Real Help for Hard Times
By Tamara Aires
Feng shui is the energy of our environments – all our environments. We are mostly affected by the feng shui of our homes and offices, because these environments are closest to us, but feng shui also includes our neighborhoods, communities, our cities, and even our country. This article is for anyone affected by our country’s difficult economic times.
First, career energy. Many have lost or will be losing their jobs. Career energy is directly associated with your stove, because our life’s work gives us the ability to buy food and cook meals for our tables. Cook in your own kitchen as often as you can and keep it clean. Doing this, you are constantly paying attention and cultivating career energy. Putting a mirror behind your stove is a special feng shui cure called ‘doubling the burners’, giving the symbolic impression that you have a greater ability to provide sustenance for yourself and your family. If you can’t get a mirror the full width of the stove, get a box of aluminum foil, cut a sheet big enough, and tape it up behind your stove with the most reflective side facing outward. If you can’t double your burners using the wall space behind your stove, keep a clean, shiny, highly reflective tea pot, or cooking pan on your stove at all times.
Next, helpful people. The energy of helpful people is found in the front, right corner of a home/room. On the bagua energy map, the trigram (the marking of three lines) for this area represents ‘heaven’. Serious trouble calls for divine intervention and lots of helpful people. If you have a beautiful statue or picture of a dragon, put it in this area. A dragon embodies all the attributes of heaven: power, strength, and endurance. Another effective feng shui cure is to put up a convex mirror, a round mirror that curves outward like a dome. This adjustment in the helpful people area will greatly expand your outlook and broaden your opportunities.
Finally, if everything seems to be falling apart, use the ‘four pillars of the universe’ cure. The four pillars symbolically create a direct link from earth to heaven. Do this cure anywhere, but in your bedroom will have the greatest effect. You will need tape, tacks, or glue, and four red strings, cords, or ribbons, long enough to reach from the ceiling to the floor, measured and cut in a multiple of nine (e.g., if you have an eight foot ceiling (96″), use 99 inches for the length), its ok if the extra string pools on the floor. Attach a string to the ceiling in all four corners of the room. Visualize your troubles being lifted and your burdens being removed. Out loud, say why you are doing this cure and chant or speak prayers for the most positive outcome you want to happen.
If you feel you have been helped by these cures, please send one or more red envelopes, with one dollar in each. Blessings, love, light, and peace to you all. Send me questions or call me for anything.
Tamara Aires, Colorado Harmony
Feng Shui Consulting and Educational Services
2852 Country Club Cir
Colorado Springs, CO 80909