To find out where the major sectors are in your home do the following:
- Stand in the center of your bedroom and find the main door.
- Now use a compass to read what direction the wall of the main door is facing. *We'll assume it's south for the chart below.
- Then draw the layout of your room and superimpose the following Feng Shui chart on top of it.
Southeast
Elements for Wealth:
Corresponding: Wood
Enhancing: Water
Controlling: Metal
Exhausting: Fire*South
Elements for Fame:
Corresponding: Fire
Enhancing: Wood
Controlling: Water
Exhausting: EarthSouthwest
Elements for Marriage:
Corresponding: Earth
Enhancing: Fire
Controlling: Tree
Exhausting: MetalEast
Elements for Health:
Corresponding: Wood
Enhancing: Water
Controlling: Metal
Exhausting: FireWest
Elements for Children:
Corresponding: Metal
Enhancing: Earth
Controlling: Fire
Exhausting:WaterNortheast
Elements for Education:
Corresponding: Earth
Enhancing: Fire
Controlling: Tree
Exhausting: MetalNorth
Elements for Career:
Corresponding: Water
Enhancing: Metal
Controlling: Earth
Exhausting:TreeNorthwest
Elements for Helpful People:
Corresponding: Metal
Enhancing: Earth
Controlling: Fire
Exhausting: Water - Now look at the different areas of your life. Which areas of your life are most troubled? Check for bathrooms and kitchens in a particular sector.
What to Use
First here are a few decor suggestions for the element you are interested in using.
- Wood Cures: Lucky Bamboo, wooden furniture, pictures of plant
- Fire Cures: lights, candles, red fabric
- Earth Cures: stones, crystal, ceramic vase
- Metal Cures: coins, metal containers, urns, wind chimes, metal picture frames
- Water Cures: fountains, fish tanks
+Use enhancing elements to increase energy to your aspirations (in a bedroom or living room).
+Use corresponding elements maintain your aspiration.
-Use controlling elements to suppress the elements power.
-Use exhausting elements to burn out the element.
Control Bad Luck
Going against the tides isn't always a bad idea; especially the tides of change are unlucky. As a rule, controlling and exhausting elements are to be used only under these three circumstances:
- The sector you're staying in is your unlucky sector.
- If your lucky sector has a toilet situated in it
- The flying star Feng Shui formula (an advance study) uncovers another unlucky sector of the house.