Enjoy the month of May.

Peg 

This is an excellent month for self-introspection and generating creative solutions. Reflect on where you are and where you are headed. If you would like some shifts in this area of your life or you would like to gain more clarity, clean and energize the front left area of your property and the spaces where you spend time.

Begin by giving this area a thorough spring cleaning. Repair, remove, or toss out anything that is broken, remove all cobwebs, wash your windows and curtains, thin out excess paper and magazines, etc. Assess the flow of energy in this area. Re-arrange the furniture if doing so would feel better or uplift the chi of the area. Outside, thin plants and trees that may be overcrowding the area and clear debris.

Enhancements for the Knowledge area include: the colors blue, green or black; square shapes, mountain images, pottery and earthenware, natural crystals, shells, and books. You can also "fire up" this area by adding a little red or pink, some lights or candles, pictures or people or animals, and triangular shapes. Inside this is a great area for a library or study. Outside, the knowledge gua is a great location for a meditation space or herb garden.

Have fun energizing your Knowledge area. You can tune into the results beginning with the June 4 full moon (and Lunar Eclipse).

Q:  I have a question about laying the bagua in a room. When you have multiple entrances to a room, how do you lay the bagua? For example, my kitchen has 4 entrances- a door from the cellar, the back door, an entrance off a hall to the front door and an entrance from a back deck thru the dining room. Submitted by LW.

 

A:  Thank you for your question, LW. Many people have the same question. Multiple entrances to a room can present some confusion. When laying the bagua, consider how energy flows through your house based on the front door. This is the architectural front door, not necessarily the entrance you use every day. Walk from the front door to the room in question. Lay the bagua from this entrance. In your situation, the entrance from your front hall is the one to use. Take a look at the room and draw a box around it as best you can. Standing at this entrance, the Knowledge gua occupies the front left area, Career falls in the middle and Helpful People and Travel falls to the right. The back left corner relates to Prosperity and the back right corner is associated with Partnership, Marriage or Relationships.

 

The additional entrances in a room may fall within other guas or sectors. This is OK. Pay attention to exit doors in Wealth and Partnership. They can weaken the energy and may need to be adjusted. If these are areas represent patterns that you would like to shift, you may need to strengthen or energetically balance the space. Contact me if you would an adjustment suitable for your space.

 

Would you like your question answered in the June newsletter? If so, send it along to me via email or Facebook. Contact me if you would like to discuss a particular situation.

You can learn more about the energetic foundations of the bagua by studying the trigrams. You can also use the I Ching as a source for guidance or answers in your life. When you ask an open ended question, you receive a philosophical answer to reflect on and apply to your situation.  Each day during April I asked: "What do I need to know today?" Then I tossed 3 pennies six times and noted the patterns of heads or tails. There are 64 possible combinations when you do this. Each of the 64 combinations describes an expression of energy and has a name which relates to a chapter in the I Ching.

I posted the daily results on my website and Facebook page. Reflecting on the meaning of the various hexagrams is an excellent way of connecting with current energies, noticing patterns, and learning how to "go with the flow." Thirty eight unique hexagrams emerged during the month of April.Adapting (hexagram 17), Benefit (hexagram 42) and Conscientiousness (hexagram 62) came up three times. Five additional hexagrams came up twice and 30 hexagrams came up once.

When you do an I Ching reading, changing lines often come up. When this happens you change the yin or yang line to its opposite expression and form a new hexagram. This occurred most days, providing one answer for "now" and another answer for the future. You can learn more by studying an interpretation of each of the changing lines individually. 

Many I Ching books are available and each interpretation varies slightly. If you are interested in working with this resource, select a book that you find easy to interpret.

During the month of May, I will post an I Ching reading each week on my website and Facebook page. Take a look at the patterns that came up during April and tune in each week during May.