Sau.

If it's located in your bathroom hang metal wind chime in front of the bathroom and if your kitcken is in the East, hang it in the East corner. Avoid to place fire element such as red color item and birds and horse figurines in the East during the time.

Remedies - Brozne Qi Lin, brass wu lou, metal wind chime, 6 Chinese coins, 9 Chinese coins, Bronze happy buddha, Bronze fuk luk sau.

In April, October (2006) and January (2007) , good to add more remedies because monthly nasty stars move to Southeast.

South - 7 red metal

7 red metal symbolizes fire, theft, robbery, and imprisonment.

Remedies - Need to place water such as table top water fountain, glass vase with purple, blue color flowers, peaceful ocean picture.

In June and September, good to add metal items such as 6 Chinese coins, 9 Chinese coins, Coin sword, Bronze Qi Lin, Brozne turtle dragon or dragon.

Northeast - 6 white metal

6 white metal star symbolizes change, great authority, diginity & fame also loneliness & lawsuits.

Remedies - Large bronze Chinese coin, water

Good to place items - bronze turtle dragon, bronze happy buddha with gold ingots

In May, good to add metal items such as 6 Chinese coins or coin sword or Bronze Qi lin, or 6 rods wind chime.

Center - 3 green wood

3 green wood star symbolizes Lawsuitz, Robbery & Asthma, misfortune, argument, fights, disagreements, quarrels, gossip and lawsuits. also bad for children.

If your children's room is located in this direction, good to place red color blanket or lag mat in the room.
In August, add brass wu lou or bronze happy buddha to avoid any problems.

Good to place items : Red pi yao, red jade horse figurine, red color candles or lamps, red or pink color flowers (fake)

In February and November, good to add metal items such as 6 Chinese coins, 6 rod wind chime, coin sword, bronze happy buddha.

In May, add brass wu lou or bronze happy buddha or bronze Quan yin to protect your health.

2005-10-25T01:44:00.000-07:00

Good luck charm mystery

Do you have a Good luck charm ?

About 2 years ago, my husband and I purchased good luck charms online.

According to the website, the pendant tops we purchased ( made of fake gold ) were cleansed by a professional psychic master.

Before we got it, we had a car stolen and were very upset for it. We thought maybe the good luck charm can protect us.

When we received the pendants, we were very excited because we thought the pendants are not normal pendant because they were given strong power by a psychic master.

Soon we both tried them , my husband went to his work as usual, and I went shopping to a supermarket.

In that day, sales clerks behaivior for me was not friendly, and I felt bad.

While I was wearing the pendant, I felt nervous and getting irritated. I tried to calm down . but it was difficult to stop it.

When my husband got home, he looked tired and I asked him, how was your day today ? He was saying he had a bad day. Trouble with his customers and also with his manager.

It was really weird, but we continued wearing the pendant. and it was getting worse and worse, we had more troubles. and both our feelings were irritated all the time. We didn't know why . But it is true.

So we decided to stop wearing the pendant and returned them to the online store.

After we returned the pendant, we felt good and were not irritated anymore.
The online store customer support was nice, they gave us the refund as promised on the website.

What we learned from it was that all things have energy and we should not have someone else put any energy into the items.

I guess that online store might often get return items and the pendant we purchased were used by some other of their customers who had negative energy.
Or the psychic master also might have negative energy when she cast the spell into the pendants.

Later I learned about all the things we experience is not accident and everything we experience has a reason and it came from our past imagination and thinking.
It may be true, but it may not be true.

However, we are human and it is difficult to keep our feelings good all the time forever.
Energy is really mystery because
Actually, even clothes, whenever I wore my black shirt, I had a bad day, on the other hands, whenever I wore my dark blue blouse, I always had a great day and I could pass all the job interviews.

I noticed about it a long time ago. I am a Japanese. In Japan, everyone has charms or amulets for our protection. Many Japanese people go to temples or shrines every new year days, to make our wishes and purchase good luck amulets (Omamori) or " go-fu" to have peaceful life during the year. It's one of Japanese traditional habit.

Japanese long distance runner " Muzuki Noguchi " who got gold medal in the last Greece Olympic, was also wearing the good luck amulet (Omamori) while she was running.

Ha,.. I was very amazed, how can such a small Japanese woman run faster than an African woman who has much longer legs for 2 hours, beside in such a hot day ?

In China, Jade is considered to bring good luck. There are many good luck symbols in China.

Chinese dragon symbolizes success and power. It's yang energy and when we place dragon image ( dragon figurines or pictures ) in our house that bring you a power.

If you have ever seen Chinese movies such as bruce lee or etc... you might already notice that there are temple lions ( called foo dogs) in the entrance, also dragons, vases, calligraphy with good luck words in Chinese houses or temples. People are wearing jade pendants or earrings. There are many mysteries is China.

But I think everything can be good luck charms.

It seems music rock group Queen's Freddie Mercury was always wearing silver snake bracelet as a charm.

Having pet especially gold fishes is also considered to bring good luck for wealth and protection.

Wedding fabors are usually lucky items unless the bride and gloom don't have any negative energy in their wedding party.

In our house , there are full of good luck items now.

Before we got married, my husband purchased a beautiful goddess made of wood when he traveled to Bali island. It seems the goddess is considered to bring great romance opportunity and love luck.
He wished to get married with an asian woman and a year later, his wish came true.

Feng shui tips, Where is wealth area ?

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There are many kind of feng shui methods. I grew up in Japan, and living in the US now.

I realized feng shui information I learned in Japan was really different from Chinese Feng shui methods since I came in the US.

Black hat
feng shui compass school
feng shui flying stars
bagua

Those feng shui methods are everywhere in English language websites and books.

Anyone who are interested in feng shui might already know about it and have tried all of them.

If those feng shui method didn't help your life, you can try different method "Japanese feng shui" I learned in Japan. because it's also worked for me.

Japanese feng shui

North

Element - water
Number - 1
Animal - rat
Season - winter ( Decmber )
Time - 23:00 to 1:00
Color- black , white
Fit color - Ivory, baby pink
Symbols : trust, keep secret, pregnant, sex, gamble, relationship, new business, love life, lover

Southwest

Element - earth
Number - 2
Animal - Sheep, monkey
Season - Summer ( July to August )
Time - 13:00 to 15:00 ( sheep) , 15:00 to 17:00 ( monkey)
Color - Yellow, black
Fit color - brown begue, autum color, dark yellow
Symblos - Family, health, real estate, have a baby, mother, old lady, house wife, work, propety, antique, save money, collection, patient, effort

East

Element - wood
Number - 3
Animal - rabbit
Season - Spring ( March)
Time - 5:00 to 7:00
Color - blue, green
Fit color - blue and little red Symbols - Growth, work, job, young people, sound, communication, foreign language

Southeast

Element - wood
Number - 4
Animal - dragon, snake
Season - early summer ( April to May )
Time - 7:00 to 9:00 ( dragon ) , 9:00 to 11:00 ( snake )
Color - blue, green
Fit color - orange, yellow-green,
Symbols - marriage, relationship, new relationship opportunity,social life, traveling, communiation

Northwest
Element - metal
Number - 6
Animal - dog, wild boar
Season - Autum ( October to November )
Time - 19:00 to 21:00 ( dog) ,21:00 to 23:00 ( wild boar )
Color - white
Fit color - creamy yellow, ivory, begue, light pastel pink
Symbol - father, luxary items, business, promotion, finance, income, asset

West

Element - metal
Number - 7
Animal - rooster
Season - early autom ( September)
Time - 17:00 to 19:00
Color- white, red
Fit color - pastel yellow, passion pink, ivory
Symbol - Wealth, prosperity, cash, business, love relationship, girl, party, foods

Northeast

Element - earth
Number - 8
Animal - cow, tiger
Season - early spring ( January to February )
Time - 1:00 to 3:00 ( cow), 3:00 to 5:00 ( tiger)
Color - yellow, white
Fit color - white and little red
Symbol - succession, change, saving, real estate, high mountain, new job

South
Element - fire
Number - 9
Animal - horse
Season - summer ( June )
Time - 11:00 to 13:00
Color- red, purple
Fit color - yellow green, ivory
Symbol - fame, popilarity, imaginative, middle age women, light, shin, sun, mind, discovery, marriage celemony, party, festival, gambe, fire, jewelry, dry, dance .

According to this Japanese feng shui method, to increase your wealth luck, Northwest ( promote, asset) West ( Cash ) , Northeast ( save) directions are the most important area.