Feng Shui of Marriage

For centuries, Feng Shui has served as a guiding light to many, showing the way to success, health, and happiness, at home, workplace or place of business. Even in the manner people perceive love and relationships, Feng Shui items are held today as they have been used and trusted for many years.

The most well-known Feng Shui products that symbolize love and relationships are the Mandarin Ducks (Yuan-yuang). These affectionate creatures have been featured in many Feng Shui enhancers because of how perfectly they represent togetherness, fidelity, and love.


Mandarin Ducks
In the natural habitat, the male and female Mandarin Duck are always close together. It is very rarely to see one that is all alone. Chinese legend has it that if either one is separated from its mate, the Mandarin Duck will be devastated. It will yearn for its partner, and die from loneliness. The man and woman should loves and values its mates as in the same way as the Mandarin Duck.

In the realm of Feng Shui products, Mandarin Ducks are commonly used as Feng Shui cures for people who are single, searching for a partner, or are unlucky when it comes to love. Mandarin Ducks are still popular Feng Shui enhancers to have around the home for married couple as they strengthen the togetherness of the husband and wife. Mandarin ducks also help them achieve marital bliss.

Feng Shui Mandarin Ducks should be placed in the South West portion of the house, or the South West portion of the bedroom. This is the most effective feng shui remedies for love, devotion, marriage luck and fidelity. As traditional Feng Shui cures, the Mandarin Ducks allow its owner to emit a strong love chi. This can make you more lovable and more attractive to your potential partner. As for married couples, the strong love chi given by the Mandarin Ducks keeps them happy together and making them love each other more deeply.

The Mandarin Ducks come in rose quartz, jade, ceramics and others. Get one Mandarin Ducks may help to find a long lasting relationship for single and allow married couple to find true marital bliss. Feng Shui Mandarin Ducks is the beautiful symbols of devotion, fidelity, love, and affection.

Feng Shui Garden

Create a Perfect Feng Shui Garden

It is important to have a feng shui garden with healthy Yang energy and positive Chi. In feng shui, plants are said to represent the element of wood.

Although plants in feng shui are generally represent Yang energy, some plants are naturally Yin plants and grow in the shade. These includes ferns, hostas, hellebore and woodland cyclamen.

For indoor, place the feng shui plant in front of a sharp corner or angle that maybe throwing out cutting Chi. This will help reduce stress, anxiety, sleep disorders and arguments. Chi is always flows along a smooth wall or surface until it meets an angle where it creates turbulent energy at the point. Placing a feng shui plant in front of the angle will soften it.

Matching feng shui plants to your specific soil type and climatic conditions is also an important factor of getting the balance in the perfect feng shui garden. Make sure the soil is well aerated or turned over and avoid it becoming waterlogged or overruns with ants or other insects.

The most popular feng shui plants are plants with round, heart-shaped, thick and succulent leaves. Plants with flower and provided fruits are also favoured in feng shui.

(i) Jade Plant (Crassula ovata)
The Jade plant is often known as money tree. This plant often can be seen in the entrance of the Chinese restaurant or store. Jade plants acan grown indoor or outdoor and are a popular feng shui cure.

Be careful not to overwater the jade plant as the succulent leaves soon will become yellow and start to rot. Place it on window sill in the wealth corner of a spare room.



(ii) The Money Plant (Philodendron scandens)
The money plant also symbolises great abundance. It is a popular indoor feng shui plant with round heart-shaped leaves. It is capable of groeing in dark corners and is said to purify the air.

(iii) Peace Lilies (Spathiphyllum Wallisii)
Peace lilies are (according to NASA) an effective way of cleasing the air, neutralising common pollutants such as formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is found in carpets, paints, wood varnishes and flame retardant material. It is said to irritate the throat, disturb sleep and causes headaches. It is a feng shui plant that does not like direct sunlight and needs a fair amount of water.

The flower stalks should be removed once turned to have a good feng shui. Place the peace lilies next to electrical and electronic appliances like television, computer, microwave and DVDs player as they help to reduce the positive ions surrounding these equipment.

(iv) Goosefoot Plant (Syngonium podophyllum)
Goosefoot is another feng shui which may has the ability to cleanse the air you breath. This plant has a distinctive leaf which changes from arrow shaped to a five lobed form as its matures. The fiev lobed shsped represents the five elements; water, fire, earth, wood and metal. It also provides the perfect balance of Yin Yang as the new leaves are shiny and the older ones are matt.

(v) Dwart Banana Plant (Musa cavendishii)
This feng shui plants have wonderful broad arching green leaves with purple or maroon blothces or stipes on them. Green is of the element wood which feeds fire (purple). So the complementary colours or elements make the dwart banana plant the ideal feng shui plant for the home.

(v) Silver Waves or Silver Crown (Cotyledon undulata)
This feng shui plant has succulent, spoon-shaped leaves with wavy edges. It can grow indoors or outdoors. Keep the compost moist at all times but do not overwater. Chinese believe that the silver crown bestows good luck and fortune on all household members.

(vi) Golden Pothos (Scindapsus aureus) and Peperomias
Other feng shui plants to consider are golden pothos and peperomias which again are good at removing toxins from the air caused by cleaning products and modern furnishing made of synthetic materials.

Peperomias come in a huge variety of leaf colours, shaped and patterns. You can pick one that suits your feng shui colour scheme.

“All the above feng shui plants will filter the air, increase oxygen, improve humidity and energise your home or garden.”

Certain characteristics to the feng shui plants and their flowers:

(a) plum blossoms – pure
(b) bamboo – disciplined and strong
(c) orchids – reclusive
(d) chrysanthemums – pure
(e) magnolias – pure
(f) peonies – loving and harmonies

Colour of flowers:
(a) pink - relationship
(b) red - wealth
(c) blue - career
(d) yeloow, peace, orange - study, knowledge, health
(e) white, silver, magnolia, gold – for helpful friends, travel, creativity, children

Do not:

(i) Do not place thorny plants or spiky plants indoor. For example, a thorny cactus plant emits loads of cutting Chi and symbolically indicates a dry and hostile environment. Other spiky plants are snake plant, holly, mother-in-law’s tongue, certain palms, the agave, roses and yuccas.

(ii) Avoid artificial stunted plants such as bonsai. This is because their Chi has been stunted too.

(iii) Avoid plants that grow downwards such as weeping willows and spider plants. These plants will pull energy downwards and will make always in depress mood.

Feng Shui Five Elements

Feng Shui Five Elements

One of the basic principles of feng shui is the principle of five elements. The five elements in feng shui are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. These feng shui elements interact between themselves in certain ways, generally defined as the Productive and Destructive cycles. Each feng shui element is represented by a specific color, and color is the easiest way to use the five elements principle to bring more harmony into your space with feng shui.

Color correspondence of each the five feng shui elements:

WOOD : Green, Brown
FIRE : Red, Strong Yellow, Orange, Purple, Pink
EARTH : Light Yellow. Sandy/Earthy, Light Brown
METAL : White, Gray
WATER : Blue, Black



Imagine the five feng shui elements as they exist in nature, and see how they interact. See wood for an actual tree, water as a river or rain, earth as soil, etc.

Example, how does wood interact with fire? Well, it is obvious, fire burns the wood, so you know to avoid a fire element in a feng shui area of the bagua that needs the Wood element.

How these elemental forces generate and regulate energy (chi) in nature, and by extension, in the human body and mind: