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Feng Shui Q & A: Hibiscus Plants-Good, or Bad?

Feng Shui Q & A: Hibiscus Plants-Good, or Bad?

Posted by on May 15, 2015 in Q & A, Your Home, Your Life | Comments Off on Feng Shui Q & A: Hibiscus Plants-Good, or Bad?

Our friend Beverly asks:

Hibiscus plants are supposed to represent something unpleasant, and are not recommended.  Do you agree with that?

 

 
 
Thanks for the question Beverly! Here is our answer:
 

If you love it, then it can only bring more love into your space. If you think that it will create something unpleasant, then it probably will. My Grandma LOVES Hibiscus plants and when she visits this part of the world, she can’t believe that they get as huge and as beautiful as they do. To her, they are wonderful. I like them as a greeter – HI-biscus!

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Feng Shui Q & A: Red Envelopes

Posted by on May 1, 2015 in Q & A, Your Career | Comments Off on Feng Shui Q & A: Red Envelopes

Our friend B.W. asks:

Are your practitioners required to follow the Red Envelope exchange with the client’s money inside? The Black Hat Feng Shui people whom I met said that something unpleasant could happen to the practitioner if he/she doesn’t follow this procedure.
We teach and practice Essential Feng Shui®, which is not Buddhist (Black Hat Feng Shui is steeped in some Buddhist Traditions). EFS is very Westernized, i.e. not religious, and we’ve found that people more easily resonate with Feng Shui’s core principles when they’re simple and accessible.

The red envelopes: No, we do not require that our practitioners use them. Some do use them. Some don’t. Both have great success, neither have experienced anything unpleasant; in other words, our practitioners and their clients get great results.

 

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Feng Shui Q & A: Porches: Orienting the Bagua Map

Feng Shui Q & A: Porches: Orienting the Bagua Map

Posted by on Apr 17, 2015 in Bagua, Q & A, Treasure Map | Comments Off on Feng Shui Q & A: Porches: Orienting the Bagua Map

Our friend June asks:

My house in Grenada has a covered verandah (porch) all the way around, 12 ft wide in the front, overlooking the sea & 6ft wide everywhere else.   Does this mean that each Bagua area will consist of a piece of verandah as well as the adjacent room?   The main house itself is under one rectangular roof & the verandah roof wraps around like a skirt & is attached to the walls of the house, slightly lower than the main roof.   I really would be very grateful for your advice.

Great question June!  The quick answer is YES it all counts! And it’s completely fine when Guas are both indoors and outdoors. Just draw your Map over the entire house including the verandahs. You may wish to enhance the interior more than the exterior, remembering that every inch ‘counts’ – so no clutter, and everything in good repair. 

 

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Feng Shui Q & A: Apartments: Orienting the Bagua Map

Feng Shui Q & A: Apartments: Orienting the Bagua Map

Posted by on Apr 3, 2015 in Bagua, Q & A | Comments Off on Feng Shui Q & A: Apartments: Orienting the Bagua Map

Our friend N.F. asks:

A client is moving into a new apartment where you enter the front door of her building and immediately go upstairs to her apartment. At the top of the steps, her apartment door is on the right. At which entrance do you apply the Bagua Map? 

 
 
An apartment’s personal Bagua Map begins at its own front door, not the door into the building. This would be the Map to work with when assessing your client’s space.
 
It can be interesting to make another Bagua Map of the entire apartment building to determine the location of your client’s apartment in the overall building.

 

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Feng Shui Folly: Setting Boundaries Using Mirrors

Feng Shui Folly: Setting Boundaries Using Mirrors

Posted by on Mar 27, 2015 in Feng Shui Folly, Q & A, Your Life | Comments Off on Feng Shui Folly: Setting Boundaries Using Mirrors

Our friend T.K. asks: “I have a very hate filled neighbor next door.  He has even threatened physical violence, although I don’t believe he would follow through.  He is my husband’s brother, who we bought our land from.  I am trying to figure out what Feng Shui cures I can use to stem the hostility. I am wondering about a concave bagua mirror facing in his direction over a window on the east side of my house.  I know they usually go over the entrance door but that is not the direction he is from my home.  I know they are very powerful and can backfire, causing increased hostility or harm to ourselves.  Can you advise…should I just hang a regular mirror in a window facing his direction?  I really could use your advice.”

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Feng Shui Q & A: Skylights

Posted by on Mar 20, 2015 in Q & A, Your Home | Comments Off on Feng Shui Q & A: Skylights

A Feng Shui friend asks:

Any suggestions regarding skylights and how to treat them? Are they considered “good” or “bad”?

Skylights are considered “active!” Much like windows, they are more open to the outside world than solid walls or ceilings, so have a more active or Yang energy. A skylight over the bed is much like a window behind the bed- for many people, it doesn’t feel as safe or comfortable as a solid wall or ceiling. The same applies to seating with a skylight directly overhead. Again, it often feels best to locate the seating beneath the security of a solid ceiling overhead, even when there’s a skylight in the room.
As with all Feng Shui suggestions, these are fluid guidelines, not hard and fast rules. Each person is unique and will respond to the presence of skylights in his or her own way. When in doubt, try it out! Your nervous system, your most intimate and accurate guide, will tell you whether it feels right or not.

 

 

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