Feng Shui and LOVE

Do you Love yourself the same as you would like someone else to Love you?  How you feel about you has a huge impact on how someone else will feel about you. 

Are you looking for Love?  

Are you seeking a close, intimate and loving relationship with your ‘special someone?’ 

Are you looking for more Love from family and friends?

Love covers a multitude of meanings such as the unconditional Love a parent has for their child; the unconditional Love a pet has for its owner; the passionate Love of an intimate relationship.

In the practice of Feng Shui Love and Relationships is one of the Eight Aspirations and the universal location you can enhance to invite Love into your life is the Southwest. 

In the Five Elements the Southwest is an Earth area.  Earth elements such as crystals are ideal for this area as well as the enhancing element of Fire.  Fire creates Earth in the Five Elements and will enhance and increase the power of any crystals.  The combination of crystals and fire in a chandelier is particularly potent.  Red candles are also auspicious.

Rose Quartz is known as the ‘Love stone’ and displaying mandarin ducks or swans (both stay devoted to one partner for life), hearts, apples (represent peace and harmony) or round quartz balls (harmonious relationships) in this stone are all beneficial.

When you enhance for a one-on-one relationship anything displayed should be in pairs.    

When you enhance for a more active social life then groups or multiple items are recommended.

Birds, particularly lovebirds suggest romance and seeing pairs of any birds indicate love.  Images of pairs of birds in the Southwest are auspicious.

If you are activating for a busier social life then enhance the Southwest with images of butterflies.  They signify new beginnings.  Beware of using them when activating for couples as they mean Love but Love that is fleeting and light-hearted rather than long lasting.

As well as enhancing the Southwest for Love you can also use your personalised Love direction based on your Kua number.

Visit www.abundance-chi.com to find out how to calculate your Kua number and from that you can use the table below to discover the direction you can enhance for Love.

Kua Number	Love Direction	Love Direction Element
1	South	Fire
2	Northwest	Metal
3	Southeast	Wood
4	East	Wood
5 (male)	Northwest	Metal
5 (female)	West	Metal
6	Southwest	Earth
7	Northeast	Earth
8	West	Metal
9	North	Water

There is also what is known as Peach Blossom Luck.  This is based on your animal sign at birth and by activating your ‘Peach Blossom’ Animal in the right way you can help attract Love into your life. 

Each of the 12 astrological animal signs has a ‘Peach Blossom’ animal they can use to enhance for attracting Love into their life.  The Peach Blossom animals are located in each of the four primary compass points of North, East, South and West and you can place the auspicious image of your Peach Blossom animal in its compass direction in either your living area or your bedroom.

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Feng Shui your KITCHEN

Having already delved into the Dining Room in this series, it makes sense to move onto to the placement and layout of your kitchen.

Whether you have a kitchen/diner or a separate kitchen and dining area the kitchen is best treated as an area in its own right.

It benefits from being deep within the house rather than at the front and it should be light, bright and airy during the day and have sufficient lighting to make it safe to use at night.

It is best kept clean and uncluttered with no small appliances or gadgets on display and certainly no knives out on display. 

If you know your Kua number* and are aware of your good and bad directions based on this number, then having the kitchen in an area of your home that represents a bad area for you has the positive effect of controlling the bad energy.

One exception to this is the Northwest.  If the kitchen is in this area it is known in Feng Shui as ‘Fire at Heaven’s Gate’ and can have the effect of bringing bad luck to the male head of the family.  If they are also the breadwinner it can cause loss of job, status and money which affects the luck of the whole family.   Fire destroys Metal in the Five Elements.

Another inauspicious place to have the kitchen is in the centre of the home.  This is called the heart of the home and is better if it houses the dining or family room.

The kitchen is not an area to enhance; it is a work area and should be treated as such.  Mirrors are not auspicious and this is particularly relevant if they reflect the cooker or stove.  This has the effect of doubling the Fire energy of the stove and increases the chance of a real fire erupting.

The kitchen is a place where Fire and Water co-exist and it is important that when designing the layout they are kept apart without being opposite one another.

If the stove or cooker faces the main door, a toilet door or a bedroom door it symbolises food flowing out of the house.  In Feng Shui food is considered one of the most important indications of abundance.  The stove should not be directly below a toilet on the upper floor.  It can also have inauspicious consequences for anyone sleeping directly above the kitchen stove.  If the stove shares a wall with a toilet on the other side this is also an extremely inauspicious configuration.

The Five Element Theory can be used in this room to positive effect when deciding on colour schemes however it is important to remember the elements already in the room and if for example you have a kitchen in the South, a Fire location, decorating in red will create an excess of Fire Energy.  In this situation exhausting the Fire element with Earth colours will create a more auspicious balance.

As you can see, there are a lot of taboos associated with this very important room and while it is not easy to change the location of your kitchen there are things that can be done to balance out the energies and create an auspicious room within your home. 

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JEWELLERY; GEMSTONES and Feng Shui

Jade is highly prized in the Far East and auspicious used in jewellery.  Rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces and earrings especially in a good quality deep green colour will bring their wearer good luck.  The darker the colour the more auspicious it is.

You can also use jewellery and gemstones to invite health and wealth, love and good fortune.

Wearing amethyst can attract good luck and protect against ill-health.

As the saying goes ‘diamonds are forever,’ they represent among other things, longevity.  They can also bring plenty of admirers into the life of their wearer.

Gemstones are also associated with your day of birth and this is said to bring you the attributes belonging to that day. 

For instance, Monday is also known as ‘Moon Day’ and the gemstone associated with this day is the white pearl.  One attribute associated with the stone is inner beauty.

The emerald is known for the inclusions in its stones and it signifies success and growth.

You can wear gemstones the colour of your four auspicious directions based on your Kua number to invite the aspiration associated with these directions.

Auspicious Directions

Overall Success or ‘Sheng Chi’

Health

Love and Relationships

Personal Development

 The centre is not specified as a ‘direction’ but it does signify the ‘Heart of the Home’ so is both an Earth element which represents stability and solid ground and an important area to positively enhance in any space for the benefit of the entire family.

Each of the Five Elements has a Yin (stillness and quiet) and a Yang (movement and noise) aspect and this is something else to consider when enhancing your living space.

Element	Yang	Yin
WATER	Flowing Water	Still or Stagnant Water
WOOD	Growing Wood	Dead Wood or Furniture
FIRE	Roaring Fire	Dying Embers
EARTH	Crystals, Stones and Pebbles, Sand	Underground Earth
METAL	Moving Metal/Metallic Sounds	Unyielding Hard Metal

In your living areas, the living and dining rooms, the elements benefit from being more Yang than Yin; in your sleeping area, the bedroom, the elements benefit from being more Yin than Yang.

Yang is created with brightness, light, sound and movement; with activity and is in harmony with lively and harmonious living – Yin is darker and quieter and allows your mind, body and spirit to be refreshed and recharged for a new day.

In the practice of Feng Shui, Water relates to a steady stream of income, of your career.  Water should never be used to enhance in the bedroom, this is a major taboo.

Wood signifies health if it is in the East and wealth if it is in the Southeast, Water ‘feeds’ Wood and will enhance these areas, as long as it is Yang Water (moving water.)

Fire brings fame and recognition in your chosen field and this is fed by Wood.

Earth is represented in the Northeast and this is the universal study and education area.  It is also the element of the Southwest and this represents family, love and relationships.  Both of these areas are ‘created’ by Fire, by light.

The West is the area of the family and family harmony and the Northwest represents heaven and mentor luck.  These areas are the Metal areas and they are enhanced by the element of Earth.

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INTERIOR Design using Feng Shui

Whether you are moving into a new home or redecorating your existing home, using the Five Elements of Feng Shui allows you to create an interior design in harmony with both your lifestyle and the Chi Energy that is all things.

Having a good working knowledge of the Five Elements and its three cycles is a fundamental part of Feng Shui and all its differing practices.  It helps you create harmonious living and working spaces which benefits everyone.

You can incorporate the Five Elements into your entire home which is known as the Big Tai Chi or into individual rooms which is known as the Small Tai Chi.

By dividing your space, or spaces, into nine (four primary, four secondary and the centre points of the compass) you can introduce colour, light, shapes, sound and movement using each of the Five Elements in their specific areas and their enhancing areas, pictures and images can complete the design creating balance and harmony.

Direction	Element
North	WATER
South	FIRE
East	WOOD
West	METAL
Northeast	EARTH
Southeast	WOOD
Southwest	EARTH
Northwest	METAL

The centre is not specified as a ‘direction’ but it does signify the ‘Heart of the Home’ so is both an Earth element which represents stability and solid ground and an important area to positively enhance in any space for the benefit of the entire family.

Each of the Five Elements has a Yin (stillness and quiet) and a Yang (movement and noise) aspect and this is something else to consider when enhancing your living space.

Element	Yang	Yin
WATER	Flowing Water	Still or Stagnant Water
WOOD	Growing Wood	Dead Wood or Furniture
FIRE	Roaring Fire	Dying Embers
EARTH	Crystals, Stones and Pebbles, Sand	Underground Earth
METAL	Moving Metal/Metallic Sounds	Unyielding Hard Metal

In your living areas, the living and dining rooms, the elements benefit from being more Yang than Yin; in your sleeping area, the bedroom, the elements benefit from being more Yin than Yang.

Yang is created with brightness, light, sound and movement; with activity and is in harmony with lively and harmonious living – Yin is darker and quieter and allows your mind, body and spirit to be refreshed and recharged for a new day.

In the practice of Feng Shui, Water relates to a steady stream of income, of your career.  

Water should never be used to enhance in the bedroom, this is a major taboo.

Wood signifies health if it is in the East and wealth if it is in the Southeast, Water ‘feeds’ Wood and will enhance these areas, as long as it is Yang Water (moving water.)

Fire brings fame and recognition in your chosen field and this is fed by Wood.

Earth is represented in the Northeast and this is the universal study and education area.  It is also the element of the Southwest and this represents family, love and relationships.  Both of these areas are ‘created’ by Fire, by light.

The West is the area of the family and family harmony and the Northwest represents heaven and mentor luck.  These areas are the Metal areas and they are enhanced by the element of Earth.

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