Sunday, however is a different story. After spending Friday night measuring up the unit to give me an accurate bagua, hubby wasn't quite as patient when I explained there were a few things we needed to discover before simply moving the furniture around. Still, he paced up and down as I sought answers to some of the more puzzling questions I was to face today.
My feng shui birth element is Water. Turns out this is based on the year you were born in the Chinese calendar, year of the dog, rat, etc. Easy done, know that one, this doesn't sound too difficult.
A water person embraces the flexibility of water but like water, can also wear down the hardest rock given enough time - which means nagging is an inherent part of me that simply has to be embraced!
Good Feng Shui for water people includes decorating in white, grey (metal), blue and black, but avoiding all 'sandy' or earthly colours. Water fountains, mirrors and art or photos depicting water are strongly advised, but earthenware, crystals or rocks are to be avoided.
Ok so now I have some boundaries - but then I looked around my bedroom..
EVERYTHING IS TIMBER! My bed, the bedside tables, bookshelf and tall boy - all of it! I started thinking "shit, the feng shui gods must be laughing at me" before I realised that wood is also a feng shui element so it wouldn't be classed as 'earthly.'
Still, I put blue sheets and a shades-of-blue doona cover on my bed just in case.
But then I read "feng shui tips for your bedroom" courtesy of About.com.
Best colours for a bedroom are "skin colours" and it's a good idea to avoid blue (unless sky blue) and be careful with mirrors it tells me. Well how can I do that if that's what my element tells me I need to have???
I've decided that feng shui is a bit like religion: you just pick the bits that work for you.
Then of course came the matter of where to place the bed. Originally, it was placed so that our heads were under the window and hubby closest to the door so that if we are ever robbed / attacked the robbers/attackers will get him first. I thought this was a sensible approach, but feng shui says no.
Apparently your 'chi' escapes out the window while you're sleeping if you have your head under it.
Right so now which way do we go? Our room only measures about 3.5m square so the options are limited. Never fear, this is what your 'Kua number' is for.
Your Kua Number if essentially your lucky number is worked out differently depending if your male or femals: just another way the universe puts the sexes on polar opposites. And yep, what do you know it my lucky number is 6 and his is 9.
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While hubby cracks himself up about some crass image he has forming in his head, I read further to discover my ideal direction is west and his is east. Single beds are banned so how the hell is this going to work??
We try for some non-feng shui discussion and arguments fly back and forth using logic that doesn't extend further than " I don't want to be the first person the robbers get" and "I pee more during the night than you do."
Sadly, this gets us nowhere and further research reveals a solution. If it isn't possible to satisfy the feng shui gods of both people in the bedroom, then one gets the bedroom and the other gets the other room they spend most of their time in.
I win the bedroom, Matt gets the living room - which, if anyone who's been to our place essentially means he gets the rest of the unit. I wanted to give him the toilet since he does spend a lot of time on there, but that got shot down.
I should point out that I won the bedroom mostly because apparently the top of the bed can't back on to a wall with electrical appliances on the other side.
The final result:
Space to move, clutter gone and enough space for me to store a cricket bat next to me for when the robbers come to visit....
Next stop, the living room
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