No-nonsense Fengshui

Love fengshui

Love plays an essential role in guiding and shaping the life and destiny of a person. Without forgetting that God commands humans to give love to one another, it is a popular notion that   there is an all-powerful force that gives and sustains the essence of love in us – love for one’s self as well as for special others. 

In Chinese philosophy, that force is chi. It is the life force in us, or spirit, or inner light, call it what you will.

It is the chi that animates and energizes us and the world that surrounds us. There is a way of organizing our immediate environ – feng shui – so that the chi works for us, not against us. This includes the force of love. Yes, there is feng shui to make the chi work in one’s love life!

Love, as a human expression of chi, may be easy to express (sexual love only takes a few moments to consummate!), but it takes a lifetime to master. And to muster.

In feng shui, love is a skill that can be managed according to chi principles, to reap the most benefits. It can be directed towards marriage, not only marriage to the human object of one’s affection but marriage to material wealth and prosperity, as well. And so, the couple may live happily ever after, both romantically and economically.

There’s a perennial question I’m asked, mostly by young men and women, every time Valentine’s Day is approaching: What’s the feng shui for attracting a lover?

“It’s easy,” I’d tell them. “Bumigay ka lang (just give in).” Ha! Ha! Ha!

Humor aside, here are surefire feng shui tips to muster one’s chi for love, loving and, well – making love:

• A home at a dead end or junction thwarts love relations leading to split-ups, even for married couples! This is tumbok in Pilipino.

• A spiral staircase at home makes for a whirlwind romance that ends wrecked in due time, like a tornado. Either one of the lovers die or, as they say in Pilipino, “sumakabilang bahay” (move in with another partner in another house!).

• A house on a dead end or blind alley also brings zero in love affairs, often with “infernal” affairs now and then!

• A lion or tiger – whether the real animals or just their image or figurine – eats up humans and ruin their relationships, including love relationships.

• Birds of the same feather or identical Chinese zodiac signs are incompatible. For example, dog to dog or monkey to monkey is bad feng shui; they cancel each other such that even child bearing can be very difficult to a couple.

• Opposing Chinese zodiac signs are not good in love or in business; like rat vs. horse, ox vs. sheep, rabbit vs. rooster, dragon vs. dog, snake vs. pig, or tiger vs. monkey etc.

With proper chi or life-energy management, you may find your right partner in life. Find the one with… the longest tongue! No, not what you’re thinking. It’s a feng shui philosophy that means one who can make conversations pleasantly and understandably, the linchpin of any loving relationship – till death  do you part and live happily ever after!

Just remember, too, that “a house is built with walls and beams; a home built with good feng shui for love is filled with love and dreams!” When you find your right one, fight for each other, not with each other!