Q & A – The Devil in the Glass

Q. I have this client who collects things made of glass. She has a collection of what are sort of wine glasses with sculptures for stems. Two of the glass stem sculptures are of the devil, and one of them has the devil spearing a couple of people and there are little white glass dead bodies scattered around the base of the glass footing. She loves this! She had it in her fame area, and I’ve removed it to a holding area which is in knowledge. She wants to know if she can put these somewhere. I usually find knowledge (she is learning how to make glass things, these sculptures inform her…) to be the best place for questionable things. But I don’t have any sense of comfort about these things remaining. Perhaps these two things are all I can say. What would you say?
love, T.

A. Hey T, Ya can’t make this stuff up, can you?! When you say, “she loves this!” I have to step back from my own opinion and honor her perception. As Feng Shui practitioners, we are not here to decide what’s good for people. We are here to help people decide what’s good for themselves; what makes their hearts sing; what they love; what gets them through the day. And as you know, it could be just about anything.

I’d love to ask her a few questions. Tell me why you love this glass? How does it make you feel when you look at it? What is the devil “saying” to you? How about all those little people? I’d like to deeply grok/understand her responses and by doing so, help her choose the best place to display it….. which sooner or later may very well be out of the house.

This reminds me of the “therapy art” I describe in the Western Guide to Feng Shui, Room by Room on page 66. That devil may be helping her through some challenging times. And once those times change for the better, she may usher that devil right out the door.
Keep me posted!! Terah