Feng Shui is not an isolated aspect of our life, which we turn to at some point in time and then forget. Like when we are looking for our well-being or our health, it is not about practicing a sport or eating a healthy diet for a week and then forgetting and expecting great results. Actually, Feng Shui corresponds to our environment and must be permanently aligned with our purpose and with our person or our habits.
Most of the people live on a bilateral level of transaction between the environment and oneself, where I expect from the environment what I don't give it or else, I charge it with very high expectations what I give it, and in this constant game we go and come looking for an answer or results that sometimes do not correspond to us or are not realistic.
Experiencing this is part of the human process until we begin to look for the meaning or direction to break this transaction of ideals that are never realized because they do not align with the higher purpose and that is when we come to realize that something more than we do not know and that some they call destiny or luck, it also intervenes in our life.
The Chinese designed a system to understand life, to get to know each other, to look for the connection with the essence or the origin, which helps them to have clearer what they are and what they are, giving the time factor a very important value.
In this sense they are more practical, because they make peace with reality and complain less, helping to order their usual environment according to their essence or destiny.
Environment is not only the Feng Shui of a site, it is everything that surrounds us; the connection of our body with the outside. Knowing who we are and how the passage of time affects us based on a calendar, helps us to have realistic expectations about what we have to receive from the world and guides us about the best we have to give it or what we naturally do with greater grace or virtue; therefore, we will succeed more easily.
This tool called Ba Zi, or four pillars, is the tool that interprets the configuration of our essence or energy formation and is contained in our date and time of birth. It is an astrological system of logical deductions based on the 5 elements: earth, wood, water, fire and metal which will be present in our structure to a greater or lesser extent, each representing factors such as power, money, friends, creativity or education.
Knowing our origin, we will align our surroundings with a sense or with a direction, that is, there will be an objective, which can be identified or expected within certain periods of our life.
In the West we blindly insist on what we want at the moment that we think we could use, but things always come when they come, and using this tool we can know what it touches and when.
We have heard that this year of the monkey would affect those born in the year of the tiger, or in the month, day or time. The year in which we were born represents only one eighth of who we are, the interpretation of the Ba Zi or four pillars, also takes into account the month, day and time, to define precisely a person.
Now, what do the elements have to do? Fire Monkey? When we get to this part, we already ask ourselves: what about fire will it be? The presence of elements also influences our fate or destiny, and what fire means to each one of us affects the unique constitution or essence with which we were born.
In the Chinese solar calendar there are 60 combinations of energy that will be related to each of us differently. Each combination refers to a year, with what can be estimated as it will be next or next year, without being a matter of divination, much less, but exclusively based on the natural order of time that nothing and nobody it can alter, because they follow the order of a calendar.
What would you do, for example, if you knew that the next year your health could weaken? Or if you knew that you will have chances of getting pregnant, or that it is out of your hands that your partner and your parents understand each other? Or that you have a lot of ability to teach but little artistic ease? For now we would save a lot of energy, "trying" or looking for the reasons because we have qualities and weaknesses of birth, potential and periods of greater or lesser luck. Knowing them allows us to better manage our expectations, make better decisions and take better care of our health.
This essence is unchangeable, unless we change our date of birth.
Feng Shui was developed to help people and not homes, just during periods when we are fragile. Being in a bad environment during a cycle of bad luck will lead us to get sick. We cannot leave the cycle before or after it until it is finished, but align the Feng Shui if it is in our hand.
On the other hand, if we put ourselves in a good place at a good time we will have to enhance, maximize or enlarge the results, because it is like working in an area with the maximum Wi-Fi signal. In short, Feng Shui improves the good and makes the negative less bad.
The same goes for habits: it is worth nothing to always eat badly and one day well, especially if our health is not very good, and on the contrary, if we always take care of ourselves and one day we exceed ourselves, nothing happens. It is a way of life; habits, Feng Shui, have to be aligned to who we are.
In this line of thinking the question arises, so how does a house line up for all its inhabitants? This would not be feasible or work like this. There are actually better and worse houses, and in general they offer or have certain characteristics both good and bad. The issue is how and WHEN these will be reflected in each of the inhabitants, and this is the individual connection of each between the Ba Zi or four pillars and the environment to which it is exposed. Now the good characteristics of a house will be good for everyone and bad ones too, so it is important to have a healthy house in general terms with good Feng Shui.
Hence, for example, the accommodation of people in a house. Depending on its moment and situation, priority can be given to use the best sectors-rooms at any given time. They are fundamental as it is the place where we spend a third of our lives.
Just as we have to make adjustments in our diet, in our relationships, so we must make adjustments in our environment, certainly not daily, but it is recommended annually, as nothing is permanent.
Adjustments are not about throwing walls or making reforms, they are much more subtle things. Now, common sense is also welcome in this practice as in any other. If suddenly we put a power plant near our house that is affecting the entire electromagnetic field of the area or neighborhood, we cannot think that by placing any element or object in our house we can counteract the force of said energy in the environment. Let's be logical and honest; everything has its reach.
It is important not to waste good periods or cycles in a bad place or bad environment, as this drains our energy decreasing our potential and with it our results. We cannot afford to lose vital energy unnecessarily, because it takes us away from what was for us. As the saying goes: you have to be in the right place and at the right time.
The tangible part that generates energy such as food, rest or sport, is as important as the intangible, the qi that circulates inside and outside of us. Let us not see it does not detract from it. It is like our breathing: we do nothing to have it or see it, and yet it is there and it is everything. When I stop, it's all over. The balance between the tangible and the intangible is the ideal state of well-being.
Leonor Estrada
Residential and Commercial Fengshuista