House Hunting for Good Feng Shui
A friend called with a funny feeling. She was inquiring about a home for sale in West Hobart, Tasmania.
This house is affordable and good looking. It also has a beautiful sun room, big fenced yard, a deck off the kitchen, generous floor plan, is parking heaven and close to the local amenities. “So what’s the problem?”, I asked. She said, “I don’t know, it’s just this feeling…”
For the majority of folks feeling is a large part of choosing a place to live. Any real estate agent will tell you if a client doesn’t like “the feeling” of a place there will be no sale. It’s no secret that for exactly this reason — those “feelings” — that staging and interior redesign professionals are in demand, creating favorable first impressions for prospective buyers.
Feeling is also one of the main reasons people maintain their home and business environments with Feng Shui. They are responding to a cue, a feeling, calling them to adjust and receive continuous support from the Earth. For a lot of people the Feng Shui feeling is sort of like a “spidey sense,” a persistent, and indefinable something that guides them to or away from specific locations/buildings with specific Qi and energy potentials.
A person’s feelings, from a biological perspective, are activated by a cascade of complimentary biochemical and bio-electrical processes. But where do Feng Shui feelings come from? Is it possible they are generated by the Earth itself?
EMF is a unique Earth feature and a major source of natural electricity. Not all planets with liquid iron core compositions similar to Earth have magnetic fields. A good example is Venus. Could Venus’ rotation of just 243 days lack enough geo-dynamic force to create a Venusian EMF field?
Other speculations as to the origins of Earth’s EMF are as follows:
-Earth’s expansion, contraction, speed of rotation and orbit around the sun; -Magnetic reconnection between sun and Earth through X-points or electron diffusion regions; -Friction at the Planetary Boundary Layer; –Global atmospheric electricity and geomagnetic storms; -Excess currents of protons in solar wind; -Circulating electrical currents within Earth’s molten core; -Seasonal changes; -Jet streams; and -Equinoxes, solstices and the moon’s magnetic pull.
Any or perhaps even all of these may combine, like the inner workings of a clock, perfectly synced, to create Earth’s magnetic fields.
Here is a link to a powerful 15 second NASA video showing an example of Earth’s magnetic fields:
In ancient times, when terrific EMF activity was located, what happened then? This is pretty darn cool: what happened then was people got the cue! Contemporary research shows us that many of our planet’s most important ancient megalithic sites, revered burial mounds, temples, palaces, mysterious oceans and ancient gathering places such as the Giza Pyramid, Bermuda Triangle, Mohenjo Daro, Bimini road and Ankor Wat, are situated on shared super charged EMF latitudes.
Transcending continents and demonstrating specific organization of a world wide pattern along shared geomagnetic lines, we are offered a tantalizing glimpse into ancient cosmologies and an invisible “net” of inexhaustible energy.
This is an overwhelming indication that humans of yore knew where the power of the land was. They felt it. These folks were acutely aware of their environment, as they lived and died because of it.
Very much aware of where benefit was being reaped, ancient environmental scientists refined their observations into various working systems, tools and eventually “machines” to benefit their tribes or masters. Modern day research proves the ancient calculations correct. These temples, palaces and venerable land sites of antiquity pulse with power, or more accurately, with strong EMF. These locations inspired humans to create at their highest levels, communicating the human condition in sacred universal images and mathematical ratios, in architecture and art and in the more subtle sciences of light and sound.
It is a grave mistake to think of the ancient Feng Shui scientists as anything but extremely advanced scholars. They were charting the skies and land with compasses and ancient calculators while large chunks of the world were still wearing animal skins and running for food. The equivalent of geologists, geometricians, quantum physicists, astronomers, mathematicians and astrologers of their day, Feng Shui masters were groomed and maintained to “massage fate and destiny” for the most important person in their world – the emperor. Failure to do so resulted in a swift and gnarly death extended to the entire family – guilty by DNA. Little to say this was excellent motivation to offer the best guidance to the emperors as possible!
So my Aussie client’s feeling was not so funny after all. In my eyes (and compasses) she was responding appropriately to an age-old calling – the Earth tickling those bio-electrical and environmental EMF “spidey senses” and telling her to pass on the house!
Why? Upon taking compass readings of the house I discovered it is oriented within 1 degree of being in between two different directions. This building has the potential to generate stagnant, confusing, fragmented, chaotic, depressing and unstable Qi patterns. This gal and her growing family will undoubtedly do better in a different home – and she sensed it!
Feng Shui Space Clearing and Salt Water Cure
As an energetically sensitive being, we may find ourselves affected by people, events and even spaces. Though subtle, we can often feel the shifts of energy which can bring us discomfort and unease. Practices clearing these spaces starts in our physical environment. When this physical container is clear, it allows the light of our soul to expand and create greater manifestations from within.
Feng Shui is an ancient practice of maximizing the energetic flow of a physical space. All things have Chi/Qi – a life force energy which is always in motion.
Paying attention to these trusted principles can help us be in more cooperation with the harmony of life around us. When we apply these methods, we may discover ease, joy, abundance and creativity is more easily able to find us.
Stagnation occurs when there is no flow. This stuck energy can feel like something is off, lethargy and simply being uninspired. When this blockage is allowed to fester, arguments, sickness, depression and loss of material wealth may result. The tensions will certainly mount if we do not pay proper attention to how energy is allowed to move around us. Feng shui space clearing is one practice we can engage to ensure the flow remains.
When to Clear Your Space
While routine cleansing should be a normal part of your home care, I like to also clear, charge and bless the home during significant moon phases like the Full and New Moons, during eclipses and at the holy-days. Each will give us a subtle reset which can program the energy of our space to resonate with our own intentions.
When matched with sacred days honored throughout time, we will get an extra boost in the form of blessings from the natural world. If we can match the vibration of clear intent with our personal goals, energies can more clearly manifest for us.
Anytime you feel unsettled in your space, this is a good indicator that feng shui space clearing may help. More obvious reasons could be a fight, a trauma or guests who may not match your frequency, which also offer an ideal time to clear your physical space.
Moving into a new home can be hectic, but merging with your new space so that it may be ready to hold all of you is also a must. Clear out the old tenants and introduce yourself to your home room by room.
And don’t feel like this ritual cleansing only applies to your home! Cars, offices and yards are carriers of energy and may need our attention from time to time.
Works spaces likewise are crucial as we all have tensions that arise at work. A little bit of feng shui clearing will help us be more focused, productive and at ease in this most important aspect of our lives.
Negative Energy
In feng shui, salt can purify “negative” energy bringing the charge back to neutrality. Some people feel the new energy as clear, purified and clean. It can then hold and lift the intentions we set.
Let us acknowledge that just because something feels funky, it doesn’t necessarily equate to evil or “negative.” Rather it is simply a disruption that affects our energy fields.
Like a duck swimming in a dirty pond, the dirty water is not bad, it is just affecting the duck in ways that are not optimum for its well being. Energy is the same, to label it as negative or bad will only program it to be so. Energy is neutral, it’s subtle affect on us is where we can be patiently aware.