Good Luck Charms - Feng Shui Symbols & Treasures
A Good Luck Charm - For Fun, Beauty and Happiness
Good luck charms are Feng Shui symbols of good fortune and longevity. Use lucky Feng Shui charms to enhance your love life and help you live to a ripe old age. Good luck Feng Shui charms enhance a career and bring a happier working environment. Lucky charms help to attain fame and recognition in business and bring the respect of your peers. Feng Shui symbols of luck and fortune may bring happy and harmonious families together and help achieve financial wealth. Symbols and charms of good luck manifest the positive aspects of the energy living around spaces. Decorate rooms with these charms and embellish all aspects of your home and office with your good luck symbols.
The origins of good luck and fortune charms are generally from myths and legends that have been handed down through generations. Many charms were used as a symbol of friendship in a social setting. The charms were given to express good wishes to friends and family during festive holidays and happy events. We bring gifts to friends on birthdays; the same is true in China by bringing good luck vases or bowls with wishes and traditions. The most used symbols and charms of luck and good fortune are celestial. Dragons, the phoenix, and the unicorn are all mythical figures that hold imagination and the intentions of luck. No one knows if these creatures even existed, but they do today in charms, artwork, and more. A small painting of a dragon on a living room wall may bring good luck and money. Many people collect dragons and little girls love to play with unicorns. Feng Shui symbols and charms of the earth are horses, tigers, tortoises and elephants. Tigers are best outside so their energy can protect the homeowner. Place the tortoise inside or outside the home. These are all very strong figures of good luck. The Feng Shui fu dogs are the most well known because of the picture of the fu dogs in the Forbidden palace in Beijing. Fish are thought to be auspicious in Feng Shui as good luck symbols of wealth and prosperity relating to water.
Plants also represent good luck and
fortune. Love, purity, longevity and wealth area all tied to plants in Feng
Shui. A lucky bamboo is one of the most well known of good luck plants. In
Feng Shui, the Chinese word for prayer and bamboo sound alike, so some
believe the bamboo increases the power of prayer.
Feng Shui tips for wealth
including placing a good luck bamboo plant in the wealth area of the
bagua and enhance your prosperity. Bamboo are also
of good luck and fortune when placed at the
Feng Shui front door. Plants and flowers
symbolize health and growth either personally or in the spirit. Some good
luck flowers include magnolias, iris, peony, lotus, and chrysanthemum and
plum blossoms. Magnolias bring feminine beauty, Lotus brings good luck and
purity, Chrysanthemums and plum blossoms are lucky and symbolize living an
easy life, Orchids mean perfection, jade is the tree of wealth and is a good
luck money plant. In Feng Shui, it is said front doors benefit from
magnolias and peonies are best if high. Lotus flowers mixed with lilies are
wonderful and bring good luck in gardens. Feng
Shui decorating ideas have always included flowers displayed in the
home, either real or silk. As soon as the fresh flowers wilt, take them out
immediately and replace with fresh or silk again.
We all had lucky charms we held when we were kids. Believe in your own charms of a lucky coin or a good luck red ribbon. Believing that good luck comes to us because of these symbols may seem superstitious, but it is more the intention of the symbol. Energies work through symbols and when the supportive energy of the Universe works through the good luck dragon keychain – that is good Feng Shui.
See Also: Whimsical Feng Shui ● Feng Shui Tips
