New Year’s Tips: Round Things
More tips for the New Year? You got it! In Feng Shui, the tradition is to eat round shaped foods on New Year’s Day. Round is the shape associated with the Metal Element, the shape of coins, hence the shape of money being received. Round foods welcome the eternal flow of energy symbolized as one year ends and another begins. A Dutch custom recommends eating donuts on New Year’s Day to fill any money “holes” in your life (get it, donuts have holes – I crack me up). And I...
Read MoreNew Year’s Tips: Shopping List for the 31st
The gregorian calendar is winding down so I thought I’d share some prep work for getting the chi of your home ready for 2016! And, yes, you’ll get loads more when we shift the lunar (Chinese) New Year in February. To get the New Year off to a perfect start, clean your home from top to bottom and in all the spaces in-between. You want to literally sweep, dust, clean, and shine away any stale or stuck chi energy hanging around from last year. Open the window to blow away that stale chi. This...
Read MoreAttracting What You Wish For
Didn’t get what you were pining for at Christmastime? Then use the energy of this Feng Shui cure on Card Playing Day to energetically attract your heart’s desire. From a deck of playing cards, remove the ten of diamonds and place it on a dish. Add a piece of silver to the dish (think coins, jewelry). Next carve your name and birth date into a red candle (a short, fat votive is ideal). Now place the candle on top of the playing card (the silver can be to the side). Now, with the intention of...
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