Exploring: How Pets Quietly Affect Family Feng Shui

In a warm home, pets are not just companions. From the perspective of Feng Shui, they are also closely linked to the family’s fortune. Feng Shui emphasizes the harmony between man and nature, and believes that environmental energy affects life. As active life in the home, the type, number, location and interaction of pets with their owners may subtly change the family’s Feng Shui aura.

Five Elements of Pets

The Five Elements Theory, the basic theory of Feng Shui, believes that all things in the world contain gold, wood, water, fire, and earth attributes, and interact with each other. Pets are no exception:

• Wood Pets: Small animals such as cats and rabbits belong to the wood element. Wood represents vitality and growth. These pets are lively and cute, adding vitality to the home. They are suitable for people who lack wood or have weak wood energy. People who belong to the wood element can raise cats to enhance wood energy, help career development, and feel comfortable physically and mentally.
• Fire Pets: Active pets such as cats and birds belong to the fire element. Fire symbolizes enthusiasm and vitality, which can enhance the yang energy in the home and increase wealth and career luck. People who lack fire in the five elements can raise birds to replenish their fire and make life positive.
• Pets belonging to the earth element: Pets with calm personalities such as dogs and turtles belong to the earth element. Earth means stability and carrying, which can create a harmonious family atmosphere and make the aura stable. For families who lack earth in the five elements or need to stabilize the aura, raising dogs can enhance the earth energy and make the home warmer and more harmonious.
• Pets belonging to the metal element: Smart pets such as rats and fish belong to the metal element. Gold represents sharpness and intelligence. Raising such pets can gather gold energy and enhance the wisdom and wealth of family members. People who lack gold in the five elements can raise fish to bring wealth opportunities to the family.
• Pets belonging to the water element: Aquatic animals such as snakes and fish belong to the water element. Water symbolizes flow and change, which can promote harmonious interpersonal relationships and bring a lively atmosphere to the home. People who lack water in the five elements can raise snakes or fish to improve the aura and make life smoother.

Number of pets and Feng Shui balance

The more pets you have, the better. Too many pets will make the aura at home chaotic and break the balance. Choose the number of pets according to the residential space and the numerology of family members to maintain Feng Shui harmony. Generally, it is advisable for a small family to keep 1-2 pets to avoid crowded space and chaotic aura. In terms of numerology, people with balanced five elements choose the number of pets according to their preferences; people with unbalanced five elements can choose the number of pets according to their own numerology and the relationship between the five elements of pets. For example, if the five elements lack wood, you can keep 1 cat to enhance the wood energy, but it is not advisable to keep too many cats to cause excessive wood energy.

Pet position and Feng Shui aura

The position of pets in the home has a great impact on Feng Shui. Reasonable placement can enhance the aura, otherwise it will destroy it.

• Pet nest position: The wealth position is usually on the diagonal of the living room. Placing the pet nest in the wealth position can enhance the family’s auspiciousness and attract wealth and good luck, but avoid placing it in an evil position (such as under a beam or next to a toilet) to avoid worsening the aura.
• Suitable directions for different pets: Dogs belong to the earth element, corresponding to the eight trigrams Gen position, and the northeast is its auspicious direction. Placing the doghouse in the northeast is good for health and fortune; cats belong to the wood element, corresponding to the east and southeast. These two directions are good for cats to grow. If the door faces this direction, cats are usually healthy and lively.

The relationship between pet health and family Feng Shui

Pet health is a direct reflection of the family’s aura. In a family full of love and care, pets are healthy and lively; frequent illness of pets may indicate that the family’s aura is not good and needs to be adjusted. From the perspective of Feng Shui, pet illness may be caused by a disordered aura in the living environment, such as the pet’s nest is in an unlucky position, or the imbalance of the five elements in the home affects the health of the pet. At this time, you should check the pet’s living environment, adjust the position or improve the home Feng Shui layout. You can also improve the aura by wearing Feng Shui accessories and placing green plants to help the pet recover and improve the family’s fortune.