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Difference between Black Sect Feng Shui and Compass School Feng Shui/Wicca
Baguas and their placement, bagua colors
Subtle Wiccan Techniques in Wealth (North) Area
Flutes/Bamboo Chi Tubes, beams, other uses
Bedroom Feng Shui - correcting for wardrobe mirror
Feng Shui for Business - must you use specially blessed items?
Beams, feng shui and wiccan cures
DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN BLACK SECT AND COMPASS SCHOOLS OF FENG SHUI
I hired a feng shui consultant that used the Compass to determine
my areas, but a friend told me that the front door is always North. Which
is right?
Black Sect Feng Shui uses your front door as North. Your front door, being considered the energetic "mouth" of your home, is then used to determine all the bagua areas within the home with the door as North. Black Sect is currently the most popular of the feng shui methods, and is generally the one you'll find many books and teachers ascribing to.
Compass School Feng Shui, as well as Wicca and other Earth based Wisdom systems, use the actual compass direction of North to determine North. As you might expect, you then use actual compss direction to determine bagua areas within your home.
There are other lesser known forms of feng shui such as the Xuan Kong Flying Stars method, in which life areas are in motion and therefore change regularly.
Since I come from a more pagan background, I have always used actual magnetic North for my own directional work, therefore I lean more toward the Compass school of feng shui. However, many people have been extremely sucessful using other feng shui methods.
Of course, your choice of which method to use for determining your areas rests ultimately with you!
Help! I've placed a bagua with a concave mirror outside my home, but now I read that these can have very bad results, and can repel good energy too. I'm confused!
Baguas are
available in many styles:brass, reflective mirrored glass with center
mirrors, wood with metal reflectors, and wood with actual mirrors. If
you are not sure of placement, we recommend beginning with a simple
bagua, not one with convex or concave mirrors. The traditional placement
is above the front entrance door to the house. Placing your bagua with
loving intent is all that is necessary to activate bagua energy.
In a Feng Shui Bagua with either a convex or concave
mirror, specific placement depends upon the qualities of the mirror.
Concave mirrors bow inward, attracting and magnifying positive energy. We would want to place these in a beautiful location, such as facing a flower garden or lovely natural landscape. If you own a retail store, concave mirrors are often used to attract business and customers. Think of this shape as a container and magnifier of good chi.
Convex mirrors curve outward and will not hold the energy that comes their way - rather they repel undesirable chi or objects that are reflected in them. This is similar to a protection spell in Wicca, where any negativity is simply reflected back to its source; any negativity simply bounces off. Thus baguas with convex mirrors can be used to repel such things as chaos from a busy street, corners of buildings which point directly at your home (poisen arrows), disruptive neighbors, etc.
***
BAGUA
COLORS
I would like to place a bagua mirror over my front door, but don't like
the colors of the wood version I found in a local store (yellow, black
and red).
Can I paint the wood (not the mirror!) to match my door frame? Is this
detrimental at all?
Jamie, an artist
Dear Jamie,
The bagua is a protection cure, and can be thought of as the circle of
life, each side being a direction, representing a life area. The trigrams
found on each side enhance the protection of each life area. Thus the
bagua represents a protection of all these areas, and is usually hung
at the entrance of your home. The mirror reflects negative energies away
from your house.
Baguas traditionally come in the yellow-red-black or red/green colors
due to the protection and health giving properties of the colors. That
said, it is my feeling that you should resonate with your feng shui cures
for them to be most effective. What to do?
Before painting, consider the vibration of the original colors of your
bagua:
Red represents Chi, passion, energy, protection. It's considered the most
active color. Black represents power and authority.
Yellow, and the whole family of earth tones, represent health, groundedness,
connection and the earth.
You may want to incorporate these traditional colors subtly into your
new bagua color scheme - in the form of a tiny pattern around the outside,
for example. In this way the energetic properties of the colors are still
represented, yet your bagua won't clash with your house. Or, simply use
variations of the colors that bring you joy. As an artist, I'm sure you
have wonderful ideas!
In this way your bagua will not only be a protection, but an energetic
boost for you each time you see it. :)
MISSING
WEALTH AREA
I happened upon your site by accident, but I am glad I did. My husband
and I purchased an old house that was neglected by its previous owner...We
hired a contractor to do the renovations and in the process put an addition...the
man overcharged us by $100,000 and never finished the job -- and what
he did do needed to be ripped out and redone.
The long and the short of it, we are in a financial choke hold... In my
research of FS, I discovered that with the addition, we put the house
out of balance and what is missing is the wealth area. I looked into how
to balance it, but we need more money to do it. We don't have any more
and we are borrowed to the limit. I bought a little frog with a coin in
his mouth to try to help the finance situation. Can you help me with placement
and some other serious cures?
You'll
be happy to know that there are several very effective and simple things
you can do to heal your house's chi. You mentioned that you are now missing
the wealth area of your home. When a house is missing an area, you can
perform cures both inside and outside the house that will energetically
"create" the missing area.
On the outside of your home, locate the place where the corner would be
if the area were "complete" and place a cure there. One nice
way is to plant a healthy vibrant tree or bush at that corner spot. Or
fill in the area with flowers, especially purple and red ones. (The colors
green and purple symbolize wealth, and red is the most "chi"
generating color.) Another outside cure would be to place a bright light
aimed toward your house on that same corner, or even a flagpole. Even
a large stone or statue will work -- what you're doing is bringing energy
into the wealth area.
Inside, you can place mirrors, wind chimes, hanging crystals and house
plants along the two walls of the missing area. To avoid spending a lot
of money, you can probably create quite a lovely display using existing
mirrors and houseplants - again, you are bringing energy in to the wealth
area where it is structurally lacking. By keeping in mind that you want
to add light, sound and life (thus the mirrors, crystals, chimes,and plants)
to an area, you will get a good sense of how these elements generate and
attract more "chi".
Also remember that you can also place cures in each room of the house,
in the wealth area of the particular room. Thus, in addition to using
cures to create the missing house wealth area, you are also boosting your
wealth chi by adding cures throughout your home.
Your little money frog can be placed in the wealth area of any room, particularly
if there is a room where you do your financial books, etc. Or, some people
place frogs near their front door to attract money. Remember the lore
of the money frog is that he appears when a positive change of fortune
is about to take place!
I hope this information is helpful -- and you are able to use it to cure
your house and fall in love with it again!
MISSING
LOVE AREA
I need help -Will you tell me what cures I can use for
a missing love corner?
Thank you.
Your situation is similar to the missing wealth area (see above). Whenever a house is missing an area, you can perform cures both inside and outside the house that will energetically "create" the missing area. In your situation, you will want to place cures and symbols of love along the two walls of the missing love corner.
A fabulous love cure is the Kwan Yin Temple Plaque, which carries multiple designs with an interwoven theme of love and compassion. In fact, anything with Kwan Yin, such as the Kwan Yin Bells would be excellent love area cures, as Kwan Yin is the Goddess of Love and Compassion. Crystals will add necessary energy to the area, and I would especially add crystal hearts to symbolize love while the crystal adds chi. Place a lovely mirror on one of the walls, and perhaps artwork or stuatuary showing loving situations or couples.
If your home has a yard, plant a pair of healthy, vigerous plants directly outside the love area, creating and magnifying the love energy by using the yard as a vibrational part of the house. By planting pairs of plants and flowers, you are symbolizing the unity of love. Also wonderful are wind chimes (choose the dragon or yin yang metal chimes for outside use). Chimes create chi whenever they play, and are a lovely addition to the yard. You could also use a table chime inside for the same reason.
If you feel you would like to do more, you might use a ritual love blessing kit in the missing love area of your home to boost the flow of chi. And remember, you can add crystals and other cures throughout your house, in the love area of each room, to strengthen the energy of love. Little heart crystals are an unobtrusive way to do this.
Best Wishes to You in creating the balance and abundant love that you deserve!
ENERGIZING
WEALTH AREA WITH SUBTLE WICCAN STYLE TECHNIQUES
My family is not open to my spiritual direction, (They are uncomfortable
with unconventional ideas such as feng shui , wicca, or or new age) yet
I'd like to enhance my wealth area. What can I do to bless my prosperity
area that will be subtle and not too "out-there" seeming, so
as not to upset my family?
In Earth based wisdom, such as wicca and feng shui, North is the direction of wealth and prosperity. The easiest and most subtle way to add energy to your wealth area is to place at least one healthy vibrant house plant in the north portion of your home, and/or the north area of each room. As the plant grows, your prosperity increases. Keep this plant healthy, trim off dead leaves and care for it - you'll be amazed at the energetic change from simply mindfully placing and caring for your plant(s).
A painting of a healthy forest or other earth scene is also perfect for placement in the North. If you have a change jar, keep this in the North also. (To enhance the aspect of money increasing, add a small green crystal or stone such as malachite or jade along with your coins).
Any green crystals or stones, such as adventurine, jade, green bloodstone, or peridot are also wonderful for placement in the North for prosperity and health. Green hanging crystals are great for this, as are longdrops. While hanging crystals may be too "obvious" for your use, a decorative figurine, box, or other item made of or decorated with such crystals and precious stones can be a subtle way to add their energy without disturbing people with a more conventional mindset.
Apply this simple but powerful blessing for your yard: the ancient Centic people recommended planting a pine tree in the north, representing good fortune, forsight, and new beginnnings. Consider planting at least one pine surrounded by colorful flowers or vibrant bushes. Again, as you mindfully care for your plants, you will realize blessings without making your family uncomfortable.
CHINESE
COINS AND WEALTH
My finances are a mess, and I've heard that chinese coins can help.
Where should I put them? Would they need a special container? What else
is good to attract money?
thanks, Cherie
Dear Cherie, WHAT
ARE FLUTE OR BAMBOO CHI TUBES USED FOR IN FENG SHUI? ***
BEAMS
AND BAMBOO FLUTES CHI TUBES/WICCAN INVISIBILE BEAM SPELL In Feng
Shui, exposed beams are considered to be an oppressive force
in any room where they are found, as they are said to generate electromagnetic
fields that can disrupt your own energies. You may sense this disruption
as a vague discomfort and tension when you spend time in the room. In Wicca,
beams are considered partial walls, and thus can "wall-off"
the flow of energy, causing discomfort and potential strife. There is
a simple Wiccan spell to make your beams energetically
"disappear". This also works for ceiling fans, which can "cut
up" energy within your home, causing strife and possibly ill health.
It's a simple but effetive spell, presented for your customization:
Choose a
night at new (dark) moon. (The moon is "invisible" at this time,
and this is also your goal - to make your beams energetically "invisible".)
You'll need
Center
and ground
yourself, and create a sacred circle space in which to place your ladder.
(You may call upon dieties, The Great Spirit, or the Guardians of the
East and of the Air, or simply use your energy as part of the Universe
- whichever fits your current belief system.) Using the ladder, saturate
the beam or fan with smoke, speaking a blessing that the structure remains
true while its influence upon the energy of the room becomes completely
neutral and invisible. Play with cadence, make it rhyme if you wish -
just speak knowing that words are power. Then touch the beam or fan with
your wand or athame to complete the ritual,
saying something like "it is done, so mote it be". Finally,
in gratitude and love, end your ritual, thanking any energies or dieties
you may have chosen to invoke. Viola! That's it.
***
ATTRACTING
LOVE Ah, attracting
love! Probably one of humankind's oldest questions...There are indeed
simple Feng Shui cures and Wiccan spells that can help in attracting the
right person at the right time.
A Feng Shui
love cure: Determine your love area in your house and add energy to it
- plants, crystals (pink and red especially)
or heart shaped crystals, and decorate
the area in pairs (a pair of candlesticks for example). Add a beautiful
wall mirror, and possibly artwork depicting happy couples. These cures
can be used alone or in combination with rituals.
Wiccan/Pagan
Simple Ritual:This self blessing can be as simple or as complex as you
would like it to be. To begin, very consciously wash your hands, imagining
that any self doubt, self sabotage, or unconscious feelings of being un-loveable
are washed away. Feel the water renew you, rinsing away all false feelings
and restoring your beautiful Universal birthright. You ARE love! Therefore
you attract love - as like attracts like. If you are a novice at self
blessings and spells, you may wish to use a simple Ritual
of Love Kit. Self blessings become very natural and effortless over
time - as natural as bathing!
Depending
upon where you are on your personal path, you may choose many other aspects
to your ritual, from ceremonially dropping flowers leading to your door
to wearing a love amulet, to using a wand
to create a sacred circle and calling love from the four directions. You
can use candles, essential oils, and crystals. There are so many love
spells, and so many aspects of self love to address, that we are adding
an article about this in our article section.
Look for it soon!
BEDROOM
FENG SHUI -CORRECTING EFFECTS OF MIRROR Thank you
for your question! It is true that mirrors are not recommended for the
bedroom, but not necessarily due to negative energy. The issue is that
mirrors magnify chi and tend to energize a room, therefore they do not
contribute to a relaxing sleep atmosphere. A pretty curtain (even sheer
or lace) to draw over the mirror at bedtime should counteract the energizing
effect and encourage a more restive space for sleeping. Best of Chi to
You! BATHROOM
CURES *** I would also
place a few hanging crystals and mirrors
depending upon your house's layout. This will help diffuse the energy
throughout the house. How to know where to place them? Imagine the energy
entering the front door, and now bouncing off the mirror. Does it hit
a wall? If so, hang a crystal in that area. Follow the energy and place
either crystals or mirrors wherever it will get "stuck" - against
a wall, in dark corners, etc. *** BAMBOO
CHI TUBE IN BATHROOM Remember,
feng shui is about energy, and you will want to enjoy the appearance
of your chosen cure in your bathroom. And be sure to take note of what
area of your house the bathroom resides in. BLESSING
OR CURSE? Thank you
for your question! The mirror that your landlady placed over the door
sounds like a variation of a feng shui bagua
cure. Although in Chinese feng shui, baguas are usually hung outside
the front door, there are several cultural variants used worldwide. Bagua
mirrors are used to bless a home and its inhabitants, and to repel negative
or disruptive energy from entering. I see no reason why you couldn't simply
hang an attractive bagua outside over your front door and remove the hand
mirror if you so desire. As for the
tubes, I suspect that items within them were placed also as a blessing
or for good luck. The homeowner is probably blessing all her properties
for continued prosperity and good luck. Items commonly buried on property
include coins or other representations of wealth,
such as "gold" ingots or even money
frogs. She may have included items of protection, such as fu
dogs, beasts, or dragons.
You may wish to add to the positive by placing a cute little money frog
in your home for prosperity, or a lovely brass dragon or beast facing
your door for protection. MUST
YOU USE SPECIAL BLESSED ITEMS? I am saddened
to say that we get comments like this one all the time: people are told
that they must purchase specific items from a special store or
said to be blessed by a special person, etc. Unless you
strongly feel that you require a flute specifically blessed by a specific
feng shui master, you can feel confident in choosing a cure that is less
expensive. Trust yourself and be your own master or guru! I personally
don't believe the store in which you purchase your cure is of as much
importance as the energy you put into the cure as you place it
- although it does seem to me that the vibration of the person who created
the item could certainly be a valid concern. Yet a feng shui cure, like
all ritual objects, can be cleansed, blessed and energized by you. Got a
feng shui or practical magick question?
and we may add your question to our page or newsletter!
Chinese coins, or feng shui coins, represent
abundance, and are usually marked with symbols of prosperity and good
fortune. Besides they obvious symbolism of coins, the Chinese feng shui
round coin with the squared hole represents the union of earth with
heavens. Thus this type of coin is even more powerful a symbol or
amulet than our own national coins. Chinese coins come in a variety of
shapes and sizes - use the ones that strike your fancy!
People like to use Chinese coins in variety of ways:
*Bury three
(or multiples of three) coins in your potted plants, especially in the
wealth areas of your house.
You could also
place a cute little "money frog"
in the wealth area of your home. Tradition is that they appear at a home
just before good fortune arrives. Many people love these because they are
so mythical and fanciful -- and finances can sometimes become such a heavy
energy that the addition of a bit of whimsey is the perfect thing! Trust
your intuition - whatever resonates best with you will be most effective.
Some people really like the oversized coins for
oversized financial issues. :)
*Three coins tied together with red ribbon can be kept in your purse,
or where you do your financial books to increase and attract money.
*If you have a business, keep a few coins tied with red ribbon in your
cash register.
*Chinese red envelopes (or money envelopes) can also be used to
hold a few coins and placed in drawers, atop door frames, etc.
You might also try the addition of crystals,
and/or anything red to activate your financial area: red lanterns, envelopes,
or twin chi tubes on red cord. If you are
unfamiliar with self blessings or spells, you might try a simple Ritual
of Prosperity kit.
A friend recommended I get bamboo flutes or tubes for the bad chi in my
house. What are feng shui flutes or bamboo tubes used for and why?
Feng shui consultants use a lot of flutes and or chi
tubes, as they are considered one of the most powerful feng
shui cures available.In
feng shui, bamboo represents strength, endurance and power. It's a very
rapid growing plant - abundant in chi energy. As the root and nodes generate
the chi for the plant, they bring the same energizing properties to items
made from them. Flutes and hollow chi tubes have a long tradition in feng
shui, delivering a message of peace, safety, strength, healing and power.
I have big exposed beams in my house. Will bamboo flutes or chi tubes
cure the negative effect? Are there spells or blessings for this?
You can do both!
If you feel that the beams in your home are impacting your energies, a
"flute cure" utilizing one flute or a pair of twin chi
tubes at each end of the beam is the traditional cure. Remember, though,
that part of the flute cure is your own intention to change the
energies in your space. Hang your cures with focused intent, and be sensitive
to the energies and the way areas of your home impact your emotions before
and after the addition of your flutes or tubes. Adding a tall houseplant
or two will definitely help - even artwork depicting the sky or upward
movement can help you change the effect of the beams.
You may also wish to simply move beds, chairs, couches and tables if they
are directly beneath the beam. This often will make a big difference!
How can I attract the right love for me? Are there spells or feng shui
things I can do?
In my daughter's bedroom we have a wall to wall ceiling high mirrored
built in robe. I was told that this wasn't good Feng Shui, because it
allows negative energy into the bedroom. Is this true, and if so what
can I do to solve this problem?
We just bought a home and since we have lived there, we have drained our
savings account. I believe it is because the furthest left hand corner
in our house is a bathroom. Is it true that we could be flushing our money
down the toilet? If so, I have been told that by hanging bamboo flutes
in my bathroom, this will offset the negative energy.
According to feng shui, toilets tend to "flush away" chi..and
the location of your bathroom could certainly be considered detrimental.
Many feng shui consultants do recommend hanging flutes or chi
tubes in the bathroom to counteract the draining effect.
Bamboo chi tubes or flutes are a positive force, increasing chi in the
areas they are placed.
There are also several easy ways to improve the energy in your bathroom.
for example, simply keeping the toilet lid down when not in use is a simple
yet quite effective way to cut down on the draining energy of the toilet.
Always keep the door shut. Your bathroom should feel rather like a sanctuary,
calming and inviting. Be sure to keep the mirrors clean, as well as your
sink and toilet. This will help improve the energy in your bathroom.
A full length mirror or bagua on the outside of your bathroom door (with
the door shut) could also help with directing the financial energy away
from that room (where it tends to drain away), back into the rest of the
house.
You are already
doing some of the main things for a bathroom, such as keeping the toilet
lid down and the door closed. One additional simple thing that can be
quite effective is to place a full length mirror on the outside of the
bathroom door. This should re-direct the energy much more efficiently
than the door by itself, as the chi will "bounce" off the mirror
back into the rest of the house.
I want to place some bamboo chi tubes in my bathroom. Should I hang the
chi tubes directly above the toilet? Also, does it matter which direction
I hang them?
I think you should trust your own feelings on where to hang your chi tubes,
although they are small enough to go over a toilet. One obvious thing
that many people forget: be sure to keep the toilet lid down -- this will
help greatly to keep good energy from "flushing" away.
My fiance and I just moved into a new house (which we are renting). The
owner had not been back to the area in 10 years, so since she was in town
she came by to check up on her houses. She is Vietnamese and asked if
she could bless the house quickly. She then proceeded to hang a small
hand mirror over the inside of the front door facing towards the living
room. She also buried a few tubes in the yard, but I don't know what was
in them. My mother seems to think it is a curse but I don't think so.
We had just started moving in that day, so there is really no reason for
the owner to dislike us. Also, the building contractor that was with her
said she did the same thing to each property. Is this a feng shui blessing?
Can I remove the mirror and replace it with a regular one that I already
own? Any input/advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time!
I've recently had a Feng Shui reading, and was told that I need two bamboo
flutes above the cash registers at my business. The consultant told me
that they had to be from China Town in San Francisco and that they
were $65 a piece. Well I have seven registers! Though I'm a believer in
feng shui, I think she's a sales person. I'm a savvy business woman,
looking for balance - isn't that what feng shui is all about?
You are absolutely correct -- feng shui is about balance and energy.
A bamboo flute or chi tubes are prized for their energetic properties.
It is the fact that its made from genuine bamboo (as the plant itself
is considered extremely high in chi and good fortune) that gives it its
importance in feng shui.
Trust your intuition on this one...you may not need that many cures
at all. Depending upon the energies you are wishing to balance, you
could combine a pair or two of chi tubes with other specific (and less
costly) cures: chinese coins, a bamboo plant, money frog, lucky cat, etc.
Good Fortune to you!
