Question:
What Feng Shui guidelines are suggested for seating guests at a dinner party?
Answer:
The practice of placing guests of different genders next to each other is excellent for ensuring good yin and yang balance. Round tables are always preferred to rectangular tables, but rectangular tables are better than T-shaped or L-shaped arrangements. If the number of guests is higher than the number of chairs you have available, it is better to make it a buffet dinner rather than adding chairs in order to have a sit down dinner.
Some suggestions of what NOT to do:
• Never seat anyone at the corner edge of a square or rectangular table or directly facing a protruding corner.
• Never seat anyone directly facing a toilet door.
• Never seat anyone directly underneath an overhead beam.
When entertaining friends or family, never serve coffee or tea in a cup with a chipped rim or drinks in a chipped glass. Drinking from a cup with even the smallest chip symbolically cuts the mouth and brings bad luck. This also affects one’s speech negatively; what you say may get you in trouble. The Chinese believe that drinking from a chipped cup or glass, or eating from a chipped bowl, causes one’s livelihood to suffer from bad luck.
Question:
In Feng Shui, what is considered an inappropriate gift?
Answer:
Any gift that is sharp, pointed, or may represent aggression (ie, knives, tools, wine bottle opener, or scissors) carries extremely negative energy and causes bad Feng Shui for the recipient of your gift.
Question:
What is Chi and is it really that important?
Answer:
Chi is living energy!
Chi flows through the veins of the earth giving life to land, trees, and streams. It is often interpreted as electromagnetic energy, but magnetic fields only make up a part of this spiritual force that is present everywhere.
Feng Shui operates on the principle that if an individual collects the Chi of their surroundings, it will improve the flow of Chi in their bodies and will enhance their health, wealth, and happiness.
There are various ways to look at man. From the viewpoint of science, man moves by his bones, muscles and nerves. In Feng Shui, man is activated by his Chi. Chi moves the hand and man can write; Chi moves the legs and man can walk; Chi moves the brain and man can think.
You can actually say that Chi is mans essential, original life force.
References:
1. Easy-to-Use Feng Shui, 168 Ways to Success, by Lillian Too,
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 1998
2. Feng Shui for the Soul, by Denise Linn, Hay House, 1999
For more information, contact Jennifer Chang, specializing in Feng Shui for working and living environments, at (775)852-6358.
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