My First Feng Shui Consultation
Posted August 7, 2008 by Margot MarrakeshCategories: Africa, China, Chinese Culture, Feng Shui, Feng Shui Around Marrakesh, Feng Shui Consultations in Marrakesh, Feng Shui Consultations in Morocco, Feng Shui in Morocco, Feng Shui of Buildings, Fun, Health in Morocco, Intuition, Marrakech, Marrakesh, Metaphysics, Morocco, Mystics, Villas in Marrakech, Villas in Morocco, Women
Yesterday, I gave my very first simple Feng Shui consultation to a very good friend. After calculating the flying stars on my own house, and interpreting what they mean, I asked my friend if I could do her house. when I asked her, she seemed a bit nervous! Here are a few highlights from the consultation:
I hadn’t been to my friend’s house in the past couple of years, and since that time, she had done some renovations. Both the original construction and the renovations turned out to be in the same cycle “8,” so it didn’t change the chart. She had carefully measured the facing direction, and hand-sketched for me the new floor plan. I made up the chart, and looked up interpretations. I then looked up the Eva Wong’s recommendations for the couple of problem areas I found.
The biggest problem area turned out to be in the kitchen, where there was, according to the chart, “a danger of fire caused by human activity.”
After recommending no red in the kitchen, recommendations were to add both metal, and moving water to the sector. When I did the walk-through of the house, I found that my friend had designed her washing machine in exactly this area, and next to it a refrigerator! I think both of those would qualify as heavy metal elements. Furthermore, the washing machine (normally used daily in Morocco, because of small-capacity machines) is moving water!
In the corner of the same wall is the kitchen sink, also qualifying as moving water. The stove location, across the kitchen from the sink, I found falling outside of the sector with fire danger, and in fact, falling in an extremely positive sector for health. So it is actually the ideal placement in this kitchen for the food to be most helpful. I also recommended the common-sense safety measure of having a large container of loose salt on hand in a convenient place, which could be thrown quickly on either a grease fire or an electrical fire, should one occur.
The other problem area I found was “obstacles in business,” which happily, was not occurring in the area of the business office. It was in the stairs.

Most stairways in Moroccan houses are narrow, and sharply turning, and not fitted with any hand rail, unlike the stairs in this picture
I recommended no red enhancers in the area (not that there was any red), and the installation of a safety railing to guard against accidents on the stairs. Otherwise, as the stairs are not an area one normally spends much time, I did not think the location of this problem would be a problem for the occupants.
The other thing my friend wanted was the best location for her husband’s desk, where he is presently taking some courses and studying new material. We were able to find a spot precisely in an area indicating “success in scholarly endeavors.” Furthermore, we were able to find that spot in the already-existing large home office (large enough for both husband and wife).
Overall, I felt it was both a very positive consultation for my friend, and a good learning experience for me, too.
Margot




















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