Fall Newsletter

Welcome to Lois Lang’s Fall 2002 Email Newsletter, Abundant Blessings, offering feng shui inspiration and updates for aligning your personal and working spaces with your highest aspirations!

Have you been noticing the changes happening in the weather? You may dismiss the brisker breezes and frequent rainstorms as typical “Hurricane Season Squalls,” but these shifting energies are also signaling the seasonal change from summer into fall as energetically, all of nature starts turning inward, preparing for winter.

It is a time when we begin to recognize and give thanks for the bounty and harvest we’ve received from the seeds we planted in the spring and laboriously tended through-out the summer. But as Westerners, our “harvest” may be so abundant; we may need to create “breathing room” by releasing the excess and sharing our overflowing bounty with others.

This concept of releasing and sharing our gifts, is even more important today in this society, as we seem to energetically attract and create more than we can manage alone. We have become incredible attracters and creators, but often we choke ourselves to death by holding on to all our creations out of fear there may not be enough in the future. If we pass on what we don’t use or love the whole world benefits.

I often think of the 23^rd Psalm… “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…” It reminds me I don’t need to worry about the future, and if I release what I am not currently using, I will be freer to “Go with the Flow.”, I am always protected and guided on my never-ending journey. I know this is my main feng shui lesson in this life. “Let go and let God.” I don’t have to keep everything that comes into my hands, and I don’t have read, use, or learn everything!

The best selling motivational author and teacher Barbara Sher says, “Those with the SHORTEST TO DO LIST wins!” WOW – What a Concept!

Now, very soon, the rainy weather will let up, and we will be able to clean our windows so our outside vision is clearer. Feng shui refers to our windows as the “eyes of the house (body) and the child’s voice or our child-like creative and playful view”. So, washing our windows is seen as a metaphor for letting more light into our lives, gaining clarity of vision, and brightening our spirits.

Since fall is a time of concentrating or inward focusing energy, it is also a good time to start or recommit to a meditation or journaling practice that will bring more light into our inner vision. A Knowledge Gua located in the front left corner in either your home, den, or bedroom is a good area to use for cultivating your inner vision. Find a quiet corner where you will feel supported and protected with a solid wall behind you or high backed chair and having some view of the door so you won’t be surprised by an unexpected intruder.

An austere setting is best to help you focus your attention, but pictures, books, or sacred objects connected with your source of spiritual inspiration; meditative music; incense or aroma therapy; an perhaps an altar can enliven your inner journey. Professor Lin Yun in Sarah Rossbach’s Living Color suggests “Solid, calm and subdued colors with no patterns are best in deep shades of blue, green, black, yellow, or red to encourage deep concentration and thought.”

In summary, the Feng Shui Focus for Fall is (1) being grateful for our abundant blessings (2) letting go of the excess, and(3) focusing inward.

The Metal Element rules the Fall season. Metal energy is the densest of all forms produced by the movement of energy inward. It has a condensing, coagulating quality. It is the waning moon, the fall of the year. Metal represents the qualities of honesty, purity, righteousness, and death. Metal is rounded, domed, arched, curved, or reflective. Its color is white, silver, or gray

Metal represents letting go, withdrawal, and reversal. When you hold on to the past, there might be an excess of Metal with its subsequent problems of constipation, inhibition, or breathing disorders. In acupuncture, Metal is associated with the lungs. Trouble accepting reality manifests in stiff joints and poor circulation. There may be an emphasis on money and the material world. Balance in the fall of life, relates to a slowing down and inward movement of the chi.

When there is an excess of Metal in our environment, adding a fireplace with a burning fire or watching a video tape of a burning fire, candles, incense, an electric stove, a red porcelain vase, decorative brass candlesticks, a steel filing cabinet, or decorative metal swords or axes. can help control Metal. Another way to reduce metal is to add Water in the form of a water garden, fountain, a bowl of water, or a water dispenser. You could also add Earth in the form of sand, rocks, or tile to balance the environment.

If more Metal is needed add white, gray, or black and white patterns, silver trays, metal cookware, brass pots, gold jewelry, wrought-iron railings, steel furniture, metal sculptures, or anything made of metal. Real and fake coins, military or athletic medals, metal plaques can be used to attract more resources when there are metal imbalances.

Too much metal, like having all white walls surrounding you, might result in being too talkative, overly enthusiastic, righteous, or unthinking in speech or behavior. Too little make a person quiet, cautious, and careful. There may be an inability to focus or organize thoughts or resources, and objects may be lost or scattered. Emotional grief is a symptom of Metal imbalance.

Metal enables us to focus and concentrate. It is important because it represents sharp thinking, intense focus, and the ability to come to a conclusion. Endings are just as important as beginnings, and Fall is a good time to refocus and let go. It is also associated with the direction of West, the setting sun, the planet Venus, and is symbolized by the White Tiger.

Check out your environment to see and sense if the Metal Element is balanced, in all the Bagua life aspect areas of the lot, house, bedrooms, office, and kitchen. Use your

October 17, 2002 Thursday, 10am – 1pm, Selby Gardens, Feng Shui for the Garden. How to apply feng shui principles to the selection and placement of plants, trees, water features, color, and other elements in the garden. $35 for non-members Call Selby Gardens, 366-5730 to register.

October 19, 2002 Saturday, 10am – 11:30am, North Port Library, Feng Shui for Prosperity and Harmony in the Home and Office. This is a free community service presentation offered by the Library. Reservations are required. Please call 861-1300

Call for more information on telephone consults, follow-up consults, or blessings and clearings.

I am now offering “Spiritual Dowsing consultations” which locate and transform various detrimental energy streams and fields into beneficial energies. ****FALL SPECIAL: $108 for a TWO hour session.

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