When clients come to me saying they want things to change, yet when us as advisors suggest options for them and they balk, it makes me wonder how much do they REALLY want the change?
You can’t expect to do the same things over and over again yet expect different results. If what you’re doing now is not working, why is it hard to understand that things then need to be done differently in order to see progress?
When clients ask for their charts to be read, that tells me this person is, of course, wanting to know what is in store for them. The MAIN DIFFERENCE between a chinese birth chart ( Bazi or Four Pillars of Destiny, for those of you more familiar with feng shui ) and other forms of reading, is that it actually gives you tips and insight into how you can lessen the impact of a negative situation and/or make even stronger a positive situation that is on the helm of manifesting in your life on this physical plane. So it truly baffles me when someone sees the possibility of a better way of living, yet does not have the impetus to make that happen. And so…. stays in the same ol’ same ol’, and then complaining to be in it.
As much as a feng shui practitioner can help you `fix’ the energy in your home and work place, you and only you can CHANGE THE ENERGY IN YOU. I am all for a holistic way of doing things, which is why I don’t only prescribe feng shui advise as I believe in inner as well as outer tools to manifest a better life.
Decide what you want in life, focus on it, and then work for it!
I’ve been following the law of attraction movement and gave it a try, it kinda worked, it kinda didn’t. Then I moved on to other things, and came to the same conclusion. THEN I got the a-ha moment:
I realize now what helps me manifest more effectively needs to work in 3 different levels. Ever since I started all three practices I am seeing expected AND unexpected gifts come into my life.
The first level is realizing some, if not most, things that happen to me in this life have to do with my karma, or in feng shui we refer to it as Heaven Luck. If this is too weird for some of you, you can also consider Carolyn Myss’ definition of Sacred Contract ( she explains how before we start on this journey on the physical plane we have done a contract on the spiritual plane to agree to go through certain life events ). Let’s say you’re in a relationship that makes you miserable, there is a possibility that your relationship with this person is karmic, and that needs to be addressed before positive progress can happen. So I do my karma cleansing chants and meditations whenever I can, and donate to the spiritual centre that has guided me when it comes to my goal of offsetting my negative karma. Here’s a video of Dr. Baskaran Pillai’s explanation of karma and how to dissolve it :
The second level is what we call Earth Luck in feng shui, this is where feng shui comes into the picture – making use of energetic patterns in our living spaces so that it works for us, not against us. I used to do feng shui on its own, and when it didn’t work too well, I gave it up and did chants and meditations alone. That went well, but the strength of the results weren’t what I expected.
Once I combined both practices together – fireworks!!! My life became more and more abundant with wonderful relationships, better health, and more and more opportunities for material affluence.
The third luck is Man Luck. A client asked me before, ” I’m open to try out feng shui and all that, and I believe somewhat in birth chart analysis ( Paht Chee in feng shui )… but what about personal will? Don’t we have any control over what happens to us?” This is where our own efforts in the physical plane comes in.
I’ve seen client who use feng shui to gain opportunities, but when it comes knocking on their door they don’t answer it. My personal experience with a client, a young man wanted to attract relationship with a certain young woman, so he got the items that we recommended to him. Having a conversation with him about his heartbreak with this young woman so far, I cautioned him that where relationships is concerned, feng shui will help him let go of the one that doesn’t suit him, and help him meet ones who do. So he called us up about a week later saying feng shui didn’t work and wanted his money back. The woman he wanted still doesn’t want to speak to him. I asked him what else has happened since he put in his feng shui activations. He said nonchalantly, ” Nothing much… except women started asking me out”.
This piqued my interest, so I asked ” Is it normal for women to be asking you out?”
He said no.
Well then!!! Feng shui is not a love potion where you can pinpoint who you want to be with. The Universe knows which path is best for you and tries to steer you there, but it is still up to you whether you want to make that step. It’s just like if you’re trying to start a business that may make you lots of money but doesn’t help you in your spiritual growth, there is a possibility that universe will try to help you see other avenues. But as long we you don’t see it, things may well remain stagnant for you.
So, dear readers, these are the 3 levels of manifestation…
I still let Universal Timing take its course, and at the end of my inner journeys I always ask for “this or something better”, and I remind myself not to want to control the results so much by allowing God to give me what He feels is the highest and best for me. The key to manifesting is putting out the intention of the things you want, have a clear vision of it, then release and let go in order for the Universe to plan out on its own how and when to deliver it to you.
It’s simple, but not so easy to do. But with practice, you’ll be able to manifest everything in your heart’s desire.
It is widely known in the feng shui industry that the rich and famous believe feng shui to be a critical element in their success. Just came across this one of Donald Trump who asked New York feng shui master, Master Pun Yin, to work on the Trump Tower which I found very interesting. ( The sound quality’s bad and I do apologize, but this seems to be the only one available… )
I was online and found a post asking whether feng shui will work if you buy the items ( in his case, a laughing buddha ) for yourself. Here is the comment that I posted and I thought I’d share it with you guys here as well:
There are many ways of enhancing the chi in your living space. As Bob Taskbar mentioned in a previous comment, you can manipulate the chi in your living and work space, either by placing certain rooms in a certain way ( that would sometimes mean renovations! ). But what if you can’t move your rooms around or do renovations and there’s only so much furniture configuration you can do in your space? This is when you can work with what you have by placing certain things around to either suppress the negative energy or to activate the auspicious energy.
You can certainly buy feng shui items for yourself. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, so this myth needs to be dispelled. I have gotten for myself many, many items that have given me a competitive edge in many areas in my life, as well as gifting them to my friends and family ( if you wish success and abundance for someone else, because truly there is more than enough for everyone, it’s just makes good karmic sense ) so I can attest to the fact that it doesn’t matter if you bought it yourself or got it as a gift.
Everything has its own energetic blueprint. Not just feng shui items. I tell my clients that I cringe whenever I see people wearing shirts with skull and bones on it. What kind of energy is this bringing to the person wearing it?! Not so good, I can imagine! So in a way, feng shui items aren’t the only way for you to practise feng shui with ( and I do recommend doing a blend of both otherwise your place will look like a chinese curio store! ), but certain feng shui items are designed to work specifically for certain areas in our lives so the energy is more focused there.
Depending on the laughing buddha that you buy, the one wearing a red robe is wonderful in the south this year, to calm down argumentative star ( especially if you’re horse-born – this is a must for 2010! ) to suppress conflicts, misunderstandings, arguments and even possible legal action. There are laughing buddhas with children as well, and this is great for descendant luck and can be placed in the west or, depending on your kua number, your romance direction.
So depending on the end result you seek, you place it a certain way and look for certain characteristics in the Buddha.
Having been born and lived most of my life in southeast Asia, I’ve always been in an environment where people believed in feng shui, but I dismissed it as superstition – at that time.
When I moved to Canada to study, I have to admit my social life was one of parties and meeting lots of interesting people. It was fun, but deep down I knew I wanted something – someone – more stable. I had countless first-dates ranging to me falling head over heels with someone and having it go unrequited, and there were a few disastrous first dates in there as well. I told myself, enough is enough. What I’m doing obviously wasn’t working, maybe I should try a different strategy?
I found myself somehow being prompted to try feng shui. I bought a Lillian Too book and devoured the romance section, and this is what I did to the southwest ( always, ALWAYS get your feng shui directions with a reliable compass – no second guessing unless you want to potentially waste your time activating the wrong corner ) of my room ( I practically built a `love altar’ there ):
- a nice-sized rose quartz
- a pair of mandarin ducks
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- a couple of red pillar candles
- a poster of a romantic couple ( predominant colours were red and orange – fiery and passionate )
- a framed photo of peonies hung on the outside of my bedroom door ( peonies are symbols of romance luck in feng shui )
Another thing I did, which when I was doing it at the moment I dismissed it as me being bored in my room, but looking back I think it also helped me send out the right energy to the universe that I was ready to be in a committed relationship – I wrote down a wish list. If any of you believe in the Law of Attraction, you know what I’m talking about!
I basically took up the whole page and wrote down the 10 things I look for in a life partner. Believe me, after all the dating around it wasn’t hard to complete it! But once I was done it went to the pile of paper any university student would have and I forgot about it.
The result?
2 months later, a dashing young man just happened to see my online profile, and decided to email me. Our emails went back and forth, and nightly phone calls for the first week. There was some chemistry there, it was undeniable, and we share a lot of common interests and themes in our lives.
After a whole week of `phone dating’, we decided to meet.
And can I say… The BEST first date in history?!?! We went to a restaurant, one of the first few evening clients, and we were the last to leave. Needless to say, when we stepped out of the restaurant begrudgingly and his hand grazed my shoulders, it was the kind of electric current through my body exactly how a romance novel would describe to be!
That glorious date was in mid-november of 2002. By April 2003 he proposed. By September we were married!!!
And remember that wish list I had? Well, when I packed up my things to move in with him I found that piece of paper and lo and behold – he fulfilled 8 out of the 10 that I wrote down! It blew me away when I found that piece of paper, and I now realize that a great gift had just been given to me.
It worked out really well for me and so I’ve been on a mission to study how to really take advantage of romance luck through feng shui. I realized now that certain signs in certain years would have easier time to activate this luck than others, and your kua number would have a lot to do with it as well.
I will slowly decipher and explain these elements for you guys, my dear readers, so be patient with me. But in the meantime if you have questions, shoot me an email and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can!
I was just reminded about my own feng shui journey to becoming a parent after replying to someone online about her wishes about having a baby as well.
5 years ago my husband and I decided it is time for us to try for a baby. I was excited, to say the least, because I knew I wanted to become a mom since I was a kid. In fact, it was a pre-requisite for me to date men who want to have children because I did not want to waste time with those who just saw them as hindrances… Anyway, it took us longer than we expected to get pregnant. Every month I would spend good money on two home pregnancy tests, because I can never just trust one negative… Both my husband and I are young, and the doc couldn’t find anything physically wrong with us.
I knew feng shui worked and that’s how I found my husband ( that’ll be a post for another day… ), but over the years I fell off the bandwagon and led a `normal’ life of letting the ebb and flow of being an adult just be part of my journey. The challenges I took on. The gifts I rejoiced in. But when it came to getting pregnant, I knew I no longer want to waste time.
So I took a look at my apartment, and lo and behold, the west which is the descendant’s corner is not auspicious, to say the least – a bathroom right smack dab there. No wonder! So I ordered my husband to keep the bathroom door closed at all times, put a mirror on the outside of the door so it symbolically `disappears’.
In the bedroom I had a bejewelled pomegranate and a poster of longans and lychees ( back then I read that it symbolizes fertility as well ) on my bedside. I got two elephants with their trunks down ( one with the trunk curled and the other with the trunk straight ), and had them flanking my bedroom door, looking into the room.
To get your own bejewelled pomegranate ( it opens up so you can write down your baby wish inside! ), check out this link:
I didn’t realize this back then, my husband who is a Kua 3 has the #5 sitting in his west corner – another affliction affecting our fertility luck. By the way, people who are Kua 3 usually have similarities of either not wanting children, or wanting children and never getting it ( ie. women who keep miscarrying ), or keep getting partners who are not committed to starting a family. Where my husband is concerned, he wanted kids, he is healthy, but something in his chart still denies him of a descendant. I asked a feng shui expert how come we got pregnant even when I didn’t address the #5 in his descendant’s corner? His answer was, because my descendant energy is strong enough to `carry’ it for the both of us.
Take my story as you will, but two months later, we got pregnant! The pregnancy was a breeze, the labor was quick ( the nurses were surprised! ) and she was such an easy baby to care for I couldn’t tell the moms in my mommie group for fear of unnecessary jealousy!
She is now 3 yrs old, and right now playing a game on my husband’s iPod.
I am not leaving to chance what may happen with that affliction unaddressed. I currently have a five element pagoda ( one of the BEST ways to suppress the dreaded #5 which usually leads to total losses, accidents and illness ). And in the charts that I have read for my clients, especially men, if unaddressed this sometimes means losing the children some way or other once they grow up ( ie. divorce, addiction, huge argument etc ).
My husband, who used to be such the skeptic, now faithfully reads his horoscope book by Lillian Too ( actually, he reads mine as well just to see what’s in store for me for the month ), and is very glad that the pagoda is there to protect his relationship with our daughter.
When you have a way to protect yourself from unnecessary hurdles, and to give you a better chance of getting what your heart fervently desires, would you not want to give it a chance?
This site may be a work in progress from what you can see, but has been brewing in my head for a while now.
So what is Feng Shui and Prosper and what is my intention by creating this site? Well, I know I am not the only fan of symbolic feng shui who found it almost impossible to find items that were recommended to me either online or through a book. And when I find a store, I am overwhelmed by my options and thus, don’t know what to buy first!
Having worked in a feng shui franchise boutique myself, I have been exposed to many feng shui tips and techniques that I have yet to read in books ( trust me, I’ve read lots of them ). I also know that having read so many books, it has left me more confused than enlightened. I had no one to ask my questions, and no one to guide me in my feng shui decisions.
I will guide you the best as I can with what I know at the moment, and what I will be acquiring as I go through my Master Practitioner training. Feel free to ask me questions!
I will also be linking you to external sites as well as my own resources where you can find these items that you need for symbolic feng shui so there’s less hair-pulling on your end ( oh boy, I’ve been there! ). I will showcase the main symbolic items that have helped me, my friends and family as well as my clients achieve results where they weren’t able to get to on their own.
The truth is, the advice in the books are great, but they work on a general level. What I aim to spread here is the importance of personalizing your feng shui work to align with your personal charts ( it’s not that hard to do ), as well as incorporating other energetic tools ( such as mantras, meditations, visualizations ) to help you achieve a level of energetic finesse where you can truly start attracting more good things in your life. I have seen it happen to me, and to others I have exposed these tips and techniques to.
If you feel this is the time for you to see a shift in your life, stay tuned!!!
