Aunt
Agga's
Feng Shui Column
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No.
Three:
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Confusion With the Use of Elements | Which
Door Would Be My Main Entrance? |
| Correct Number and Color for Fishes | Three-legged
Frog - How to Place? |
| Jobless and Impotent
| Unscrupulous Competitors | Bad
Chi from Crystals |
CONFUSION
WITH THE USE OF ELEMENTS
Dear
Aunt Agga,
In
certain articles, you mention elements, e.g. wood and metal. What
do you mean by this? I am currently redecorating my home and I am
trying to apply the art of Feng Shui.
I
am wondering whether I need to take down metal and wood shelves
down from the education corner in particular, and what qualifies
as having the fire element to put there. Thank you, for taking the
time to help with this rather urgent matter.
Yours
sincerely,
Kemi McKen
I
think you already understand the use of elements in Feng Shui rather
well. The most basic use of elements comes under the eight aspirations
theory, where each living space can be divided into eight corners,
as shown below:
|
Corner
|
Aspiration
|
Element
|
Color
|
|
North
|
Career
|
Water
|
Black,Blue
|
|
Northeast
|
Education
|
Small
Earth
|
Yellow,
Brown
|
|
East
|
Family/Health
|
Big
Wood
|
Green
|
|
Southeast
|
Wealth
|
Small
Wood
|
Green
|
|
South
|
Fame
|
Fire
|
Red
|
|
Southwest
|
Love
|
Big
Earth
|
Yellow/Brown
|
|
West
|
Children
|
Small
Metal
|
White/Metallic
|
|
Northwest
|
Mentors
|
Big
Metal
|
White/Metallic
|
|
Each
corner is governed by a particular element and represents
an aspiration. To activate the corner, one should use either
the element of the corner, or an element which produces the element
represented by the corner in question.
The
education corner is governed by small earth - so I believe you are
concerned that if you have wood and metal there, the wood would
destroy the earth and the metal would exhaust the earth.
Personally,
I wouldn't take the eight aspiration theory all so seriously. As
long as the shelves are not exposed, they should be quite safe.
(Exposed shelves look like knives and send out very bad shar chi).
If
you want to enhance the education corner, what you should use is
a GLOBE - this is the most effective symbol of earth. You can also
use CRYSTALS.
Other
useful enhancers are CANDLES, LAMPS, RED PAINT... to represent the
fire element which produces EARTH.
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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WHICH
DOOR WOULD BE MY MAIN ENTRANCE?
Dear
Aunt Agga,
I
recently learned about feng shui and want to try to "feng shui"
our home. My question is this: our main entrance faces East. However,
we seldom use that door to enter the house. We come in through the
garage door, which also faces East, and immediately turn South to
go through the door to the home. So should we use East for the garage
door, or South for the door after the garage to the house?
Thanks
in advance, Mary.
It
is better to have a main door which looks like a main door. Not
so good to have your grage door as your main door - so if you use
the door inside your garage into you house which faces South, then
your main door would be a South facing door. But note that one of
the most important aspects in Feng Shui is your front door. Better
to have a front door which has a bright hall in front of
it where the chi can circulate and collect.
If
I were you, I'd start using your original front door more and stop
using the garage.
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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CORRECT
NUMBER AND COLOR FOR FISHES
Dear Aunt Agga,
I have just
read Lillian Too's very interesting encyclopedia. I have
some questions. I have 12 gold fish and one clinging fish. How should
I count clinging fish - as a fish or not? As you recommended having
one black and eight gold fish, how should I count clinging fish?
Thank you for your time and participation.
Sincerely,
Irina Dinov
The
one black and eight gold fish combination only works for goldfish.
You need eight red goldfish and one black goldfish. Clinging fish
do not count - sorry!
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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THREE-LEGGED
FROG - HOW TO PLACE?
Dear Aunt Agga,
I was wondering
about the 3-legged frog. I know it should be placed in the hall.
However, should it face the door or away from it, and should it
be on the hinges side or the other side?
Thank you,
Freya, England.
Dear
Freya,
According
to the legend, where ever you find the three-legged toad, you find
money, so it is best to keep the three-legged toad on the inside
of your house (not the outside). You should keep it low, perhaps
under a table or couch.
Some
say one should turn the frog to face out towards the door
in the daytime and to face into the house at night. So the
frog goes out in the day to collect your money for you, and brings
it back at night.
For
me, I think that's too much of a hass, so I keep nine - and have
them hopping in all directions, some going out to fetch money, some
coming in with the money. I don't buy the daytime nightime myth
because I believe some frogs are nocturnal.
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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JOBLESS
& IMPOTENT
Dear Aunt Agga,
I'm a 47 year
old male, depressed and have just lost my job because I trusted
an old friend who is my superior. I'm up to my wits and I hope that
you can help.
My first problem
is my job. Somehow everytime I think I am getting an offer or securing
a business development, obstacles or "small people" sabotage
me.
I've consulted
at least 4 feng shui people and fortune tellers none of them can
really give me a solution.
I'm writing
also partly due to the fact that I've not have sex with my wife
for 3 years already. Somehow, no matter how hard I try, I just can't
get it up.
I feel very
miserable.
Pls help
me, Desperado.
Dear
Desperado,
You
do sound miserable indeed. Firstly, don't trust people so easily.
Especially since you have a wife to support, perhaps you should
not enter into such risky business ventures. But here are a few
tips to help your career and your life:
1)
Activate the North of your house with a water feature. A small fish
tank or water fountain will do
2)
Find out your kua number and auspicious directions, and whenever
you are negotiating a new venture (whether it be a job or a partnership),
make sure you are facing one of your good directions and the other
party in oneof theri bad directions (IF you can arrange this).
3)
Activate your mentor corner - so that your boss likes you. To do
this, hang a metal windchime in the Northwest of your house.
4)
Stop consulting so many feng shui masters and fortune tellers. This
will only confuse you. Better to do it yourself. Why not invest
some money in buying a good feng shui book and applying the theories
yourself? Because you are doing it for yourself, you will probably
be more careful and do it better.
5)
As for your impotence, I think it's just because you are stressed
out and feeling so low. You can try activating your love and romance
luck - shine a big bright light in the Southwest of your house.
But if you still can't get it up, go see a therapist.
Good
luck.
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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UNSCRUPULOUS
COMPETITORS
Dear Aunt Agga,
I am trying
to help a friend, who has been very good to me, get her business
out of trouble. She is a scrupulous person, and has lost a lot of
business because of unscrupulous competitors. (She runs an art gallery).
I have had some success, but I think feng shui might help even more.
Because of her situation, she can't afford help from a feng shui
practitioner. Do you have any suggestions?
Her front door
is black, (which she feels is bad luck already), but the room is
airy. I don't know. Any advice would help.
Thank you in
advance for any advice, Mary D
Dear
Mary,
Which
sector of the house is the front door in? And what direction does
it face? A black front door need not be a bad thing if her front
door is in the right sector.
If
she is having a lot of trouble with unscrupulous competitors, perhaps
she should check her basic landscape feng shui - for example, does
she have exposed bookshelves cutting into her? Is she sitting with
her back facing the door? Is she sitting facing her worst direction?
Am
so sorry, I cannot help you much for lack of information, but what
you CAN do for her is invest in a good basic feng shui book, where
she can learn feng shui for herself. A good starting point is the
Complete
Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui
by Lillian Too.
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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BAD
CHI FROM CRYSTALS
Dear
Aunt Agga,
Hi!
I have a few question regarding getting rid of the bad 'chi' emitted
from crystals. In her books, Lillian Too says I must put the crystal
in sea salt water for 7 days to prevent the crystal from giving
out bad 'chi'. Does the sea water here mean water from the sea or
just sea water made from table salt?
Can
I just leave the crystal in tap water for 7 days to get rid of the
bad 'chi'? If not, then what other way can I use to get rid of the
bad chi?
My
bad direction is in the south-east. So will putting crystal in the
south-east side of my bedroom to activate my wealth corner be harmful
to me?
Thanks
in advance for answering my questions, Anonymous.
Dear
Anonymous,
The
exercise of soaking a crystal in sea water for 7 days is to remove
all vibes contained within the crystal. Not all crystals contain
bad vibes, but because you do not know where the crystal has come
from or with whom the crystal has come into contact, it is better
to clear the crystal of all existing energies before you start to
use it.
It
is not neccessary to soak the crystal in real sea water. Rock salt
water is fine. But not table salt. It has to be rock salt.
Activating
the Southeast to tap your wealth corner is fine. But note two things:
1)
You should not activate the Southeast corner of your bedroom.
The bedroom is a place of rest. Better to activate the Southeast
of your living room.
2)
The Southeast is governed by the wood element. Crystals belong
to the Earth element. Because wood destroys earth, your crystal
will do nothing to help your wealth prospects. Instead, you should
activate the Southeast of your living room with a small plant, or
small water feature.
Love,
Aunt Agga.
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