Stoking the stove for positive qi and wealth
by Master Soon
FROM the feng shui perspective, the kitchen is the centre of the family unit in the home. How a kitchen is designed, and especially where the stove is placed in the kitchen will produce dramatic effects and influences on the occupants and family members living in the house.
Where you place your kitchen furnishing also determines how well (or how poorly) the life energy, qi, will flow and how it can be channelled through your kitchen and eventually to the rest of your home.
When applying feng shui principles to the design of the kitchen, the designer needs to understand that food is wealth which, in turn, will feed the prosperity cycle.
That is why in the kitchen, the greatest emphasis is on the placement of the stove.
The inter-relationships are perfectly logical. Good, nutritional food yields good health, good humour and a happier person. A well-fed, well-nourished person is more effective in his career, his relationships, and his interactions with the environment.
And the cycle doesn’t end there. A more effective person is more likely to be prosperous and successful.
Conversely, ‘poor’ food produced in a kitchen with an unlucky design yields poor performance and poor health, which lead to a depressed ability to earn a good income and the person to experience disappointment and failure.
So, in this way, a poorly-designed kitchen continues the cycle of impoverishment and, by extension, continued ‘poor’ nourishment.
Here are some feng shui tips to bring about positive qi, happiness, prosperity and luck to your home and family through a good kitchen design.
» Avoid any overhead beam over the stove
The stove should be placed in an open space in the kitchen with no beam running above it. (Ses diagram A.)
Also, it is not advisable to have any ‘suppressing objects’ above the stove as well, such as a staircase (diagram B).
If the stove is placed in such a position, then the family members may suffer hardship in terms of career and income.
» Avoid placing near the drainage area
There should not be a drainage system running in front or at the back of the stove (see diagram C) because this would affect the health of the occupants in the house in the long run.
The drainage system would "drain" away the qi from the house and bring about serious illnesses to the members of the family.
» Avoid placing the stove diagonal
A stove should not be place diagonally in the corner of the kitchen (diagram (C) because it will disrupt the harmony in the house. This is because such diagonal placement would bring about disputes and quarrels between husband and wife.
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Master Soon Gim Horng (pix), a feng shui practitioner since 1995 under the late Master Ye Jia Zheng, is the founder of Oriental Wisdom. He is an expert in property geomancy consultation, land selection and development, as well as town planning.
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