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Feng Shui Tips – Numbers in Feng Shui

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

In this article you will find Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use numbers and Feng Shui to improve the balance of your home.

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Numbers in Feng Shui:

Feng shui began with the tortoise crawling out of the Yellow River some five thousand years ago. The markings on its shell formed the basis of feng shui, the 1 Ching, Chinese astrology, and Chinese numerology. The magic square on the tortoise’s back contained all the numbers from one to nine.

Consequently, numbers have always been an integral part of feng shui.

Every number has a meaning that can be looked at in a number of different ways.

If your house number is 2469 for instance, each of the numbers could be looked at individually, or they can all beaded together and reduced down to a single digit.

In the west, it is standard for numerologists to pay more attention to the final result of adding all the numbers up and reducing them to a single digit.

In the east it is more common to evaluate each separate number.

Numbers are divided into yin and yang. Even numbers are yin and odd are yang. Yang numbers are considered to be more favorable than yin numbers, but balance is required.

Consequently, it is better for your house number to contain both yin and yang elements than to be either all yin or all yang.

You may have noticed that Asian people like the number eight. This is because the Cantonese word for “eight’ sounds like prosperity. They also like the number two as it sounds like easy. However, they dislike the number four it sounds like death. So this means that if you house number was to be 24 that would be interpreted as easy death. All of this is because the Chinese use homophones to help determine the meanings of numbers. If the number sounds like something pleasant or desirable, it is considered good.

Traditionally the number four relates to the positive traits of love, sex, and education.

Here are the homophonic interpretations for each number:

ONE: sounds like honor it also sounds like won.

TWO sounds like easy

THREE sounds like growth.

FOUR sounds like death.

FIVE sounds like nothing.

SIX sounds like wealth.

SEVEN sounds like sure.

EIGHT sounds like prosperity

NINE sounds like long life.

I hope that all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – Colors – Part 2

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Herein Madonna shares some more Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use colors to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow in your home:

The five elements can be used in conjunction with the Aspirations of the Pa-kua to determine which colors can be used to enhance different areas of your home.

When the pa-kua is overlaid on top of the cycle of the five elements, with earth being placed in the center, we receive an interesting mixture of colors that can prove extremely useful.

Wealth area: Green, red, violet, and blue

Fame area: Red, green, and yellow

Marriage area: Red, pink, and white

Family area: Green, red, and blue

Children area:  White and gold

Knowledge area:  Black, green, and blue

Career area: White and black

You can use these color schemes in the areas of the house that relate to the pa-pkua, or alternatively keep objects of these colors in the relevant areas.

Softer colors are ideal for the bedroom. Any color that makes you feel peaceful and relaxed is ideal here. Pink, peach, cream, ivory, beige, tan, and light green are warm and gentle. Avoid strong colors, such as red and orange in the bedroom.

Earth colors, such as yellow, orange, brown, and green are suitable for the kitchen. Avoid blue in the room as it relates to the water element. In fact, speaking blue is not good as the dominant color in any room ( except the bathroom) as it tends to make people introspective and quiet. It is also inclined to make people feel cold. I have been in living rooms where a blue works. (  I have a grayest blue in my house) but it is a difficult color to experiment with. It is better to introduce blue in the form of throw rugs, paintings ornaments, and other objects.

Sensitive colors:  Black and red are the two most sensitive colors in feng shui. Traditionally, black should not be used on gates, doors and walls that face north or south. Red should not be used on gates, doors and walls that face east or west. It is believed that bad luck will come to the occupants of the homes that break these rules. Black and red should always be used with great caution.

Light and pastel colors can be used to make small rooms appear larger. Red, yellow, and blue do the opposite and decrease the size of rooms. Good use of light colors can brighten up a dark corner. A well-lit, sunny part of the house can be painted in light or dark colors. Hot colors, such as red, create stimulating environments. Conversely, cool colors such as blue, are restful and encourage quieter activities.

Color in your home:

All colors are either yin or yang, and as you know we are happiest when we are in perfect balance of yin and yang in our home. Red, orange, yellow, and black are yang. Green, blue, and white are yin. Purple can be either yin or yang depending on the combination of red and blue.  If there is more red than blue it is yang and conversely when there is more blue than red it is yin. Yin and yang colors can be used together to create balance, but ideally should each be of the same strength.

These are, of necessity, very general guidelines. Use the colors that you personally like. It is important that the colors in your home reflect you and your feelings.

It is best to start designing a room by choosing one color to be the dominant color in the room. Choose another color for the carpet or furnishings. Add a third color to either harmonize your two colors together, or to create a contrast. This method is simple, but effective.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 8 – Living Rooms

Saturday, March 27th, 2010
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In Part 8 of Madonna’s Feng Shui Tips Madonna shares some Feng Shui Tips regarding how you may use Feng Shui to improve the positive energy (ch’i) flow of your living rooms:

The living room should be close to the front door and on the same level.

If the living room is on a lower level to the front door and effective remedy is to hang a crystal in the center of the room to encourage the ch’i upwards. Potted plants can also be a attractive remedy.

Do not place couches or chairs under exposed beams. This can cause overhead shars and can be oppressive and create discord. Two bamboo flutes hung from the beam act as a remedy if there is no alternative but to place the furniture under the exposed beam.

A fireplace makes a focal point in the room and creates warmth and cheer. However it can also allow the ch’i to escape up the chimney. The remedy for this is to hang a mirror over the fireplace to reflect the ch’i back into the room.

In many homes all of the furniture is oriented towards the fireplace. Although tis may make good sense in winter, it is better feng shui if at least some of the chairs face each other to encourage conversation.

It is also common to have all the chairs facing the television . The television creates positive ch’i in the room, because it produces light and sound, but it can also kill conversation.

The furniture in the room should be a mixture of yin and yang. This means that the some items should have square corners and others round.  Some authorities insist that everything have round corners, but this is not practical, and is likely to concentrate  peoples thoughts on the money.  It is better to create a harmonious mixture of furniture that you personally find attractive.

The living room should be well-lit, but make sure that the lights are not too strong and harsh. Balance the overhead lights with table or floor lamps to light up different parts of the room. Place a pa-kua over a floor plan of the room to determine the positions that you want to activate.

The wealth sector is particularly strong in the living room. Make sure this sector is well lit to reap the rewards that you deserve. It is also an excellent place for a prized possession, a potted plant, or the television.

You may like to organize your furniture to make the wealth sector the focal point of the room. Other good areas to highlight in this way are the marriage and family sectors. Alternative is if the room is not large you may place comfortable chairs in all of these sectors, arranged in such a way as to encourage conversation.

Negative ch’i is created in the living room when two doors directly face each other at opposite ends of the room. If possible, use a screen to hide one of the doors. Alternative is to place a wind-chimes or hang a crystal by one of the doors this acts as a remedy. A door and a window opposing each other also create negative ch’i as do two windows. The remedy is to keep the blinds pulled over one of the windows.

If the opposing doors form a passage that is used all the time, try and arrange the furniture so that entertaining in this room is not affected by people walking through the room. If the doors are near a wall a mirror will remove the shar-like effects of the straight line through the room.

I hope all of my Feng Shui tips will help you!

- Madonna

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Feng Shui Tips – Part 1 – Introduction to Feng Shui

Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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Ch’i is the universal life force.

It gathers near gently flowing water and is created whenever anything is done perfectly.

To operate effectively we need to encourage as much chi‘i as possible into our home.

Ch’i can be both positive and negative.

For instance, gently moving water creates positive ch’i, while stagnant water creates negative ch’i.

We want as much good ch’i as possible, but naturally want to eliminate any negative ch’i.

Ch’i needs to be nurtured and gathered.

Chi’ is made up of both YIN AND YANG.

Yin and yang are the two opposites in the universe. For instance night and day, short and tall. None of these can exist without the other.

The ancients never tried to define yin and yang, but just collect lists of opposites.

YIN is represented by black, and YANG is white.

The concept began many thousands of years ago when the ancient Chinese called the shady, northern slopes of the mountain YIN and the sunny, southern slopes YANG.

The ancient Taoists used the familiar symbol of yin and yang to represent completion.

This symbol, which looks like two tadpoles in a circle, symbolizes the universe.

One tadpole is black with a white dot in it and the other white with a black dot in it.

The dots indicate that inside every yin there is a certain amount of yang, and inside every yang is a degree of yin.

If your property is too yin, (t0o flat) you can remedy this by planting shrubs and trees or perhaps by the introduction of rocks or a garden shed. It is important to think ahead.  Small trees grow into big trees, which can alter the feng shui of the immediate area.

If your area is too yang,  (too hilly) you may be able to flatten part of your property to create a balance of yin and yang energy.

Even the house itself is divided into yin and yang areas.

The front of the house, which serves to greet people to the property, is outgoing and yang.

The farther inside the house you go, the more yin, and private, the rooms become This is why bedrooms usually feel better if they are situated well away from the front door.

For those of you out there that are starting to get your home in balance, I hope my Feng Shui Tips will help!

- Madonna

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