Archive for May, 2008


The Do’s & Taboos of Bedrooms

Earth Tones Ideal for SW & NE Bedrooms
The interior of the sketch above is dominated by Earth tones, with colours sticking to the brown and beige categories, suggestive of earth energy. This colour scheme is suitable for bedrooms located in the Southwest and Northeast, as well as the West and Northwest sectors of the home.
The […]

Do You Make These Feng Shui Mistakes?

Use red color to activate an area:
The truth is that a large red-colored object emanates the fire element and is not necessarily the best way to activate an area. Fire happens to strengthen earth and there are earth-type energies responsible for sickness, arguments, and accidents. Please do not think that red is a “lucky” color […]

Reading the lines of Romance on your hand

Continuing our occasional series on the meanings of the lines of your palm, this issue looks at just how much the heart and relationship lines on the palm really reveal about the quality of our love lives. The heart line runs horizontally across the upper palm, surrounding the mounts of Mercury, Apollo, Mars, Jupiter and […]

Apartment No. 14

The Chinese have long held fervent beliefs about the phonetic meanings of certain numbers when said in Cantonese or in Mandarin, or in any of the other Chinese dialects.
My story begins with just such a situation. For privacy reasons, I will leave out the name of this caller whose question really started me on this […]

Sacred Mantras - The Power of Symbolic Sounds

Mantras are sacred sounds that symbolize the divine power of the highest consciousness within us all. Sacred mantras originated in Sanskrit and they are believed to have been transmitted directly from the Buddhas. The empowerments invoked by mantras are limitless in their benefits although how they manifest depends on the mind of the individual person […]