Five Minute Feng Shui
Feng shui expert Kathryn Weber shares with you each week how to help you get unstuck, become prosperous, find love, good fortune and bring opportunities to your life with easy feng shui changes to your home and office.
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Episode 204: You Are Your Best Feng Shui
12/28/2022
Episode 204: You Are Your Best Feng Shui
This is my final Five Minute Feng Shui podcast. Remember always, YOU ARE YOUR BEST FENG SHUI! When times are good, indifferent and/or bad, you can make things better with your own feng shui. Never, ever forget this! It has been a pleasure recording these podcasts over the past 5 years and hearing from you, all my listeners! And as Gene Autry sang, "Happy Trials to You, Until We Meet Again...Happy Trials to You, Keep Smiling Until Then!"
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Episode 203: 2023 Year of the Rabbit Overview Part 2: Good Fortune Energies
12/14/2022
Episode 203: 2023 Year of the Rabbit Overview Part 2: Good Fortune Energies
The Year of the Rabbit is coming and with a gentleness that only a bunny can bring. It will offer us a sweet exhale like you do when you sit down in your favorite chair after a long day. The rabbit is associated with the moon, as you may often see the outline of a rabbit when the moon is full. The tiger that precedes the rabbit is the sign of the month of February and the rabbit is the sign associated with the month of March and the Pisces zodiac sign. This podcast discussed the good fortune energies in 2023, Year of the Water Rabbit.
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Episode 202: Year of the Rabbit Overview Part 1 Afflictions
12/07/2022
Episode 202: Year of the Rabbit Overview Part 1 Afflictions
After the past few years that have been marked by upheaval and uncertainties, the energy coming to 2023 will be replaced by a new light, hopeful, and sweeter energy. The Year of the Tiger was the first to bring in springtime energy as it is the first of the 3 spring zodiac animals of tiger, rabbit, and dragon. The rabbit represents the fullness of spring when nature is flowering, and green growth appears. The energy of the rabbit will offer us a respite from the cold austere energies of the past few years that were aligned with the metal element and winter-time animals of the pig, rat, and ox.
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Episode 201: Problems Diagnosed with the Five Elements
11/30/2022
Episode 201: Problems Diagnosed with the Five Elements
The five elements are the five building blocks of feng shui. The elements are made up of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. If your home or office feels “off” or uncomfortable, it might be out of balance. Just taking a quick look around your home or office will help you to diagnose if there is too much or too little of an element. In a perfect feng shui world, you’ll find all five elements present in a room. This helps to keep the room feeling comfortable, harmonious and balanced – and thus making you more productive, effective, and successful.
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Episode 200: Feng Shui Your Writing
11/16/2022
Episode 200: Feng Shui Your Writing
In feng shui, you can look at someone’s office and home and often see the level of success they enjoy. But can you take those same traits and apply it to something more personal, like your handwriting? Just like there’s a flow and movement that translate into qualities in your life, there’s flow of handwriting that can indicate – and even influence — personal qualities. The art of handwriting analysis, graphology, is much like feng shui. Graphology is undertaken seriously by those who practice it, and those who don’t, often treat it esoterically. But, look at some interesting facts about handwriting analysis, or graphology. The CIA, FBI and many police departments in the US look at handwriting to understand the minds of those they’re investigating. How does graphology relate to feng shui? In feng shui, the mind and thinking are related to the hand, so by extension, the style of writing someone has provides some insight into that person’s personality and can influence their lives. In my own feng shui training, my teachers encouraged students to look at our signatures to make sure they looked successful and prosperous, with an emphasis of writing that had bold strokes that tilted up and to the right.
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Episode 199: Essential Mountain Feng Shui and Support
11/09/2022
Episode 199: Essential Mountain Feng Shui and Support
There’s one image that gives you support at work and represents wealth, resources, strength and support and that image is a mountain. Mountains, whether images, real, such as the Rocky Mountains or Himalayas, or symbolic, such as a screen, all give support in feng shui. This is a critical concept in feng shui because without support, there is struggle and a feeling of rolling a boulder up, well, a mountain. Support from behind The idea of being supported makes a lot of sense when you think about it. If you sat on a stool all day, your back would ache. But when you have a comfortable and high-backed office chair, you are supported and can work longer and more effectively at your job. The same is true in your home. Having a support at the rear of the house symbolizes the black tortoise, a celestial creature that provides support and adds vigor and longevity to your life and home, helping to protect you from unpleasant surprises and misfortune. The black tortoise is represented by a slight rise at the rear of your home, supporting your home, much like the tall back on an executive chair supports you as you work.
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Episode 198: Window Feng Shui
11/02/2022
Episode 198: Window Feng Shui
Windows are a natural part of the exterior of a home or office building. In a sense, they’re the eyes of the building. Their openings let in light, views and without them, life would dark, dull, and depressing. Yet, having not enough windows is just as bad as having too many. Because of their energy, windows can affect our home’s feng shui – and ultimately – our lives. Like all things in feng shui, balance is important. The same is true with windows. Too few and it’s dark and we feel hopeless, too many or too large, and we feel scattered, frenetic, and exhausted. The key is to balance enough light and views with privacy and exposure.
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Episode 197: The 1 Star of Transformation and Income
10/26/2022
Episode 197: The 1 Star of Transformation and Income
If you’ve ever wanted to make a change, a move, or leapfrog to another place in your life, this is the star that will help you do it. In feng shui, the White 1 star is a star that can bring you all those things, plus these benefits: Opportunities Victory over the competition A new way of being or living Sudden luck, like a star falling in your lap Increased income When you look at benefits like these, it’s no wonder that the one (1) star is so popular in feng shui. This star is part of a group of stars called the White Stars. These include 1, 4, 6, and 8 (and sometimes 9). The stars in this group are considered to be the most favorable. The 1 star is governed by the planet Jupiter, and whenever this planet appears, it is said to create good luck. Like western astrology that confers good luck with Jupiter for expanding good luck, so, too, is the 1 star. When it shows up, luck expands wherever it flies.
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Episode 196: 4 Star of Love and Travel
10/19/2022
Episode 196: 4 Star of Love and Travel
If there was ever a star that represents wine and roses, the 4 (four) star is it. In feng shui, the number four and the 4 star represent education and romance, but it also has other benefits that are like a motorcycle with a sidecar filled with roses. For entrepreneurs and the career-minded, any kind of publicity, marketing, writing, podcasting, sales or speaking falls under the purview of the 4 star, making it a great star for students, teachers and writers. This is the star whose home sector is the wealth sector and represents that tiny green shoot that signals vibrant new growth and life.
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Episode 195: The Heavenly 6 Star of Favor and Fortune
10/12/2022
Episode 195: The Heavenly 6 Star of Favor and Fortune
The 6 star is one of the most favored and highly regarded of all the stars in feng shui. This star has a bountiful energy star that bestows favor and brings achievements, power, influence, authority — and perhaps the best of all its attributes — windfalls, favors, and opportunities laid at your feet. The 6 star is like a big cosmic shower of meteors that rain down like diamonds from the sky and into your lap. Better still, the 6 star represents the energies of helpful people that bring assistance when you need them.
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Episode 194: 8 Star of Wealth and Success
10/05/2022
Episode 194: 8 Star of Wealth and Success
There are numbers in feng shui that are regarded as the most favorable for luck and wealth. That’s because when the numbers 1, 4, 6, or 8 (and sometimes 9) — represented by the qualities of success, promotion, attainment, love, travel, and prosperity — show up in your home either as a natal, annual, or monthly energy, good fortune comes your way. Let’s start with the number that is the most favored of all, the number 8. The 8 star is related to the northeast corner of education, wisdom, and good decisions and is an earth star. Until February 2024, the number eight also relates to both water and earth, and because of this can bring much prosperity and success in two realms: relationships and wealth.
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Episode 193: Manifesting with Heart-Eye Connection
09/28/2022
Episode 193: Manifesting with Heart-Eye Connection
There are many ways to go about manifesting your desires. The first and most direct is to take action. Action is critical, but what about when you’re forming your idea? How do you manifest your heart’s desire faster and more easily – and most importantly – more exact to what you want? Chi, or energy, whether it is that of a room or your own personal chi, can all be changed. I always say that ‘chi flows where the eye goes.’ This is why when you enter a house that has a wide picture window or a door opposite the entryway, your eye (and the home’s energy) goes out that door or window. For the homeowner that views this daily, their energy goes out the door or window with their vision, and they often suffer from lowered finances, difficulty making progress in their lives or have health problems.
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Episode 192: The 7 Star of Loss
09/21/2022
Episode 192: The 7 Star of Loss
Rolling 7’s on a craps table in Las Vegas has always been considered lucky, but that’s where that luck ends. In feng shui, the number seven is considered very unlucky and full of misfortune. Worse yet, it can cause theft, violence, and injury. From 1984 to 2003, the number seven was extremely lucky, but that changed in 2004, when we entered Period 8, a time that runs from 2004-2024. If you count seven as a lucky number, be sure to look at its implications in feng shui.
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Episode 191: Honoring Your Yin Energy
09/14/2022
Episode 191: Honoring Your Yin Energy
The White Tiger in feng shui represents the west or right hand side of our homes (as you look out the front door). The White Tiger is associated with courage, protection and dignity. The White Tiger brings good luck and fortune when it is represented by a small rise on the right side of the house and is most often associated with the compass direction of west. It is the yin to a dragon’s yang. The White Tiger protects a home from negative forces and is sometimes associated with wealth.
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Episode 190: Patios for Missing Corners
09/07/2022
Episode 190: Patios for Missing Corners
The square and rectangle are considered two of the most auspicious shapes in feng shui. Rectangles represent growth and are considered to be very auspicious shapes, with its upward shape representing a tree. The square represents the grounding element of earth, and is considered the most beneficial shape for building houses. But few houses are a perfectly even-shaped design
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Episode 189: Paint Your House Wealthy
08/31/2022
Episode 189: Paint Your House Wealthy
If your relationships are tired and money flies through your hands your house might just be the wrong color. Maybe life is a constant struggle and you can’t put your finger on the one small thing blocking your success. The answer could be as simple as the color on your house. Feng shui dictates that the paint color on your house can affect your wealth and abundance.
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Episode 188: Gems That Make Wishes Come True
08/24/2022
Episode 188: Gems That Make Wishes Come True
From the earliest fairy tales of genies and fairy godmothers, we all have wishes that we would love to see magically happen. Luckily in feng shui there is a wonderful technique for activating the energies associated with all of the usual aspirations that everyone wants: love, wealth, health, happiness, good fortune. It involves using gems and crystals, and when used correctly, can almost magically bring about anything you desire.
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Episode 187: 8 Ways to Make Money Fast
08/17/2022
Episode 187: 8 Ways to Make Money Fast
It happens to everyone. Your brakes go out, the air conditioner dies and your dog has to have surgery. When bad luck happens, it happens in threes, as the saying goes. And when that much happens all at once, it can take a toll on your finances. Suddenly, that darling pair of shoes goes away, and maybe you get behind on your rent or car payment. That’s when you need money fast, and feng shui can help!
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Episode 186: Clutter's Effects on Your Life
08/10/2022
Episode 186: Clutter's Effects on Your Life
Creating a healthy, energetic home or office relies on diligence. It’s much easier to let your home or office become cluttered and messy than it is to keep on top of papers, throw out old magazines, or otherwise dispose of the things that you no longer need, want, or use. For that reason, many people don’t bother with this kind of routine maintenance, and that’s what decluttering is: just another part of regular home maintenance. It’s easy to close the closet door or shut a jumbled drawer, but you know it’s there and every time you go to open that drawer or door, that mess is there waiting for you. Simply knowing it’s there and not going away can be a source of stress. That’s why regular cleaning — and decluttering — is so important.
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Episode 185: Sex and Money Connection
08/03/2022
Episode 185: Sex and Money Connection
When Napoleon Hill wrote “” he concluded that a very important aspect in the process of gaining wealth was tied to sex. He said that “The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability.” This “seat of power” and the ability to create is uniquely tied to feng shui, too. What’s especially interesting about sex and money in feng shui is that the wealth sector is also associated with the number four.
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Episode 184: Feng Shui's 6 Key Crystals
07/27/2022
Episode 184: Feng Shui's 6 Key Crystals
Crystals have long been thought to possess mystical qualities. Certain crystals and stones have long been associated with having healing abilities, the ability to focus thought or intention or even transmutation. And this is no longer an issue of belief. We know scientifically that crystals, specifically silicon crystals, are the chief reason for ever faster processing speeds in computer. But there are other stones and crystals in feng shui that have different applications and uses for creating beneficial energy for clearing your thoughts!
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Episode 183: Feng Shui for Stomach Problems
07/20/2022
Episode 183: Feng Shui for Stomach Problems
Today, we understand that good gut health is essential to our overall health. In feng shui, this area is represented by the southwest and when the gut sector of your home is challenged or your home is constipated with clutter, the flow of your body and life can make you feel stopped up. One of the most wildly popular feng shui books is Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. And one of the topics she covers in the book – that few others have dared to touch – is the subject of the elimination system and its tie to your personal feng shui. While it’s not a pretty subject to talk about, Karen deftly connects clutter in the house with the symbol of the internal clutter we all deal with daily: our colon.
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Episode 182: Cure the Lonely House and Find Love
07/13/2022
Episode 182: Cure the Lonely House and Find Love
One of the greatest joys of living is having someone who belongs to you and whom you belong to. Just knowing you have a partner in life to lean on provides us with fulfillment. Singles will say they have the love of friends and family….but. The “but” is that they don’t have a partner – a wife, a husband, a girlfriend, or boyfriend. They say it’s just not the same as when you have someone in your life that you are committed to and who is committed to you. And it’s true. Having a loving partner in your life gives you a feeling like no other.
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Episode 181: Round, the Feng Shui Shape of Wealth
05/25/2022
Episode 181: Round, the Feng Shui Shape of Wealth
In feng shui every direction, such as north, south, or northeast has a number, color, element and a shape associated with it. Each shape has a distinct meaning. For instance, the tall, rectangular shape of wood is associated with growth. The shape associated with “big metal” or the northwest is round. This is also the shape of coins – or “change” – and wealth.
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Episode 180: Chandeliers are Great Feng Shui
05/18/2022
Episode 180: Chandeliers are Great Feng Shui
Go into almost any Chinese restaurant and you’ll see beautiful chandeliers. You might wonder if this is an effort to dress up the interior of the restaurant, and while it might be, chandeliers have a much more important symbolic place in restaurants, and indeed, your home. These chandeliers are thought to bring up the quality of the dining experience because chandeliers are thought to invite wonderful chi – and they do!
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Episode 179: Feng Shui for Travel Luck and Protection
05/11/2022
Episode 179: Feng Shui for Travel Luck and Protection
When traveling, whether for business or for pleasure, you can still enjoy the benefits of feng shui. You might have even noticed that enjoy your travel more (or less) when you travel to certain places that are in one direction. Maybe you find that you enjoy travel equally well, but more so to some places than others.
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Episode 178: 6 Feng Shui Wealth Habits
05/04/2022
Episode 178: 6 Feng Shui Wealth Habits
There’s a saying that success is just the accumulation of good habits. It’s true. The more you do to help yourself and to be successful, the more successful – and prosperous – you’ll become. Success and the wealth and acclaim that comes with it isn’t as much a secret as much as it is a habit.
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Episode 177: Transforming Fame and Energy Luck
04/27/2022
Episode 177: Transforming Fame and Energy Luck
It may not seem like fame and recognition are important, but they are. This part of feng shui and your life directly relates to how others see you and how you present yourself in the world. When you have good fame luck, opportunities often find you and others promote you and open doors for you. When fame and recognition energy is low, it seems like you’re lost in a crowd with little or no recognition and no opportunities for introductions, recognition, or that boost your reputation and social status.
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Episode 176: Decorative Feng Shui Fixes
04/20/2022
Episode 176: Decorative Feng Shui Fixes
There are few homes with perfect feng shui. Fortunately, rather than hanging a windchime or adding flutes to a beam, you can make simple decorative changes can be made that will look and feel more natural. These decorative elements can help remedy difficulties such as poison arrows that come from a front door and back door alignment or odd windows and slanted walls. Here are nine important feng shui decorating fixes that you can use in your home that will look good and help your home’s feng shui.
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Episode 175: The 7 Feng Shui Myths That Can Harm You
04/13/2022
Episode 175: The 7 Feng Shui Myths That Can Harm You
As educated and advanced people, we now know that unseen forces, like radio waves, gravity, and even solar flares, do exert an influence over us and our lives. We’ve come to understand that energy is a real, living thing and the acceptance of chi – the flowing river of energy that resides in our bodies, our homes, and the Universe, is also real. So, it should come as no surprise that the energy of chi can also exert an influence on us that’s either beneficial or detrimental. The problem with feng shui today is that although feng shui is more popular than ever, it’s that surge in popularity that’s given rise to myths about feng shui that can actually cause more harm than good.
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