The Year of the Golden Tiger brings so many challenges and trials to most of the animal signs. This is so true because the fierce and aggressive character of the Tiger along with the clashing elements may bring conflicts and obstacles to most of us this year.

I may sound weird but this is the Feng Shui outlook for 2010. Last week, I visited Denise of New Victory Trading in Binondo for my annual Feng Shui consultations. Since 2008, she has been my Feng Shui confidante, and things have gone better for me since then. I also met his friend, Laurence Yap, who knows how to read birth charts.

I asked them if it’s really necessary to believe in Feng Shui. Both of them replied that what’s more important is that we do good things to others to enhance the positive energy in us. Amulets and charms are just tools to help us become positive thinkers and to work hard for good karma. 1. I-Ching Coins

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Creating a harmonious, organized and imaginative room for your child is important to their physical and emotional well-being.

Feng shui (the ancient Chinese art of placement) offers techniques to create a gentle flow of energy within the surroundings as well as guide for purposeful décor choices that generate happiness and success.

Using feng shui in your child’s room can positively affect the way they learn to experience the world. Everything your child sees, touches, tastes, smells and hears affects their thoughts and feelings.

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THERE MUST REALLY BE something about the mystical practice of geomancy (or feng shui) that makes even the most cynical take heed. Why would the country’s biggest developers include feng shui in their must-consult list (along with the science-based consultants like geologists and architects), if it were all just talk about seemingly inane life-element connections?

Inquirer Property recently visited one of the most sought-after international geomancers whose clients include top builders in Dubai, Germany, Hong Kong and other booming locations of Asia. Hong Kong-based master Joseph Chau, Mandarin Oriental Manila’s resident geomancer since 2000, is consulted by a slew of developers that are a veritable Who’s Who in the Philippine property landscape, and, shall we say, his word is their unseen blueprint in every real estate undertaking.

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Are you looking for a new job? Would you like to know the secrets to set yourself apart from other job candidates during the interview? If you follow some of the basic tenets of Feng Shui, you can give yourself an advantage during your next job interview.

Choose the Right Colors
The colors you wear can impact the success of your interview, and green or blue are viewed most favorably by potential employers. These colors represent growth, potential and possibilities.  

Avoid wearing all black or all white as these colors can represent limited hope or possibilities. Try to avoid wearing bright red or other aggressive colors that may signal argumentativeness or hint that you may cause difficulties in a place of business.

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Yet no more than 100 years ago the art was opened up to the world, and today has caught on even in Sri Lanka where, Master Consultant and Master Practitioner Feng Shui from Mastery Academy, Institute of Feng Shui (WOFS) and Yap Cheng Hai Academy Asiri Wanigaratne says that some of the most successful people in the country use it in order to further their luck.

Based on the Taoist vision of Nature, Feng Shui shows how to use cosmic energies to further wealth, health, relationship and general luck, according to Mr. Wanigaratne.

After ancient times revolutionary Mao Tse Tung was the next to pick it up and attributed much of his success to his use of Feng Shui," he said adding that the leader believed that it increased his powers and guarded the knowledge from going to the people during the years of his rule, afraid that it would result in his fall from power. It is after his rule ended that the ancient art began to reach countries like Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan eventually reaching all parts of the world.

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Flowers, candles, wind chimes and mobiles all have something in common as it relates to feng shui. There is movement created and evidence of energy moving when we have them in our Vail Valley homes. Even though most people do not normally feel energy in their homes, it is there and it is moving — or least it should be — or it becomes stagnant.

I buy flowers for my home on a weekly basis. Every time I go to the grocery store, I pick up a bouquet of flowers that will usually last a week to 10 days. I can watch how the flowers change form during that time.

Roses, for instance, start as tight buds. Each day, they open up until they reach the peak of their life cycle when they are in full blossom. Then they lose their petals. So it is with yin and yang. Just as yin reaches its zenith, it changes into yang.

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The book Feng Shui Love by Joni Davis & Lisa Hyatt is a hilarious new twist on the traditional romantic comedy genre. Readers will be amused by the crazy antics of Lily and Brook as they search for the perfect love the second time around. And it's just in time for Valentine's Day.

The perfect Valentine's Day gift!
Lily's mother introduces the ladies to feng shui and shows how it can work in their love lives as well as their living spaces. Set in Manhattan, Lily and Brook share a fondness for '80s music and hopeless romanticism as they set out on a crazy quest for true love...and true friendship.

Will these feng shui principles work? Will Lily and Brook be able to clean up their "love corner" and attract the partners of the dreams? Find out all of that and more in the new book about love, humor, and of course feng shui.

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Lectures will address the differences between schools of feng shui, explain chi energy and how to attract and maximize its beneficial flow. Englebert explains why some energy is considered negative and how to deflect it.

Additional lecture topics include furniture selection and placement, locating powerful spots within a room, how to harmonize your home with the surrounding landform and the use of feng shui in the tropical garden. Tips for hard times are emphasized, and examples specific to Hawai'i homes, landscape and culture allow a clearer understanding of how to apply the principles at home in the Islands.

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Feng Shui is an ancient art of placement to bring  balance and harmony to a physical space. The loose  translation of Feng Shui is wind and water.

Feng  represents the wind that carries the chi (energy)  throughout a space. Shui is the water that meanders  underneath the earth transporting chi.

Chi is the invisible energy that surrounds us. To most  people this energy cannot be felt, seen, or heard but it  influences all living things. Chi should flow effortlessly  around physical structures to bring balance and
harmony.

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When Lillian Too speaks on feng shui, people listen. And they are willing to pay for it, sometimes as much as US$10,000 (RM33,480).

She also entered history books by being the first woman to run a Malaysian public-listed company, Hong Leong Credit, and, in 1982, she became the first woman in Asia to be CEO of Grindlays Dao Heng Bank, the fifth largest in Hong Kong. Dining with then Hong Kong Governor Lord Chris Patten was the norm and she was feted in the highest financial circles.

However, she left for Kuala Lumpur in 1998 to be a full-time mother to her only child Jennifer.

“I am comfortable but not a billionaire! Money is important to me because it gives me the freedom to donate to charities.’’

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