What is the Bagua?

The Bagua Map, originates from the I Ching and has eight trigrams, or “special areas of life.” We use the Bagua as a tool to locate these special areas and enhance them.  First draw a floor plan of your home. Garages, decks and porches that are physically attached to your home and are more than 5 inches off the ground are included in that drawing. Stand at the front of your door looking into the house. Hold the Bagua with the Career section towards your stomach and the red Fame & Reputation towards the room. This is the direction you overlay the Bagua on your floor plan of your house. Our houses are not perfect squares or rectangles. So one might have to stretch the Bagua to fit their home. This is completely normal. In some cases a deck might bump out the back of the house and therefore the Bagua gets bumped out and you might have part of the Bagua energy missing and need to anchor the missing part in your landscape. Feng Shui has lots of metaphors and symbols so don't get stuck on why to do something in the beginning. Once you experience the process you will start to understand. Remember everything is made of energy. Therefore we connect the dots this way. Now that you have the Bagua on your floor plan now what? Let’s look at, the far left corner of the Bagua this is your Wealth and Prosperity area. We can enhance this area to help bring in more abundance. Place something in that corner that makes you feel wealthy; an expensive piece of art, a coin collection, or a water fountain. Water represents wealth in Feng Shui. Our body is made up mainly of water, without water we can’t survive therefore water is looked at highly in Feng Shui. We look at each square and how it reflects in our home and balance it. Play with it. Have fun!

Feng Shui Tip of the Month

Invite abundant and enriching chi(energy) into your space by making sure all entrances into your home or office are clutter free and safe. Look out for hazards such as hoses across sidewalks or extension cords running across a room, and make sure all pathways are clear and easy to see at night. Inviting nurturing energy is a great beginning to creating your own personal Feng Shui home/office sanctuary.

Upcoming Feng Shui Classes at WALT

Feng Shui 101

090813 Discover the basics of Feng Shui and how to apply basic principles immediately after class. Bring a floor plan of your home including decks, porches & garages. We will be placing the Bagua over your space. You will learn about each Gua and which ones to start implementing and balancing in your home.


Wed. Oct. 14: 6:30-8:30 pm

Williamsburg Landing $25 per person


Feng Shui & the Economy

090814 How can you use Feng Shui to create/manifest what you want in any economy. Great if you have some understanding of Feng Shui and want to learn more. You will go home feeling more inspired about the economy, your desires and dreams when you can implement some changes in your Feng Shui space as well as Feng Shui energy zone!


Wed. Oct 28: 6:30-8:30 pm

Williamsburg Landing $25 per person


Contact WALT directly to reserve your space today!

Williamsburg Area Learning Tree (WALT)
3051 Ironbound Road
Williamsburg, VA 23185-2391
757-220-9975

Mercury is in Retrograde

Mercury is the planet of communication and it started retrograde on September 7th, 2009. Mercury will go direct on September 29th. A great website to check out is http://www.alphalifetrends.com/mercuryretrograde.html .

So why am I telling you this? Well, Feng Shui is not just about moving furniture around... It is about energy and your surroundings, whether that is furniture, a car, trees, a beach, a mountain, your health, your inner thoughts and so on. When Mercury is in retrograde it is a time for introspection, learning and can also be a challenging time. As with all things, the more open you are to learn the less challenging one will find it.

What are you going to be learning? This particular cycle involves learning about relationships and accountability. Situations will come up in your life during this time frame regarding relationships and accountability and this is your chance to finish with those lessons, by being conscious of your decisions and thoughts. Your actions will determine whether or not you keep repeating certain relationship and accountability patterns.

Since Mercury is a planet of communication how does that affect us here on earth?(besides the lessons one will learn or continue to struggle with) Well, you may have noticed some changes in the last 10 days, with things such as more car accidents on the road, phones going in and out, communication misunderstandings, cars breaking down, all types of communication can be affected by a Mercury in retrograde. Check out the above web link to learn more. Drink lots of water to stay grounded and keep your energy balanced during this time. Meditate to help understand the different situations that come to you during this retrograde.

Full Moon- September

Just a reminder today is a full moon! Great day for space clearing and releasing of the old and manifesting the new. Go for it!

Feng Shui Home Staging Class

I will be teaching a Feng Shui Home Staging class at the Williamsburg Area Association of Realtors trade show on Thursday, September 10th from 2PM to 3PM.

This trade show is being held at the Williamsburg Marriott Hotel (McLaws Circle. Go to http://www.waarealtor.com/ to learn more about the trade show!

See ya there!

Full Moon- August 6th, 2009

There is a full moon on August 6th, 2009. This is a great day to space clear your home, office and your car! Remove old stagnant energy and bring in the new! Remove not only old energy, but old thoughts, old patterns, old habits, pain, illness and more. Make a list of all of the things you do not want in your life anymore. Release them by burning them and don't give them another thought. (Do this safely!) Make a new list of everything you do want, in present tense and make a commitment to read these new affirmations daily. It is time to start creating the new you, the you that you want to be and time to remember who you really are. Sometimes we can get stuck on the hamster wheel of life, I am guilty of this just as any other human being. Recognizing the need to get off that wheel and back on track is the best thing to reclaiming the true you and continuing on your life journey!

Read more about space clearing at www.spaceclearing.com!