Why Yearly Feng Shui Updates Are Beneficial
- or - The Cyclical Nature of Feng Shui
by P.K. Odle, The Feng Shui Advantage
Feng Shui is an environmental science based on time and space with repeatable energy patterns that have predictable consequences. Your beliefs have nothing to do with Feng Shui's elemental remedies improving your finances, health and/or relationships. The Chinese sciences of Feng Shui and Acupuncture have improved lives since before paper was invented. Both of these sciences were developed using the Yi Jing or I Ching, which teaches that the Universe is cyclical by nature and it is in a constant state of change. The majority of modern Feng Shui books disregard the cyclical nature of universal energies, even though these energy cycles explain why circumstances will vary from year to year within the same building.
The Chinese SOLAR calendar is used for Feng Shui and begins on the precise halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox, which falls on the 4th or 5th of February each year. The shift of the Universal or Annual Feng Shui energies will affect each building differently depending on the building's inherent energy patterns. Some years circumstances will improve because the Annual Energy that visits the entrances, bedrooms and/or offices acts as a natural remedy for the permanent energy pattern present in that area. And some years the Annual Energy will contribute to disasters by acting as a trigger for an already negative energy pattern or by creating a sabotaging energy pattern.
Annual Updates are recommended to avoid these negative or sabotaging energy combinations from causing you health, relationship or financial problems. I offer Annual Updates to all my clients, at which time I analyze the current year's energy combinations in each section of their building. When they receive their update by mail, they call me with any questions, as they are making the necessary changes to their elemental remedies. This is why it is important to implement your remedies as beautiful accessories that are easily transferred from room to room.
Red or Black painted doors are NOT advised in Classical Feng Shui, because of its cyclical nature. When certain annual energies visit your door that is painted with fire (red) or water (black) colors it triggers various problems, such as arguments, lawsuits, separation/divorce, accidents, delays, pain and/or illness. If your entrance requires water or fire colors it is better to use an area rug or other decorations, because it takes more effort to repaint when a sabotaging energy visits and you are asked to change remedies for that year.
Annual Locks occur from time to time in every building, when certain energy patterns combine. A lock causes overall Money or People problems for the building's occupants. One client called me in April a few years back to ask if it was too late to receive her annual update. She reported that her family had experience great financial losses since the beginning of February. I advised her that it was not too late for her to remedy the Annual Money Lock that had started on February 4th of that year. However, the best time to remedy any sabotaging energy combination is before it has an opportunity to cause problems.
February 4, 2004 also begins a new Construction Cycle. When this occurs many buildings to go into a Money (finances & career) or People (health & relationships) LOCK for the next 20 years, while other buildings will just be coming out of similar locks. This explains why entire neighborhoods will begin to decline and others will be rejuvenated. Once a lock is diagnosed, releasing the lock with the proper remedy will neutralize its negative affects on finances, careers, health and relationships.
When choosing a Feng Shui consultant, besides verifying their credential and references, inquire whether they offer their clients annual updates. Also, confirm they are utilizing the scientific methods of Classical Feng Shui and are not merely working with folk-beliefs or the popular one-size-fits-all books. Inquire whether you will receive a written report that includes your unique 15° personal directional aspects, which only 5% of Feng Shui consultants are able to derive from your date of birth. Finally, you want to be comfortable communicating with the consultant you choose to have analyze your home and/or office.
© 2003 P.K. Odle. All rights reserved.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
P.K. Odle is a celebrated classical Yi Jing Feng Shui consultant and the Executive Director of the world-renowned American Feng Shui Institute®, where she has taught since 1998. She created The Feng Shui Advantage's "Lifetime Keys Personal Directions Self-Mastery Toolbox." To learn more about using the ancient Chinese science of Yi Jing Feng Shui to improve your Health, Relationships and Finances... through 16 weeks of FREE TIPS subscribe to her award-winning eNewsletter, The Feng Shui Advantage MONTHLY, at http://www.FengShuiAdvantage.com. The next issue could change your life!
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