The Horoscope Master

If your relationships are tired and money flies through your hands your house might just be the wrong color. Maybe life is a constant struggle and you can’t put your finger on the one small thing blocking your success. The answer could be as simple as the color on your house. Feng shui dictates that the paint color on your house can affect your wealth and abundance. For instance, if your house is painted the wrong color for the direction it faces, you might be losing money. A good example of this is an east- or southeast-facing house that is painted white. This is a great example of houses that lose money or whose residents suffer from ill health or poor family relationships. White is the color of metal and east and southeast are wood-facing directions. Because metal cuts wood (think of an ax or a chainsaw), the success of the house is affected. Color can be confusing — but it doesn’t have to be When it comes to choosing house colors, it can be very confusing and difficult ...

Question: Can you give me some quick feng shui tips about swimming pools? We want to add one to our back yard this summer and I could use your help. Answer: Sure! First, avoid having a square pool and having it directly at the rear of the house. Secondly, it's best if you can't see the pool from your entrance -- this causes severe financial problems and even bankruptcy energy. Third, try to keep the pool smaller rather than larger because the extra water energy can be strong for a house. At least try to balance the pool's size with your home's size. When you have a small house and a large pool, the energy can be overwhelming. Another tip is to make sure the water is yang water. In other words, the pool water should be active. A still pool might be nice to look at but unless you have swimmers in there all the time, the water could become yin. A fountain or aeration device will keep the water active, flowing, and imparting great wealth energy to the home. I love it w...

Question: My life is in the dumps. It seems like everything is going from bad to worse. What can we do to change our bad luck to good luck? Answer: Here's some thoughts for you to help you get out of this rut. First of all, when energy moves in one direction, it usually stays in that direction. It's as simple as Newton's first law of physics: an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external force. In other words, the way your life is going is going to remain the same unless you do something. Put another way, you have to be that external force that moves your chi from the direction it's been going in. That said, you should move your furniture around, do a deep cleaning, declutter, move your pictures around in the house, touch up nicks and scratches in your paint and walls, clean and wash off your front door and porch area. If you have dead, dying or spindly plants get rid of these immediately. If you have...

The southeast is the corner most often associated with wealth in feng shui. This is the primary wealth sector in any home. But did you know there are other wealth corners that you could be overlooking that are also critical to your prosperity? When each is activated and enhanced, you have compounding feng shui that benefits everyone in the family in a variety of ways. For instance, did you know there are different kinds of abundance and wealth? There is generating money, like you get from your job such as a salary, there is accumulated wealth, the kind you have in the bank or investments, and there is depleting wealth which is the kind of money associated with bills and demands. Only applying effort and enhancements to the southeast wealth corner is short-sighted. Thorough feng shui takes into account energizing all of the corners for the various ways you can earn money – through associates and benefactors, to your career and business opportunities, from good relationships wi...

In feng shui, metal is the element you don't often hear much discussion about. Most often metal is regarded as a cure for negative energies, especially earth afflictions such as the 5 Yellow and Black 2 that cause both illness and financial difficulties. But metal is a wonderful element that when activated properly can bring patronage luck - the "who you know" kind of energy that separates truly successful people from those with just average success - heaven energy and power, and the all-important water of wealth. Let's take a look at the element of metal.... We know from basic grade-school science that metal is a conductor. It conducts energy like electricity and is used to promote the generation of water in feng shui, which in feng shui is shorthand word for wealth and prosperity. Its shape in feng shui is either the arch or circle - both have lots of movement. Just think of a coin's round shape and how they are spent and move through circulation, or...

One of the things that frustrates me most is when I get a referral for a feng shui consultation and it’s to re-do a consultation from another consultant who took the crazy train right on out of feng shui town. And it happens. I understand that we all have a different take on things, but what I’m talking about is the difference in feng shui that’s it’s no longer recognizable as feng shui. It’s the kind that has clients doing positively weird stuff, crazy rituals and things that’s just hands-down odd. Here’s some of the kinds of feng shui that I’ve come across and how it hurts the feng shui profession -- and feng shui clients. Frog turning. In feng shui, wealth frogs are toads that are placed on a low table across from a door and are used to symbolize wealth. They symbolically hold the good chi coming into the door. Frogs are good omens of wealth and prosperity because they are most often associated with the presence of water, which is the element of prosperity. Some feng s...

Feng shui is all about creating flow, energy, finding balance and unstopping blockages. This is true for your personal space, your office, your home, and, well, you. You have energy (or maybe you don’t) and that energy impacts the way the world responds to you in the form of career, prosperity, health, wisdom, love, and happiness. Applying feng shui to yourself is just as important as applying it to a home or office because you are the vessel that transports you through life. Let’s talk about some ideas that will help you feng shui yourself – and help you get your personal feng shui in sync, in harmony, and in a productive and prosperous mode! 1. Subtle change is powerful change. Rather than a huge, sweeping change, such as losing 50 pounds, resolve to stop drinking sodas or fruit juice every day, for example. I had a habit of eating hard candies while writing and it packed on the pounds over time. I stopped eating them and dropped five pounds rather quickly. Do small th...