The Open Spaces Feng Shui Blog


Five Elements in the Garden: Wood & Your Sense of Sight

In Feng Shui your sense of Sight is associated with the Wood element, which is all about identifying goals and striving to achieve them — seeing the path before you as clearly as possible.
In Maine’s Five Senses Garden, the Wood element is all around, e… read more »

Maya Lin’s “Storm King Wavefield”

We recently visited the Storm King Art Center for the opening reception of Maya Lin’s wonderful new Earthwork, “Storm King Wavefield”.
Maya Lin is best known as the artist who created the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC when she was just 21 y… read more »

Feng Shui’s Fabulous Five Elements

The Five Elements are one of the special tools Feng Shui uses to enhance your life at home and at work.
The Feng Shui Five Elements balance and harmonize your space with color, artwork, furnishings, textures and shapes.
If you feel out of balance, stuck, or in a negat… read more »

Rainy Day Feng Shui for Your Business

It’s a typical early April day here in the Northeast – rainy, wet and raw. 
This kind of weather makes think of the creative interaction of the two Feng Shui “elements” of Water and Wood: the Water element of the rain is nourishing the Woo… read more »

Good Feng Shui at Starbucks

Like pretty much everyone else, Starbucks has been going through trying times recently, closing stores, revamping menus, and overhauling existing stores.
I was interested to see one big change in my local store last week, which made me think that someone must be… read more »