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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.

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People tend to be obsessed with all kinds of activities in bringing auspiciousness in everything in life. In Feng Shui, one’s luck, life, love and wealth could be enhanced, suggested, changed, architectured, depending on many factors and practices.

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In feng shui, the ox is the second animal that responded to Buddha’s call before he passed away. This indicates that its hour is believed to be between 1:00 to 3:00 am. Anyone born between these hours will possess the ox’s virtues of patience and forbearance. And if a person was born in 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, and 2009 he or she may be described as conservative, honest, simple, hardworking, reliable, at times slow to response or reactions, and strong-headed to the point of being stubborn or self-willed.

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The general direction of the ox is north – northeast or 7.5 degrees – 37.5 degrees in the compass. This sector of the house, lot, business office or hall occupies 30 degrees and is the part of the area considered as very lucky for those born in the year of the ox. If you were born in the early part of January of the year mentioned, you still belong to the previous sign which is the “rat”. Likewise, if your birthday falls in the early part of January of the next year, you still belong to the ox’s realm.

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