15 Good Luck Symbols From Across The Globe

Guest User June 9, 2021

Anjie Cho was featured on mindbodygreen

Who couldn't use a little more luck? While there's certainly an argument for "making your own," lucky symbols and numbers have been used across the globe for generations to help people invite more abundance and prosperity into their lives.

Here are 15 lucky symbols and numbers that have withstood the test of time and some ideas about how to incorporate them into your day-to-day.

The Chinese Zodiac Animals

Culture of origin: China

Meaning: Architect and feng shui expert Anjie Cho explains that the 12 Chinese zodiac animals grouped together are a popular good luck symbol throughout Asian culture because "they represent a variety of different personality types that could be in your family or in your life, so when you have them all together, it represents harmony between all different types of people and balance."

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If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

Q&A Sunday: What Broken Objects Mean in Feng Shui

Anjie Cho June 6, 2021

Is it bad feng shui to have broken items in your home?

Feng shui looks at how life force energy, or qi, moves through a space, and how we can work with our spaces so that we can be more in harmony with our environment and with nature. While I would encourage you not to label things as “good” or “bad,” broken items can create more difficulty in how qi flows through our homes and environments.

I often see broken mirrors, or mirrors that are made up of lots of different pieces, like a mosaic. Mirrors are highly symbolic, and a broken mirror isn’t ideal from a feng shui standpoint. If you have a mirror that’s broken, especially if you’re using it for a feng shui purpose, I would suggest you replace it with a solid one.

You may also have other broken items in your home, including lamps that don’t work, wobbly furniture, or chipped dishes. Over time, this creates challenging energy, and a feeling that you need to repair something. For instance, maybe you have a lamp that needs repair in the corner of your room. Every time you see it, you’re reminded subconsciously, whether you realize it or not, that there’s something you need to fix in your life.

In reality, we are all perfect and we don’t need any fixing. However, if we continue to accumulate things that don’t have a purpose, or we don’t take care of our things, that energy reflects upon us as well.

If you do notice that you have broken items in your home, I encourage you to repair them or let them go. If you love them and they serve a purpose in your life, make the effort to repair them. If you don’t love these items, I would suggest that you remove them from your home.

by Anjie Cho

If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com

7 Easy Feng Shui Tips to Clear Your Space and Your Mind

Guest User June 2, 2021

Anjie Cho was featured on InStyle

It's pretty safe to say that the pandemic impacted our relationships — with family, friends, coworkers, and significant others, in profound ways. One of the most surprising, and unexpected, to be affected? Our relationship with our homes.

When the pandemic hit, home transformed into a multitasking space almost overnight. Some rushed to purchase a desk set-up for a workable home office, while others ordered workout equipment to turn their living rooms into home gyms. And as the months of sheltering-in-place and working from home orders ticked on, even those who hardly thought about their apartment's aesthetic before found suddenly themselves interested in sprucing up their home's decor.

Our new, intense home-centric lives led many of us to become more interested in a functional way of living, theorizes feng shui expert Anjie Cho, so it's unsurprising that the ancient Chinese philosophy of feng shui — which focuses on balance and positive energy — became the design ethos du jour. "[We] began to look and ask, 'how can we really create homes that support us?' I think a lot of people spent a lot of time outside of their home and never realized how much they were disconnected from or unhappy with their homes."

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