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 mulch or gravel and install a Zen area, a sculpture or rock garden, or a pond or fountain. If you create a special garden, design it in an auspicious shape.
For example, to bring love into your life, the garden should be in the shape of a heart. For wealth, create a shape similar to a money bag with the mouth of the bag facing your building or–even better–the door. For children, design it in the shape of a smile.
If you have any water outside your home or office–including a new pond or fountain–install a mirror that reflects the water indoors. In almost every situation, water is very good luck and should be “brought indoors” by a mirror.
LOOK FOR THE IMPORTANT POINTS
Look outside each door and window, and see if the corners of any buildings are pointing poison arrows towards you. (For more information about poison arrows, see Poison Arrows and Killing Chi.)
If there are corners, signs or other objects that seem to point towards your home or office, place round-leafed plants in the windows facing the arrows. Or, use a sheer or lace curtain in the window so that light enters the room, but the apparent arrows cannot be clearly seen.
FENG SHUI… ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
On the other hand, if your home or office is at the end of a cul de sac or the road forms a “T” shape at your front door, you will need a more powerful remedy.
In some Asian cultures, if traffic seems to aim straight at a front door, it’s smart to place an eight-sided bagua mirror outside, just above the door and facing towards the oncoming traffic. Of course, this should be a weatherproof bagua mirror, but they usually are. (In traditional Feng Shui, a bagua mirror is never placed inside the home.)
REFLECTING GOOD FENG SHUI LUCK
However, in other cultures this could look odd and raise awkward questions. So, consider purchasing or creating a mosaic with broken pieces of china and/or tile, plus broken pieces of a mirror.
(This is one time when you won’t attract bad luck by breaking a mirror. But, if the idea bothers you too much, you can ask a less wary friend to break it for you.)
Start with a metal pie plate, a dish, or any round shape that you can use as a support. Glue the bits of mirror and ceramics in an interesting design. Then, use grout–the same as you’d use for kitchen or bathroom tile–around the pieces of the mosaic.
Hang this above your door, facing the oncoming traffic. The bits of mirror break up the approaching poison arrows of the cars coming towards your home or office.
THERE’S ALWAYS A REMEDY IN FENG SHUI
No matter how inauspicious the environment around you, there are always remedies. Whether you simply conceal the problem with curtains or hedges, or address it with plants, mirrors or other remedies, you can reduce the influence of bad luck.
KEEP IT IN BALANCE
Feng Shui is more about balance than banishing every unfortunate element in your environment or life. By changing what you can, and creating an abundance of good luck around you, anything less auspicious will have less influence on your happiness.
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