Gardens as a Sanctuary

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Our yards are extensions of our homes.

They are what greets your visitors, identifies your boundaries, and provides you with nature, recreation, vegetable growing potential and refuge from our chaotic worlds.

They always have been, since the beginning of time.
Gardens have become our sanctuaries.  We ritualistically tend to them and that custom has become part of cultures all around the world.

Alchemy of Salt Water Cures

Before adding Water to Salt Water Cure

Salt has a long history of use in rituals of purification, blessings and magical protection. Many cultures and areas of metaphysical study, such as Feng Shui use the reaction of salt with metal and water - as a cure for negative energies. 

Within the art of Feng Shui, we learn to use shapes, colours and actions to heal chi. By actions I mean, sound, flame, light intensity and movement.  It’s the alchemy of the reaction. 

Most people have been advised to have a fish tank, but don’t know specifically that, its the fish MOVING the water in the tank,  that is the cure, not necessarily the fish. In the case of hanging a wind chime, do know that it isn’t the visual existence of the decoration, it’s the sound of the chimes when they are moved.  If there is no wind - one must ritualistically tap the chimes for the sound.  No sound - no cure. 

A person who has knowledge of Flying Stars in Classical Feng Shui will be able to advise you where and when to place a salt water cure.  For example; 2016’s Year of the Fire Monkey will have an undesirable energy that will emanate from the North East.  If its presence interacts with your home’s natal chart poorly,  it can bring the potential for great disharmony.  Till February of 2017, most homes will benefit from a salt water cure in the NE section of their home.  However, don't be too alarmed as the NE is where the most "healing advantages" come from until 2014 and it is a good Earth Element. 

I have tried several variations; glass bowls, plastic bowls, 6 pennies, or 6 I Ching coins. I’ve used plain table salt, kosher salt, rock salt & sea salt.  I have tried to make the cure look decorative with domes or plants and one year, crystals.  Every year’s outcome has looked different.  Each "masterpiece" was based on the perceived nature of the other stars (still/active/natal)  & time energies that the particular annual negative energy - that is present - will encounter. It’s a fine balancing act that teaches you to be creative. One definite requirement is to not have anything jagged, triangular or fiery red in colour. Absolutely no lit candles.  But nothing is absolute as each element (fire, water, earth, wood, metal) should exist in each room to complete a cycle of production. 

It is said that the salt water cure is most powerful if left exposed aiding the intended foaming reaction- the salt will expand and crust over your bowl. That “alchemy” creates a scientific state that affects the ions in the air thereby purifying.   Keep it activated by adding water when it is dry.  

Decorative Dome is actually an additional cure 

This year I took a large copper bowl with a corroded  patina.  In it, I have placed a glass bowl with a layer of kosher salt in it.  On top of that, I put a circle of 6 I Ching coins.  Then I poured enough water to cover it and topped it with an open - free form - metal dome hood.  

The dome shape is actually an additional cure and it supports the combination of identified Feng Shui energies that are present in my home. 

In a few weeks the reaction will start and I will be sure to replenish the water.  I will not dump it out until next year and then…. I’ll make a new one and place it where the negative energy is expected to fly.  

Flying Stars Feng Shui is a fascinating, energy philosophy practice that employs many age old rituals. 

A bit about Feng Shui

First, it is impossible to report just a bit about Feng Shui.   It is a much involved metaphysical study that scrutinizes your home, the land around it and the relationship each individual occupant has to the present time, the evolving time, the time the home has endured and also the way energy is permitted into the home. Chi is observed to see how it reacts to the shapes, colours, elements and design of each individual room and the pathways that are created or blocked between them. 

You cannot master Feng Shui at a weekend workshop or by reading a few books.

In Eastern Philosophy Feng Shui is also interpreted in conjunction with other kinds of luck that are characterized by astrological and heavenly influences.  Feng Shui is not... simply about hanging crystals, mirrors or other trinkets and it is not entirely about power and wealth.  

I’m certified in traditional feng shui.  I have also interviewed or have been affiliated with every major school of thought or practice. I have reported on the subject matter thru written magazine articles and television programming. Most importantly, I have lived through several feng shui audits myself. 

There is a huge population of believers. There exists great controversy in perceived rules and regulations. There are many disputes about how energy patterns ought to be identified, manipulated and dealt with. 

Nothing is absolute.  All is merely probable and then it changes. 

There are no perfect homes.  We are drawn to our homes for unknown reasons and like the children who become our offspring…. we have nominal choice should they be brilliant, disobedient or challenged in anyway. We can try our best,  but our only true choice is how we manage these circumstances and feng shui can be a coping strategy. 

A learned practitioner eventually understands that even negative energy patterns aid a person in their spiritual growth. Aggressive and overconfident chi can boost the timid. Sick and melancholy stars may influence the healer. Even destruction can be a blessing in disguise for without a catalyst, rebirth is not a possibility.  

Reporting on Feng Shui Philosophy

Like any other divination reading (like tarot/iching) feng shui is a re affirmation of the life you are already living. The worst thing a practitioner can say is “sell your house immediately!”   I believe your family members and home found you. You are the integral link. 

You cannot ever blame your house, the neighbours or God. You can however, make the best of the potential your house has to offer and learn to embrace the potential in a mature and appreciative manner.  Interestingly, you will find that if you own multiple buildings; businesses and vacation properties... you will note that energy combinations repeatedly present themselves. 

I would say that, the good inside you comes from the life you have already lived and is shaped by the acceptance of the energies you are given - but by all means, if you can identify and adjust those energies to bring yourself success and happiness then  - go right ahead - learn to support and modify energy.  Think of Feng Shui's chi identification the same way you would internal chakras and chi we unblock in acupuncture. 

Believing you can create abundance symbolically  - generally makes it so.  We can heal our selves and our homes but living, the healed life is truly a state of mind.  

Feng Shui is just one of many spiritual luck decoders.  It is custom in some cultures, a ritualistic exercise to follow with many and most certainly,  a very strong belief. 

More about your author's link to Feng Shui Philosophy  

A bit about Spiritual readings and the like.

It’s a broad industry.  For centuries the divinely skilled (or fraudster) has made money, traded goods, gifted, awed, shocked and advised their way into global acceptance that for the most part - there are indeed some people who can relay messages based on magic, intuition, coincidence or etherial spirt.

I believe.  I think everyone can experience the phenomena, at least once in their life.  I just don’t believe that all psychic medium/channels/spiritual advisors are 100% accurate and belong on one of the prestigious tested | certified American lists like;  www.bestamericanpsychics.com  www.globalpsychicsolutions.com       www.foreverfamilyfoundations.com  www.certifiedpsychicsociety.org 

There are no certifiable associations in Canada. Certainly they'll be many such organizations in Europe and beyond and I’m sure the tools used will be different like using the iChing, feng shui and shaministic practices.

An intuitive reading is dependent on a tool that allows the reader to to pick up subtle meanings in symbolism.  It could be cards, stones, bones or tea patterns.
Even palm reading is based on the placement of the lines we have worn into our skin.
The possibilities are endless. It isn’t the tool so much as “How” they interpret. Anyone can learn but it takes special people to not only describe the text book meaning but combine it with potential.

In my experience, 90% of the readings I have ever had- have been horribly vague. But every once and a while I can pull out a gem of recognition and yes, I can honestly say I can validate the incident. I have even been known to pull out my own tarot cards and entertain girlfriends over wine or tea. NOTE: I am not claiming to be a physic medium, neither are most of the spiritual readers out there. They are exploring their intuitive side and they are rather successful at it.

Magical people like the Long Island Medium, John Edward & Sally Morgan get clear messages from spirit. No tools required, their symbolism is brought to their minds from spirit.  These guys are the real Psychic Mediums.  Authentic psychic mediums use no tools; no tarot cards or anything else for that matter. They are evidential and they are rare.  But back to spiritual readers because they represent the majority of who we people, pay to visit for readings.

Lithomancy by Gary L. Wimmer

When a reading is bang on... it certainly is and I have come to know that you don’t need an object or tool to “feel” somebody’s energy because their words and actions can easily provide that information.

When a reading is not good.... you can sense it in the first few minutes. It sounds like a recording that could be read to anyone. I have actually experienced the blurring of sound, repeated interruptions and once when this guy was giving me a past life reading I had an intense ringing in one ear- leading me to believe I was not supposed to listen to his bull shit.

Where did that ringing come from?  Why at that moment?

I do indeed find the process of divination fascinating. I can see how it can be called guidance as sometimes we need to hear from somewhere, some kind of direction.  It’s like taking a peek within your own subconscious and deciding if it could be a probability.

A life journey menu... of sorts.  Just means you have choices.  It's fascinating.

A bit about Chinese New Year & how it relates to Feng Shui

The Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese Holiday.

It is the last day of the last month of the lunisolar calendar.  Lunisolar (lune = moon/solar=sun) So both the moon’s phase and the year’s season are acknowledged and are used to predict the constellation or... astrological phase.   Ancient Chinese Secret stuff.

RED for Chinese New Year Celebration:  This display is actually a Feng Shui enhancer & cure. 

There’s actually fifteen days of rituals that are noted that honor deities and ancestors.

House cleaning and purging is key to sweep away all the bad of the year before. The color red is applied freshly and liberally, debts are paid out and incense is burned for a variety of reasons.  Most recognize the gift exchange of red envelopes with money or chocolate coins in them. And of course, we see red and gold paper lanterns and such.  

I was introduced to the Chinese New Year when I studied Eastern Energy Philosophy. I practice traditional feng shui and harmonize annual energy patterns that merge into the year, (several days after the Chinese New Year).  Somewhere around February 4/5 chi moves into homes with different intensities, like a bio rhythm. 

I have always used the Chinese New Year as a start to my Feng Shui cures & enhancement strategies.  My newly adapted custom goes like this;  I use the cleaning and purging of pre Chinese New Year as a way of starting with a fresh slate.  Ritualistically I clean and then prepare a room for what it is about to need. Then I go about doing it in time for the annual influences to take effect.

In my dreary Canadian winter, the celebration of The Chinese New Year is welcoming and it helps me kick start a new year, mindful of what obstacles or blessings I may encounter.  A little preventative medicine.