As always, at this time of year I search for a Chinese 4 Pillars Astrology forecast that I enjoy. I personally have not trained in 4 Pillars because it is as deep and complex as Western Astrology, which I’ve been studying since I was 12! (To complement my Feng Shui practice, I use 9 Star […]
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Creating a Feng Shui Garden: Fire Element
Adding Fire to your garden is the final way of creating a Feng Shui space. You can use flowers or objects with red or bright orange colors, pointy shapes, such as zig zag patterns, star or triangular shapes. But my favorite way of incorporating Fire is with fire pits, fireplaces, and pagodas (which, in there […]
Lecture on Biophilic Design at The Lodge at Woodloch
Main entrance Just last weekend, I had the honor of giving a lecture on biophilic design (a.k.a. restorative design) and the architecture of The Lodge at Woodloch in Hawley, PA. I am a certified feng shui practitioner and ground my design philosophy around our need to connect to the natural world. Biophilic design, as I […]
I Said, “That is not MY Future”
How we can feel empowered with our mythic selves So this happened when I was around 12 years old. I just watched the movie “Soylent Green” with my friend and her family. It was an early Armageddon-type movie, but the scene that hit me hard, really hard, was the one where the character Sol, […]
Negative Earth Energy: Basic 101
Negative Earth Energy: Basic 101 The house looks good. There doesn’t appear to be anything that would impact their health or finances. So what’s going on? Most feng shui practitioners have learned to look beyond the physical, beyond the furniture placement and symbols in artwork. But you don’t need to do feng shui to […]
How to do a Space Clearing
I started my New Year by cleaning out my refrigerator. Dumping expired food, cleaning out jars and containers for recycling, clearing up vegie remnants of the organic farm share we get every year, and organizing what was left. Sounds like fun, right? Strangely enough it was energizing and felt appropriate – clearing the old to […]