Mythologies and Fengshui

What Colors are You???

Yin colors are the colors which bring healing and relaxation. There is a relation between colors and Feng Shui, for better understanding, let’s take a look at the examples below.

Blue: Blue color has ‘yin’ energy. It is calm and soothe. This color has great significance in Feng Shui as it reflects love as it heals and relaxes. Blue creates a feeling of peace and trust. Since it is the color of the sea and sky, Feng Shui associates blue with adventure and exploration. Navy blue is the color of intellect and wisdom.

Black: Black symbolizes money and income, black is great for careers, especially when it is combined with metal. It is the Feng Shui color of emotional protection and power.

Purple: Purple, the color that lies at the end of the spectrum, has a great significance in Feng Shui. The color is excellent for physical and mental healing and Feng Shui associates it with spiritual awareness.

White: In Feng Shui the white color represents poise, confidence and purity. Because of its yin energy, Feng Shui uses this color mostly in combination with gold or silver to generate a calm atmosphere.

The other yin colors of Feng Shui are pink and green. These colors also have their individual properties that are used in Feng Shui practice.

Yang Colors and Feng Shui

Yang colors tend to be fire and wood elements. Feng Shui believes that these are the colors that provide you the enthusiasm or the positive energy to do something end to be motivated. Here are the descriptions of colors that Feng Shui provides for your advantages.

Yellow: Yellow color is considered to be as auspicious as red. Yellow represents sunbeam, warmth, motion, cheerfulness and friendliness. However, the exposure to large amounts of intense yellow can cause anxiety.

Orange: With a lot of ‘yang’ energy the orange color has great significance for Feng Shui practice as it strengthens your concentration. You can use this color when your creativity runs to zero level. Orange color in Feng Shui is used to give you a sense of purpose. Orange is the color of organization.

The other ‘yang’ colors of Feng Shui are tan/beige, brown, red, mauve, maroon and lavender and gold. Each color has its significance such as money, luck or romance. These colors can be used in different combinations with Feng Shui elements for balancing the Chi of your Feng Shui home, Feng Shui bed room , or Feng Shui office.

Colors & Feng Shui also have a lot of contributions regarding the direction of your house. There are different colors that Feng Shui defines for the use of exterior facades of your house. Exterior colors of your house in Feng Shui practice can be used for matching or enhancing the basic house type that you have.

For example if your house is facing towards the south, painting its exterior with white, grey or blue enhances the flow of Chi in your house. For houses facing toward East, the colors in earth tones or metal tones are thought to be of much use for enhancing the positive energies of the house.

GODS FROM CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

SAN-XING

(Also known as SAN-HSING, THREE-IMMORTALS)

The Three Gods of Good Fortune, Happiness and Wealth.

Good things come in threes when China gets going. It means 'Three Stars' and then they are the starry-eyed stellar Gods who bring luck and wealth. They are FU-XING (God of Luck), LU-XING (God of Wealth), and SHOU-XING (God of Long Life). If you want to find them, it's easy. Just look for the three stars of ORION's Belt.

The SAN-XING is attended by stags, bats and cranes, which denote their respective qualities symbolically. We will find these on many a calendar at our local Chinese restaurant.

· FU-XING (known as FUK-XING, FU-HSING)

God of Happiness and Good Luck.

He is the Lucky Star member of the SAN-XING team, bright, cheery and full of boundless optimism.

· SHOU-XING (known as SHOU-HSING, SHOU-LAO, NAN-JI-XIAN-WENG)

God of Longevity and Old Age, and the most venerable member of the SAN-XING happiness squad.

It means 'Star Of Long Life'. He is old and bald, and always carries a Golden Peach of Immortality from XI-WANGMU's Holy Peach Garden. These are found only in Heaven and ripen once every three thousand years.

· GUO-ZIYI ( known as GUO-ZI-YI, KUO-TZU-I)

God of Happiness and Riches

It may seem unlikely, but he started out as a soldier in the Tang Dynasty (8th Century A.D.), became a mighty general, rose to become one China's greatest military figures, and ended up as a God having nothing to do with any of that at all.

The modern FENG-SHUI movement has claimed these three Gods for its own. A bewildering array of SAN-XING merchandise is available to cure all known ills, making them also the Three Gods of New Age Gift Stores.

CHINESE NUMEROLOGY

The earliest forms of numerology come from China. The origins of Chinese numerology date back 4000 years ago.

A famous tale is that the first of the five mythical emperors of China, Wu of Hsai, was working on the banks of the Yellow River trying to find a method to prevent the floods.

It was during the course of this work that Wu found a tortoise shell, which at the time was considered to be a very good omen. This shell, however, was extremely rare, unique and special because it had fascinating markings on it: a magic 3x3 square.

This square later became known as the 'Lo Shu Grid'. The 'Lo Shu Grid' is particularly remarkable because every row, column and diagonal on the grid add up to the number '15'.

Chinese numerology is based on mystical traditions, including the I-Ching. The common premise is that certain numbers are associated with 'good' or 'bad'. The element that makes a number 'good' or 'bad' is the punning and word play possible in this many-tone language.

Over time Chinese numerology evolved into three different systems that are being used today. There is the Western version of Chinese numerology, the traditional Chinese numerology and the Ki system. The following presents an introduction to some basic concepts used in Chinese numerology.

Six basic concepts in Chinese numerology!!
1. YANG NUMBERS (odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, etc.)
2. YIN NUMBERS (even numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, etc.)
3. LUCKY NUMBERS (6, 8, 9)
4. UNLUCKY NUMBERS (4, 13)
5. FENG SHUI HOUSE NUMBERS:
6. KUA NUMBERS

Chinese numerology & the chinese elements!!

The five Elements are related to the numbers 1 to 9 as follows:

- Wood is associated with the numbers 3 and 4.
- Fire is associated with the numbers 9.
- Earth is associated with the numbers 2, 5 and 8.
- Metal is associated with the numbers 6 and 7.
- Water is associated with the number 1.