Water is Wealth - Feng Shui Guidelines for Using Water to Attract Prosperity

by Kathryn Weber

The promise of feng shui is greater wealth, health and happiness. But blessings of abundance rely on the presence of certain circumstances and elements. The key element for wealth is water. Take a trip to visit beautiful homes and you'll find fountains, pools and water gardens. Wherever there is water, there is wealth.

From the most ancient times, an abundance of water has been equal with an abundance of wealth. Water enabled farmers to grow and nourish their fields and reap great crops - and profits.

One of the best contemporary examples of water creating wealth is the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The hotel has taken a fountain and put it to work creating wonderful returns for the hotel in the number of guests staying, gambling and eating there. The hotel is best known for its dancing fountains in front of the hotel. The water shoots up with a booming sound and does a choreographed dance to Frank Sinatra and other singers. It's an amazing spectacle, but it also taps some of the feng shui fundamentals of water. The first is place water at the front. This is a rule that puts wealth in front of you. It makes sense, too, when you think of childhood memories visiting the ocean where we were warned not to turn our back on the ocean. Water is powerful.The water at the Bellagio is also "yang" water. In other words, it's active. It bursts and dances and sprays. This makes its wealth-giving properties even more potent. So how do you apply the principles at a grand fountain like the one at the Bellagio to your home? Easy. Follow the guidelines below to help you activate your wealth-producing potential by introducing water to your home and landscape.

How much water should you use? Well, how much money do you want? Put as much water as the money you want.

Water activation guidelines -- OUTSIDE

• Use yang water. This is water that moves. If water is still, such as in a pool, it represents accumulated water, but not stimulated water, which activates income streams.
• Make water flow toward the house. Water should appear to flow toward the house.
• Light the water. If possible, adding lighting to your water to give it increased wealth potential and activate the water.
• Create a waterfall, install a pool, place a fountain outdoors, or create a pond. Water features can almost instantly change your financial circumstances!
• Keep your water clean. As long as the water is kept clean, it imparts auspicious wealth energy. When it is dirty, it becomes yin and drains wealth energy.

Water activation guidelines - INSIDE

• Place your water close to lighting. This will help to energize the water.
• Keep your water clean. As long as the water is kept clean, it imparts auspicious wealth energy. When it is dirty, it becomes yin and drains wealth energy.
• Keep the fountain size relative to the room. If you have a small room, then a small fountain is a good wealth activator.

As much as water can help, it can also hurt. Make sure you follow these water taboos:

• No water to the right of the door as you look out.
• No water in the bedroom.
• No water under stairways.
• Avoid water placed directly at the rear of the house.

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