Feng Shui is a practice from the Chinese custom that helps you to have a strong place in your home or your business that is full of good energies. This is a place where you can bring prosperity to yourself and where you can take the energy and make them better for your life.
What rooms to you use in your home or your workplace? Do you have these things set with colors and images that make you feel successful? What do you have that you focus on when you go into those rooms?
How Feng Shui Can Help
Feng Shui is a way that you can be benefited in your home or your workplace because of the good energy that it brings. If you have a business and a home that are separate, you want to make sure that you are making an environment that will help you to feel healthy and strong.
A Feng Shui practitioner can go into your home or your workplace and they can use their skills to balance the elements in your areas. This can be the masculine and feminine energies and how the energy flows. There are five elements of energy and you use these to influence the energies of wherever you are.
Five Chinese Elements
There are different Chinese elements, and they change each two years and they have to do with the animal or the zodiac animal. This year, the ox is the animal. In 2021, this animal will be an expression of strength.
There are colors that come with each year as well and so when you know the color for the year, you can use these colors in how you dress or how you decorate your home. This will help you to express yourself with the animal signs.
Wood is one element that can help you to grow in your life. This allows you to grow and offers you spatial direction in your being.
Fire is an element that is powerful and intense. This sign means that you are brave and that you are strong. This brings health to your life.
Metal is an element that gets rid of dangers and can help you to have a longer life. This will get rid of cords that are holding you back and causing you pain.
Water is a deep element and is full of life. This is the element that gives you wisdom and energy and will help you to be creative. This is the element that will keep your mind moving and will allow you to grow.
The Earth is the place of birth and growth and if you are financially strapped, use this element to bring life to your finances and to nurture you.
Your Feng Shui practitioner will help you by looking at your chart and seeing what you need to do to be healthy and strong in your person and in your life.
Feng Shui and the Chinese Animal Zodiac
Look at your own Chinese animal year and see if you feel that you have elements in your life that are helpful to you. These animals are symbols of your energy and your life.
Rat
1936
1948
1960
1972
1984
1996
2008
2020
Ox
1937
1949
1961
1973
1985
1997
2009
2021
Tiger
1938
1950
1962
1974
1986
2012
2022
Rabbit
1938
1951
1963
1975
1987
1999
2011
2023
Dragon
1940
1952
1964
1976
1988
2000
2012
Snake
1941
1953
1965
1977
1989
2001
2013
2025
Horse
1942
1954
1966
1978
1990
2002
2014
2026
Sheep or Ram
1943
1955
1967
1979
1991
2003
2015
2027
Monkey
1944
1956
1968
1980
1992
2004
2016
2028
Rooster
1945
1957
1969
1981
1993
2005
2017
2029
Dog
1946
1958
1970
1982
1994
2006
2018
2030
Pig or Boar
1947
1959
1971
1983
1995
2007
2019
2031
- The Chinese astrology says that each of the animals have seven different star signs with living animals. You can look at your elements and your animal year and see what it has to offer:
Rat
- You are the masculine energy.
- Element of water.
- Color black.
- Go North.
- Season is winter.
- Mercury planet.
- Black Tortoise
Ox
- Feminine energy.
- Earth element
- Brown color
- Go Northeast
- Transitional Season
- Saturn
- Yellow Dragon
Tiger
- Masculine energy.
- Wood element
- Color green
- Go East or Northeast
- Spring
- Jupiter
- Green Dragon
Rabbit
- Feminine energy
- Wood element
- Green or silver
- Go East
- Spring
- Jupiter
- Green Dragon
Dragon
- Masculine energy
- Earth element
- Color brown or purple
- Go Southeast
- Transitional season
- Saturn
- Yellow Dragon
Snake
- Feminine energy.
- Element fire.
- Red or purple.
- Go South or Southeast.
- Summer
- Mars
- Vermillion Bird
Horse
- Masculine energy.
- Element fire.
- Red or silver.
- Go South
- Summer
- Mars
- Vermillion Bird
Sheep
- Feminine energy.
- Earth element.
- Black, blue, or brown.
- Go southwest.
- Transitional season.
- Saturn
- Yellow Dragon.
Monkey
- Masculine energy.
- Metal
- White, grey, blue, or brown.
- Go west or southwest
- Autumn
- Venus
- White Tiger
Rooster
- Feminine Energy
- Metal
- Blue, lavender, white, pink.
- Go West
- Venus
- White Tiger
Dog
- Masculine energy
- Earth element.
- Brown, red, yellow.
- Go central.
- Transitional season.
- Saturn.
- Yellow dragon.
Pig
- Feminine energy
- Water element
- Black
- Go North
- Winter
- Mercury
- Black Tortoise
Direction
The direction that your home faces will help you to balance your animal year energy. If you have certain objects that you use that are creative or have strong colors, use them in the right direction.
Use the north section to build your career with things like water and white stones. This can bring energy to the bedroom.
Northeast is where you build your knowledge and use purple stones and pottery and where you will hang things that you have been given like awards. Also use inspirational things here.
East is to be used for your family. Use flowers and amethyst. Hang family pictures.
Southeast is for money and wealth use crystals and gold and silver, trees, and images of money.
South section is for your reputation, hang fiery things and bright colors, use wind chimes.
Southwest is for love and marriage, use images of love and rose quartz.
West is for children and creativity, use boji stones and feminine textures.
Northwest is to have helpful people in your life and to get blessings. Use the Tiger’s eye and swirling shapes.
The middle of your home should have warm fire colors, earth tones, warm colored stones, and good symbols such as fruit.
Other Ideas
You can use a natural thing in your home such as waters or fiery elements. Do this in your business and in your bedroom where there will bring peace and not too much light.
Make sure your entry is inviting and that you do not use a mirror, or it will make the good energy leave. The door is important, and you want it to work and to be welcome.
Let the energies flow. Use red and other high energy colors in your office to bring you wealth and happiness.
Peace
Feng Shui can help your home to have peace and to not be distracted by negativity. Get rid of dead plants and clutter so that you can have peace in your home and office.
I find the idea of Feng Shui quite fascinating. It’s intriguing how the arrangement of furniture and colors can supposedly influence our well-being and success.
I agree. It’s a blend of interior design and spirituality that’s quite unique!
While interesting, I wonder if there’s any scientific basis to these claims.
This article reeks of pseudoscience. Balancing elements and aligning furniture to attract prosperity? It sounds absurd and lacks empirical evidence.
For those interested, the five elements in Feng Shui—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—correspond to different aspects of life and can be used to create harmonious environments.
While Feng Shui might have cultural significance, isn’t it just a psychological trick? People feel better because they think they should, not because of any real ‘energy’ shifts.
Oh sure, let me just rearrange my furniture and dress in specific colors to solve all my life’s problems. Maybe I should also start consulting my horoscope before making any decisions.
Don’t forget to place a crystal under your pillow for extra mystical benefits!