Common Questions about Feng Shui

April 2, 2009 by Kathryn Weber  
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Feng Shui FAQs
Common Questions about Feng Shui

1. What is the difference between traditional Chinese feng shui and western, or Black Hat Sect, feng shui?
Black Hat Sect or western feng shui uses the front door to align the bagua, the eight sided octagon that corresponds to the 8 Aspirations, or guas, in life (wealth, health, fame, marriage/love, children, career, wisdom, and benefactors). Black Hat sect aligns the career sector, or gua, with North, the career sector. Traditional Chinese feng shui says that if your front door faces east, you align the east gua with your front door. In other words, you follow the compass directions.

2. Can I use both Black Hat and traditional Chinese feng shui?
You can, but you need to know what you are doing. It’s usually best to use one method or the other. If you’ve had good results with the Black Hat, stick with that. If you’ve done well with traditional feng shui, then use this as your preferred method.

3. Do I use the bagua over the house or over a room?
You can use both. Apply the bagua over the entire house by the facing direction. Apply the bagua in a room according to the compass directions. You can apply the bagua to areas as large as a city or as small as your desk. There’s no limit to how it can be used with regard to size.

4. I have an L-shaped house. Should I apply the bagua to both sides of the L or to the entire home?
I typically recommend that you apply it to the whole footprint of the home, and this usually means that there will be large sectors that are missing. Some recommend applying two separate baguas to each “rectangle” of the L. However, that doesn’t treat the house as a whole, and that is what concerns me about doing it that way. If you prefer to apply it this way, though, you certainly can.

5. Can I use personal feng shui and compass feng shui together?
Yes! They go easily together.

6. What if I am an east person and my spouse is a west person in personal feng shui. How do we decide whose feng shui to focus on?
The Chinese are very old fashioned about this. Basically, you select to enhance the breadwinner’s directions, regardless of who is male or female. The person who brings home the most income should be protected. Therefore, if you’re the breadwinner and you are an east person, then you will want to select a house with an east-facing entrance and position your bed according to your best directions.

7. If I move my bed to suit my personal feng shui, my bed lines up on the same wall as the door. Is that OK?
No, it’s not good. Never forsake good feng shui basics (easily be able to see who enters the room from a chair or bed) in favor of your best directions. Always follow good feng shui first before following personal feng shui.

8. The south is my total loss direction according to personal feng shui. What can I do to enhance my fame sector?
The south is still the fame sector and you should enhance every direction regardless of whether or not that sector is good for you personally. That’s because when you enhance a particular sector, you aren’t magnifying your bad luck…you’re just enhancing that area and that’s still good for you. Personal feng shui just means that you try to avoid sitting and sleeping in those sectors that are not personally beneficial for you, not that you avoid them altogether or that you don’t enhance them.

It’s ideal if you can select houses with beneficial directions, such as entrances in your best directions, and you want to face, sit, and sleep using your personal directions as much as possible. So, even if your dining room is in your loss sector, you can still eat seated facing your health direction, for example.

9. Do I have to change things around every year for feng shui? Can’t I just “feng shui and forget it”?
Of course you can. Even simple, easy feng shui is still very effective. But, there are some who want more and more detail. Feng shui is a complex art that has been developed over the past few thousand years. Anyone who studies anything in detail delves deeper and deeper with each passing year. Feng shui can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. Don’t feel obligated to follow flying star or annual feng shui if you don’t want to.

10. I live in Australia. How does that change my feng shui?
It doesn’t. I have no idea why that notion that everyone “Down Under” doesn’t have the same directions ever got started. South is still south in Australia and New Zealand and Argentina, for that matter. You use the directions exactly the same way below the equator that you do above because the compass needle moves to the north in Australia the same way it does in Morocco. Only the toilets go in a different direction when they flush!

11. If I put a fountain on the right side of my door (looking out from the house toward the street), does that mean my husband will have an affair?
This is a common question many people have about water to the right of the front door. What it means is that the water could draw predatory females who are interested in your husband. If you trust your husband, it shouldn’t be a problem. I’ve had a fountain to the right of my front door before and mentioned it to my husband just in case. If your husband has a wandering eye, though, you might not want to chance it!
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Stop Chasing Money — Let Wealth Come to You Instead

March 10, 2009 by Kathryn Weber  
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When we stop running, we arrive.
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When you want something really badly it’s easy to try to hunt it down like a wild animal.  But as someone raised in Texas can tell you, money is a lot like horses ― chase them and they’ll run from you.  If you’ll stand still, though, they’re curious and will come to you; chasing is over.

That’s why working harder and being more driven for the singular goal of money alone is not working smart.  Money is energy, and understanding how it works (and doesn’t) can help you attract more of it easily so that it comes to you instead of you running after it.

Use this checklist to boost your wealth-attracting power.

___Application draws money
What are you doing that’s value-driven?  If your focus is on the money, you drive it away.  If you put your focus on being the best personal coach or interior designer, the money comes as a result of your application to your higher ideal, being the greatest marketer, for instance. Money should never be your goal.  Your higher goal should be.

___Worry drives money away
Putting your focus on something that truly cannot help you is a worthless endeavor.  Worry is a “problem perpetuator.”  An overprotective mom actually attracts accidents,  fears and problems to her children.
Haven’t you seen it?  The mom who’s fearful about her child drowning creates a child who’s afraid of the water, and thus, never experiences the joys of swimming in summer or stepping into the ocean.  What kind of financial baby are you creating?

___Stop spending and start investing
So much money is frittered away with niggling expenses that seem so small as to not count.  Small change adds up to big dollars. Even the word “change” is about movement — and money — as it’s the word we use when we’re talking about coins.

Watch the designer coffees, lunches out and other small expenses and you’ll be amazed how it adds up F-A-S-T.  Put your money somewhere that gives you a return and not a loss!  When making a purchase, ask what you get out of it and if the expense is an expense or an investment.

___Activate your earth luck
This is your feng shui.  Feng shui is earth luck — it’s about an environment that either supports or suppresses you.  Is your home a mess and yet you want to activate a wealth corner?  Clean up the mess first and you’ll see a change.  Once your house is clean and clear, then activate.

Pay attention to your feng shui and keep it up and it will compound.  That’s why making monthly and annual feng shui observation is so important; it re-infuses your home or business with beneficial yang energy as you make the changes related to the changing energy.

___Boost your wealth sectors
The southeast isn’t the only wealth sector.  The southwest, north and northwest are also important wealth sectors.  Each should be activated.  Wonderful activators for the north, southeast and southwest are waterfalls, fountains, pools, and ponds.  In the northwest and north, metal is the rule.

In all sectors, adding light and beautifying the sectors is always a benefit.  The northwest corresponds to the man of the house and to noble people who help the man and the woman of the house.  The southwest is the “woman” sector of the house and boosting this corner benefits the woman — and all relationships for the residents of the house.

___Be kitchen smart
Kitchens are a form of wealth in feng shui.  Keep yours clean, well stocked, and do not allow foods to grow into “science experiments” in the fridge.  Low on money?  What’s your pantry like?  Have you got meat that’s three years old in the freezer?  Clean up your kitchen and you’ll stimulate some flow again.


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Kathryn Weber is the publisher of the Red Lotus Letter Feng Shui E-zine and certified feng shui consultant in authentic Chinese feng shui. Kathryn helps her readers improve their lives and generate more wealth with feng shui. For more information and to receive her FREE Ebook “Easy Money – 3 Steps to Building Massive Wealth with Feng Shui” visit www.redlotusletter.com and learn the fast and fun way how feng shui can make your life more prosperous and abundant!

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