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July 19, 2008
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Q: I’m considering buying a floating home. It’s secured on 3 sides and is built on a ‘positive floatation’ concrete base that has foam in it. I’m wondering about the effect of living on water – in this case on a river. Any suggestions you can give me would be very welcome. It feels so right for me.
A: If it feels that right, go for it! I am a great believer in following your intuition, regardless of what the feng shui “rule book” might say.
People have been living on boats and houseboats probably for millennia, so it’s not like you’re attempting anything truly radical. And I assume that making a floating house safe and secure is something to which appropriate experts have given a great deal of thought over the centuries and in more recent years as technologies have improved.
From a feng shui perspective, a floating home does raise some unique issues. The key one is the lack of a solid foundation, which in feng shui terms implies a lack of stability. I suspect that traditional feng shui probably sees this as something to be avoided, but old-school feng shui values “not rocking the boat” more than I do, and is often overly alarmist and “one size fits all” in my opinion. (No surprise I’ve chosen to practice the modern methods!)
How much of a problem the flotation issue might be is hard to say. We generally think of stability as a good thing, but too much of it can be stifling. The fact that you are considering a floating home tells me you’ve got an unconventional streak, so “not being tied down” may suit you just fine.
Living on the river (i.e., being surrounded by abundant water chi) is likely to be beneficial in terms of your social life, career, and finances… although of course there may be any number of other factors involved that counteract that. Rivers are courses of commerce, and although these days we think of flooding as a bad thing, in an agrarian society annual flooding of riverside land was essential to renew the ground and ensure a bountiful harvest.
In broad terms, feng shui is usually seeking balance. A floating home is going to have an abundance of water chi around and beneath it, so that influence is likely to be much stronger than any other element in your home. Keep that in mind in terms of your color choices and décor. Try to minimize WATER and METAL influences (blues, white, metallics) and play up EARTH especially, to add a stabilizing influence. I’m assuming your flotation base is rectangular, so that’s an earth shape, right there, and will help with the stability issue. I’d also recommend a photograph or painting of a mountain somewhere close to the center of the home, to help you stay grounded.
As I finished writing this, I realized that I was smiling: that means my intuition has given you a big thumbs-up, too.
Enjoy living on the river!
Stephanie R.
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7/19/2008 09:39:00 AM
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