Creating Health, Harmony, and Prosperity in Your Life

Are you or is someone you know:

• Experiencing a downward shift in health?

 • Searching for greater prosperity?

 • Looking to sell or purchase property?

 • Having difficulty attracting romance?

 • Seeing productivity or creative levels decreasing?

 • Experiencing more arguments and stress?

 • Planning to decorate, re-model or new construction?

 • Noticing more delays in projects or collections?

Classical Feng Shui, the ancient 5000-year-old Chinese art of placement, can promote good health, improve relationships and enhance prosperity. It works with the physical aspects as well as invisible energies in relation to direction, time and space. Just correctly positioning appropriate colors and elements around your home and office helps you receive optimum benefits while fitting into any style and décor.

Classical Feng Shui is the traditional, time-honored Chinese discipline, developed and refined over 5,000 years of studying the environment in which we live. Unlike Western versions of Feng Shui, which use mirrors, flutes and crystals as remedies, Classical Feng Shui works with the subtle energies of time and space, using a special compass and the Five Elements in nature.

The sages of ancient China were so tuned-in to these subtle currents within the environment that they were able to develop a system which continually created tremendous improvements in their lives. Using this system, they actually determined how to schedule crops for best yield, as well as how the energy within and around a structure, such as their homes, would affect those living and working inside. 

Practitioners of the popularly-known Western Feng Shui are known for the use of a basic Bagua grid where characteristics are pre-determined and placed in a set fixed position according to the location of the front door only, which, for example, determines that the prosperity corner is always in the far back left hand corner of a building.

The Bagua is a nine-square grid representing the basic 8 directions, plus center. While most Feng Shui books and practitioners stop right here, a Classical Feng Shui consultant knows this is just the beginning!

In Classical Feng Shui the Bagua grid is used to define one of 216 possible different energy patterns, mathematically determined in part with the use of a traditional Feng Shui compass called a LoPan. The precise energy is determined by one of not four but 24 compass directions, plus factoring in the astrology of a building by the year the roof was put on.

Numbers within the Classical Feng Shui Bagua represent subtle characteristics of Chi, or Life-Force Energy. Once analyzed, the Five Elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal are used as remedies to harmonize the space.

In addition to the environment and the directions, referred to as the space, there is also the effect a space has in time. The Chinese discovered that the quality of time changes every 180 years, every 20 years, every year, every month, day and every hour. One aspect of time presents the potential of being “locked out” of prosperity or good health for a 20 year period, meaning it becomes nearly impossible to make positive strides without knowing the proper cure. This shows how our environments can really shape events in our lives. In fact the Chinese believe that Feng Shui has more affect over us than our own hard work or karma, ranking third only to our destiny (determined at the moment of our birth), and luck.

This time - space factor creates a complex formula that mathematically specifies identifiable characteristics of any given space. Classical Feng provides the kind of analysis used to build empires.

So how do you create balance once you have that information? Many believe that it’s with crystals, mirrors and little Chinese trinkets that just don’t fit into our American decorating style. While studying Classical Feng Shui in China, I discovered that these items are really just folklore remedies. The ancient Feng Shui Masters simply used the five elements of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal to balance each environment individually, just as an acupuncturist would balance the human body. Correctly placing these elements within and around a structure harmonizes the environment so that life simply runs more smoothly.

Once a space has been balanced, be it a home, business, or land, usually all that is needed to maintain the balance is an annual "tune-up". However, many clients call whenever there are changes in their lives, remodeling, new employees, money or relationship issues, disharmony of any kind, and Classical Feng Shui comes to the rescue.

One client said, "Ronda has come in and basically switched everything in both companies from bad to good, from not flowing energy to what a wonderful place for us to work. It helps most with people getting along with each other, with negative energy in the office that is attached to computers and so much electrical equipment, and with our clients who don’t pay on time. When we bring Ronda in she balances the energy, making things a lot easier and a lot more positive in the environment."

It is very empowering to uncover the hidden potential of your environment and receive the optimal benefits it has to offer. Sometimes it means clearing the clutter, or adding a color or element, and yet other times an Energetic Space Clearing is required. Whatever the issue, once the space is brought into balance the occupant comes into greater harmony.

Once balanced, the environment is like a breath of fresh air. You can then breathe. Breathe into the space, into your life and breathe the connectedness to all living things. Once harmonized, the environment will feed the occupants the vital life force energy needed to keep them grounded, on purpose, and in vibrant wellness. Aligned with Feng Shui you can have inner harmony. JUST BREATHE.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit. In Feng Shui, the 2011 New Year doesn’t actually begin until February 4 at 12:32 pm. This is the exact time between the winter solstices and spring equinox using the Chinese solar calendar.

There are actually two different Chinese calendars; the lunar (yin) calendar and the solar (yang) calendar. The lunar calendar is the best known and most popular of the two: It's the one that is frequently celebrated with lots of pageantry. This year the lunar celebration is on February 3rd, very close to the solar New Year.

The lesser known solar calendar was developed by meteorologists to gain insight into the cycles of seasons. It is used in the form of Chinese astrology known as Four Pillars as well as for Feng Shui. The solar year is divided into 24 solar terms, each lasting about 15 days. The concepts are derived from the Yi-Jing, the Chinese Book of Change.

When considering Feng Shui the thing to remember is that if you were born on February 4th or 5th then you need to look at the Chinese Ten-Thousand Year Calendar to accurately determine the birth animal you are associated with.  If born before that time you belong to the animal of the previous year, if after then the current sign.

Each year ushers in a new animal, which is used to characterize the type of energy that influences your life. The Chinese call this “the animal that hides in your heart.” The cycle of 12 animals (or earth branches) repeat five times to make up a sixty year cycle. Each time it comes in the animal will also be characterized by a different one of the five elements: metal, water, wood, fire and earth. 2011 is a year to birth metal Rabbits like those born in 1951. The animal influences not only the year, but the month, day, hour and minute.

Now, don’t confuse your branch association with your element according to the East/West School of Feng Shui system.  Here you are associated with one of eight elements, subtle chi characteristics, which add another layer to your magnetic preferences.  As you can see Chinese Astrology and Feng Shui influences are quite complex; but lets get back to the year of the Rabbit.

According to Master Sang of the American Feng Shui Institute “If you were born year of the rabbit, then in 2011 you will have abundant opportunities; in career it is best to cultivate flexibility.  Although the Rabbit may prefer security and stability to uncertainty and change, this year you need to embrace the unknown to achieve your potential.  You can achieve success if you venture abroad, whether for studies or emigration.  Career and money prospects are at their best during the summer and autumn….”

When you order a Feng Shui Report or annual "Tune-up", you will be given insights into the particular influences affecting your coming year, month by month.  If you haven’t ordered your "Tune-up" this is the time to act.  If you haven’t had a consultation for your home and/or office yet, this is also the perfect time to set yourself up for a truly Happy Healthy New Year!