How Can Paintings Be Used

How Can Paintings Be Used To Increase Wealth In The Home?

 In Feng Shui, we can use paintings to draw positive energy and wealth luck.

We are going to show you how to select the right paintings and where to place them. When choosing the paintings, we look for the Early Heaven Bagua map, the Later Bagua map and the five elements as analysing tools.

Every house has eye directions, every year it is affected by the five elements, which is the Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and the Water.

Bagua is made up of eight trigrams which represent eight cardinal points including North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest. In other words, each of the trigrams also represents one of the eight existences of the realm of life, specifically wealth and prosperity (south-east), recognition and notoriety (South), marriage and love (South-West), children (West), Mentors and communication (North-West), career (North), education and knowledge (North-East), family and health (East).

Suddenly, the Bagua placed on the map of your home, each sector of the Bagua can be activated by a different Element that we will call "directional remedy".

All paintings are also associated to the 5 elements. It is important to know that the elements in the paintings and their locations are aligned with the Bagua map. In this way, the flow of the positive energy can helps us improving our Feng Shui environment and in our home.

This is the later Bagua, starting from the North. The North belongs to the Water element. In this sector we can hang paintings with water element such as a lake, an ocean, a river and fishes. We can also hanging pictures of woods or trees. In this sector this is because water element enhances the wood element. Remember, don’t put picture of water fall in this direction.

Now let see where exactly to hang the paintings. We have two options using North direction for example.

The option 1, you can stand in the middle of your house, identify with a compass where the North is. Then place the picture in that sector.

The 2^nd option is to stand in the middle of the room find the north wall with your compass, then place the picture at the North side of the North side of the wall.  In this case we don’t have to worry about the sector of the house.

Let have a look at the Bagua map, the South is belong to the Fire element. In this sector we can hang picture of a Bird or horse. Never put picture of Fire like candles fire in this sector which is not good Feng Shui.

The East and the South East both belong to the Wood element. In the South East you can place a painting of dragons and birds.

In the East we place paintings of flowers, or trees. We can place paintings of sunrise because sunrise symbolises yang energy, hope, new beginning, new hope, new chapter of life and new projects. Never put pictures of sunset, because sunset set symbolises the end of the day, slowdown in activity, yin period or end of a journey.

Now West and North West belong to the Metal element. In the West we can place a painting of a golden Rooster or a picture of a round metal.

The North West is an important sector because it represents heaven and Wealth. Therefore we can place painting of Sky, or money symbol to enhance our Wealth luck.

South West belongs to Earth element. In this sector, we can hang a painting of a land. This is the direction of the Mother figure. Make sure the picture of the land is a flat land not mountains or hills because pictures of mountains and hills could bring obstacles to our life.

But we can put picture of the mountains and hills in the North East sector which also belong the Earth element. This is because this direction symbolises the mountains can provide you support and protections. Remember the picture of the mountains in this sector should be with a lot of plants and rich vegetation. Not the one that expose with rocks.

Now we learn the basic principle of how to select paintings base on the 8 directions of the 5 elements. However, we also need to consider, whether the paintings are suitable for the rooms.

Let’s look at the front door. The front entrance in the very importance place in our house, because it is the main entry for the energy to go through.

What you see first when entering the house is very important. Therefore, we can place paintings with bright and cheerful color to create lively and welcoming atmosphere like flowers. Remember the God Wealth likes to enter the houses that are clean, bright and nice. 

The living room is suitable to hang large paintings of mountains or lakes. Because water represents money and Mountain can provide a strong support.

In the Dining room, we can hang picture of a big plate of fruits or big basket of flowers, because both symbolises wealth and abundance.

In the bedroom, we need to make sure that paintings make us feel calm and peaceful. This can help us improving our sleeping quality, like blue sky and bushes, country houses with trees and pathway to the wood. 

In the study room, we hang pictures of trees, pens or colorful pencils. These elements can help us to be more focus and to improve our study abilities.

In the Bathroom, we can place picture of small plants to help purify the negative energy in the bathroom.

In summary when considering place in paintings in our home we need to consider the directions of the Bagua map. The association of the 5 elements and where the paintings is suitable both to the rooms.  And when we take all factors into consideration, the paintings can then help you draw more positivity energy into your home.