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July 28, 2003 In
this issue:
Happy summer, everyone. We're enjoying hot weather here in Hawaii, and using it as an excuse to spend a lot of time at the beach, soaking up all that great chi from the ocean. This issue of the newsletter begins a series of short articles focusing on different kinds of feng shui "cures" and objects. Enjoy!
Devotional
Imagery in Feng Shui
Saints, deities, and other figures can all be powerful feng shui additions to your home. Buddha, Quan Yin, Tara, the Virgin Mary, Christ, Shiva, Lakshmi, Ganesh, or any other spiritual figure or teacher can bring peace, blessing, and tranquility to your home. These figures reinforce dedication to a spiritual practice, and help us to live in harmony with spirit throughout our daily lives. A deity statuette or image can dramatically shift the energy in a busy foyer, dead-end hallway, or other area that needs to be brought back into balance. Smaller framed images can be placed on your desk, home altar, or any shelf or table-top. These small images can also be used for blessing and protection when mounted over a doorway. Larger statues bring tranquility and power to your meditation space or garden, and help to anchor chi in an area where the energy feels rushed or chaotic. Ken gua (front left or NorthEast corner of the home or space), while most commonly referred to as the "knowledge" gua, is the area associated with spirituality. The trigram for ken gua is the "Mountain", and its quality is stillness. Ken gua is a good place for a meditation area, or for any devotional image that helps you quiet your mind and make contact with your inner wisdom and higher self. Any devotional image is a good feng shui enhancement if you respond positively to it on an emotional or intuitive level. You may experience a feeling of connection upon viewing a spiritual image from a different culture, even if you don't know what the figure represents. When this happens, find out who the person or deity is, and what qualities he/she personifies. You may discover a particular characteristic or virtue that reflects something you need to experience or embody in your own life now, such as compassion, forgiveness, non-attachment, truthfulness, courage, or patience. Note: For more on the ba gua, including diagrams, click here. *Seated Kwan Yin statue courtesy of Dharmacrafts.com
Feng
Shui Q+A (Most questions will have been edited for clarity and length, and any identifying details have been changed. Please note that due to the high volume of email I receive, it is no longer possible for me to respond to every question personally. I still welcome your questions, and if I cannot provide a personal response I will try to address your issue in a future Q+A column.) Q: I am confused by the different ba-gua color wheels. Some show wealth as purple, others show wealth as represented by green. Knowledge is beige on one wheel and blue on the other, and marriage is either beige/yellow or red/pink/white. A: Some guas have more than one color associated with them. For example, the color for Hsun gua (wealth/fortunate blessings) is purple. However, the element associated with Hsun gua is WOOD, and the color of wood is green. So both green and purple are hsun gua colors. Kun gua (marriage) is primarily associated with the colors pink, white, and red, as it sits between Li gua (red) and Dui gua (white), and pink is a transition color between red and white. The element for Kun gua is EARTH; earth colors are beiges/browns/yellows so these colors are also appropriate in this area. Ken gua (knowledge) is generally shown as brown or yellow. Like Kun gua, its element is EARTH. However, Ken gua is positioned between Kan gua (WATER; black and dark blue) and Jen gua (yin WOOD, paler greens and pale blues), and this may be why you have seen blue for that gua. Note: For more on the ba gua, including diagrams, click here.
Featured
Charity
We encourage you to visit the Heifer International website to learn more about the good work that they do. Please consider making a generous gift of your own: for $25 or less you can give a flock of geese or chickens, or a share of a sheep, goat, or water buffalo… click here to choose your gift animal. (Don't miss a re-broadcast of the NBC series "West Wing" when it airs Wednesday, July 30. Heifer International is featured prominently in this episode, entitled "Guns Not Butter.") For more details, visit Heifer International.
Mahalo (thank you),
Miscellaneous Newsletter Archives This newsletter is published approximately twice a month. If you missed our previous issues, you can read them here. ••• (c)
2003 Stephanie Roberts. All rights reserved.
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