Feng Shui
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of arranging everything around us so as to channelize the (chi) energies and achieve a balance with the environment. Feng Shui can be traced back thousands of years and is used by millions of people world wide who are desirous of removing ngative energy and circulating positive energy in all spheres of their lives.
The basics of Feng Shui
Feng Shui literally means ‘wind and water’, the strongest elements of nature. But the more ancient and lesser known name of Feng Shui is ‘Hum Yue’ with hum referring to ‘the heavenly path’ and Yue meaning ‘the earthly path’. They both basically referred to the energies of chi. It was believed that a persons’ surroundings where nothing but expression of chi.
For the uninitiated, chi is the energy and force that flows all around and even in the body. It gives life to everything and apparent only by its effect. It has three stages within it, Sheng Chi, Si Chi and Sha Chi. Sheng Chi is a positive type of chi that is found in bright and refreshing places. It brings happiness, contentment, hope and optimism to a person. Si Chi is a negative form of shi that is found in disorderly, unorganized and decayed places. It brings exhaustion, ill health and depression to a person. Sha Chi is a harmful type of chi. It can be found in a place with anger, or a place with a threatening or strange feel to it. It can originate from above or below the ground. In case of Sha Chi from below, it drains out the energy of a person and creates apprehension. Sha Chi from above the ground creates illness, trouble in finances.
We have to look into the five elements, yin and yang as well as trigrams to get an overall picture of Feng Shui and its working. We, at divineastrology.com, hope that you will benefit from the Feng Shui ideas posted monthly that can be very easily adopted in day-to-day life.
1. All the energies in your life and space around you change continuously. Yin and Yang energies interact with each other consistently and achieve a cosmic balance that brings harmony. Yin is cool , dark and lifeless while Yang is hot, bright and full of life. A good balance of these energies in your house, work place or your life, you will enjoy good luck. 2. You can balance Yin and Yang to an extent with with light and shade. For success, add a little more light to emphasise, enhance and strengthen your Yang energy. 3. Regular shapes of objects and articles are better than irregular shapes. Square and rectangle shapes respond better to Feng Shui than triangle or shapes with missing corners or dented corners. 4. It is not advisable to keep prickly cactus plants in side the house because thorns represent tiny arrows that spoil the balance of energies in your place. Cactus may be kept outside the house for protection but bonsai plants, symbol of artificially restricted growth, should not be displayed neither in side the house nor out side the house 5. If your house or office is gets too much of sun light, the yang energy will be overwhelming. You should block the excessive light and with heavy curtains or blinds otherwise the Yang energy will lead to quarrels and short temper.