After determining where the Eight Life Aspirations sectors are in your house, you will need to decorate and place items that correspond with those sectors. Remember that activating these sectors will benefit all the people living in your household. Please do not confuse this with enhancing your PERSONAL directions. Personal directions must be enhanced by using your KUA number. Don't spend a lot of money! You don't have to go out and spend a lot of money to "Feng Shui" your house! How many people who have a specialty store will tell you THAT' : ) Just look around your home and see what items you have in various places. I am speaking of figurines, plants, wooden objects, metal objects, photos, candles, oil burners, flowers, etc. Then look at your layout of your house that you have done, and move the object to the sector that you think best suits it. When I first started activating my sectors, I found that there were MANY things already in my home that worked great for certain sectors. Problem was, sometimes they were not in the RIGHT sector. So, all I had to do, was rearrange things a little - and boy, what a difference! For example, I use aromatherapy a lot in my home. I have an earthenware crockpot potpourri burner that I had to move to my Northeast area because of the earth element. I have another Sterling Silver oil burner that I had to move to my Northwest sector - the Metal Element. Didn't cost me a dime - just the energy to move them to different areas. Become color conscious. If you have blue curtains in your Northeast sector and they will fit a window in the North sector, move them and replace them with some beige curtains. Keep the colors for each sector in mind as you go about the house rearranging things. "Feng Shui" your MIND. Get yourself used to looking for items that will help you. Also, keep in mind that Feng Shui is not about oriental art. It is about where you place certain objects - doesn't matter who made it - it just matters what it is made OF, what color it is, what shape it is and/or what it represents. If you go to a garage sale and find a beautiful picture of a waterfall and bring it home, THINK about what sector that should go in - Water - Career - North! Reversing that situation, if you are wanting to activate your Career Sector in your home, go to the garage sales and look for things that have to do with WATER. It is really easy to do, once you get used to it. Make yourself a little 3x5 "cheat sheet" card that has your sectors and what colors, etc to use and carry it around in your wallet if you need to. NORTH Sector: The North part of your home is considered your Career Prospects Sector Use the colors blue and black as much as possible in this area. Do not use those colors so much that they are overwhelming. Have water features here as the element of the North is water. Some examples of water features are: water fountains, paintings of a lake or river, water globes, animals that live in the water (turtles, fish, etc) whether live or ceramic, anything that has wavy lines. NORTHEAST Sector The Northeast sector governs education, spirituality, knowledge and self-growth Use the color beige or very light brown in this area Use Earth type decorations here. Examples could be plants, brown colored objects, globe, and map of the world. Hanging crystals and a Buddha is also good for this area. EAST Sector The East Sector governs family relations and health. I am going to break the two of these down a bit further: Family Relations - Harmony Clearing the clutter is the most important way to create harmony in your home. I have found personally that when my office is cluttered, my children seem to get a little unruly. (They spend a lot of time in my office because that is usually where I am! LOL) Also, sounds silly, but when I get behind on the laundry they tend to get unruly as well. Coincidence? I doubt it! The second most important way is to KEEP the clutter gone. Use green and brown colors in this area. Activate this area with: dragons, wooden objects, crystals, objects representing family unity - like a dog family, turtle family, figurine of children playing, pictures of your family in wooden frames, plants in earth tone pots or pottery Take steps to activate all the sectors in your home by placing objects and using colors that correspond with those sectors. If all sectors are energized it should create harmony in your home. Health Green and brown are good colors to use here, as well as black and blue. Follow the guidelines above under Harmony. Also, check around the house for what is called "poison arrows" - anything sharp, pointed and angular that seem to be threatening. Exposed beams are considered poison arrows. Redirect the bad shar chi by using crystals, bamboo flutes or windchimes. Displaying a Happy Buddha in the living room of your home is said to bring happiness and health to all that live in your home. Bamboo plants are symbolic of good health Display a tortoise or turtle in the East corner of your living room for good health. Use aromatherapy to enhance your health, relieve stress, create harmony and promote overall well being SOUTHEAST Sector The Southeast corner of your home is the Prosperity and Wealth Sector. Try to use as much green as you can in this area without over doing it. Flowers are great in this area. The best types of flowers and plants to use according to Feng Shui are bamboo, orchids, chrysanthemums and plum blossoms. However - any type of plant will do. Dont use dried flowers, bonsai plants or cactus they are not good to have in the home. If your bedroom is in the SE corner of your home, do not place plants or flowers there. Just try to find curtains, rugs, pillows, etc that have green tones to them to enhance the room. Put a Lucky Cat in the SE corner of your home to bring about good fortune. Create a wealth vase to put in a cupboard somewhere in your Southeast Sector. See the previous newsletter for tips on creating a wealth vase Prosperity - General Guidelines Hang a set of doorknob coins activated with red thread on the knob on the inside of your front door. This helps to keep the money in your home. Do not put either of these on a back door - which will bring about the opposite effect. Also, this needs to be on your front door whether you actually USE that door or not. Hang a prosperity bell on the outside of your front door knob to invite prosperity into your home. Make sure it is tight against the doorknob - otherwise it may get bent when closing the door if it gets caught in between the door and the door jam. I will be introducing a bell with a stretchable cord this month on my web site. Placing a small Buddha directly across from the front door will also create positive chi and welcome prosperity into your home. Do not put the Buddha the floor. Try to have him at eye level if possible. Place 3 Good Luck coins in your wallet or in your purse to signify that it will have money in it at all times. Place some 3-Legged money toads in various places around your house. These can go on the floor and be very inconspicuous if you want them to. You need to put one right beside your front door facing into the room. Then, if you can, put another one diagonally across from it - not facing the front door - but off to the left or right of the opposite wall that your front door is on. Place FuDogs right inside your front door. They symbolize protection of the family and protecting your wealth. SOUTH Sector The South sector governs recognition and fame. This also covers popularity and reputation. Use red and various shades of red in this area including burgundy, pink, hot pink, maroon. Take it easy on the bright red as it is a very powerful color and could overwhelm things. Place a crimson bird sculpture, eagle in flight, dragon, rectangular shaped crystals, fire features like candles, oil burners, bright lights, crystal chandeliers, plants, a fire place, wood burning stove in this sector. Do not display water features here. SOUTHWEST Sector: This sector governs Marital Happiness and Romance Use yellow, beige, red and orange colors in this sector, being very careful not to overdo the red and orange colors. Do not use green or brown in this area if possible. For plants, use earth tone or pottery for the planters. Make sure when enhancing this area that you always put things in pairs. Not one and definitely not three - just two of different items that symbolize love and romance to you. Mandarin ducks, love birds and peacocks are good symbols here Crystals in the SW sector of your home or bedroom will activate the earth energies of that sector. You can hang these in a window or just have crystal ornamental items there. WEST Sector This sector governs the luck of children and also new projects, hobbies, stages of life and pleasure. Use white, silver, yellow and gold in this area. Place white, silver or yellow flowers, hollow windchimes, bells, metallic or earth objects, round objects, ceramic objects, quartz crystal, a sleeping white tiger (MUST be sleeping or don't put it here), TV, computer, stereo, soapstone objects representing family in this area. NORTHWEST Sector This sector governs mentors, networking, beginnings, meeting influential people and important meetings. Use metallic colors here like white, silver and gold. Place hollow windchimes, stone and metal sculptures, any objects that are metallic in color or in material, metal candle holders and picture frames in this area. |
