Just read these parts from a Feng Shui email WHAT TO DO WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG
Often good luck comes in pairs but bad luck comes in threes…. or fours, or fives.
Hmmm ..... quite true
2 Winning Visits followed by 3 Losing Ones .....
Feng shui is always an available option, and taking a close look at your feng shui is a good way to try to shift some energy and begin the process of stemming the problems from showing up at your door in succession.
Try these feng shui tips to help you stop losses and turn your chi around from one of loss and insecurity to stability and gain.
Monthly stars.
Most of the time when one thing after another breaks or bad luck just keeps coming like bullets out of a machine gun, it’s because there has been a change in the monthly energies that either hit your front door or your bedroom. The most serious energies come from the numbers 2, 5, and 7, and when those stars fly to where you sleep (where you’re the most vulnerable), there can be a string of problems.
How do you handle these? It helps to know in advance with a monthly calendar that gives you all the energies and tells when you to expect them — and most importantly — how to handle them.
New items.
Have you brought something into your home since the problems began? It could be predecessor energy that is causing the problems. Often antiques and other inherited or second-hand items carry their own energies with them. One person created a new patio out of bricks that, as it turned out, came from an old building that housed slaves. As soon as that patio was installed, she began having all kinds of problems and eventually tore it out and used brand new pavers.
Look around.
Has something changed in your neighborhood or your home? Has a tree or shrub died? Don’t let trees and plants die a slow, agonizing death. At the first sign of decline, remove them and replace them with something lush and healthy. If you can view a cemetery from your home, it’s vital that you block this view and that your home is surrounded by great, growing dragon chi! This is a wonderful way to stop loss energy.
Draining sleep — check your bed.
Many people who suffer draining, losing energy are aligned with a negative energy when they sleep. For instance, the feet point directly out a window, or worse, toward a sink, bathroom, toilet or bathtub. This can cause serious loss of income, jobs and can even result in death. You are so vulnerable when you sleep, it’s crucial to be sure your feet are not in line with anything that can drain your energy as you sleep.
Argghhh .... must do something here !!!! Altho' hv no sleep problem ... one friend makes sure the cover is down on her Toilet WC
Draining, losing views.
If your home views a ditch, culvert, drain or other water run off area, your chi drains with it. Try to block the view with a beautiful bush or flowering shrub. Remember: chi flows where the eye goes and if your eye goes to a place of loss and downward flow, then that’s where your chi goes too.
Look behind.
Like the bed’s headboard at night, your home needs good support and the losing streak can be caused by what’s behind you that’s missing, such as support, or worse, eroding support. For example, if there’s a street directly behind your house, this represents water, and just like you shouldn’t turn your back to the ocean, water behind your home represents loss.
Make sure you block this view if at all possible with something such as a fence or wall. If the land at your home slopes away from the back of your house, you are losing vital support. Adding trees and lighting behind the house will help give you some more support and stop some of the loss.
Open your mind.
When we have problems occurring in rapid fire succession, we often start saying “what’s next?” or begin thinking very negatively, become overly judgmental, or even feel depressed. Those negative thoughts are a spiral that only goes in one direction: down. One of the ways to create a shift from negativity is to keep close tabs on your mental like and dislike thoughts. Judgment and negative thoughts and feelings can draw more negativity toward us. If anything, try to remain neutral or positive. Act friendly to draw more friendliness and positive responses to yourself.
Buy yourself flowers.
Loss represents yin energy and emptiness. Combat that emptiness with vibrant, expressive yang energy. This is one of the best ways to stop yin energy from growing more yin. Keep the flowers fresh and replace them often. Keep fresh flowers in your home for a month to stem yin energy.
* Think I should start doing this - just buy a stalk to put into water - can use that nice champagne bottle as a vase too ....
FENG SHUI Q&A
Please send your feng shui Q&A questions here. Due to the volume of emails it may not be possible for me to answer each email submitted.
Question:
Are cactuses by the front door a problem in feng shui? I live in Arizona and it's the only thing that really grows here.
Answer:
This is the second week in a row someone's asked about plants. Funny, how that works.
Having cactuses by the front door is really the best place for them -- so that's good news for you. Because cactuses usually have points and sharp needles, they provide protective feng shui around the house. Inside the house, though, it would not be a good idea to have them because they send out poison arrows.
It's OK to have cactuses BY the front door as long as the needles or spines aren't aimed at the door -- that's the important part. Otherwise, they'll send out dangerous tiny poison arrows that harm your wealth, health and opportunities.
Hah - bet my neighbour would put up even more those Chinese Protective Slips/Stickers [called foo ???? am not into Taoism/Buddhism here] if I were to place a pot of cactus at the side/outside MY front door hahaha .....
