10,000 Blessings Feng Shui Blog

A Place of Refuge and Quiet with Feng Shui's Five Elements

 

 

 

The above photos from Myles of Style on HGTV (www.hgtv.com); Kabuki Springs and Spa (www.kabukisprings.com) in San Francisco and Shibui Spa (www.shibuispa.com) in Bend offer inspiration how you could create your own at-home refuge and sanctuary using the Five Elements (earth, fire, wood, water and metal) to create a place to restore and replenish your life-force.  One Feng Shui note, though, if you're deciding to do something like this for your bedroom, please don't use any running water here as it disrupts sleep.

A Feng Shui Spring Altar

This past week I refreshed our living room altar which I love to do seasonally to keep the chi moving and in alignment with the energies of the trigrams and attributes of the bagua.

So the deities are now atop green silk with green lotus candle holders.  In Feng Shui, we use the color green to represent and enhance the energy of spring, new beginnings and growth of the wood element. 

Red Envelopes Ceremony

 

This week Gregory and I had a very Feng Shui ("wind" and "water") kind of day...Still during the 15-day Spring Festival of the Lunar New Year, we drove out to the coast--bright sunshine, windows down, listening to "Earth, Wind and Fire" (seriously!) and had a gorgeous long walk next to the sea.

At dusk, we made a big fire and burned all of the Red Envelopes I received this year from clients, apprentices, students, ezine readers--hundreds of them--and prayed for everyones' happiness, health and prosperity.  I always feel very moved by this ritual (you can click on the photo for a better view). Watching the red and gold colors dance as the night fell over the ocean and the stars began to glimmer, huddled by the heat of the fire...all is well.

A grateful heart by the magnificence of the ocean with my husband's hand in mine.

My Client Altar

 

This is a picture of the shrine in my office where all of the red envelopes I receve from clients, apprentices and students are placed beneath the statue of Kuan Yin and where I do a special blessing for their  Happiness, Health and Prosperity.
Here you can see water offerings (in the little red bowls), fruit, tea, flowers, chocolate (the deities just LOVE chocolate!)  I'm told that Kwan Gong (the protector of businesses there on the right) loves green banannas (which works out well for my morning smoothies when they ripen!)  Slightly above you can also see images of Medicine Buddha (on the far right); a talisman done by my teacher Grandmaster Professor Lin Yun (whose image is there but hidden in this view); and Buddha Tonpa Shenrab, a part of the lineage of this school of Feng Shui.