The words “Feng Shui” literally mean wind and water, the two elements we cannot live without. These two elements can enhance our opportunities for determining our good luck, prosperity and health.

Some consider Feng Shui to be New Age, but this ancient art dates back 4000 years. It has stood the test of time an brought forth consistent and powerful change for many people who follow its teachings.

The ultimate goal of Feng Shui is to create sacred space.  Feng Shui is a process that helps people understand how their physical environment shapes their inner landscape, their inner self. This physical environment can be anywhere; your home, your office, or your garden. It is simply wherever a person spends their time. One Feng Shui principle states, “Your space reflects your life.” Therefore, the next time you want to “check in,” look closely at all that surrounds you.  Putting your physical environment “in order” will, in turn, benefit your inner self.

The Feng Shui journey is as individual and unique as each of us and everyone’s experience will be different.  Immediate results are often experienced while other changes may require more time and energy.  The process is truly an unfolding of self-discovery.  Each journey is expressed in its own perfect time within one’s own unique wisdom and understanding.

Feng Shui is both a science and an art form. Feng Shui consultants observe the patterns that are set up in your physical environment and then interpret their meaning. It combines perspectives from psychology, physiology, ecology and geomancy, philosophy, astrology, interior design, architecture, science, aesthetics, artistry and folklore from India, Tibet and China and plain common sense.

• Compass
• Land Form or Form School
• Black Sect
• Practical Feng Shui

Black Sect uses the front door of your home or office, as the starting point or the mouth of ch’i. The front door will either be in Wisdom, Life Journey or Helpful People.

1. Everything is energy, and everything is connected
2. A person’s space is a reflection of their life
3. Space should be organized as it is in nature
4. Clutter causes confusion and chaos
5. Stating your desires allows your intentions to come forth

Men, women, mothers, fathers, children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, friends, relatives, professional associates, business colleagues, corporations and animals

Home, condominium, townhouse, apartment, houseboat, cabin, tree house, tent, office, business or corporation, retail store, real estate, cars and trucks, educational institutions, government buildings, desk, horizontal surfaces, room by room, personal body and other.

You begin to ask yourself questions like, “Is this choice in alignment with my intention? Does this support what I am trying to accomplish or create in my life”?

The answer is either Yes or No. It’s that simple.

The Bagua can be applied or superimposed over the blueprint of your home or office or to any horizontal surface such as a kitchen counter, a dresser, a table or a desk.

In Feng Shui we say the Bagua is the compass inside your heart. If you are experiencing some area of your life that isn’t working or moving in the direction you were hoping for then this tool can be used to evaluate the areas of concern.

What are the 9 key areas or guas?

There are 9 areas or guas that are represented on the Bagua

They are: Life Journey, Wisdom, Family, Abundance, Fame & Reputation, Partnership, Creativity, Helpful People and Health

In Black Sect Feng Shui the front door always lines up along Wisdom, Life Journey or
Helpful People.

Yin and Yang reminds us that our physical and emotional environments are in a constant state of change. The story goes that in darkness there is a tiny spec of light and in the light there is a tiny spec of darkness. It reminds us that our life and physical environments are in a constant state of movement.

Yin is dark, female, inside and passive

Yang is light, male, outside and active

Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood

Fire is red, Earth is yellow or earth tones, Metal is white or silver, Water is black or dark blue and Wood is green

The 5 elements are another way to evaluate your physical environment. The item or objects shape, color and material it’s made of are evaluated.  When all 5 elements are represented in a space it is in balance and has harmony. It just feels right!     

Examples of adjustments might include a handout with a meditation or making some physical change in the environment. When we do this, we perform a ritual called the three secrets of reinforcement.

• The body is the physical object
• The mind is the visualization of the change you want to make
• The speech is connecting to spirit and then vocalizing your intention through
  either a prayer or the 6 true words

The expelling Mudra dispels negative energy. You place your first finger and pinky finger straight up. Then you place the middle finger and ring finger against your thumb. Then you flick the middle finger and ring finger forward nine times.

The 6 true words Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum are an example of a mantra.