Chinese New Year Arrives Twice

Feng Shui Shake-Down for Home Improvement

Chinese New Year is celebrated via the lunar calendar and is therefore on a different date every year.  But if you practice feng shui, it's the beginning of the Chinese solar New Year you want to acknowledge, normally beginning right around February 4^th every year.

That’s the time a home or business is given a feng shui shake-down and makeover, and here are the fundamentals...

There are seven basic steps to follow to create good feng shui...

• Open the mouth of chi (energy)… which just means make sure you can get in the front door easily and unobstructed

• Clean the space

• Purify the air

• Remove the clutter

• Move the furniture into the proper geometric alignment (this is called sacred geometry, temple science or royal art)

• Enhance the sheng (beneficial) chi

• Cure or remedy the sha (detrimental) chi

Simple enough except the last three items which can get a bit tricky.  Sacred geometry is somewhat easy to explain and understand, but less simple to implement properly.  And good energy for some may be bad energy for others and vice versa.

Sacred geometry has long been considered the universal language of the divine, used for the construction of temples and holy spaces.  Interesting, mysterious and esoteric, it is what makes a house a sanctuary.  In a space that already exists, it deals only with the placement of furniture... since preplanning which way the house should face on the site isn’t a prerogative.

Consciously creating with sacred geometry elevates a space from the mundane into the spiritual.  Its end product is balance, harmony and geometric proportion, all symbolic of being in right relationship to creation and the Creator.

Speaking of symbols... enhancements, cures and remedies are all just that... symbols, or metaphors for what we want to attract or repel from our lives.  They can be dictated to you by a practitioner, or chosen by you intuitively.

Choose your symbols well - they are what you add to your home to enhance the beneficial chi and remedy the detrimental.

There are divine principles at work in the Universe and in our environment that we can tap into, enhancing our lives, especially if we recognize the archetypal metaphors and symbols in our homes and never underestimate the power of their influence on us. 

Symbols and metaphors are extremely powerful allies or enemies.

You don’t have to be a believer, or even fully understand these principles to experience the dynamic results of feng shui.  Good design is good feng shui, and good feng shui is good design.

Now, just IMAGINE mental clarity, emotional balance and physical well-being radiating from your environment...

Follow the seven basic steps as much as you are able... and INTEND the best, you will be doing well, because intention is the single most important aspect of good feng shui.

Intend good... in your life, the lives of your loved ones, and the world while you’re at it. 

Your home and the elements inside it are basically a metaphor for your life... get the symbols right (intuitively) and have a great Chinese New Year.