Feng Shui Cures For Fall

Today, we’re delving deep into the heart of Fall, exploring the ancient art of Feng Shui and its connection to the Metal Element.

As busy parents, creating a home that resonates with warmth and tranquility is essential. In this post, Gwynne Warner unravels the secrets of Feng Shui, offering you practical tips and creative ideas to infuse your living space with the serene energy of Fall.

Embark on this journey of transformation, where ancient wisdom meets modern living, ensuring your home reflects not just your style but your soul. Let’s usher in the season with balance, harmony, and a touch of autumnal magic.

Nature is once again turning, and with it, our own internal energies. Just as the trees are dropping their saffron and cinnabar-colored leaves, we too can “drop” what blocks our life-force obstacles, heaviness, mindsets, habits, or relationships that no longer serve us.

Autumn is a yin season, bringing a time of dwindling light, a melancholy mood, self-reflection on the impermanent nature of our lives, and the beginning of inward contraction. Because the yang energies are weakening and the chi is now more yin in nature, it’s the perfect time to slow down and gather your energies.

This season is governed by the Metal Element, a cold and contracting movement associated with creativity, communication, inspiration, and symbols. It’s associated with the emotion of grief and the virtue of selflessness.

When your Metal element is balanced within you speak up and take action for justice and ethics; are surrounded by benefactors and Helpful People; have strong boundaries and keep agreements; things are orderly and organized; projects are completed on time; and have the ability to let go, flow with change and release what no longer serves.

When your Metal element is unbalanced within, you can be sad or full of regret, lack creativity, be busy for busy’s sake, feel nervous exhaustion, be disorganized, feel isolated, have scattered thinking or mental dullness, and can be judgmental, self-righteous, emotionally cold, stingy, critical or try to “punish” others.

Lifestyle choices to support you in Autumn:

• Put attention on organizing your finances, budgets, goals, and calendars.
• Finish incomplete projects, sort out your affairs, and get things done. But don’t overwork!
• Get more sleep by going to bed earlier.
• See your acupuncturist and qi gong teacher for support for your lungs and large intestines. Practice deep breathing meditations to strengthen your lungs.
• Eat warm, cooked foods.
• Let go of what’s no longer needed (on all levels), such as old ideas, habits, beliefs, and attachments.
• Soak in warm mineral springs and drink mineral waters.
• Do acts of loving kindness for loved ones and strangers for the virtue of selflessness.
• Make time for self-reflection.

Feng Shui Cures To Support You This Autumn

In Feng Shui, we find the Metal Element housed in two areas of the Bagua.

The “Dui” or children and creativity area (in the far center right area of your home, business, desk, or any room) represent children, joy, completion of projects, communication, symbols, creativity, and inspiration.

Also, in the “Chien” gua, which governs benefactors, heavenly help, helpful people, and travel. This is in the far lower right area of your home, business, desk, or any room.

To enhance your creativity and communication, help finish projects, and welcome benefactors and travel, you can:

• If you need MORE metal, nourish by adding more Earth (wear yellow or gold, for example)
• If you need LESS metal, restrain with Fire (lighting candles, having fires, wearing red, etc.)
• Hang metal wind chimes outside on the eaves or inside your space and ring manually 9 times, ringing out your prayers and wishes for 9 consecutive days.
• Use a water fountain with floating bells.
• Decorate with white or metallic paint and metallic, reflective, or round décor (see my Pinterest board for ideas!)
• Wear white and metallics together; metallic jewelry; polka dots; elegant fabrics such as cashmere, silk, or lace; or highly polished, beautiful, and designer styles.
• Keep a brass bell on the creative area of your desk and ring it vigorously and joyfully when you need an energetic boost, a creative idea, or help to stay on track.
• Carry metal amulets in your purse or pocket.
• Sprinkle Chinese Feng Shui coins liberally throughout your home and business (if you order these from me, you’ll receive tens of ways to use these)
• Use reflective, metallic, round gazing balls in a meandering path up to your front door OR place them in your garden’s Children/Creativity and/or Helpful People/Travel areas.

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The moment of your birth is when your personal Trinity of Heaven, Earth, and Mankind Luck was established.

Celebrating your birthday each year is a fantastic opportunity to increase your good luck and share good chi!

Here are some special ways to inspire your own celebrations or create very special birthday gifts for your family and loved ones.

•  Send your wishes up to the Heavens by releasing nine red and gold helium balloons or sky lanterns and watch them disappear into the Sky Dragon’s mouth.
• Release sky or floating lanterns.
• If you know them, perform the BTB transcendental cures of “Planting Auspicious Seeds” and/or “The Golden Cicada”
• Fill your home with fragrant flowers
• Practice animal liberation by releasing fish, birds, crabs, etc.
• Take a very special purification bath with sea salt and kaffir lime essential oil or 9 round peels from fresh oranges and “wash away” any inauspicious energies from your previous year and welcome the fresh new chi.
• Express gratitude to your parents for your life
• Visit your deity and say thank you, thank you, thank you
• Have a celebration feast including a sweet cake (so your new year is sweet!) with wish-making candles
• Write down your birthday wish and put it with any amulets you carry
• Receive Lucky Red Envelopes with money inside
• Have an oracle reading for your new year

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Creating Stress-Free Holidays With Feng Shui

If you tend to get exhausted, burnt out, or stressed during the holidays, here are some ideas to support you:

1. Give yourself lots of restorative and quiet time by doing less (not more!); taking naps, and going to bed earlier, perhaps after a nice warm bath
2. Avoid using blinking or red lights; instead, opt for steady lights in cooling blues.
3. Go Zen with the amount of décor you use
4. Walk in nature

If you tend towards winter melancholy or feel a lack of holiday cheer…

1. Accept invitations to be with friends and even host your party
2. Play uplifting music
3. Light fires
4. Use bright red lights–even blinking!–in your decor

Peace on Earth

Consider contributing to ‘peace on earth and goodwill towards all’ by performing one act of loving kindness each day. You may also wish to consider offering cash donations to charities, spiritual teachers, or organizations in a red envelope.

Reduce family squabbles and tension by…

1. Giving your home a good de-cluttering and deep cleaning. Use pine essential oil in your water before you decorate
2. Removing all sharp things pointed towards your body (“poison arrows”), such as sharp carving knives at the table or furniture placed too close with sharp edges.
3. Playing beautiful sacred music (the less radio and TV noise, the better)
4. Peeling lots of fresh oranges and tangerines to uplift your chi
5. Be cautious of excessive fire energy (such as too much red décor or too many lights). You can have water bowls with floating blossoms or blue lights on your trees to help “cool things down.”
6. Meditating before everyone arrives
7. Wearing the color pink and using pink sheets on the guest beds
8. Displaying photos of your family during very happy times
9. Inhaling peace, silence, joy, love, calm, bright (sound like a carol?!), and exhaling stress, exhaustion, expectations

I hope these Feng Shui tips help you create stress-free holidays for you and your family.

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