Q&A Sunday: The Best Place for a Feng Shui Plant

Guest User May 16, 2021

Where is the best place to put a plant for feng shui?

Two of my favorite places to put a plant based on feng shui are Kun (relationships) or Xun (wealth) in your bedroom. These are two of the most popular areas of the feng shui bagua that people love to work with, and I recommend starting in your bedroom because any changes there affect you the most.

Plants are really having a moment right now! Working with plants is beautiful because they’re living things that you can cultivate, so they encourage you to invest in and take care of something outside of yourself. They also represent growth, vitality, and healing. Another thing that’s really great about plants is that you can pay attention to how they’re growing, and what that represents. For example, I have a money tree that I got about ten years ago that started out just a couple of feet tall. Now it’s almost as tall as me! It’s reassuring to see a tangible representation of my own abundance and growth, not only financially but also spiritually.

Xun is connected to wealth and money, but also to how prosperous and worthy you feel. Many people have a great deal of money, but that doesn’t necessarily bring fulfillment or feelings of abundance. When you feel worthy, and recognize that you are a treasure, then you can truly magnetize and attract abundant things to you. You can feel like you have more than enough, which is really what Xun is about. This is a great area to activate with a plant.

The other area that people are most interested in is Kun, or relationships. Most people think that activating Kun will help them attract a partner. That’s true, but there are so many layers to working with this gua. It’s also related to femininity, the mother, and taking care of yourself. You might want to activate that area to invite in a romantic partnership, but you might also want to deepen or heal your existing partnership. Maybe you’ve recently come out of a relationship, and you need to work on healing your relationship with yourself — that’s also related to Kun. Other reasons you might want to work with this gua are wanting to connect more to the earth, or to heal your relationship with your mother. If any of these intentions resonates, this could be a great place for a plant!

If you want more guidance on where to put your plants, I’d recommend working with a practitioner who can help you figure out what would be most supportive for your unique situation.

by Anjie Cho

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Q&A Sunday: Do You Really Need Two Nightstands?

Guest User February 28, 2021

I’ve heard that you’re supposed to have two nightstands. Is this always necessary? Is it ok to just have one?

In general for adults, it’s helpful two have two nightstands, one on each side of the bed. They don’t have to match, but ideally, they should be similar in size. In a mundane way, this creates more balance between you and your partner. If you’re single, it creates space to invite in a partner.

A lot of people who are single may only have one nightstand because they don’t currently need a second one. However, it’s helpful to actually create the space for the partner you do want to invite by accommodating them even before they arrive in your life. You can do this by having a nightstand for them. The same goes for pillows as well—you may only need one pillow at the moment, but by creating your bedroom as if you’re already in a partnership, you’re making your space more inviting, both energetically and physically, to your future partner.

You might also be in a situation where you are not looking for a relationship. If you’re really working on cultivating yourself and you intentionally don’t want to make space for someone right now, that’s completely ok and admirable. If you don’t want a partner, that’s your decision to make.

However, I wouldn’t recommend having only one nightstand long-term. Not only do nightstands represent you and your current or future partner, they can also represent the masculine and feminine sides of yourself. Regardless of whether we have a partner or not, there’s a duality within us that we’re always working to balance: feminine and masculine, light and dark, yin and yang. Over time, having only one nightstand may create an imbalance in these two sides of yourself.

I hope that helps! If you have more questions about your specific situation, I encourage you to work with a consultant or join an upcoming Practical Feng Shui workshop!

by Anjie Cho

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Q&A Sunday: Feng Shui and Taking a Leap

Guest User October 11, 2020

Hi Anjie! I have been loving your podcast, especially the episode about how you got into feng shui. My question is about starting something new. I have been wanting to make some big changes in my life but I keep getting scared, and then I feel like I stay stuck. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you so much for your question, and I’m so glad you’re enjoying the podcast!

When it comes to taking leaps in your life, whether it’s moving across the country, leaving a stable job, or any other big change, there’s a connection to letting go. Taking a leap is scary. It requires you to be courageous, to give yourself permission to do what you’re scared of doing, and to let go of anything that may be holding you back.

One way that this fear translates to how we live in our homes is being scared to get rid of things. People become terrified of letting go of even simple things like a cup or a sweater, because they worry that they might need it one day. Just by starting to practice letting go of things in our home, we are starting to soften our hearts. This helps us take leaps and let go in other parts of our life.

Decluttering can be challenging for many people, because we can get very attached to our things. There’s a traditional Buddhist practice of generosity that is very simple, and I would suggest giving it a try if you are having a hard time letting go of items in your home: Take an object, and practice moving it from one hand to the other. Begin to notice how it feels to let go of something in one hand, and how it feels to offer it to the other hand.

Once you’ve practiced this exercise, begin to practice letting go of things in your home that no longer serve you. You can start with the low-hanging fruit, like items that are broken. Notice how this begins to open your heart, and helps you become more courageous in letting go of things that no longer serve you in your life. This can apply to people and situations as well.

I think the reason feng shui is so attractive to people is that it can be easier to make changes in your external environment rather than your internal environment. In a way feng shui is sort of a gateway drug, because once you really unpack things and connect to your environment more deeply, you begin to see that you’re really interconnected to everything outside of you. You begin to soften and open up, and you can start to really dig deep within yourself, too.

I hope this helps, and I wish you all the best in the changes that lie ahead! If you’d like more feng shui support in making changes in your life, I encourage you to work with a consultant or join us for an upcoming session of Practical Feng Shui to dive deeper.

by Anjie Cho