How One-Size-Fits-All Feng Shui
Advice
Can Trigger Disasters in 2008!
~or~
Where Seeing ‘RED’ Causes Trouble in 2008!
by P.K. Odle, The Feng Shui Advantage
Have you felt a change since early February? Are you having more health challenges, such as problems with your eyes, heart, stomach, abdominal or reproductive organ? When it comes to your personal or business relationships have you noticed an increase in gossiping, arguing or legal problems, including separation/divorce? Is it taking you longer and longer to finish a project and/or receive payment? Are you having trouble acquiring new clients?
When troubles begin in February, it’s a strong probability that the Feng Shui ANNUAL Energy Shift is contributing to those problems in your life. Every house experiences an Annual Energy Shift, which explains why one year can be better or worse in the same house. By the way, in Feng Shui we refer to all buildings as a house… whether it’s your home or place of business.
Like Mother Nature’s changing seasons, Feng Shui’s Annual Energy Shift has precise timing. Most would assume this universal energy shift occurs on the Chinese Lunar New Year, which varies from year to year. However, Feng Shui studies the affects of solar energy on planet Earth; therefore the less publicized Chinese SOLAR calendar applies to the Feng Shui energies. You can use a Western Farmer’s Almanac to locate the exact Chinese Solar New Year, which is the moment when the Feng Shui Annual Energy Shift occurs on either February 4th or 5th. That’s because in the West it’s often referred to as the Spring Establishment or Spring Stand, which is the exact mid-point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox.
The shift of the Universal or Annual Feng Shui energies affects your building differently each year, depending on your building's inherent energy blueprint. Some years circumstances will improve because the Annual Energy that visits your entrances, bedrooms and/or offices acts as a natural remedy for the permanent energy pattern present in that area. Unfortunately, some years the opposite occurs and the Annual Energy contributes to disasters by acting as a trigger for existing negative energies or by creating a sabotaging energy combination.
Certain annual energies bring nothing but disasters, such as, accidents, delays, pain and major illnesses, including eye or heart disease… or gossip, arguments and lawsuits… or separation/divorce, stomach, abdominal or reproductive organ problems, including miscarriages or tumors. For instance, if you have a entrance, bedroom, living room or office in the SOUTH part of your home/office this year (Feb. 4, 2008 to Feb. 4, 2009) the visiting annual energy contributes to accidents, delays, pain and major illness… unless you have the correct elemental remedy to neutralize the negative aspects of the visiting Annual Energy.
Unfortunately, if you have Fire colors in the SOUTH this year… whether you just happen to like Fire colors or you’re following the advice of the majority of do-it-yourself Feng Shui books that say that everyone always needs Fire colors in the South section of your home and office… you’re actually triggering all the negative circumstances mentioned above. The colors with the strongest influence of Fire energy are obviously Red and Purple, but any color in the Red or Purple family are still a Fire influence on the Feng Shui energies in the space. Burning candles or using your fireplace in the South this year will also trigger the negative circumstances associated with the visiting Annual Feng Shui energy in the South.
NORTHWEST is another section where Fire colors are to be avoided this year. The visiting energy in the Northwest this year is associated with separation/divorce, stomach, abdominal or reproductive organ problems, including miscarriages. Any Fire colors in the Northwest will feed that energy and trigger those circumstances.
For the majority of houses the remedy necessary in the SOUTH this year is Heavy Metal or Moving Metal in a key-wound clock with hundreds of moving metal gears that ticks and chimes. In general, Heavy Metal would be approximately 12 pounds per 1,000 square feet of floor space in your home or office. The Northwest area of most houses requires half that amount of Metal as a remedy this year. As with all Feng Shui remedies… your Metal remedies must be out where the air currents can come in contact with them to affect the energy in the space. AND you must remove all Fire colored objects in those sections of your home/office where Metal remedies are required, because Fire melts Metal thus cancelling out the remedy… and triggering the negative circumstances.
PLEASE NOTE: If your home/office was built between February 4, 1964 and February 4, 1984 and faces to the South or North … OR if your house faces toward the Northwest or Southeast… I strongly suggest you have an on-site consultation before adding Metal respectively to the SOUTH or Northwest section of your house. Two thirds of those houses already have a strong Metal influence in the South or Northwest section and adding any additional actual Metal as furniture or decorations to the area would trigger bleeding injuries from metal by accidents or violence
As you can see from the above examples in Classical Feng Shui it’s never advisable to paint your doors RED (or any other Fire color); because eventually one of the 2 disastrous Annual Feng Shui energies that are triggered by Fire colors will work their way around to the direction of your entrance. Black or Blue (Water colors) are additional colors to avoid painting your doors… because with a different visiting annual energy Water colors triggers gossip, arguments and legal problems. In the years, when the energies at your entrance require a Water or Fire colored remedy… it’s best to use an area rug or other beautiful decorations, because it takes less effort to pack away any Fire colored objects than to repaint when a sabotaging annual energy visits and you’re advised to change remedies for that year.
During a comprehensive Classical Feng Shui evaluation (consultation) precise calculations are made according to when the house was built and it’s exact compass orientation to reveal the inherent energies of your home/office. It’s because of these repeatable energy patterns and their predictable consequences on your finances, health and relationships that Classical Feng Shui is actually a scientific system and not a belief system.
The combination of your house’s permanent energies and the visiting Annual energy determines what elemental remedies are necessary each Solar year. It’s important to implement all of your remedies as beautiful accessories made of the required element (earth, metal, water, wood, and fire colors) that bring you compliments instead of questions… and that are easily transferred from room to room, because they may need to be changed from year to year.
When choosing your Feng Shui consultant... be sure to verify their credential and speak with several references. In addition, confirm they are working with the scientific method of Classical Feng Shui which utilizes the five elements as remedies and that annual updates are available. Also, inquire whether you’ll receive a written report that includes your unique 15° Feng Shui Personal Directions, which barely 5% of Feng Shui consultants are able to derive from your date of birth and gender.
Finally, you want to feel comfortable communicating with your Feng Shui consultant, because it’s important you understand your report and their advice. Once you begin to manage your house’s Feng Shui influences and experience the Feng Shui advantage of improved health and relationships, along with enhanced prosperity… you’ll want to maintain a long-term relationship with your Feng Shui consultant.
© 2007 P.K. Odle. All rights reserved.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
P.K. Odle… an internationally respected instructor for Master Larry Sang’s renowned American Feng Shui Institute since 1998, is the creator of The Feng Shui Advantage’s “Lifetime Keys Personal Directions Self-Mastery Toolbox.” To learn more about using the ancient Chinese science of Feng Shui to improve your Health, Relationships and Finances… visit her web site and subscribe to her FR*EE email newsletter, The Feng Shui Advantage MONTHLY, at http://www.FengShuiAdvantage.com. The next issue… could change your life!
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