Personalize Your Feng Shui: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Pillars of Destiny

Evelyn Lip
Heian (2007)
ISBN 9780893468484
Reviewed by Sondra Fowler for Reader Views (3/07)

I personalized my Feng Shui and found out my husband and I are water people; I gave birth to an earth person and a wood person, which loosely translates into the fact we cannot possibly start a fire because when you put us all together you get soggy, muddy wood.  That aside, it was an interesting journey. 

In “Personalize Your Feng Shui,” the author, Evelyn Lip, gives you step-by-step directions and charts to find your “Pillars of Destiny.”  Those pillars will tell you what element of person you are. There is a choice or chance of being earth, wood, gold, water or fire.  Hopefully you will have nourishing elements and tempering elements amongst the population of your pillars.   If you aren’t so lucky to have the nourishment or temperance that you need, all is not lost for you can fortify yourself by using beneficial colors, placements and shapes. For instance, my husband and I need wavy doors, if a wavy door isn’t available, we can have a round one.  My daughter however needs a square door, or at least a triangular one, and my poor soon needs yet another but he can use my wavy door if he wants.  So that means our muddy, soggy wood needs at least two doors to our home? Probably not, because we can each, at least, modify our own rooms to meet our elemental needs.  It turns out you also have elemental colors so you can fortify yourself by the color you wear, or drive, or paint, your walls.  Now, can someone direct me to the North door?  I need to go into my wavy, round, black and white house.  Be careful where you step though it might be a little soggy.

I found “Personalize Your Feng Shui,” to be challenging, enlightening and very interesting to read. I had the opportunity to do my family’s charts and learn a lot along the way. I have worked with astrology plus the properties of color and elements before, but this was another leaf all together. You need to be open to a new way of divination, so don’t expect this to be like reading about your Western Astrological sign. Take a chance; see if your family can start a fire.

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