In the past few columns we’ve explored how to determine whether your home belongs to the East life group or to the West life group, and which life group you as an individual fall into. In this month’s column we’ll explore what to do if you find yourself living in the opposite life group’s home, or if you live with opposite life group people.
Begin first with the house and balance it elementally by placing the appropriate element in each direction. Each of the lucky or auspicious directions can be enhanced or strengthened by the location of the correct element. In the same way, each of the unlucky or inauspicious directions can be controlled. It’s important to balance the energies of the house first, and you can then move on to balancing for each individual. If you belong to one life group but live in a house belonging to another, it becomes even more important to balance the space for yourself as an individual. This is done by determining your Ming Kua number, and then by placing the elements directionally, according to the Ming Kua.
Those people belonging to the East life group, Ming Kua numbers 1, 3, 4, and 9 have the directions of the North, East, Southeast, and South as their lucky directions, with the West, Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast as their unlucky directions. West life group is exactly opposite, with the Southwest, Northwest, West and Northeast, #’s 2, 6, 7, and 8 as their lucky directions and the North, South, East and Southeast as their unlucky directions.
If you live in an opposite life group house, the locations of the house that are considered unlucky will be your lucky locations. Again, this underscores the need to bring your personal elements for balancing the space into play. After balancing these locations, they become lucky for you, so it’s good to use these areas as much as possible. The other way to maximize your luck, regardless of which rooms in the house you use the most, is to always face one of your lucky directions.
The easiest way to understand this notion of facing one of your lucky directions is to understand that energy flows from all directions, and that you have several builtin receiving stations, so to speak. The heart chakra, at the center of the chest, receives the energies of the directions when you’re sitting up. So if you’re going to sit at a table, or a desk, or in a chair for any length of time, it’s good to be sitting up and facing one of your lucky directions. Your lucky directions will correspond strongly to certain life experiences, so if you are having some health difficulties, for example, you may want to support your well-being by facing the personal direction that strengthens health and healing for you.
When lying down, it’s the crown chakra at the top of the head that becomes the receiving station. So you always want the head of your bed facing one of your lucky directions. If you spend any time lying on your sofa, then you also want to be sure that the top of your head faces one of you lucky directions. This becomes a little trickier when you’re one half of an East group/West group couple. When confronted with this problem traditional Feng Shui suggests that the front door of the home should face the male’s lucky direction, and the head of the bed should face the woman’s. It’s also possible, on occasion, to angle a bed so that it picks up the energy of two directions, such as from both the South and Southwest, thereby satisfying each partner’s lucky direction requirement.
Feng Shui exists to bring balance to even the most challenging of situations. There are very few spaces that can’t be transformed. I’ve rarely had to suggest that anyone move. When that has been the case, it’s usually due to something extremely toxic, like high electromagnetic fields that are destroying the health of the inhabitant, or an overwhelmingly large number of difficult to correct Feng Shui problems. Over the next few months I’ll share actual site visits with you, what we did to enhance the Feng Shui, and what the results were for those who live in the space. In this way, I can take Feng Shui theory, place it into action, into real life situations, and we can see specific outcomes.
And so, until next month, I wish you many blessings and great happiness. Please feel free to fax me at 713-861-9243, e-mail me at joani@wt.net, or call me at 713-861-0903 with your questions, feedback, or personal experience. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
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