I am back from a short vacation trip to Northern California for my Niece’s beautiful wedding. Here is the post on the Feng Shui Toolbox that I mentioned in my last Feng Shui post. This is a list of basic items that you may need from time to time to balance any of the guas in your home or place of business.

The Feng Shui Toolbox

Tools For Prosperity Gua:

Element: none
Colors: purple, green, gold and red.
Shape: none
Creative cycle items: none
Destructive cycle items: none
Numerical vibration: 8

Tools for Fame/Reputation Gua:

Element: fire
Colors: red
Shape: triangular or pointed
Creative cycle items: wood, green, columns.
Destructive cycle items: water, black, undulating shape.
Numerical vibration: 1

Tools for Relationship/Love Gua:

Element: none
Colors: pink, red and white
Shape: none
Creative Cycle items: none
Destructive Cycle items: none
Numerical Vibration: 2

Tools for Creativity/Children Gua:

Element: metal
Colors: white
Shape: rounded, mounded
Creative Cycle items: earth, yellow, flat, square.
Destructive Cycle items: fire, red, pointed.
Numerical Vibration: 3

Tools for Helpful People/Travel Gua:

Element: none
Colors: gray, white and black.
Shape: none
Creative Cycle items: none
Destructive Cycle items: none
Numerical Vibration: 5

Next: Tools for the remaining 4 guas.

In Feng Shui you apply cures to fix the deficiencies in your life. You may, for example, need to attract money. The cure for this would be to place a lot of purple in your prosperity corner. Here is a list of 8 traditional Feng Shui cures:

Eight Traditional Feng Shui Cures

1. Light; adding light to an area adds energy and gets things moving again. Light can come from candles, electric light sources, oil lamps and fires. Anything that reflects light, such as a mirror, is also a light cure.

2. Sound; appealing sounds can create a shift in energy vibrations. Natural sounds work the best. Try any number of new age cd’s to quiet or balance something in one or more of your home’s gua.

3. Living things; also great energy enhancers, but make sure that you keep their areas clean. Clutter and litter add negative energy.

4. Weight; add heavy items to a gua when you need to be grounded in that area. They may be small symbols of weight, rather than the real thing. For example, you might want to place a small statue of an elephant or a whale in an area where you need help.

5. Color; each gua of your home responds to a specific color. See the Feng Shui toolbox in my next post for corresponding colors.

6. Moving objects; objects that seem to be alive can add a lot of energy to a gua. This can be accomplished by adding things like fans, moving curtains, butterfly wings, chimes and mobiles.

7. Electric power; electric appliances of every sort generate electrical fields which energize the gua they are located in. Be careful where you place them in any gua. Cover or conceal them when not in use.

8. Symbolic objects; the bamboo flute is a good example of a symbolic object that can cure an area. Leave it lying around the area of your choice and wait for the good news to come.

Next: The Feng Shui Toolbox

There are five elements that are used in Feng Shui. Everything on Earth belongs to these elements. They are to be be found everywhere in our homes and places of business. Too much or too little of these elements in the guas of our buildings leads to imbalance. We add  or subtract these elements in each gua when they are out of balance. This is done to create harmonious vibrations in our personal environments. The following chart lists the elements and how they are used to add and subtract elements to create balance.

The 5 Feng Shui elements:

1. Wood – as in furniture, walls or art objects.

2. Earth – earth colors and live or artificial potted plants.

3. Metal – as in furniture, art objects and building construction.

4. Fire – as in a fireplace (artificial works okay here) and the color red.

5. Water – as in fish tanks, art objects or clear glass.

These basic elements can be used to balance each of the Nine Feng Shui guas. When this is done it is known as a “Cure”. Cures can be accomplished by adding one or more of the Five Elements.

The Elements as They Relate in the Creative Cycle:

1. Water feeds wood (Trees and woody plants get their water from the soil via their root systems.)
2. Wood feeds fire (Adding more wood to the fire prolongs it.)
3. Fire makes earth (This is every powerful. Think of a hot lava flow that creates more land when it cools.)
4. Earth creates metal (A lot of our metals were created in the soil of the earth.)
5. Metal holds water (A metal bucket traps water in itself.)

Think of the creative cycle as one that adds rather than subtracts. For example, if you have a room that has too little water then you may add glass to compensate.

The Elements as They Relate in the Destructive Cycle:

1. Water douses fire
2. Fire melts metal
3. Metal cuts wood
4. Wood pierces earth
5. Earth dams water

In the destructive cycle your goal is to reduce the effect of too much of one element. For example, if you have too much wood in a gua, you can reduce it by adding metal.

Next: Basic Feng Shui Cures

Here is a brief description of each of the 9 sections in a Western Feng Shui Bagua:

1. Prosperity Gua

This area relates to all matters of wealth. It especially affects the money we receive for the luxuries of life that we all want. This is also your corner of power. Remember, money is power in that it can free you from the stress of always needing to create more money.

2. Fame and Reputation Gua

This area supports you as the person that the rest of world perceives you as being. It particularly affects your own honesty and integrity, as well as how your relationships work out.

3. Relationships and Love Gua

This part of the bagua is very important. It must be kept in balance at all times. This will ensure that there will be a lot of harmony in all relationships including romantic ones.

4. Creativity and Children

All of your creative thinking is affected by this area of your home. This is where your inner child is located. Children think much more creatively than adults do because they don’t have a lot of prior knowledge hampering them. This is the best location in your home to interact with children if it is possible.

5. Helpful People and Travel Gua

This area affects those in your life who may be able to help you through a tough situation when one crops up unexpectedly. Think of this area as your guardian angel’s area. Also, you may create or block travel here.

6. Career and Life Path Gua

Your career path and your life path are affected by this area. Keep it balanced so that you may stay on the right path in business and in your personal life.

7. Skills and Knowledge Gua

This area affects how you process and use knowledge as you receive it. This gua is directly affected by the prosperity gua and vice versa.

8. Family Gua

Your family and all of its issues are affected in this area. This is the area that creates all of the money needed to support the house and the family. Keep this one balnced so that it doesn’t negate the prosperity Gua or the skills and knowledge gua.

9. Health Gua 

This is the center of the bagua and contains all of the energy combined of the other eight gua. Because it is in the center it affects all of the gua around it. Keep this one balanced always!

Next Up: The Five Feng Shui Elements and how they can be of use in the Creative or Destructive Cycle

Before we can begin to use Feng Shui to cure situations in our lives we need to understand the basics of Feng Shui.

Feng Shui is one of the Five Arts of Chinese Metaphysics. The Feng Shui practice discusses architecture in terms of the invisible force that binds the universe, earth, and humanity together. This force is known as Qi, Chi or Ki.

The history of Feng Shui covers over 3,500 years. It originated in Chinese astronomy.  The art of Feng Shui was essential in the orientation of new buildings in China. Eventually Feng Shui was developed to orient the contents of the buildings, too. It is now a system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the proper flow of Qi.

Applying the art of Feng Shui to your dwelling, whether it be your home or place of work, begins with laying a grid over a scaled drawing or blueprint of the building that shows the boundaries of  each room as well as all of the doors that lead out to the exterior of the structure. This grid is known as a Bagua.

The Chinese Feng Shui Bagua consists of 8 sections. Each section of the Baqua represents a singular energy. They are the energies of Heaven/Sky, Lake/Marsh, Fire, Thunder ,Wind, Water, Mountain and Earth. In Western Feng Shui we use a Bagua that consists of 9 sections. Here is an example of the Western Bagua that covers all of the important areas of our lives:

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I will discuss each of these 9 areas of the Bagua in my next post.

Everyone wants to find their soul mate and fall deeply in love. What most people aren’t aware of is that meditation and manifestation can be useful tools to accomplish that. Employing the art of Feng Shui is another way to find success in love, as well as with prosperity, career, life path, creativity, fame, reputation, skills, knowledge and  travel.

If you are looking for love or want to make your existing relationship better, you need not to look any further. It’s essential that your home (especially the bedroom) be balanced in order for you to achieve harmony in relationships of all sorts.

Before you awake and rise for the day’s activities, make sure you’re on the ball by getting your home ready with some Feng Shui cures that you can do yourself. One hint is to create the best area in the house or apartment that best suited as the “love room”. In our next section, we’ll discuss some romantic Feng Shui tips.

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5.  Don’t blame your psychic when they deliver negative information to you! I realize that most people come to me when they or someone close to them is in some sort of a predicament. They come hoping and praying that I will see a positive resolution to their situation. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world and not everything I “see” for my clients is positive. It is important for you to realize that Psychics are messengers who have no control over anyone’s destiny. It is equally important for you to realize that the negative information that we psychics sometimes deliver may provide our clients with an opportunity to prepare for negative events and to plan ways to neutralize the negative results they produce.

A Tarot Reader once told me that “A Tarot reading talks about what will occur if you do nothing.” I agree with that statement and I think it applies to all forms of psychic readings. Although we cannot change some future events, I do believe that once we are warned about them we have been given the opportunity to positively affect the results they will potentially produce.

So, instead of blaming the psychic for the negative information, it would be smart to engage in a conversation with them and see if there is a way to soften the blow.  Your anger or disappointment in receiving negative information only serves to block your psychic from communicating with the spirit guides who are present during your reading. Heed the message and don’t shoot the messenger!

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Sorry for the delay on Part 2 of this post. I have been extremely busy!

3. Listen carefully when your psychic explains how she or he conducts their reading sessions. Don’t assume that every psychic reads in the same manner. Psychic talent comes in very diverse forms and is practiced using many different methods and approaches. I prefer to tune into my client when they sit down in front of me without being informed of the reason for their session. 90% of the time, I pick up on their  most important issue in the first few minutes of our session. After that, my clients are free to ask about any other issue.  I always inform my new clients of this but some just can’t adhere to my wishes, for some odd reason. When they start asking questions right away it throws me off balance and can potentially have a negative effect on the reading. I want validation right away in a session so that my client and I both know that I am “on”. The session takes off from there.

4. TALK to your psychic! I can’t begin to explain how maddening it is when my clients respond to my visions by saying, “Uh, huh.” or “Okay.”. Some new clients just shake their heads up and down or sideways in response. Every psychic needs what we call “validation” of what they have seen for you. If I say that I see an elderly woman wearing a red pendant necklace and you know who she is, say so right away! Knowing that what I am seeing is correct spurs me on to see even more. I think many people are of the belief that you should say nothing that will influence a psychic when they are tuning in for you. You’re not influencing me if you identify with what I have seen. Telling me beforehand will influence what I see and that is the primary reason I tune in first and ask for questions later on in my sessions. A psychic session is team effort between the psychic and the client. So, do your part while your psychic does their part!

In my last post I discussed how to find a good psychic. In this post, I shift to the other side of the reading table and discuss what it takes to become a good psychic client.

1. This is the most important quality a good psychic client can possess; being on time for your scheduled reading! Although many clients do not realize it, a good psychic’s appointment book is generally filled each day. When one client is late it can potentially delay every following appointment for the rest of the day. Knowing this, after you have showed up 15 minutes late or more for your session, stresses your psychic out.  Trust me when I say this, that doesn’t improve his or her accuracy. Life isn’t perfect so there will be times when you can not avoid being late for your appointment. If that occurs, have the decency to call your psychic and let them know your estimated time of arrival. There is nothing worse than having to sit and wait wondering what the heck happened to your scheduled client. And be understanding if your psychic has to reschedule your appointment because of time restraints. You will get major kudos (and maybe a better reading) for demonstrating that you realize your psychic’s time is just as valuable as yours.

2. Don’t challenge your psychic during your reading. This may sound odd but this has happened to me many times over the past 30+ years. A client will come in and sit across from me with their arms folded across their chest accompanied by a cold stare on their face. They deny that anything I say is accurate and refuse to give me any information that might help me to interpret what I am seeing for them. If this goes on for too long the client is usually in for a shock when I stop the reading (at no charge to them) and usher them out my front door. Most of the time they beg for forgiveness and want me to resume the reading. That rarely happens. Once their combative attitude blocks the flow of information from my spirit guides and theirs, it’s too late to continue. I have never figured out why some people do this. It is completely counterproductive! I can only guess they are skeptics who want to prove that spiritualism is fake or maybe they think that their denials will make the psychic work harder and produce more results for them. They couldn’t be more wrong.

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This is the last part of my posting on how to choose a psychic.

12. Very often, the best psychics are the ones that your friends and relatives recommend to you. Listen to their experience with their psychic to determine if this is the one you are looking for to answer your questions. However, if you don’t feel good about their referral, don’t let them pressure you into going to their psychic for a reading. Again, pay attention to your intuition!

13. Will the psychic record your session for you at no additional charge? Or will they allow you to record it on your smartphone or digital recorder? Any reputable psychic will record your session for you or allow you to record it yourself. In this way, you can review the session later in order to get most out of it. I can’t tell you how many times a client will call me back after reviewing one of my recordings to tell me that they figured out some mysterious detail that I envisioned during their session. Details received during a psychic reading can be overwhelming at times. Don’t worry if you don’t understand a detail or two. Most likely, you will figure it out later when you review the session recording.

14. This is the most important advice I can give you on selecting a psychic. If the psychic you have chosen uses something he or she has seen in your reading to frighten you into paying for more time or additional services, end the session immediately! There are charlatans out there who use their craft to scare you into agreeing to pay an exorbitant amount of money to lift a “curse” from you or to prevent something terrible from happening to you or a loved one. I have spoken to people who have been ripped off in excess of $100,000 as a result of this scam! These unsavory individuals are very good at taking advantage of your belief in spiritualism. If this happens to you, stand up, pay for the time you have used and leave. The longer you stay, the more likely you will be drawn into believing their scam.

I hope this post on how to choose a good psychic has been helpful!