Chinese good luck symbols - part 2, Attract love, romance with feng shui
What Chinese feng shui symbols attract love and romance ?
In feng shui compass school method, Southwest is the place for love, romance, marriage and family . and it is believed that an image of a couple in the Southwest side of your home or room can attract love, romance and happy marriage.
I have very good experience using this area for my relationship.
What I did was to display the image, picture of my favorite type of person on the wall at the Southwest area of my room .
Also an image of a love couple, of a dream house surrounded by a beautiful flower garden. Also a pair of rose quartz figurines.
In the southeast corner of my room, I placed a small plant with red ribbon around the plant's bowl which was given by my friend as a wedding favor.
As a result, when I was single , I had so many opportunities to meet people who look like the image picture of my favorite person.
Here are some Chinese feng shui symbols for love, romance and happy marriage and also mystical symbols to increase your love opportunity.
Pair of love birds ( or mandarin ducks )
Love birds symbolize happy marriage and couple. Placing pair figurines show that you are not alone, you always have a partner in your life.
Dragon & phoenix couple
Dragon & Phoenix couple image represents emperor and empress ( husband & wife ) which symbolizes happy marriage with a lot of wealth, and brings luxury ife.
Peach tree
Peach tree symbolizes longevity in Chinese tradition, however in my experience, displaying a peach tree image or peach flowers brought great love opportunities. I was placing fake peaches ( fruit ) in the Southwest corner of my room.
Pink flowers & plants
Placing live pink color flowers in the southeast corner of your house is believed to bring alot of new relationship opportunities. Also placing alot of plants in the southeast corner can get the same.
Basically, according to feng shui compass school method, southwest is the place for relationship & family, and southeast is for wealth , but I realized this area ( southeast)also has the power to increase new relationship opportunities when you place colorful flowers or plants with red ribbon.
Flower design blanket and curtain
Colorful flower design symbolizes love and romance. Avoid to use dark color flowers such as blue flowers.
Rose quartz happy buddha
Rose quartz symbolizes love, romance and good relationship. Happy buddha ( laughing buddha) also is called " Hotei " symbolizes joy and happiness. The combination of rose quartz and happy buddha are a powerful good luck symbol for love opportunity & marriage.
Phoenix , horse, bird
If you want to bring popularity into your life, displaying the image of phoenix or galopping horse or bird at the south corner of your home can help .
Chinese double happiness symbol
Double happiness is an excellent feng shui symbol for wedding luck.
The meaning of the word is " Joy, Happiness " in Chinese and it is written twice.
If you wish to find romance and a future partner, great to placethe double happiness symbol in the southwest corner of your house or room or carry it in your handbag or purse.
Wedding favors
Wedding favors are a very powerful item when you receive it from your friend or family who are full of happiness at the wedding party. Place the wedding favor in the southwest or southeast corner of your house or room.
Joining happy events is always good luck, unless you don't get negative mind when you are by yourself.
Crystals
Natural crystal quartz is extremely effective to activate earth energy of southwest corner and it will attract romance into your life. Especially when you place crystal ( or hang it ) by the window which catches sunlight , it will expand yang energy around the space.
Travel to good direction for love
To go traveling in the love direction ( you will need to check this, because every year, every month , it's different. ) can bring you love luck , during traveling and in your close future. If you want to change your love luck, this is also very effective.
About the author,
Keiko Entwistle is an asian astrologer using her original taoism methods that she learned in Japan. She runs feng shui and good luck Chinese symbol charms website http://www.mercurytreasures.com
The Tossing of the Bridal Bouquet
As a blushing bride, it is a popular custom performed at many beautiful and classic weddings that is, the throwing the hand tied wedding bouquet. It is a tradition that you, the blushing bride can choose to do before or after your ceremony. Some brides choose to toss their hand tied wedding bouquet before the reception so she and her new husband can leave the wedding reception whenever they want without the pressure of having to throw the hand tied wedding bouquet right before they leave.
The throwing of the hand tied wedding bouquet states that the single woman who catches the hand tied wedding bouquet will be the next single woman to get married. This custom extends to the fact that the single man who catches the garter, is also to wed soon, and possibly to the single woman who caught the hand tied wedding bouquet at the same wedding. It is very exciting.
Even if there is no proof of the single woman's fate, throwing the hand tied wedding bouquet is an entertaining event for all the guests, and the lucky lady always gets to take home a one-of-a-kind hand tied wedding bouquet as a symbol for the event's memory.
The custom of throwing the hand tied wedding bouquet began with the faith that good luck herbs were located inside the beautiful hand tied wedding bouquet. So that the bride could offer her good fortune on to her wedding guests, the bride would toss her bouquet to one fortunate single female during the wedding reception. These days, which faith remains unbroken and it is recommended that a bride who plans to toss the hand tied wedding bouquet, should have a small, matching hand tied bridal bouquet created in particular for this practice so that she can keep her original hand tied wedding bouquet.
When throwing the hand tied wedding bouquet the bride should consider a few things. First, if there is a particular person that she wishes to present her hand tied wedding bouquet to, she should let her friend know in advance perhaps before the wedding. This way, it is set-up nicely and performed beautifully when the hand tied wedding bouquet is tossed out.
Secondly, a different yet exciting alternative to throwing the hand tied wedding bouquet is a pretend toss before a real one. In this case, the bride would select a female guest who she wishes to catch the hand tied wedding bouquet and seek her with the hand tied wedding bouquet. She would throw it directly to her.
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Myths to the Contrary, Childhood is a Nightmare
Copyright 2006 Cole's Poetic License
When we watch toddlers dance we feel their joy. When they trip, they don't fall far and their butts are padded. Their excitement at two-legged mobility is infectious.
When we see kids of all ages running, jumping, giggling and then falling asleep at ease, we assume children are carefree and happy.
But, consider your own memories, the ones that come unbidden in your dreams, and the ones that define you and make your daily choices. Wasn't there a nightmare or two in your childhood?
I remember many. That's why I want you to see that close attachment with caring adults is a basic necessity for survival for all of us, not just our own children.
New York Times Columnist David Brooks, alluding to Warren Buffet's $37 billion gift to charity, writes that he would invest in promoting a hormone that helps mammals bond. "Everything we're learning about the brain confirms the centrality of attachments to human development and the wisdom of Adam Smith's observation that the 'chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved.' "
Why is it, then, that federal, state and local governments continue to spend money on education through continual assessment of math and reading scores? To make schools accountable? The results show an increased dropout rate. To avoid loss of income, some schools don't test those who will score low.
Brooks writes, "The dropout rates are astronomical because humans are not machines into which you can input data. They require emotion to process information. You take kids who didn't benefit from stable, nurturing parental care and you stick them in a school that functions like a factory for information transmission, and the results are going to be horrible."
Information processing of children is left-brained thinking at its worse. It reminds me of he time the California Fish and Game drew a line on the map of the ocean and declared everything south of it a no-otter zone. The otters did not read the map nor obey the proclamation.
When school is emotionally engaging students succeed. When school consists of testing, only those skilled in math and reading, and backed by loving parents, succeed. The rest join a gang, or its equivalent, the army.
In the early 1980's I taught English in an affluent high school. We built an alternative program for potential dropouts. One student, Richard, was assigned to me. At 15 he was six feet tall and angry. The day I met him he tore a chain link fence apart with his bare hands. His parents belonged to Mensa, that organization for people with exceptionally high IQ's, but his father abused him physically. Therefore I had the task of removing him from his home and placing him in another, kinder one.
As Richard moved his clothes into my car, his older, even bigger, brother came out into the street threatening him, ready to whip him again.
I screamed at Richard to get in my car and jumped in front of the brother. He breathed fired at me for a minute that felt like an hour and then backed away. I drove off with Richard, shaking so badly it's a wonder I didn't crash.
Richard graduated from high school. I doubt that he would today.
We have to change how we think now or perpetuate a generation of enemies. If you can recognize that your childhood was not complete bliss, you who have the leisure and wherewithal to read this far, imagine the childhood of those gang members?those kids you knew who didn't graduate, the ones you heard about at your last reunion.
The best we can do now is recognize that childhood is a nightmare that most of us survive. How we survived it colors how we survive now. And we can change anything if we first change our thoughts. The only test of our thoughts is our lives.
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? Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, The Whole-mind Writer, http://www.write-for-wealth.com, evycole@hughes.net
Cole's chief aim in life is to convince everyone to understand the power of the subconscious mind and synchronize it with goals of the conscious mind.