Depending on its use, your home office should be either close to the front door or in a secluded area of your home. If you receive clients or customers, the best place for your office is close to the front door. Because a home-based business that receives clients and customers, or traffic, is yang by nature, it should be located in the most yang area of your home, namely, in a front room. Also, a home-based business that receives clients should be kept completely separate from the more private areas of your home. If your work requires quiet concentration—if you are a writer, artist, or researcher—your office should be in a secluded area of your home. Read the rest of this entry »

Sha is a destructive form of chi that is generated by various configurations of objects, roads, buildings, and so on. Sha, sometimes called secret arrows, literally meaning “killing force,” undermines luck and causes losses of money. In feng shui, sha is one of the most important things to look out for. If the main door to your workplace opens directly to the outside of the building, stand in the doorway looking out, and search for any of the following causes of sha. Read the rest of this entry »

Your doorway faces one of the eight compass directions, which corresponds to one of the five elements. The element to which your door is aligned is the element that rules your space. You need to take a compass reading of your doorway to determine the element that rules your space. To do this correctly, stand in your doorway facing squarely out. The direction you find on the compass indicates the door’s element. Read the rest of this entry »