People call me to "Feng Shui them" AFTER they have made their new location selection. Whether you buy or rent, it is a major financial expense to move and could have personal or professional risk if the Feng Shui isn’t good (or worse!). Home, office, retail space, it doesn’t matter: consider the Feng Shui BEFORE you put money down! Getting the best Feng Shui from the start will only improve the potential when you start furnishing, adding color, accessories, and place all your favorite goodies.
Book store in point: Great New Age bookstore, lovely people, last location had fire which caused them to have to relocate. You would have thought they would have checked out the Feng Shui of the new place first... When stopping by to provide well wishes (and hugs), the garbage can for the entire strip mall was bolted right next to their front door. The landlord would not relocate it and they were stuck with everyone’s trash. That should have been an obvious no no!
Sometimes, Feng Shui is not that apparent and needs further consideration.
If you are moving to a multi-unit location such as an apartment, condominium, or retail space, you may have choice between several units. With interior layout being architecturally exactly the same, one unit may be significantly better (or worse) depending on the direction it faces. If you have been tracking my articles, by now you know that facing direction determines the Flying Star Feng Shui or Natal energies of a space and your personal compatibilities with the ever-important front door.
Free standing homes or stores may not provide you with the same options but the Feng Shui should still be considered in the same way. If the facing direction is dictating unfavorable energies, consider if you can you use another door that is personally beneficial, are the significant rooms in your best locations and do they have good natal energies? Evaluate how can you use the interior to maximize its good energies and consider if they are supportive enough compared to another locations.
Remember: You can only do so much with enhancers or reducers. You cannot cure energy or Feng Shui....Albert Einstein taught us that! I know, I know, I’ve said that before...just trying to cure you from that "popular Feng Shui" misnomer. Given the choice, start with the best raw materials!
Already moved....second step. Call your Feng Shui expert BEFORE you make architectural changes! They cost a lot of money too and design choices could make significant differences in your life.
Residential Application: Walking into the front door, you could see directly into a bedroom being used as a home-based office. It is best not to see your desk (or bed) upon entering your home to help control work-a-holism (or from being tired all the time). By moving the office door out of direct view it also created an art wall that added to the beauty of the entry vestibule. Good Design is good Feng Shui! If she invited my assistance before construction, I would have suggested she position her door so that prosperity energy would enter through her prosperity direction instead of just mediocre energy. The new door location also allowed her desk to face a wealth and success Flying Star combination-double good Feng Shui! Even though the wood floor was not yet laid, she had already spent the money on the door and wasn’t about to redo it. AND, if she had called me prior to finalizing which unit to purchase, I would have suggested the carbon-copy unit directly across the hall that faced her "Lengthened Years" instead of her "Six Curses" direction.
After a move and construction, Feng Shui usually does help to reduce less than favorable conditions. The good news is that there have only been a few times that I would have told somebody to have considered other alternatives prior to moving, but it has happened. When all else fails, don’t freak, just hope that your intuition was good when you closed the deal! And just so you know, in my pre-Feng Shui days, when I fell in love with my house fifteen years ago and HAD to have it, I got lucky.....
