The start of the year of the water snake on February 10, 2013 is closely inching in and accompanying this event are questions on what rituals one should do in order to usher in the Chinese New Year full of good luck and prosperity.
Jean Chua of the Dragon Phoenix Enterprise in Ongpin Street, Manila shares feng shui tips one could do or prepare to shoo away negative energies and welcome the year ahead with blessings.
Here are her tips to celebrate an auspicious beginning.
1. Clean house.
Before welcoming the New Year, conduct a general cleaning of the house in order to cleanse the house from all the negative energies of the past year.
2. Display red lanterns.
Apart from being a festive ornament, one should also display pineapple lanterns, red lanterns or dragon lanterns to attract and welcome good fortune in our homes.
3. Place prosperity baskets on the table.
Dining tables in our homes should have prosperity baskets with charms inside it. To further enhance the energy of the charms, place rice and money inside. Nine days after the celebration of Chinese New Year, the rice put inside the basket should be cooked and the money should be deposited in your bank accounts for good luck.
4. Prepare round fruits and eat tikoy.
To usher the New Year, the presence of round fruits in dining tables could not be missed. Round fruits like apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries and cherries represent abundance. On Chinese New Year’s Eve till Chinese New Year’s day keep the table filled with food to live in abundance for the whole year.
Eating tikoy, a Chinese delicacy made up of glutinous rice, is also advisable to eat for it represents unity among family members. Glutinous rice treats like bilo-bilo were also recommended to be eaten for it represents coins, indicating financial fortune.
5. Make a wish.
One can write a wish on a yellow wishing paper. Afterwards, the wishing paper should be burned after the Chinese New Year celebration.
6. Put lucky charms around areas of the house with “violent stars.”
Pinpoint areas in your home that are unlucky for this year which includes the center, southwest, southeast, west and east directions. For the center of the house, one can put crystals to drive away negative energies. It is also advisable to put charms at the southwest part of the house to have good health.
Making noise in the southeast part of your home is discouraged to avoid misfortunes. On the other hand, rhino elephants are advised to be put on the western part of the house to avoid “violent stars”, which means robbery, accidents, bad intentions and jealousy. Lastly, fire wheels and three celestial guardians are encouraged to be put on the eastern part of the house to avoid arguments.
Putting “cures” or lucky charms inside the house can make not only your abode lucky but the people living inside it as well.
It is also advisable to put charms inside cars to avoid unlucky incidents.
7. Install protection amulets on doors.
To enhance good energy, protection amulets are encouraged to be placed on doors as well as peace and harmony amulets to enhance a peaceful and harmonious relationship inside the house.
8. Wear new clothes.
For personal luck, it is advisble to wear new clothes, prefereably yellow, green and red ones which are lucky colors for the year.
9. Burn incense.
One can burn nine sticks of incense and visit a temple or church for prayer petitions and blessings.
10. Be happy.
It is always good to usher the new year full of happiness and it is a must to be happy on the day of Chinese New year to attract prosperity throughout the whole year.
Chua also added that those born in the year of the Dog, Rat, Horse, and Ox will be lucky for this year in the areas of career, love business, health and family relationships. On the other hand, those born on the year of the Sheep, Rabbit, and Rooster are unlucky and need to wear protection amulets to prevent any untoward incident.
source: interaksyon.com
