Home and Garden

8 easy tips for garden Feng Shui

Mar 28th, 2008 | By Aisling | Category: Featured articles, Home and Garden

As the weather improves each spring and summer approaches, it’s great to have an excuse to spend time outside. You can use gardening to improve your Feng Shui luck, with these simple eight steps:
1. Keep the front and back yard balanced.
Alternate your gardening projects in the front and back yards so that both areas [...]



Feng Shui Outside Your House

Dec 31st, 2006 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

You’ve applied Feng Shui inside your home, but what about the outside? Did you know that the earliest forms of Feng Shui were about where to place your home, and how to landscape it? The first thing to do when you’re applying Feng Shui to the outside of your home, is exactly what [...]



Poison Arrows and the Environment

Nov 29th, 2006 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Sometimes, the biggest challenge to Feng Shui luck is the landscape outside your home or office.
FENG SHUI AT YOUR FRONT DOOR
Start with the lawn around your home or office. If there are any bare or yellow areas, fill them with a hardy ground cover. If nothing will grow in that spot, use [...]



Poison Arrows and Room Decor

Nov 2nd, 2006 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Poison (or poisoned) arrows, also called “killing chi,” are usually found in every room in every home an office.
Poison arrows are corners that jut out and seem to point into the room. Those corners are called poison arrows and can send negative energy–also called “killing chi” [...]



Poison Arrows and ‘Killing Chi’

Oct 25th, 2006 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Simple changes in your home or office can transform your relationships with others. If you’ve been feeling that people are less sensitive than they should be, this could help solve your problems.
The source of troubles can come from poison (or poisoned) arrows, also called “killing chi.” [...]



Feng Shui and Your Health Area

Sep 21st, 2006 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Whether you practice Compass School or Black Hat Sect Feng Shui, the center of your home is your Health area.
Especially when the seasons change, people are eager to avoid colds and viruses, and to recover quickly if they catch a bug.
While Feng Shui should never substitute for professional health [...]



Feng Shui and Doorways

Dec 10th, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Doorways are important in Feng Shui.  They lead to your future.
What do people see first when they walk through your front door?
Always present visitors with a focal point.  That may be art, a great view, an impressive piece of furniture, or something else that’s positive.
Think of it like a movie [...]



More about Lucky Bamboo

Nov 17th, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

Lucky bamboo plants are easy to grow and fun to own.
TO MAKE THE BAMBOO ‘CURL’
If you’d like your stalks of lucky bamboo to ‘curl’ or grow in spirals, place the plant in a slightly dim area, where there is sunlight coming into the room from one side. (Do not put the plant directly in [...]



Take Care of Your Lucky Bamboo Plant

Nov 11th, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Home and Garden

The instructions for growing any variety of dracaena (including several varieties of ‘lucky bamboo’ plants) are about the same: This is one plant that can be grown hydroponically, meaning without soil. You can stand a stalk in some pebbles, keep the pebbles covered with water, and the plant will grow.
Indirect sunlight is best, but [...]



How to Buy a Lucky Bamboo Plant

Nov 1st, 2005 | By Aisling | Category: Featured articles, Home and Garden

Bamboo is considered a lucky plant in feng shui. In Chinese, the words for “prayer” and for “bamboo” sound alike, and some believe that a bamboo plant increases the power of prayer.
The popular “lucky bamboo” plant is technically “dracaena sanderia,” not an actual bamboo plant. It is still considered very lucky in feng shui. [...]