Feng Shui Love Tips

Love is a many-splendored thing, as the song goes, but it can also be elusive and complicated. Now I’m not about to go on an anti-Valentine’s rant here, really. I love the various historical accounts of St. Valentine and I particularly like that the holiday can be traced back to Roman fertility festivals. Although admittedly, I’m not so much seduced by the big, frilly Hallmark-card version of the day–yet there is a lot about Valentine’s Day that I do adore.

Basically, what I like about the holiday is that it is a celebration of love–that elusive, complicated, many-splendored thing. What better time to try out these feng shui tips to attract and nurture love in your life? These suggestions come courtesy of feng shui expert Angi Ma Wong from her book Feng Shui Do’s and Taboos (Storey, 2000).

• Place geodes in the SW corner of your house to enhance love, romance, and relationships.

• Create a romance corner in the SW area of your bedroom. Include pictures or figures of happy couples and surround them with hearts, flowers, doves, and lovebirds.

• Add a gold, red, or pink crystal heart to your romance corner.

• Collect heart-shaped containers made of terracotta, china, or porcelain, or take stones from the beach that are shaped like hearts. Place them in groups of two in your romance corner.

• Keep a representation of a bat in a SW area to encourage marital contentment. In China, bats symbolize happiness, good fortune, long life, and protection.

• Place heart-shaped candles and accessories crafted in earth materials, such as stone, tile, terracotta, and clay, in the SW to activate love, romance, relationships, and marriage. Use yellow, pink, red, and white objects.

• Hang a crystal chandelier in the SW area of your home, especially if this area contains your living room, to attract love.

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Chad A.

8:59PM PST on Jan 13, 2012

Thank you for this!

send a green star

Sue M.

6:06PM PST on Jan 13, 2012

thanks

Danuta W.

1:45AM PST on Jan 7, 2012

Thanks for the article

Emma S.

9:44AM PST on Nov 20, 2011

I'm going to take a punt on any of this not being 'karmically damaging' and may well be giving some of these a go. (The south west corner here is at present a sort of dump for clothes that need mending etc...)

KS G.

2:31AM PDT on Sep 3, 2011

Thanks for the article.

Wes G.

3:29PM PDT on Apr 20, 2011

Ah yes.... will the REAL feng shui please come forward!!!!
Lordy, lordy, lordy.......

Darryl D.

3:16PM PDT on Apr 20, 2011

Your maps are dangerous and may be doing harm. Real feng shui utilizes a compass to determine which direction your home faces in conjunction with the age of the structure to create maps unique to the space.

Some areas need cures and some don't, depnding on what the map indicates. Further, your element suggestions are not correct,eg rocks are actually earth, mirrors are as neutral as windows.
Feng shui helps balance a space that might support energy that would allow to more effectively carry out intentions you may have but it doesn't make things actually happen and you have a duty to let people know about this.

Your suggestions are quick incorrect fixes that are karmically damaging and are not real feng shui.

Iria B.

1:37PM PDT on Mar 15, 2011

I do not know about the sex of angels, but do not use China as an example, not even put the 13th floor in buildings

Maira S.

5:55PM PDT on Mar 13, 2011

Gracias!

3:06PM PST on Mar 11, 2011

P.S.
I forgot to include the URL.
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Seriously, any of you who can actually demonstrate the existence of chi might want to look into this. The offer of a million dollars is very real. It's there for the taking.