Rising Tide Arts by Terrea L. Bennett
“Change your art, Change your life”

Feng ShuiThe art of design and placement

Feng Shui is the guid­ing prin­ci­ple behind the Energy Jìtán series.

The com­plex art of design and place­ment is over 4,000 years old and is believed to pro­mote suc­cess in health, wealth, life and hap­pi­ness. The idea that the “har­mony and bal­ance” of a place have an effect on one’s well-being, is wide-spread; but in Feng Shui it has evolved into a com­plex sys­tem of prac­tices that encom­pass most aspects of human life. Accord­ing to ancient knowl­edge, one can enhance the energy of a house or a room by apply­ing the philo­soph­i­cal prin­ci­ple of the I Ching bagua. This is an octa­gon divided into nine life sta­tions: help­ful people/travel, career, knowledge/self-cultivation, fam­ily, abun­dance, fame/reputation, rela­tion­ship, creativity/children, and in the cen­ter is health.

The bagua octa­gon can be over­laid on the plan of any shape room or build­ing, plac­ing the “career” sta­tion at the wall in which the main entry opens into the space. The main entry (as archi­tec­turally designed) is the deci­sive fea­ture for posi­tion­ing and deter­mines where the nine sta­tions are located in a par­tic­u­lar space. When the bagua is laid on a room, the entrance will fall into one of three pos­si­ble posi­tions. (See bagua illus­tra­tion) The bagua can be applied to spaces of any shape or size very sim­ply: if a person’s mar­riage is hav­ing prob­lems, she might place some­thing in the “rela­tion­ship” posi­tion in her bed­room that sym­bol­izes pas­sion or har­mony for her. Or, if she wishes to strengthen fam­ily ties, she could place pho­tographs of fam­ily mem­bers in either the “fam­ily” or “rela­tion­ship” area of her liv­ing room. If she wants to improve her finances, she might enhance the “abun­dance” cor­ner of her home or office with objects or sym­bols of afflu­ence. The key is to know what your needs are and to cus­tomize the sta­tions as accu­rately as pos­si­ble. Always keep in mind that what you wish for your­self will impact your whole world.

Each of the Energy Jìtán designs cor­re­sponds with a dif­fer­ent sta­tion of the bagua.  They can be placed in the appro­pri­ate areas of your home or office to influ­ence and aug­ment the energy that resides there.