Western feng shui is DIY feng shui. Specific, but simple enhancements are used to attract more of what we desire into our lives. It offers us recommendations about how to enhance our careers and finances, health and family relationships, marriage and children, fame and fortune and overall balance, harmony and personal well-being. Elements, colors and symbols, as well as, intentions can be placed in rooms of the house to magnetize the energy required to be a match to what we want to manifest and enjoy more of in our lives.
Consultants who teach Western feng shui and make recommendations for enhancements in homes using the fixed bagua, do a disservice to their clients. The fixed Western feng shui bagua is only appropriate for areas or flat surfaces that don’t have compass directions. Homes, buildings and properties can all be measured with a compass and should be feng shui’d accordingly.
I am a classically trained feng shui consultant and I use Western feng shui enhancements. I use them to feng shui desks and business cards. I teach them in my class, Vision Bagua, in which I apply Western feng shui enhancements to vision boards. I use them to describe the Life Centers associated with The 8 Elements, the personal feng shui elements.
And, I use Western feng shui enhancements as a layer of feng shui in my professional consultations. But only after permanent and annual remedies and enhancements have been determined and installed. Only when they don’t interfere with those remedies. And only using the movable bagua that honors the eight directions based on an accurate compass reading.
The fixed bagua is where much of the misinformation, myths and confusion come from when people read books and try to feng shui their homes themselves. The fixed bagua has what is considered a “wealth corner” and a “relationship corner”. And people who don’t know any better, feng shui the rooms in their homes based on these fixed areas, sometimes to their detriment.
Western feng shui, using a fixed bagua, is not true feng shui. And it can be dangerous, even for the well-intentioned feng shui practitioner and enthusiast, novice or do-it-yourselfer. The fixed bagua is an over-simplified and Westernized, lazy man’s application of feng shui principles that doesn’t honor its foundational basis in a repeatable earth science.
True feng shui uses a movable bagua. The movable bagua is based on the sitting and facing directions of your home. This allows you to customize the enhancements for your home, based on the compass directions. The movable bagua is the only application of Western Feng Shui enhancements that is recommended.
Even so, it’s important to note that not all Western feng shui enhancements are appropriate in their respective areas in every house, every year. Certain colors, elements and symbols associated with the WFS bagua might interfere with the permanent and annual energy remedies and enhancements. Feng shui hierarchies have to be honored. Priorities have to be made. This is why WFS has to be layered in as a finish touch after the Eastern energy blueprint’s required remedies have been positioned for the year.
An example of this would be a South sitting house in 2017. People who followed the WFS guidelines using the fixed bagua were directed to add red colors and Fire elements to their Fame & Fortune area. Fire element enhancements or practicing the 9 red candle “cure” in the South intensified the energy that visited the S last year and increased the potential for misfortunes in the areas of health, relationships and finances.
Another example of this dangerous application of WFS would be a N facing house in 2018. The Western feng shui enhancements for the N (Career & Life Path) are water colors and water features, among other things like business cards and tools of the trade. The annual energy visiting the North in 2018 brings the potential for obstacles and delays, disaster, disease and death. Adding a water feature or even some black or blue colors increases this inauspicious energy instead of reducing it.
When enhancing your home with Western feng shui, use the movable bagua, not the fixed bagua. Draw a floor plan to scale and overlay the nine-square grid. Take a compass reading and mark the 8 directions. Please consult with a professional feng shui practitioner certified in the Flying Stars school of feng shui before enhancing areas of your home with Water and Fire elements.
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