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A brightly lit chandelier hung in the center of your home brings excellent feng shui. The feng shui chart indicates 2009 is a double earth ox year, so crystal chandeliers symbolize these 2 harmonizing elements. This is also a year when the quarrelsome star flies into the northeast of the home or any building. The best remedy to suppress and exhaust this negative star is to put Ksitigarbha’s fireball or Manjushri’s flaming sword in the northeast and employ fire energy. Hung in the center of the home, a brightly lit crystal chandelier becomes a fashionable decorative piece with a difference. It will also enhance the elements of the year while at the same time lessening tensions and disharmony.

Chandeliers make wonderful effect in lighting which works well, if not better than harsh halogens and designer lights. Chandeliers are the jewels glittering on your ceilings and walls, lighting the living room in the home with the fire energy associated with recognition luck and a great amount of yang energy.

The energy of chandeliers comes from lights shining on beautiful crystals. If you can’t afford these, at least invest in little balls of cut crystals that you can hang around the home. These crystal drops are very strong in suppressing hostile energy that afflicts the center of all homes. Hang them by your windows as well so they catch the sunlight, which provides natural fire energy.

The best kinds of chandeliers are circular and look like mandalas. Do not get chandeliers whose crystal points look threatening. They must look like the sun or moon, and not appear like they will fall on you.

Before chandeliers were seen only in the grand ballrooms of palaces, hotels and country homes. Today they are available in all sizes at very affordable prices. So they are no longer for the rich but something of their previous associations still clings on.

In feng shui, chandeliers always bring good energy because they suggest wealth and prosperity. To have them in homes has little or no bad effect, but do not overdo the effect of chandeliers. Go for warm bulbs rather than white light. Make your chandeliers warm rather than cold. Let their light embrace you, not hurt your eyes. In feng shui, one needs to be embraced by energy, not hit by it. When lights become so bright; that they dazzle your eyes and cause you to squint in their glare, or give you an uncomfortable feeling, their good effects transform into something bad. Too much of anything is always harmful.

When moving into a new home or having one built on a piece of land, consider some external Feng Shui factors that may affect the occupant’s health and safety, auspiciousness, career and relationships. These factors may also prevent progress or growth of the businesses in a building. Consider the following guidelines in Feng Shui that may affect the Good Ch’i of an establishment.

1. A T- or Y- shaped road fronting an establishment or house is bad.

2. A house located at the dead end of a road is unfavorable.

3. A house at the bottom part of a cul-de-sac or cutting-edge side of a u-shaped road poses danger and inauspiciousness to the occupants.

4. A house should not be built in front or anywhere around a cemetery, funeral parlor, a church that accepts funeral services or wakes; temples, hospitals, slaughterhouse, police station.

5. Business establishment must not be built on a land that used to be a cemetery or any place where death, sickness, pain, fear and trauma used to be constantly experienced. Read the rest of this entry

Year 2009 for many people seems to have many uncertainties in business because of crises and misfortunes in the economy of the past two years. Here are some tips to invite positive vibration:

• If you are just starting a business, clear the place of clutter (accumulated useless things), then ring a bell to create positive Ch’i energy. Light an incense or red candle and place it on the south sector and put a small dish or bowl of sea salt anywhere to cleanse the air and purify it.
• Place three ancient coins tied with red string on the inner side of the main door particularly on a door knob.
• Hang a six-rod metal chime above the door where the chime will produce a “sweet” ringing sound as clients go in and out.
• You may also hang 3 small bells on the same place where you hung the three coins.
• Under your welcome mat at the main door, sew or glue on three ancient coins tied with red string.
• Place a pair of Fu Dogs at each site of the main door at eye-level or higher. The Fu Dogs should face each other. The male holding a ball on its left foot should be at the right side of the door and the female with a baby Fu Dog under its right foot at the left side. Ceramic is the best material since the Fu Dogs are guardians of the earth. These will guard the home or business against evil doers and deceivers. They deter killing energies.
• Southeast is the best sector to place the money box or drawer. This is the sector of wealth and abundance. On that sector, place a laughing Buddha.
• The south is the sector of fame, popularity aspiration and acceptance by others. Display a galloping horse or a horse standing on its hind legs to energize popularity and acceptance in business. Red flowers or Phoenix can also enhance this sector. Make a wealth ship by filling a model galleon or banca with coins, trinkets, crystal beads and paper money to symbolize abundance in wealth. Place this also in the south at a little above eye level.
• Position a blue rhinoceros at the east of the room to counter the bad effect of the violence and robbery star that hovers above the said sector this year. An image or figure of an elephant with raised trunk will also be an effective preventer of violence and robbery. The blue rhino can be positioned facing the main door of the office or home to prevent people with bad intention from entering.
• To prevent misfortunes and accidents (which are the bad effects of the 5 yellow misfortune star), place a 5 element pagoda, one of the best Feng Shui enhancers, on the north sector of the office or living room.
• The main door of a store or office should open inwards not out to allow the Yang (positive) energy from outside to flow in and circulate in the store.
• The goat is the conflict animal of the ox who reigns in 2009. If you were born in 1943, ‘55, ‘67, ‘79, ‘91 and you have a business, place an image of a rabbit and a boar on the south-southwest sector of your office or table and an image of a striding or horse on its hind legs to defeat the bad vibes that may occur to you. The rabbit and boar are goat’s allied friends and the horse is his secret friend.
• Place 9 pieces of three legged frogs sitting on coins and biting a coin all over the office or store. They should be below but not touching the floor and must be hidden from sight. These images will attract business luck.

Feng Shui is not a religion, nor a ritual that will create magic It is not a set of superstitious beliefs and neither can it predict  or foretell or predict  the future Instead, it is a study, which offers remedies or solutions to problems that seem to block the smooth flow of good Ch’i or “earth life”. And Feng Shui enhances the growth, development and spread of that Ch’i.

Feng Shui in Chinese means wind, water. Both an art and a science that deals with the working of unexplained forces of the earth – the negative and positive; believed to be the key to discovering health, wealth and love lucks. It is the science of balancing the Yin and Yang energies, the dark and bright; cold and warm; slow and fast; soft and hard; etc. It is also the art of arranging things, people and putting them in the right place so that people will live harmoniously, pleasantly, favorably with them.

Feng Shui helps man direct himself to the right path through its principles and practical guidelines. It also reveals the vital link between heaven luck and God’s blessings; man luck or human efforts and will; and earth luck or the right place on earth for man to achieve his goals.

Crystals and gemstones are regarded as objects of beauty, opulence and wealth since the time of our ancestors. These gifts from Mother Earth are even highly revered by ancient spiritual leaders because of their healing properties.

Even Feng Shui tells about the energy from the earth that men can harness and benefit from. The earth ch’i is very vital and is associated with good Feng Shui. In the relationship between heaven, earth and man, earth chi has the most meaningful influence on our wealth, health, well-being, thoughts and emotions.

When we energize the earth element with crystals and semi-precious stones, we energize for wealth, good health, good relations and other aspects.

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