Fast Feng Shui Blog: November 2010

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November 08, 2010

Read FAST FENG SHUI on your KINDLE!

I'm pleased to announce that both Fast Feng Shui and Clutter Clearing from the Inside Out are now available in Kindle format at the Amazon.com Kindle Store: here (FFS) and here (CCIO).

Both titles have been revised and updated for these new editions. With so many Kindle apps now available for computers, smart phones, and other devices, you don't need a Kindle to read them. Even better, the Kindle editions are priced at a very attractive $9.99, a nice savings off the PDF and paper editions.

Fast Feng Shui for Prosperity will be our next Kindle title, with the FFS Home Office and FFS Singles books to follow. As is usual around here, I'm refraining from stating advance pub dates, as I always think I can get a month's worth of tasks done in a week (or sooner!), even though I know better. Best guess for FFS Prosperity Kindle release is sometime early next year (2011), with the others to follow as we get to them.

Since announcing the Kindle editions to my email subscribers, I've had a few requests from readers for a paper edition of "Clutter-Clearing from the Inside Out" (currently available in PDF and Kindle formats only). I do have plans to offer a paper edition as a "print on demand" title, although that's still a future project. However, since I know some of you are waiting for it, I've bumped it higher on the priority list, and will keep you posted when and where that's available.

I've been a Kindle owner for just over a year now, and love, love, love this technology. Now, if someone would just figure out this cloning business so I could have two (or more) of me to shepherd these and other projects through the pipeline, I could maybe get that month's worth of work done before breakfast.

In the meantime, it's hard to produce at top speed with this kind of thing going on:

This is Cosmo.

He's now six months old, and has been sprawling across my computer keyboard and playing rowsing games of wastebasket carousel since Labor day weekend, when he poked his head up from the grass in front of a banana patch on our regular afternoon-walk route and followed us home. He was thin and hungry (and much smaller: he's tripled his body weight in two months) and impossible to resist. I am very happy to have a cat again; even when he's being a pest he is a delightful addition to the chi of our home.

Labels: Clutter book for Kindle, Fast Feng Shui for Kindle

posted by Stephanie R. # 11/08/2010 09:54:00 AM

November 02, 2010

feng shui fountain in bedroom

Q: The wealth area of our home is the Master Bedroom. We currently have a tabletop water fountain in the back left corner of the room, as well as some other objects like photos of our dream house and garden, chinese coins, and amethyst crystals. I have recently read on the internet that water features should not be in the Master bedroom even if it is the wealth area. Is this true?

A: Yes, it’s correct that a water fountain is not advised for the bedroom. Water brings excessive yin energy into this already-yin space. Wood energy is an excellent addition to the wealth area, so for the bedroom, instead of a fountain, I’d recommend some kind of plant or tree, such as a live orchid, or a jade plant. You could also use a representation of a tree, such as the wire-and-gemstone-chip ones some FS retailers sell. Here's an image I grabbed off the web. This one is styled as a miniature bonsai:

You can move the water fountain to the career area, or to a position near the entry. If the water flow is predominantly in one direction, try to place the fountain so that the water flows toward the center of the home, rather than toward the doorway.

The wealth area is a wonderful location for the Master Bedroom; I hope it brings you much happiness and good fortune.

Stephanie

Labels: bedroom, feng shui fountain, Feng Shui Q+A

posted by Stephanie R. # 11/02/2010 01:43:00 PM

The Ba Gua of a Room

Q: I have read many things on placement of the bagua over a room, but I still am confused what to do. When I look into my bedroom or living room, from the door to each room, I see a wall. I must turn to the left in both situations to be able to fully look into the space. Should I turn to the left and place the bagua from that point with north being close to me? Or do I have to line it up with the edge of the wall that the door is on and face the wall instead of looking into the space??

A: The ba gua always starts at the door, so in your case from the doorway it will extend to the left the width of the room, and forward to the far wall of the room:

The doorway will be in the lower right corner of the ba gua (helpful friends). You can see in the diagram that because of the room layout both the Relationships and Creativity/Children areas of this room are reduced in size. You may wish to strengthen these two guas with remedies either within this room, or in other Relationship and Creativity/Children locations elsewhere in the home.

BTW: North is only relevant if you are using the compass directions. It does not affect the doorway placement method.

Have fun feng shui-ing these rooms.

Stephanie R.

Labels: ba gua, Feng Shui Q+A

posted by Stephanie R. # 11/02/2010 11:59:00 AM

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