Feng Shui FAQs

Feng Shui and decoration

One of the most frequently asked questions is how to decorate the house according to Feng Shui?

Feng Shui does not require a special way to decorate the house to “work”. Everyone has its own style and when decorating the house, our personal style is reflected. There are as many styles as people.

When we decorate our house, the ideal is to first analyze our home to know which the energies of each sector of the house are. From there, we’ll know what the necessary or appropriate elements for each sector are.

In choosing the color of the walls, furniture and decoration, we can be guided by these elements to choose the most suitable. Each element has its features such as color, shape or the element itself. This will allow us to decorate the house according to Feng Shui, taking into account the elements identified.

The same applies to the bedrooms of children and adolescents. We can let them freedom in their tastes, especially among adolescents, when decorating their room, provided they respect the use of the appropriate elements.

Feng Shui and our element

In Feng Shui, each person has its own Ming Gua, or personal number, which corresponds to one of the five elements. In Chinese astrology, the animal for our birth year also corresponds to one of the five elements.

Are the two elements identical?

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The element of our Ming Gua is not identical to the element of our animal in Chinese astrology. But it can happen that both are equal.

2008 is the year of the water rat and children born this year will have the water element. But in Feng Shui, the calculation of Ming Gua makes the difference between men and women. Thus, boys born in 2008 will have the water element and girls born in 2008 will have the earth element. As we can see, the Ming Gua is the same for boys but different for girls.

Another example is that of persons born in 1982: the element of the Chinese animal is water, but the Ming Gua for men is the fire element and for women is the metal element. Thus, we can have three different elements for the same year.

It is clear that the element of the animal in Chinese astrology is not synonymous to the element of our Ming Gua.