FENG SHUI - BEDROOM TIPS FOR PEACEFUL SLEEP

A good night sleep is vital for health and alertness especially when you need to focus and be mentally active the next day at work. However, you may want to look at your bedroom and its surrounding features to make sure that it is conducive for a peaceful slumber.  

This is both practical and common sense to make a place of rest as comfortable as possible. You do not want any disturbance while you get ready for bed or during snooze time. At the very least, you should have a comfortable bed to rest your weary soul.

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But what is pleasurable may not necessarily be good for you in Feng Shui speak. For example, a water bed may be a novelty for those who seek the finer things in life but it is not what Feng Shui would recommend. This is because water is Yang. The concept of Yin and Yang form the bedrock of Feng Shui and all Chinese metaphysics. Yang is opposite of Yin. It is like day and night, hot and cold, active and passive, loud and quiet, bright and dark, movement and stillness, etc. You can’t have one without the other. They co-exist and complement one another. The key is achieving an optimal balance between the two.

For a bedroom, it should be more Yin than Yang. It is a place that should be quiet and inactive. Feng Shui equates Yin with health/relationship aspects and Yang with wealth/career aspects. Water is Yang and for a water bed, it makes the bed too Yang. Imagine sleeping on a pool of water that is constantly moving. It is not a good Feng Shui feature. Your sleep is not going to be a restful one. Feng Shui does not recommend having a TV in a bedroom as it is also too Yang.

Other negative features that are too Yang for a bedroom:-

-          Too many windows or large windows

-          Too much sunlight streaming in during the day

-          A lamppost or electrical pole outside

-          A bedroom door that is aligned directly to the bed 

You should make sure to drape the windows with thick curtains to block out excessive sunlight. If there is a lamppost immediately outside the bedroom, you should keep the window closed at most times. The bed should be realigned away from the bedroom door and its headboard should rest against a solid flat wall for stability. A hill or mountain is a Yin feature. If it can be seen from the bedroom window, it is even better as it provides stability. Feng Shui favors a bedroom that is more Yin – calm, peaceful and stable. You should feel recharged and rejuvenated after a good night sleep.

CHINESE ASTROLOGY – IS MARRIAGE LIKELY TO HAPPEN FOR YOU?

In Chinese Astrology, the birth chart of a person allows us to determine the quality of spousal relationship through an intricate destiny analysis. One of the branches of Chinese Astrology known as Four Pillars of Destiny or BaZi can reveal the luck of marriage of a person. 

In Ba Zi, the secret to unveiling the marriage luck is to examine the Spouse palace and the Spouse element. There are five elements and 12 animal signs in a BaZi birth chart. The relationship between the elements and animal signs within the Four Pillars of a BaZi birth chart can tell a lot about a person’s love life and relationship with people.

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What happens if you have a negative interaction between the elements or animal signs in a BaZi birth chart? What can you do about it? In Chinese Astrology, it is believed that our luck can be altered by taking an action that pre-empt the likelihood of misfortune in a person’s love life. 

From the ancient Chinese perspective, a prediction from a BaZi analysis is not carved in stone but what we can choose to tweet luck in our favor by marrying or establishing a relationship at the right time. For example if the chart indicate a probable divorce if you marry before the age of 30, then you should marry later to avoid this destiny from becoming true.

However, you need to make sure there is a significant difference in age between two persons who are forming a conjugal union. According to the ancient Chinese, a lack of affinity for marriage can be improved if we challenge the norm. Usually, a man marries a spouse that is a few years younger than him.  

In order to break with the norm or convention and alter the spousal luck, a man should marry a woman who is considerably older than him or much younger than him. The age gap should be greater than 7 years or preferably more. 

Another way of challenging the norm is to ensure a significant difference in status. This is another variation of not following the norm. By this, a man need not be the bread winner or the one with the intellectual prowess or financial wherewithal. For example if the man is poor, the wife can be wealthy or highly educated. On the other hand, if the man is highly educated, the wife should have a lowly education.

For a woman to improve her chance of finding love instead of marriage, she can also be the second One. A BaZi birth chart of a woman with poor marriage luck implies that she will find it difficult to be the first wife or the legally recognized one. The ancient Chinese believe that you can have more success if you take up the role of the second wife, mistress or one that is not legally recognized. 

As for a man, what can he do if his BaZi birth chart revealed poor marriage luck? Going by the same unconventional rule, he can opt to marry a divorcee or a widow! Alternatively, he can also marry someone from a different race or culture. This is yet another variation of not following conventional rule. For example if you are a Caucasian, you can marry a Chinese, Japanese or a person of colored skin.