The bedroom is usually one of the first rooms in the house that people apply feng shui to. After the main entry area, the bedroom is most important in creating good feng shui energy in your home. The bedroom is also most important for the quality of your health and well-being, as well as your love relationship.
While applying the basic feng shui guidelines for a good bedroom can be relatively easy, it gets more complicated when you go deeper with your feng shui work. Once you start working with the feng shui energy map called the bagua, you might find it difficult to combine the bagua requirements for your house with the guidelines for a good feng shui bedroom.
Bedrooms located in some bagua areas are easier to feng shui than others. For example, a bedroom in the Southwest bagua area (the Love and Marriage area) can be really easy to feng shui because of the requirements of its main element — the Earth feng shui element. This is the energy element that is ideal to use for good feng shui bedroom decorating.
Feng Shui Elements
If you have a bedroom in the South area, you know that this area thrives on the Fire feng shui element. For good feng shui, any room in the South bagua area needs to be decorated with a strong Fire feng shui element (colors like red, purple, orange, magenta, strong yellow, and pink). A room in the South area can also have a strong Wood element decor because Wood feeds the Fire in the productive cycle of the five feng shui elements. The Wood element colors are green and brown.
However, a strong Fire element, even though nourishing for the Earth, can bring restless energy into the bedroom, while the Wood element can weaken the energy of the Earth element needed in a good feng shui bedroom. So what can you do? Is it possible to have good feng shui decor in a South facing bedroom? Yes, it is!
- Choose light earthy colors such as beige, sand, and very light yellow as the main colors for your bedroom decor. This applies to your bedroom walls, bedding, upholstered furniture pieces, and rugs.
- Bring the Fire element in with little details such as the color of pillows, lampshades, and small decor accessories. If it works for your bedroom, you can also create a strong focal point that expresses a fiery quality of energy. Examples of good focal points with fiery energy are:
- A focal wall painted in a Fire element color such as red, orange, strong yellow, or pink.
- Large artwork with flowers, images of sunrise or sunsets, or images of fire.
- One oversized piece, such as an ottoman, for example, in a Fire element color.
- Avoid any wood element decorating in your bedroom. This means avoiding a strong presence of colors like green and brown in your bedroom decor, as well as using any big live plants.
- Be mindful of the presence of mirrors as they bring the Water element that puts down the Fire element needed in the South area. Along with general feng shui guidelines for mirrors in the bedroom, it is wise to avoid a big mirror in a South facing bedroom.
- Candles and Himalayan salt lamps are ideal feng shui decor details for a South facing bedroom, so feel free to use them as much as your heart desires. The quality of air in your bedroom is very important, so be sure to go for natural candles. As for the Himalayan salt lamps, they not only bring a soft glow of the Fire element with their warm light, they also purify the air. You can leave them on for several hours a day to let them do their air-purifying work, as well as bring a gentle presence of the needed Fire feng shui element.
The rewards of hard work manifest themselves in the south corner in feng shui. This is the corner that relates to the material possessions that mark us as successful, such as a nice car, a home, fancy jewelry, clothes, vacation and the ability to do things with our money for our enjoyment.
Long called the fame and recognition corner, the south is more than just your name on a marquee or in print or social media. This is the type of energy that helps you be promoted at your job, selected for a new position, and for enjoying a positive reputation and good social standing at work and in your social life.
The south is the sector that is symbolized by the phoenix, the bird that burns up and then rises from the ashes. It’s the fire energy that represents the height and heat of summer, red colors, and the ability to be recognized for your hard work and dedication.
Here are more important tips and details about the south that could help you become top of mind for the next promotion or see to it that you outshine your competition in any job or business opportunity that comes to you!
Summer is the lucky time of year for the south.
Because the south relates to fire, its season is summer. All directions have seasons associated with them and the hot days of summer are when the chi of the south is strongest.
This is a good time to double down on putting your name out for promotions and job or business opportunities. Keep an image of a bird, whether that’s a phoenix, flamingo, or rooster in your south corner to help you rise in prominence.
Horses activate recognition and victory energy.
The horse is the zodiac sign for the south corner, and images of horses help you to gain a favorable reputation or speed recognition your way. Place these in the south corner of your home, living room, or office to invite success and a lifestyle of ease and enjoyment. The Chinese Ming horses are excellent representations of class and stature.
Enjoy your place in the spotlight.
To give you great public relations and fame energy, add a symbol of the sun in the south corner of your home, office, or living room. The sun is a very potent activator for the south sector and helps blind everyone to all others except you.
Adding a wall decoration or image of the sun will help you create more friendships, social opportunities, and recognition energy. The sun is also the symbol of the summer, the season of fame and recognition, so adding it here will help to brighten your name and standing.
The south is symbolized by fire.
It’s important that the south portion of your home is kept well lighted. This helps to keep the fire energy associated with the south corner charged and invigorated to help you with promotions, receiving recognition for your efforts and bring success and material rewards to your life.
The south is symbolized by the fire element and the color red.
Fire is a strong energy and can bring great success, but it must be controlled. Too much fire can create problems, just as too little fire can create a lack of inertia in life. Fire represents important yang energy and can help you get unstuck in your life.
The fire element can be symbolized by a triangle shape displayed in the south corner. As long as triangles don’t point at your front door or a bed, they are harmless and can help introduce vital chi and renewed energy to your life. Red colors are also helpful in the south corner, but use them carefully. Too much red can create too much fire energy, especially in the bedroom where it can create restless sleep.
The south corner relates to the number 9.
If you’re ready to make a change in your life, the number 9 will help you create one. By making 9 changes, you can help jumpstart your life, energy, career or wherever you make those nine changes. Need a new outlook? Move 9 pictures in your home.
Looking for a change in your career or your business? Find nine ways you can make improvements or changes, put out nine resumes for new jobs, or add nine new offers to your customers. In your home, move nine objects in your house – or a single sector where you feel stuck – such as moving nine items in your north career sector to jumpstart your income, career or business.
Fire and south sector warnings.
Always keep the fire element in perspective. A little red color, or fire symbols or elements can make the difference between standing in the shadows and standing on a red carpet, but too much can create nervous exhaustion, loss of standing, and a ruined reputation.
Watch, too, for fire elements and red colors in the bedroom and kitchen. They can be overstimulating and prevent rest. In the kitchen, red cabinets and colors can cause disturbances in relationships or arguments.
Strenuously avoid having water in the south sector or your reputation could suffer or you’ll lack opportunities to get ahead and be relegated to the background of life. If you have water in the south sector, like a bathroom, be sure to add fire elements, such as red lamp or a sun image in the south corner of your living room.