Last week a friend treated me to a picnic lunch and tour of the gorgeous gardens at the Stevens-Coolidge Place in N. Andover, MA. What a gem! This is a beautiful country estate that is part of "The Trustees of Reservations"  in Massachusetts. It is a place where a fine country home from earlier times is complemented by the gorgeous gardens and rolling landscape. The garden is open to the public year round, during daylight hours. The house is open for tours periodically. Some of the feng shui features include: a beautiful front entrance; solid, protective, stone walls to separate the outer world; wide, curvy paths that lead to delightful spaces; many areas to sit, relax and enjoy the scenery, including outdoor patio rooms; restored perennial gardens cutting gardens, fruit trees and wide, open space. The long, flowing, brick serpentine wall is a special treat. How many times do we drive by beautiful places without take the time to slow down and peak beyond the walls and fences? I know I have done this many times.

Check out more features of this beautiful property, online.  If you are in the MA area, the Trustees have more than 100 additional properties that are sure to delight your senses if you choose to explore them as well.

New moons are about new beginnings. Since the moon also influences your emotional energy and patterns, we have an opportunity to bring ourselves and our spaces into alignment with the energies of the moon each month. The Thursday, October 23th new moon and Solar Eclipse is in the sign of Scorpio. The corresponding area to energize is Wealth and Abundance. This Prosperity area is the back left corner of your land, your house, and every room in your house, when you divide your space into a grid of nine (like a tic-tac-toe board). These areas also correlate to your business or work space as well.  The Prosperity area relates to the flow of blessings, abundance, and prosperity in your life, including the flow of money. If you'll be doing a full fall cleaning this season, you might begin with the back left corner of your home or workspace.

Prosperity is about fortunate blessings, vitality, growth and abundance. In the Chinese Five Element system, the Prosperity gua relates to Wood energy as represented by plants and trees. Wood is strengthened by Water and depleted by Fire. Wood helps to balance excess Earth and is controlled by Metal. Nature is a wonderful teacher and is all about balance. Rain and water help plants and trees to grow and flourish. A wildfire can deplete a wooded area in an instant. In a barren setting, trees and plants are most welcome whereas when there are too many, metal axes and blades cut them down and thin them out. When this doesn't happen, nature runs its course and Fire becomes the natural equalizer or balancer. The process is cyclical. In my area a "controlled burn" has been taking place recently to thin out excess wood and tree growth. This enables the remaining trees to grown stronger. It also minimizes the chances of wildfire.
 
From a feng shui perspective, blues, greens, some purple or a little bit of red are supportive colors for Prosperity sectors. The rooms do not have to be painted in these colors. Often a little goes a long way. Green plants, fresh flowers and flowing water are also welcome additions. You can also place pictures or symbols that represent supportive energies, such as a photo or a gorgeous tree or a beautiful waterfall.

I recommend that you place something that conjures up feelings or images of treasure, wealth or abundance in your Wealth gua. It should be something that you love, or that you feel great about or is very meaningful to you. All of your possessions hold energy and that energy spreads throughout your space, connecting you to events and people ... past, present and even future.

Before enhancing your Wealth gua, give it a good cleaning and remove all clutter, anything you don't identify with or things that no longer represent who you are and where you are headed. This is an ideal time of year to wash your windows and curtains and vacuum deep into the corners, removing stagnant energy. Clean windows will help you develop a clearer vision.

Hips, thighs, and legs are the body parts we associate with the Prosperity gua. I see a connection with this in my practice. Some people having hip or knee replacements also struggle with abundance issues or lack of cash flow. As result they strengthen and reinforce the lack of what they truly want to experience. If you identify with any aspect of this, one way to begin to turn this around is to recognize and acknowledge the significant prosperity and many blessings that already flow throughout your life. View what you have through a different lens and a new angle. Your current situation is the starting point for where you are headed. If your experience is the opposite of what you want, you can change it by altering your perspective. Focus on the end result of what you want. Let go of how and when it will happen. Then pay attention to the small signs that emerge to signal that a transformation is underway.

Refresh and revitalize the back left corner of your home, office or business prior to October 23rd. Set clear intentions for amazing blessings to come your way. Tune in to everything that happens and pay attention to how you open to increased prosperity and abundance. Notice what unfolds for you beginning with the November 6th full moon.  Giving thanks, in advance, is a great technique as well. I'll write more about this during November.

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