A Complete Guide to Lucky Bamboo Placement Feng Shui and Taboos
Lucky bamboo is a plant that many households choose to place in their homes, but many people simply put it wherever after buying it. In fact, the placement of lucky bamboo is closely related to feng shui. Placing lucky bamboo correctly at home can help people enhance spirituality, comprehension and more. Let's take a look at lucky bamboo placement feng shui and taboos together!
How many stalks of lucky bamboo attract wealth?
1. Growing lucky bamboo in a water bottle is what is called "one is water at the heavenly position," so if growing it in water, one stalk is best. This can both attract wealth and ensure the water is not absorbed by other lucky bamboo stalks, carrying the meaning of unfolding a grand plan.
2. Lucky bamboo is generally used to promote study or wealth and career luck. Growing 5 stalks (4 long and 1 short) and placing them at the Wenchang position of the house or room, or simply growing 4 stalks, is also fine, because in feng shui the number 4 is the number of Wenchang.
3. Placing lucky bamboo at the wealth position has a supporting effect on the family's wealth luck. The more lush it grows, the stronger the symbol of wealth. As for how many stalks to place, there is no particular meaning; generally 3 to 6 will do.
4. If you want to attract more wealth with lucky bamboo placement, you can buy a square tray and place a round vase or other container on it to hold the lucky bamboo. Copper coins can be placed in the water, and of course there should be 9 or a multiple of 9.
Lucky bamboo placement feng shui
1. Placing lucky bamboo beside a desk or office desk can bring good fortune and open up luck, making one's career flourish.
2. Placing lucky bamboo at the annual Wenchang position helps with the development of career and studies.
3. Placing lucky bamboo at the Nine Purple celebration position can help with auspicious events, marriage and romance, and family happiness and harmony.
4. Placing lucky bamboo above the refrigerator, in the kitchen or bathroom and other places can dissolve unfavorable sha qi.
5. Placing lucky bamboo under a beam or beside a pillar helps dissolve beam-and-pillar sha.
6. Placing lucky bamboo in the stairwell can remove flowing sha qi.
7. Hanging or placing lucky bamboo inside the main door or outside by the door, or on the left and right sides of the main door, helps boost the family's fortune.
Lucky bamboo feng shui taboos
1. Lucky bamboo should not be placed at the wealth position. Placing it at the wealth position or sha position will make one's fortune worse. Placing lucky bamboo at the wealth position of the whole house will cause losses in wealth luck.
2. Lucky bamboo is usually placed on one side of the living room, and can also be placed in the study, but it is best to avoid placing it in the bedroom, because lucky bamboo is a plant and belongs to the yin nature in the five elements.
3. It is best to place lucky bamboo according to one's own destiny and the five elements. For example, if one's five elements belong to wood, then lucky bamboo should preferably be placed on the east side of the house.
4. Lucky bamboo should not be placed in line with the kitchen, and a single stalk should be avoided, as it easily forms the character “kun” in the house, meaning one stalk of wood in the house is inappropriate.
5. Lucky bamboo must not be placed beside a television or in places where an air conditioner or electric fan often blows on it, so as to avoid the leaf tips and leaf edges drying out and withering due to dryness.
6. If lucky bamboo withers or its leaves turn yellow and dry due to lack of water, these residual branches and yellow leaves must be trimmed promptly, otherwise the plant's qi will decline and the household owner will also suffer.
7. When you buy lucky bamboo, never remove the red ribbon on it, otherwise it will cause yin to flourish and yang to decline. Not only will wealth luck not be boosted, but wealth will be lost first, and even misfortune will follow one after another.