Finding Your Feng Shui Power Spots For Love & Romance
by Stephanie Roberts
The first step in using feng shui to attract a partner or
improve your love life is to find the relationship power spots
in your home. Once you have located these areas, feng
shui cures and enhancements can activate these areas
and increase your love luck.
The feng shui "ba gua" is an energy map that divides any
space into eight ("ba") sections ("guas"), each of which
affects a specific aspect of life. Love and marriage are
governed by "Kun" gua. Your relationship power spots are
the Kun guas of your home, bedroom, and other main rooms.
In traditional Chinese feng shui, Kun gua is the southwest
(SW) sector of the home. Secondary Kun guas are the SW
sector of each room within the home. Contemporary Western
feng shui defines the ba gua in relationship to the entry.
Using this method, Kun gua is the area of the home or room
that is farthest to the back on the right-hand side, when
you stand in the doorway facing into the space. (Always use
the formal front entry to the home when you are using this
method, even if you go in and out through a side or back door
most of the time.)
One reason many people find feng shui confusing is that they
don't know which to method to follow. With so many places
within the home that might be called Kun gua, where do you
place your feng shui objects?
Follow these steps to find the best relationship "power spots"
in your home by combining and comparing these two methods.
1. Using a compass, find the room or rooms that are located
in the SW sector of your home. (If you have a floor plan that
indicates North, you can use that to figure out which direction
is SW.) If you have no way of confirming SW accurately, just
use the doorway method.
2. Stand in your front entry, facing into the home. What room
or rooms are in the back of the house on the right-hand side?
3. Compare the rooms you identified using these two methods.
Stairways, narrow hallways, closets, bathrooms, and
bedrooms occupied by anyone other than yourself should be
crossed off your list. If you identified the living room, dining
room, kitchen, or any other comfortable, pleasant space, keep
those rooms on your list.
4. Your personal bedroom will always be a good place for
romance feng shui. Put it on your list, even if it is not in the
SW or right-rear area of the home. If your bedroom is in the
SW or the rear right area of the home, it is a very strong
relationship power spot for you.
5. Find the relationship areas within you bedroom. First, use
your compass to locate the SW area of the room. Then stand
in the doorway facing into the room and locate the far corner
on your right-hand side. If these two areas overlap, you have
identified a very powerful relationship power spot for feng shui
enhancement.
6. If these two areas in your bedroom (SW and far-right
corner) are not the same, compare them. Which is brighter,
cleaner, less cluttered, more attractive? Which has potential
for adding feng shui enhancements: a section of wall where
you could hang a poster, photograph, or framed piece of
artwork; the top of a dresser or bedside table, a fireplace
mantel, or a bookcase where you could clear a little space
on a shelf for a romantic figurine or other object.
7. Now, find the relationship areas within any other rooms on
your "approved" list. First, using the compass, locate the SW
area of the room. Then stand in the doorway, facing into the
room, and locate the far corner on your right-hand side.
8. Again, compare your options, and look for clean,
uncluttered, well-lit, attractive places where you could place
feng shui objects or romantic artwork or imagery.
9. If by the end of this process you have more than three
good options available to you, continue to prioritize your list.
The most desirable "power spots" will be:
a) in your bedroom
b) places that you see most often as you go through your
normal daily activities
These are now your priority power spots for love and marriage.
Some easy ways to enhance these areas are with:
- imagery or artwork representing lovers
- two pink or red candles set side-by-side
- a red, pink, or white heart-shaped box
- two round or heart-shaped red or pink pillows
- two red silk roses in a pretty vase
- fresh flowers with red or pink blossoms
- a pink faceted feng shui crystal, hung over your bed or
in a power spot
- imagery or artwork of pairs of mandarin ducks, doves, or
swans
- the Chinese symbol for "double happiness"
- any image or object that represents love, marriage, or
romance in a way that has strong personal meaning for you
There is much more to feng shui than activating power
spots, but these simple steps will get you off to a good start.
The feng shui imagery and objects that you place in your
power spots help to shift the energy of your home, and are
visual reminders of your intention to find happiness with a
romantic partner who will be everything that you have
dreamed.