At the beginning of each new year I receive many questions about annual Feng Shui recommendations.
This is actually news to some people, that energy shifts from year to year in your home or business and you might need to make some adjustments annually, compared to long term advice that could be good for decades. But when it comes to the flurry of articles proclaiming that XYZ will happen in such-and-such year, about half the time the recommendations are not appropriate and the predictions not accurate. One needs to look into the uniqueness of a property based on some of the following criteria:
When was the structure built?
Generic advice cannot include the pertinent information gleaned from when your house was built. There are 144 different basic house types, and countless floor plan and environmental variations, so it is just common sense to know that the same recommendations will not apply to all structures.
What direction does the house face?
Let’s say the generic advice proclaims that the northwest sector of your floor plan will host bad energy for a certain year. The way you treat that area will depend on many things including what direction the whole house faces. For example, if one house faces east and another west, they will have very different permanent energy in the northwest sector interacting with the annual influence.
Who is living there?
We cannot say, except generically, how a type of annual influence will affect a person unless we know who the person is and some personal things about them, including birth data.
What is their occupation?
If the annual 3 star comes to your front door, which can indicate an increase in legal problems, this might not be scary news at all for a lawyer or someone who deals with contracts on a regular basis.
What is their marital status?
If there is annual energy in a person’s bedroom one year which can attract a lot of romance and sex, this will affect a single person differently than a married person.
Some authors may state that the energy will be very negative in a certain direction for the year. But what if that annual influence is joining extremely positive energy that was established when the structure was built? Perhaps there will be some kind of mitigation or compromise already in place. A well-trained practitioner will be able to determine if changes should be made to accommodate a visiting influence compared to the more permanent influences.
“Not all directions are created equal.” Your Northwest sector might need a different elemental adjustment compared to someone else’s Northwest sector, based on when your space was built and what its facing direction is.
Equally, a certain feisty kind of annual energy might be problematic for one type of business, but genuinely helpful to another type of business.
Energies that might undermine one type of relationship, could be fine for another. This is not because Feng Shui is contradictory. It is just that many people make assumptions based on too little information.
So, the bottom line is that you can benefit from reading some generic Feng Shui advice, but do not try to remedy a space without professional, personalized advice from a person who practices Xuan Kong Fei Xing (the Flying Star School) with integrity, experience and maturity. Be especially cautious of articles or websites which scare you with extreme commentary and then try to sell you Chinese knick-knacks as “cures” for these potential problems. This is an inherent conflict of interest at the most basic level.
Author: Kartar Diamond
Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®
From the Feng Shui Theory Blog Series
