Where does your clutter live? Under your bed? In the attic? The Basement?
According to feng shui principles, the places where clutter takes root is meaningful but we are often not aware of what that meaning is. The following examples do not have to be true all the time of course, but something definitely worth thinking about as you clear your clutter.
Attic: Represents things hanging over your head, goals or dreams beyond your reach.
Bathroom: Plumbing is related to the emotions. Repressed emotions: feeling blocked, holding on to the past, people or events. Excessive emotions: weepy, verbal diarrhea or ranting.
Bedroom: Needing a great deal of privacy, hiding yourself or some aspect of your life from the world, being out of touch with your emotions or your inner self.
Basement: Suppressed emotions, unconscious beliefs, thoughts, patterns of behaviour, lack of foundation or roots in your life.
Cupboards: Upper cupboards, same for attic. Lower cupboards, same for basement.
Dining room: Feeling unnourished, un-nurtured, not taking care of your health, or lacking a sense of community in your life.
Kitchen: not fully allowing abundance, the harvest — what you have been working towards, into your life.
Living Room: difficult or absent relationships, feeling unconnected from loved ones and your community.
Under: (bed, cabinets, cupboards, etc.) Feeling bogged down.
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So my clutter is in my home office! Does this mean my working life is out of control?
By the way, several of us here just started a Feng Shui Club.
Madame Monet
Writing, Painting, Music, and Wine
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Hello Madame Monet!
Well, it could be but not necessarily so. We’d look to see where your office is in the bagua map. If for example, the office is in the Creativity area, we’d look at the clutter in terms of your creativity. It could also manifest as a blockage in playfulness and receiving joy, or perhaps ‘work’ taking over your whole life with no time to play.
Congratulations on your Feng Shui club. What fun!
Namaste, Deborah