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How to feng shui your karma
Topic Started: Feb 13 2008, 12:29 AM (108 Views)
Eral
Kopi Luwak
I laughed so much while researching this I feel energised and cheerful now.

My absolute favourite is this:
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4. Guardian Spirits
These are spirits of persons who have chosen to stay with a person or place as its guardian spirit.
Typical scenario: A family moves into an old house. The former owner manifests him/herself and announces that he/she loved the place so much, can't bear to leave it and has appointed him/herself guardian. These ghosts are usually described as "comfortable" or "helpful" presences.
Psychological factors: The family wants the ghost to remain. Or perhaps a lonely person likes the ghost's company.
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It is very selfish and unkind to keep spirits from where they belong. Ghosts are not pets.


from http://www.invink.com/askme2.html

-Having a picture of Chung Kwei, the Guardian of Harmony is supposed to be helpful. He is a portly scary bloke with a brushy beard and a big sword. (I cannot copy it here. One day I will learn how to hyperlink.) I have moine printed off. Question is: what the hell kind of frame?

-You pray to the Heaven god on Feb.15, and the Tai Shui god on Feb.16. How convenient is that! :elvis:

-red is the positive energy and prosperity colour. Some recommendations included painting your door red, but I'm sure you needn't go that far.

- bells and windchimes are highly recommended, also white candles in your living room and the south of your home. My house doesn't have a south. :( I must move, obviously. And clear quartz crystal.

-The Chien trigram: three horizontal stripes, silver on gold or vice versa will look pretty and people will think it's art, not voodoo.

-Images of birds taking flight are good.
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=n...m=1&sa=N&tab=wi

-burning sage and lavender is recommended, as are angelica and dragon's blood incense. I'll go the sage and lavender, I think.

-scattering roasted beans through your house will get rid of bad energy, but I imagine gets you mice instead. Ditto with poppy seeds on your threshold.

- if your problem is a fire elemental, you should have a water feature or fountain in the house. People feel very strongly it shouldn't be in the bedroom. Soggy carpet isn't good, obviously.
If it is a water elemental, you should have bowls of sand or salt. Plants and candles dry out these too. The water elemental, that is.

-If all else fails, there is the Lesser Banishing Ritual.
http://www.geocities.com/gaypagans/LBRP.htm

A hangover cure came up in the search as well. I assumed that going out and getting rip-roaring drunk was a helpful action. But maybe coffee with a sympathetic friend and a nice relaxing bath - perhaps also with a sympathetic friend- would do just as well.

I'm off to the nursery for some angelica. B)

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Bex
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How can your house not have a south? Like, is it missing an entire section?

Painting your front door red is considered too intense by some practioners, or it depends on what direction it faces at any rate. Different schools of feng shui say different things. Some base the trigram on compass direction so your front door can be in different sections, and others base the trigram so that the front of the house determines placement of everything else.

The proper frame would likely be made of the material most appropriate to that part of your home (metal, wood) or painted a beneficial colour.

This author is really easy to follow:
http://www.fengshuipalace.com/
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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Inky
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I also wonder about not having a south. Even if it's missing a section, there'd still be a south to what there is.

Those sound a lot easier than sacrificing a snow-white bull, which is what I thought I'd have to do to get rid of this bad juju.
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lara
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I dismissed feng shui when I learned that many practitioners cut down all the trees around their homes in order to prevent their shadows from falling on the house, and having stairs that lead down to your door is very bad because then all the luck runs out the door.

Silly.

I do like red front doors.

My latest decorating philosophy is: have very little furniture.

My last one is: What? Everyone doesn't carpet the bedroom with clothing?

It's hung on a bit.
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Eral
Kopi Luwak
I live in a unit. No windows or doors north or south. Just east and west. It's an open plan rectangle, no rooms north or south. The second upstairs bedroom could be described as west-south-west, but that's as close as you get.

EDIT: Ooh! I forgot to say, when I went down to the nursery I parked my silver car between two gold cars, and we made a Chien trigram!! :dance:
Sadly, there was no angelica, but I bought a veronica instead. ;D
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Bex
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Your home still has a north and a south at the edges that are facing those directions. No matter what school of feng shui you're looking at, you superimpose the trigram over the living space you have and work from there. I find it simpler to just work the positioning based on your main entrance, instead of figuring out compass directions.

I'm a pretty skeptical person, but I did recently do some stuff to bump up the wealth gua and J got a promotion and I got a raise (and I didn't even ask for mine), plus we each got an unexpected cheque in the mail (income tax reassessment, natural gas rebate). I'm not complaining, even if I wouldn't call myself a true believer either. All I did was move around some stuff we already had; it needed to go somewhere.
I belong to one of those families that does not speak to or see its members as often as we should,
but if someone needed anyone to fall on a sword for her, there would be a queue waiting to commit the deed.
-Min Jin Lee
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Krazy
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I haz powah!
If your house is on the south pole, it will have only north facing walls. Likewise one at the North pole will only have south facing walls. Hence it is possible to have a house which does not have a south wall or a north wall.
"Well, ‘course dis one’s betta! It’s lotz ‘eavier, and gots dem spikey bitz on de ends. "
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Eral
Kopi Luwak
My goodness, Krazy appears to be agreeing with me. :o
I'm still too sad to chat now, though.
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lara
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Well, Bex, I'm just glad you respect my beliefs, or at least pretend to. :lol: ;D
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Eral
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My garden has been looking terribly forlorn, lately, and I decided it was time for a spot of feng shui-ing it, getting that postive energy flowing, and be able to hold my head up when the neighbours look over the fence.

Bought herbs and flowers to replace the dead'uns, and a new water lily. I discovered that the reason my old water lily has never flowered may be because it needs fertilising. So, after potting the new plants, and before commencing the inaugural drowning, I got out the fertiliser.
I have mentioned I have acquired fish. I am quite fond of the boys and girl now, and spend a few minutes of my coffee time with them every morning, and check on them every evening. They are Frank, a white fish with a dark orange hood, Dora, entirely gold, and Big George and Little George, two white fish with black and orange spots. They were swimming about happily amongst the fronds of the grass-like plant I bought in a seperate pot with the water lily. It acts as a water purifier, and is apparently quite important for a healthy pond.
So. I reached into the pond, located the water lily pot and heaved it up.
The entire contents of the pond came surging up, fish leaping about frantically. The grass has spread all over the pond, the roots inextricably knotted together, and I stood there with one horizontal pot, one vertical and three years worth of water grass, and a cascade of grey muck streaming over my hands. With a tearing sound, the pot I was not holding plunged back into pond bowl, the water immediately turning an impenetrable grey. I hurriedly dumped the pot in my hand, paddled around desperately for the pot that had fallen back in, and scooped it out, splashing even more water and mud all over myself. This can't be good for the fish, I thought to myself, looking at what remained of the water.

:eek: THE FISH!! I hastily checked the trailing forest of grass for corpses. No sign of any fish out of the water. No sign of any fish in the water either, mainly because it looked like a block of concrete.
In a complete sweat, I got a bucket and a container and began emptying the pond. Very carefully. Checking that I was not throwing out any fish.
After two hours I had only found Frank and Dora, who didn't like the bucket much, but they were better off than the Georges who I strongly suspected went down the drain in the initial tsunami, and the new plants which were covered in clay. (You shouldn't water your plants with pond water that has clay in it. Some things shouldn't be recycled.)

There was about two inches of silty water left in the pond, the water lily was shrivelling in the sun, and the mud which was now spread out all over the courtyard stank to high heaven. The phone rings. I'm soaked, muddy, stinky and it's Mr.FPS asking me how I've gone cleaning the house today. :4Udrew: I break it to him that I may be guilty of fish homicide, that I haven't got round to sweeping yet, and that he might not find the courtyard to be a nice place for his early morning coffee tomorrow. He urges me to return to fish rescue.

I remove another inch of muck from the bottom of the pond. This is it. I'm down to bottom. Can I see any damn fish? No.
And then I see a trailing curlicue in the watery mud, and the top of a fin. The fish are there, just completely camouflaged. I spend another half hour catching the invisible fish, and answering the phone and reassuring Mr.FPS that they were safe, the house would be clean, and the courtyard habitable at some point in my life.
I restored the pond and the fish,(that lily had better respond to the fertiliser, after this <_< ) got the courtyard clean, you now only smell the stench if you are standing right next to a garden bed, and I will probably mop the floor today. :faint: I'm sure feng shui shouldn't be this stressful.

I feel I am prepared now for sacrificing that snow-white bull.
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lara
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I know I should be full of sympathy, Eral, but instead I enjoyed your tale immensely.
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