Well, it is time to think about decorating my living room.
On the Feng Shui Bagua, my living room covers two areas, Fame and Health. According to the book I use, Move your stuff, change your life Karen Rauch Carter, The Fame Gua's power tools are:
- Fire
- Lights
- The colour red
- Triangular objects
- Wood
- Green
- Television
- Rectangular or Columnar objects
- Stained glass
- Animals
- Plants
- Celebrity pictures or memorabilia
- Personal wish list
- Mountains
So basically I am at the decorating stage, I don't know whether to paper or paint and I'm a bit funny about having the colour red in my house. I don't know why. I'm just not keen.
The Health Gua power tools are as follows:
- Earth
- Fruit
- Funny stuff
- Yellow, Gold and Earth Tones
- Squares
- Flat things
- Fire
- Stars and Sun
- Red
- Triangular objects
I thought about red and gold. My mum's living room in a previous home was red and gold and she had endless fortunes at the time. But there is something about the living room that makes me think it wont suit gold.
So really, I have no clue.
My new job is going fantastically. I have started my NVQ in health care so I should probably work on my career Gua and skills and knowledge Gua which happens to be my hall and pantry.... hmmm.
I've not had chance to update my blog due to work commitments. I have been offered a full time job to replace my part time retail job, so this last week has been busy as I've been preparing to leave a job I genuinely love and start afresh on a completely different career path.
I have been very drawn to Feng Shui recently. My mother has returned my book to me so I can read up a bit more on that to keep my mind fresh with it. I've also been meandering my way through "Reiki for Life" by Penelope Quest, a fascinating book but so full of information I have to take my time absorbing it.
In other news, the dying money plant that was left abandoned in the house by it's previous occupants has been brought back to full, vibrant life, by yours truly. So much so I had to prune it this morning because it's branches were too heavy for it. I, of course, have not taken pictures and I am kicking myself for it now. It was on it's last legs and if I didn't have such a dire financial situation I would have got over my qualms of throwing it away (symbolically throwing my money away?) and chucked it out with yesterdays over-cooked dinner and left over soggy salads. Alas. I repotted the poor little begger (pun!) and it is bigger and better than ever (hello new full time job!). I have saved the prunings to replant.
Maybe this is the path my life should take. Horticultural?
Something I forgot to mention in this post: "Feng Shui and Law of Attraction at work." I have also been offered a full time position in a job that will lead to a career and take me out of retail since the money box thing and my attunement to Reiki I.
As much as I love working in retail it really doesn't pay the bills.
My life is amazing.
This is my biggest success so far with the Law of Attraction (LOA), which was made very popular a few years ago by Rhonda Byrne and her book "The Secret". I read a review in Elle magazine and no, it wasn't a ravingly brilliant one, but it piqued my interest and my curiosity into the realm of this LOA "stuff" and I bought the book. That was 4 years ago now and since then I have read many books on the subject, the ones I really loved will be on that side bar thingy under "book list".
My bedroom is above the dining room, so as previously explained it falls over the prosperity Gua of my home (that bit is the Feng Shui) and Amethyst is the crystal for prosperity. The Law of Attraction is an "Ask and you Shall Receive" sort of aspect to the whole thing.
So I generally have issues with money. My love life is great and my job life could be better but money is my nemesis. I cannot hold onto it no matter how positively I think about it. But I digress.
I placed my credit and store cards into my little secret wooden box with the biggest chunk of Amethyst I could lay my hands on and placed it in my wardrobe, the prosperity corner of my room.
I thought nothing of it, as I am trying to pay them off and I figured if they weren't in my purse I wouldn't be continuously tempted to spend on them!!!
Two days later I received a letter from my store card alerting me to the fact that my credit limit had increased. I thought nothing of it until the next day, when I remembered where I had put my card and couldn't help but have a laugh at the way it was working out. I put them away because I wanted to pay them off and I felt quite uneasy about being so close to my limit and then my limit shot up, taking away the unease I felt.
Two days after that I received a letter from my credit card company again alerting me to a raise in my credit limit. This one a significant raise. Taking a lot of worry and pressure away from me.
So, I've been a believer for a long long time in the LOA and Feng Shui, and yet it wasn't until the weekend I was attuned to Reiki I that I finally could reach that point of allowing.
And I am so grateful for it!
I'm quite particular about things like furniture. I'm one of those people who will spend a lot of money on something but only buy it once in my lifetime.The house in which I'm living at the moment is the house that my partner and I intend to buy. And while I am currently living in it with my Dad (it's my Dad's house) I am decorating it in my own taste and to my own beliefs. Feng Shui is one of my beliefs.
The Bagua is a map or chart used to identify the 8 (9) areas of your home (or any personal space) and their corresponding relationships to your life and to each other.
"Ba" = 8 "Gua" = Area
(This is a really interesting and helpful site "Spiritual Feng Shui" )
I've been interested in Feng Shui since I was 10 years old. It became very fashionable around that time and books became dime a dozen so researching it was easy enough. However, being the flighty ten year old I was I swiftly lost interest. At 22 years old I was re-introduced, and I felt like it was just the most perfect timing ever.
Again I researched, and living in what is quite frankly, a blank canvas, I've really been able to sink myself into it and completely submerge myself and my home to this beautiful, relaxing, way of life.
The first room to be decorated was the dining room, which happens to fall in the Prosperity and Family part of the Bagua. I have chosen neutral colours for this room, and it gets so much sunlight because it is South facing that the floor is already fading.
Things that I need to incorporate into this room for Feng Shui purposes are: The colours Red, Gold, Purple and Green. Amethyst crystals. Wood. Family photographs.
So far I have shades of Gold in there, in the wallpaper and the curtains. I placed a piece of purple coloured crafting paper under the floor boards in the left most corner. Now I need to get my furniture. Furniture that will fit the room and fit the Feng Shui. I'd also love to have a massive family portrait done to hang above the sideboard.
The next room to be decorated is the living room. Which is in the Fame Gua and centre Gua which usually represents health these days. Wish me luck.
