Looking to improve your Dining Room with Feng Shui? Here are some tips on giving your dining room a feng shui makeover!

• A mirror will be a wonderful feature in the dining room. It doubles the food on the table symbolically.
• The head of the family should have a seat which has a high back and arm rest. He should beat the head of the table.
• The head of the family should have his back on a solid wall and must not sit where his back is towards a door specially when open will drain his health and deplete the wealth luck of the family.
• If the dining room and kitchen share one space, a mirror must not be installed especially if it will reflect the fire of the stove. The doubling of fire in the reflection will produce a double yang energy which can put your house in danger of fire or your health may be affected. Hang pictures of ripe fruit and place a bowl of fruit on the dining table to symbolize bounty.
• Never keep the rice bin empty. Also keep the refrigerator well stocked.
• The best sector in the house is to have the dining room on the southeast, east or southwest.
• Avoid having the toilet door open to a dining room specially the dining table. If this exists, cover the toilet door with a rod curtain or put a divider to separate it from the dining room.
• A dining room should never be too close to the main entrance because the auspicious energy tends to dissipate fast or “go out soon”.
• Dining rooms should not have overhead exposed beams.
• A poison arrow or pointed corners protruding from an adjacent room or big cabinets pointing directly to the dining table will affect the health and wealth luck of the family.
• Cover this pointed corner with a tall plant or hang a small red pineapple lantern or a string of beads or shells at the ceiling where the sharp angle is, to cover the “poison arrow”.
• If a toilet is directly above the dining table, move it away to avoid depressing the auspicious energy.
• If a staircase leads to the dining table, move the dining table away or the downward flow of energy coming from the stairs may push away the “food luck”.
• Avoid using an overhead ceiling fan over a dining table. It affects the stability of auspicious energy in the dining room.
• Dining room level should be the same or a little higher than the living room.
• Paint the dining room with happy and bright but not loud colors.
• Avoid using religious images as decors in the dining room. These items should be in a quiet and respectable space in the house.

How is everyone? Here’s part 2 of Feng Shui Tips for Love. Hope you have a good love life!

• Marriage, romance and family’s happiness and relationship will be accepted if the southwest sector of your home or particularly your bedroom is afflicted.
• Place a big crystal or boulder if the southwest corner is missing. A missing southwest corner and family relationships may lack depth.
• Do not allow a mirror to reflect a door, a staircase, a toilet or a kitchen. It must reflect auspicious objects. When earth objects are reflected, love luck is enhanced.
• A southwest wall painted with bright red will create precious yang energy. Yellow and white can also do the same.
• A bright red lampshade is a good alternative to the chandelier in the southwest. Write or draw auspicious designs on the shade and keep the lights on for at least 3 hours each night.
• A faceted crystal ball of about 1- 2 inches in diameter can be hung on a southwest window to capture sunlight that can be converted to multi-colored chi energy.
• Place a bowl of water filled, and crystals, glass beads or semi-precious stones and floating candles on the southwest sector. Use 3 candles, never put 2 or 4 candles. They symbolize death or mourning.
• Do not over-energize the love sector or you might create an imbalance. Remember that Feng Shui is all about the right balance of yin and yang. Just one or two tips that are appealing to you and implement them.
• To get the correct location of the southwest sector, stand in the center of the house, room or the lot. And use a good compass, take a careful bearing.
• Have a good balance of the yang and yin with paintings, color schemes and decors. By not being excessive in the use of either masculine or feminine. This way, not only romance luck but also wealth luck will grow.
• Paint living and dining room with bright happy colors and the bedroom with restful, relaxing hues.
• Use a mystic knot to create continuous romance or love and harmonious relationship by sticking the red mystic knot onto pictures of you and your loved one or your family portrait.
• Red roses are good materials in bringing romance but when you send some, remove first the thorns so as not to “harm” relationships.
• Give 3, 5 or 7 flowers. These are the numbers of romance. Never send 2 or 4, because these are the numbers of death. Numbers 8, 10, 12 are for wealth luck and congratulatory wishes.
• Yellow flowers encourage romance, because yellow is the representative color of the earth. It is also the color of youth.
• Do not send white flowers. White has yin energy and is only given as offerings for the elder, and to God.
• A pair of Mandarin ducks made of ceramic, porcelain or crystal placed in the southwest sector of the bedroom will enhance romance in marriage. If you are single, this enhancer will help create love attraction.

• Crystal, jasper or porcelain are ideal materials for Mandarin ducks. But if your personalized love or romance sector according to your Kua Chart is east or southeast, colorful wooden ducks will be just as good.
• Mandarin ducks should be displayed in pair always. A single duck will signify loneliness, separation or celibacy for life.
• If your love partner avoids or is elusive of commitment place a big picture or painting of a pair of flying geese which symbolize eternal love and marriage destiny and happiness.
• If you are single and alone in your home, you may benefit from symbols of strong earth energy obtained from displaying beautiful rocks, crystals or a painting or a picture of mountains in the living room, this creates the chi of family luck.
• A sculpture with stone base stimulates earth energy and placing one made of marble or clay by the door will invite earth or love energy into your house.
• Women who wish to get a husband must use decors with yin energy. Do not overdo the energizing.
• Maintain a good balance of yin and yang energies by using equal amount of symbols for each like moon and sun; light and dark; black and white, cool and warm.
• Never place a water feature on the right side of the door (inside looking out) or on the south sector of the living room.
• Do not put aquariums, fountains, gold fish bowls, even paintings of waterscapes. They should never be placed inside the bedroom or they will cause loss of love, interest and coldness. They will cause sickness to the occupant.
• Water in the main entrance, whether inside or out of the house will cause the male of a couple to have his love interest change or wander, and thus play around, and get entangled in extra relationship.
• Swimming pool beside a bedroom on the southwest of a property can “drown” a relationship. It can cause loneliness or even separation.
• Keep cactus and thorny plants away from the southwest, the negative impact on your love life may be heightened.
• Never give your loved ones gifts that are prickly, pointed, sharp, and have cutting edge, such as letter openers, knives, etc. They cause severance of romance.
• Install a bright globe light 5 feet above the ground in your garden preferably in the southwest sector to draw the vital earth energy that activates romance.
• If your kitchen is in the southwest sector of your house, your love luck is suppressed. But if your stove is in the southwest sector of that kitchen, the bad effect is nullified because the fire strengthens the earth energy.
• Peony symbolizes happy love life and invites marriage luck to single men and women if they hang this in their bedroom especially in the southwest.
• If all children of the family are married, remove peony and all other love symbols and enhancement from the bedroom or the southwest sector of the house or the father of the family may become involved with a younger woman other than his wife.

• Do not put fresh, dried or artificial flowers in the bedroom of a married couple or either of them may look for extra-marital affair.

• Do not place a mirror in the bedroom especially if it reflects the bed. It can cause infidelity and extra-marital affairs, even sickness and separation.

• Two single mattresses placed on a double bed frame signify separation because this creates an invisible barrier. A married couple should not sleep on this.

• The married couple should sleep on a double bed with a double mattress or two single beds placed side by side. Beds facing different directions will not affect or harm the Feng Shui.

• Exposed overhead beams affect the couple sleeping under them. If the beam cuts the bodies horizontally, their love life and health will be affected. If vertically, the cut will cause separation.

• Couples should not sleep with their feet pointed towards the door. This simulates the “death” position either one may lose the “other”. Move the bed away or change its position to avoid the door.

• Heart-shaped crystals, specially pink or red placed under the pillow or inside a velvet pouch and placed on the night table in a bedroom will enhance the relationship of a married couple.

• Energize the crystal by bathing it in sunlight for 3 hours for 7 consecutive days. Morning sun is the best.

• To magnify the love chi or the heart-shaped crystal, place it under the light of the full moon.

• During engagement or marriage, wear a double happiness ring for conjugal bliss. This is a potent symbol in Feng Shui you can wear. This can also be worn as a pendant for both couple.

• You can decorate your bedroom with the double happiness symbol on a curtain, bed sheet, furniture, etc. but remember not to overdo it because you should always maintain good balance in Feng Shui.sss

• The double happiness symbol will be more meaningful if combined with the energy of light. Have it painted on a red lamp-shade to brighten up your marriage.

• The eight mansion formula will help you find out your personal love sector. Through your birth year and gender (in Kua Chart).

• Your kua number is based on the calendar of the Chinese. If you were born before February 4 of a year, you belong to the previous year of the Gregorian calendar.
• Add the last two digits of your birth year. Keep on doing this until you have just a single digit as the result. For males, deduct the resulting number from 10 and for females, add 5 to the resulting number and again keep on adding the two digits until you just have one as a result.
• For those born in the year 2000, deduct from 9 for males and add 6 for females.
• If your kua number is 1 - your love direction is south; if 2 - northeast; 3 - southeast; 4 - east; 5 - (male northwest) (female west); 6 - southwest; 7 - northeast; 8 - west; 9 - north.
• Use your own kua romance direction to energize love luck. Say your wishes, aspirations and prayers for love or meditate towards this direction.
• If you are talking to or dating the one you love, face towards your love direction.

• The southwest is the universal sector for love and romance. If you wish that love grows and stays in your home, activate and protect this sector. You can create the energy of good relationship.
• With an accurate compass you can find the exact location of the southwest. Energize both the big chi or the whole house and the small chi or the individual rooms separately.
• Use white, red, yellow or pink light to energize the love sector which is the southwest.
• Place a cluster of quartz crystal in the southwest portion of a table (preferably the table should be in the southwest sector of your room). Crystals carry the excellent chi of the earth, they will simulate the element of the earth (love).
• If a toilet or bathroom exists on your southwest sector, your love luck will be badly affected. Hang a five-rod windchime above the toilet bowl or paint the inside of the door bright red or place a mirror on the outside of the toilet door.
• If your room or house does not have a southwest corner, focus a light on the southwest wall of your living or dining room. This activates the small tai chi which is just as effective as the big tai chi.
• If family luck is missing in the house, life and love are not fulfilled. Romance, love and marriage are important to the family.
• If the southwest has overhead exposed beams, cover the edges of the beams with soft patterns or hang small windchimes. This can soften the effect of the killing chi.
• Flowers and plants whether fresh or artificial deplete the energy of earth
• Take note that the southwest is the earth’s sector and wood represented by plants as destructive to earth in the Feng Shui cycle. Love may not flourish because of this.
• Decorate this sector with objects made of clay, porcelain, ceramic or crystal, never of wood or fresh flowers and plants.
• Do not put water in the southwest. Earth and water are not compatible in Feng Shui. Water will affect the relationship of the residents of the house in this case quarreling will always prevail.
• Activate romance and luck by decorating the southwest sector of the room with crystal chandelier, ceramic vase or porcelain urns.
• Heart-shaped rose quartz crystals on a red cloth is an excellent energizer to attract love luck if placed on the southwest.
• Another powerful energizers in the earth sectors of the home are natural quartz crystals and jasper. If placed in the southwest they will activate romance luck and in the northeast, they will bring intelligence and artistic energies.
• The kun trigram of the southwest can be used by including three yin broken lines onto the designs of curtains, walls, ceilings, furnitures, etc., kun activates marriage luck.
• Hang a painting of picture of high mountains in the southwest, you create a powerful chi of big earth, this will enhance a harmonious relationship and establish goodwill between you and people around you.
• Do not use plants of windchimes to remove the bad effect of a “poison arrow” or protruding corner if ever one exists in the southwest corner of your house. Instead use a bright light focused directly on the edge of the corner to dissolve the negative effect.