five elements
Feng Shui (wind and water) is such a fascinating subject that I decided to share additional Do's and Don'ts alphabetically. This photo captures all the elements in one. Nice. Since this is our gardening season, I have embellished on flowers and gardens today, but other topics may pique your interest. It is the little things that can make a difference in how our energy flows in our lives. It has worked for thousands of years, why not today? After all, we must continue practicing living in the NOW. Today is our present to ourselves, our gift.
Altars: light your altar with artificial lights or candles to distinguish it as a special or holy location. Put your altar in a quiet location, away from the flow of traffic in the house. Your altar should have an undisturbed place of honor. Place statues of deities in high places. Choose a spot higher than the tallest person in the household. Clean and maintain altars by discarding dried flowers, fruit, incense and other offerings that are past their prime.
Bathrooms: Hang mirrors on the outside of the bathroom door if the bathroom happens to be in a wealth area. Put a wind chime in the window to dam the flow of water, or enery, from the house. Make sure your toilet has a door to close it off. Remember the original name for the toilet was water closet. Keep seats, covers and doors to bathrooms shut at all times because toilets emanate negative energy. Hang a wind chime that is made of an earth material, such as terra cotta or procelain, or that has five solid clay rods. This will keep your business and career success from going down the drain. Always close the lid when flushing the toilet.
Cars: Choose an automobile that matches your element. If you are a wood person, choose blue or green. A fire person should choose a shade of red. Metal-element people should select white, grey, silver or gold metallic finishes, and earth folks should pick out beige or tan. Water-element car owners should select blue, teal or black.
Dining room: Keep a bowl or an arrangement of fruit on your dining room table to represent continuous sustenance to your family. Put images of food and fruit to represent the abundance and sustenance that you want to attract to your table and your home. Refrain from hanging too many pictures of birds and other feathered creatures in your dining room, as this will create an imbalance in yang energy. Place persimmons to symbolize joy and festivity. Don't leave cleaning supplies in the dining room. They symbolize the cleaning out of one's income, good health, nutrition and prosperity.
uncle tom's flowers
Flowers: Decorate your daughter's bedroom with fresh peonies to attract good men to her life, but don't keep pictures of peonies in your home after all the single women have married. Don't have pictures or vases of peonies in your bedroom if you are already married. This flower will encourage your partner to stray or seek love interest outside your home. Do use jasmine, which represents women and sweetness. Narcissus, plum blossoms, hyacinths and orchids or great for enhancing relationships.Chrysanthemums symbolize longevity, dependability and the desire for a long duration of anything wonderful, such as a marriage or career. Pair chrysanthemums with plum blossoms to symbolize an easy life from birth to retirement. Group them with nine quails to symbolilze harmony and peace for the next nine generations of family. Combine a single lotus blossom with a bud to represent the ideal partnership. The lotus flower is the ultimate symbol of Buddhism and represents purity, joy and perfection. Because its exquisite blossoms grow from the mud at the bottom of ditches, lakes and ponds, it exemplifies the possibility that perfection can come from inpurity. Don't decorate your home, especially your bedroom, with dried flowers, branches, grasses, or potpourri. These dead objects generate yin energy that can adversely affect your love life. Do give freshly cut flowers to those who are ill. This brings them much-needed yang energy. Replace the old flowers with fresh ones when the blooms wilt or fade. Don't keep an overabundance of flowers or plants in your bedroom as they create lots of yang energy in what needs to be a yin environment to foster good rest. Three small plants are quite sufficient to produce oxygen and promote health, well-being, harmony and family accord. Do plant red flowers in the ground or in planters on both sides of a front entrance that faces South. This provides protection to your family. Do plant flowers on both sides of a straight footpath if it runs directly from your front door to the street. This strategy will soften the straight line of negative sha energy by slowing it down. Plant or place two tall flowering shrubs on either side of a tree that emanates sha energy directly in line with your front door. This creates a triangle pointed away from your home and neutralizes the effect of the killing arrow.
aunt diane and uncle bill's garden
Special thanks for the photo shares - family members with the green thumbs. xo