Your furniture arrangement should allow the chi to flow as smoothly as possible. Always place your furniture and decorative objects in simple, balanced configurations. It is best to position your furniture parallel to the walls. If your room is very large, however, you can position some pieces of furniture diagonally in the corners to create a feeling of roundness.

Avoid creating obstacles by putting too much furniture in a room or by using furniture that is too large for the space. Also, avoid arranging your furniture in ways that interfere with, or complicate, normal routines. Use common sense. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s tie in all we have learned about the use of colors with the best overall color scheme for your workplace. The basic colors to use in decorating the workplace should either be in harmony with the element that rules the business or correspond to one of the lucky stars of the owner or CEO. Colors can be of any shade, as intense or as subtle as you wish. The recommended colors are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

Before embarking on learning the formulas it is fundamental to understand the importance of the compass. In the old days Feng Shui practitioners used the Luo Pan — the ornate and extremely complex master’s compass. Today, you can use a good modern compass. Select one that gives you readings in degrees — many of the formulas require very exact readings. These readings are usually related to the direction of the main door. The direction the door faces looking out plays a very big role in determining the suitability of the Feng Shui of the house for particular residents. Read the rest of this entry »

When you have decided which of the good fortune symbols you wish to invite into your home, you should first look for a suitable corner to display the object without it being too obvious. Good fortune symbols should blend in with the decor of the home and, most importantly, they need to be energized. They must also be washed clean of any stagnant energy which might be hanging onto them. This latter consideration becomes a factor when you bring home an antique, which may have stood for many years in someone else’s home, or had many owners. Read the rest of this entry »

The best way to activate small water for Feng Shui purposes is to align manmade structures such as ponds according to the Water Dragon formula, with drains requiring the most careful attention. However, it is also possible to introduce other manmade structures into your garden if you wish, and if you have sufficient space to do so. Three examples of artificially created water structures — waterfalls, fountains and fishponds — not only have the potential to improve your Feng Shui but they also add considerable beauty to a well- planned garden. Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese coins

In recent years many people have discovered the benefits of sticking Chinese coins onto invoice books and file folders to enhance business luck. Authentic Chinese coins from Imperial China are round with a square hole. This symbolizes the unity of heaven and earth. The Yang side is the side with four characters, while the Yin side has two characters. Tie three of these coins together with red thread and stick them Yang side up onto your files, cashboxes, and on doorknobs and cash registers. Also, keep three coins inside your purse or pocket book to ensure good money luck. Read the rest of this entry »

In the living room there are twomain types of poison arrows thatneed to be disarmed. The first type is sharp edges caused by freestanding square pillars and protruding corners. The second is the sharp edges caused by exposed overhead beams. These unlucky features must be dealt with if you want to feel good energy in your living room.

In the living room, the best way to deal with sharp, harmful edges caused by freestanding columns and protruding corners is to use a tall, leafy plant to block off the sharp edges. Creepers are also effective. Remember that live plants will not survive the onslaught of these poison arrows for too long; they, too, get hurt by the sharp edges and you will need to replace them regularly, perhaps every three or four months. One way of overcoming this is to use a fake silk plant. I often use these but I find I even have to change these once a year, because after a while they lose their effectiveness. Read the rest of this entry »

The dining room is said to bevery auspicious when it isplaced either in the center grid of the home or when it is located deep inside the home. Homes that are shallow, i.e. where fewer than two rooms make up the depth of the house, are said to be less auspicious than houses with depth. This means having three or more rooms that make up thedepth of the house. When there are three rooms, the dining roomshould be in the center grid; and when there are four, it should be in the inner half of the house. TheFeng Shui of the family dining room must auspicious at all times with the suggestion that food is continually available. Read the rest of this entry »

Once you know your career direction and have demarcated your floor area according to the Lo Shu square, there are several ways you can start to match your individual Chi energies with your environment.

Your Kua number in the table offers you your most auspicious direction to face while you are working. This is for ensuring that you will be more than up to your job or profession. It also identifies the luckiest compass location for you to site your main doors, your office, your bedroom, and your study to ensure your working luck stays smooth, and that you do not succumb to the stresses and strains of working life. Incorporating this formula into your personal Feng Shui is also a very effective safeguard against losing out in any power struggle with colleagues at the office. People you work for will respect you, while those who report to you will stay loyal. Read the rest of this entry »

The flow of water in Feng Shui is said to mirror the flow of invisible chi currents that swirl around the Earth, bringing with it great wealth and prosperity. At its most simplistic level, water Feng Shui technology maintains that water flowing toward you or your main door brings you money, while water that is flowing away from your main door takes away all your money.

Under Compass School Feng Shui, the location and direction of the flow of the water takes precedence and the table opposite gives a summary of the water formula. It offers specific directions on the way water should flow past the main door and then the direction it would best flow out of your land. How the water should flow past the main door depends on the direction that the door is facing, looking from the inside out. There are 12 specific categories of door directions (with two further subsections) and each of these has three good fortune directions. These best exit directions relate specifically to the direction of your water course out of the home and land.All other directions result in varying degrees of misfortunes. Read the rest of this entry »