by llenore | Jul 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
With only a few days left during this Mercury Retrograde we want to take advantage of the positive qualities of this astrological event. Almost any word that starts with “re” is an activity supported during this time.
The citrus tree I used at the West Elm event in Palo Alto needed some TLC after being in the retail store for 4 weeks. Re-potting it into a larger container, trimming the dead branches and re-positioning it by some lavender has produced 4 new branches in just over a week.
I’ve heard literally dozens of people who have known nothing about Mercury Retrograde who have been inclined to go through closets, file cabinets, drawers and garages “re”leasing items that no longer serve them. That’s one of the things we can do now. It just seems easier to do it during this time. Plus people seem to be compelled to clear things rather than hold on to them.
In the Asian culture the Fu (or sometimes times spelled “Foo”) Dog is both a protector and a greeter of good energy.
In order to bring in “Good Feng Shui” we’ll focus on the front door area of your home. One reason we focus on the front door is due to the nature of the front door. It is known as the “Main Mouth of Chi” for the home, which in turn brings the energy into your life. If the energy is low by the door, then the energy for the home and your life tend to be low. When we raise the energy around the front door, we raise the energy of the home and our own vitality.
A few other ideas to where we can take advantage of the Mercury Retrograde energy are:
1. Re-pot plants
2. Re-position furniture
3. Re-cover chairs
4. Re-finish furniture
5. Re-paint the door or house
6. Re-locate a wind chime, flag or windsock
7. Re-arrange or re-group pots
8. Re-move dead flowers and leaves from plants
9. Re-enforce protection and a “welcome” feel with a Protective greeter
Re-arranging furniture or outdoor displays can add a revitalized energy to the area of the front door – also known as the “Main Mouth of Chi” to the home or business.
I’ll give you more information about Mercury Retrograde at a later time along with the dates of the next one so you can arrange to schedule activities in order to have “the Force be with you!”
Have fun this weekend “re-doing your environment in order to re-invent your life!”
by llenore | Jul 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Honoring daily activities and celebrations in our lives are a couple of ways we might create Sacred Space using our intention according to Feng Shui as well as many other cultures and philosophies. Many spiritual groups and religions say blessings for the food before eating.
Celebration table at Disneyland honoring several birthdays while playing and enjoying family time together.
In this very busy world, many of us don’t even sit down to eat, much less remember to give thanks for our food. We are “multi-tasking” while consuming our food by sorting and reading the mail, putting dishes away or watering the plants. Not that I would know about any of this – yah, right!
Setting a table for a celebration is one of the many ways we might create a sacred space. It doesn’t even have to have special plates, flowers or party favors. Just having a gathering of people singing “Happy Birthday” brings a celebratory energy to any location. The sacredness is ignited by the joy, laughter, smiles, singing and memories we hold from these special times, no matter where they take place.
Napkin ring to set a sacredness to the table display.
Another way to create a sacred space would be to set the table for a “non-celebration” occasion – an everyday meal. Wouldn’t it be lovely to come home to a table already set for dinner with candles, cloth napkins, flowers and special glasses for a chilled drink?
Napkin ring to set a sacredness to the table display.
How about placing candles on the table along with a vase of flowers? Maybe having a special decorative light fixture would add to the ambience. Sitting in a loveseat-type bench might be an added bonus to coax you to sit a while, relax and read. Who knows, you might even start to daydream!
Table at San Jose Bikram Yoga enhances the energy of this sacred space in the studio.
If your spiritual practice includes gurus or deities you honor, you might include pictures or statues of them to watch over you. Anyone, or any location, can have these items displayed for private or public viewing. In some businesses it becomes part of the energy of the place itself, like a yoga studio, healing environment or mediation center.
Indeed, our homes, businesses and even our amusement parks are sacred spaces. Is there a table calling to you to make it a “Sacred Space” within your home? Just a little thought and time will enhance the energy of your home and your life when you create a sacred space.
by llenore | Jul 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Feng Shui Fundamentals are powerful tools to use when selling a home. Feng Shui is also powerful to make your current home a place of peace, power and prosperity.
In the last week I have consulted on five homes, making recommendations to get these homes ready for sale. Although the recommendations were focused on “selling” the home, the principles apply to making the home energetically correct for us to live in as well. After all, when “staging” a home, what we really are doing is helping buyers “see” how they might live in the space.
Feng Shui greeters to yard and entry
Here are nine rather simple – in some cases quick – tips for “staging” a home or making it a more balanced and powerful environment for you in which to live:
1. Create “Curb Appeal” by adding beautiful flowers, lighting, seating areas, water features, plants or objects that move with the gentle breeze and make sure it is clean and weed-free.
2. Have a greeter at the door by either having a lovely front door mat or statues on both sides of the door.
3. Remove all dead or straggly plants
Remove dead plants and flowers both inside and outside for Good Feng Shui
both inside and out since they drain energy or create a “lack of caring” energy that can permeate the home.
4. Clean the windows and mirrors to have clarity in life, which can also help potential buyers make up their mind to buy or you to move forward with clarity on your dreams.
5. Make sure the doors and windows open easily, completely and quietly by oiling the hinges and clearing objects stored behind the doors.
6. Get rid of “extra” furniture (anything you don’t absolutely need and love) to allow free movement into and around the rooms, which allows the chi to move easily and makes the space feel bigger.
7. Bring fresh flowers, houseplants and blooming plants like orchids into the kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms to bring more life into these rooms.
This house hasn’t sold in this “hot market” due to many issues, one of which is that several of the doors can’t be opened or closed since the house has settled. This is really bad Feng Shui! Plus it needs a serious coat of paint, oiling and lots of color, greeters and overall “love energy” applied.
8. Remove all sharp, old, outdated, faded, smelly and dark items – accessories, outdoor furniture, flower arrangements, musty books, etc. – and remove all tags or “protective” coverings to show it really is used and part of the everyday life of the home (not just a temporary “show” item.
9. If it’s not useable, beautiful or functional, get rid of it or make it work, like a water feature without water, an outdoor chair without the soft cushion it needs, the plant stand without a plant, the desk without a chair, the poster taped to the wall or the exercise equipment with books piled on it.
Each one of these tasks will start the flow of energy in the direction you desire. If you want to sell your home, these are basic “must do” projects that will take time. Yes, it might be difficult to picture where you can put things or figuring out how you can live with the changes if you are staying in the home.
That is exactly the point. If you have trouble picturing how you will live there, the potential buyer will have trouble envisioning how THEY can live there with your stuff. Give them the suggestion without the particulars.
If you are staying in your home and want to change your life, these subtle undertakings will shift both the energy of your home while shifting the perception in your mind to encourage movement in your life.
For Good Feng Shui we want to be able to move around the rooms without it feeling to tight. By not having a dresser on this wall we can move freely around the bed making the room feel more spacious.
You may be saying, Linda, this is just common sense. You’re right. Most of Feng Shui is common sense. Unfortunately we get so wrapped up in our day-to-day lives we don’t observe our homes with the eyes of common sense or ignore the issues thinking they really can’t be affecting us enough to deal with it along with all the other things in life.
Let me leave you with this thought by Winston Churchill –“First we shape our dwellings, then our dwellings shape our lives.”
What shape is your dwelling? What shape is your life? Do you see a correlation? Maybe some Feng Shui Fundamentals would help!
by llenore | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
ABC LIGHT
A Women’s Spiritual
Networking Group With Linda Lenore
Discover Your WOW!
Key Elements to Living a Life of Abundance, Balance and Joy Presented By Maggie Schreiber
Maggie Schreiber
There is your internal WOW, your purpose, passion, the reason you were born. And your external WOW, the dreams, visions and goals that you have for your life. In this interactive, creative talk, Maggie Schreiber will support you in tapping into your passion and dreams to ignite the light that shines in you, creating a life of abundance, balance, and joy.
You will….
• Connect From the Heart- Discover ways to make deeper more authentic connections and the value in creating wholehearted relationships.
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visions, and goals. Learn a 3 step process for making your dreams come true.
• Celebrate Friendship- Receive fun and creative ways to honor the angels in our lives, those that
support us and remind us that we are loved.
• Expand Joy- Experience how making requests, being open to receive and expressing gratitude will
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Maggie Schreiber is a Dream Coach® and a member of the Founders Circle for Marcia Wieder’s Million Dreams Campaign. She leads women in one on one and group coaching programs, facilitates workshops and hosts weekend retreats. A co-author in the book “Catch Your Star”, she is recognized as an expert in building women’s communities having formed Women of Wonder – a spiritually based women’s group of self discovery. Her dream is to own a retreat space where she can nurture and inspire women to know they matter. Maggie invites you to join her “party with a purpose” supporting you in discovering your WOW.
Date: Tuesday – July 9, 2013 (We meet the SECOND Tuesday of each month. )
Time: 6:30 pm to 9 pm
Where: Unity Church Palo Alto, 3391 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto, CA 94306
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by llenore | Jul 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Homes as Sacred Space
This Fourth of July weekend I’ve had the privilege to spend time playing around my home to make it a sacred space both inside and out. During this Mercury Retrograde, which lasts until July 20, I have felt drawn to clear clutter, remove things, repot plants, rearrange furniture and repair items. All of these are natural energies during a retrograde.
Refreshened the paint on the wicker, new cushions, repotted plant and rearranged furniture on our front porch.
I feel very lucky to have been able to do these things around my home in between all the other activities of the weekend. This awareness hit “home” more than usual when my daughter called to inform me of the fire in a nearby apartment complex. The terrifying apartment fire consumed the homes of several dozen families and has been going since roughly 1:30 this morning.
Our homes play many roles including shelter, security, creative palette and communication hub. Honoring our homes all times of the year is a gift we can give ourselves.
Dragonfly by the pond
Ways to create home as sacred space:
1. Clean the kitchen
2. Clean the bathroom
3. Clean your bedroom
4. Bring fresh flowers into your home
5. Clean the windows
6. Rearrange your photos
7. Create an altar on you dresser
8. Hang a picture on the wall
9. Trim the dead leaves from a plant
10. Talk to your plants
11. Repot a plant
12. Light a candle
13. Wax your furniture or Re-paint outdoor furniture
14. Clear things and give to a charity
15. Bring nature inside
16. Sit outside and enjoy nature
17. Love a pet
18. Hang a birdfeeder (or refill an empty one)
I’m sure the families who lost their homes would love to be able to do any of these “work-related” tasks in their apartment. I’ve had the blessing to be able to do all of these things this weekend.
Indeed, our homes are sacred spaces. How might you be able to honor your home by creating it as “sacred space”?
