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Flying Stars or Fei Xing is a powerful form of Feng Shui derived from the famous Xuan Kong Fengshui. It is an Analysis of the Five Elements and Star Combinations (representing certain energy patterns) that occupy every building. Each new year these annual stars change, Qi (energy) shifts happen, bringing good and bad energy with them – thereby producing different effects. Feng Shui Main Door Facing

In February 2004 all the Feng Shui Energy Patterns underwent huge transformations to the NewAge of Land Luck called Period 8 Energy Cycles. It means that a large scale evolution of the human race with completely new energy dynamics has started. The significance is that the new, vibrant energies of Period 8 impacts on the buildings differently than before and energies that were previously activated now need to be remedied, in order to reduce any bad effects from the past influences.

The Flying Stars Chart or the 9-Grid Meteor Plan for the Wu Zi, Year of the Yang Brown Earth Rat has been plotted and the effects of their energy patterns are analyzed. The analysis also contains suggested remedies/cures for reducing the impact of negative energy and recommended enhancers for increasing and improving upon the beneficial energy of the year.

For the remedies/enhancers to be effective, they should be cleansed, energized, blessed and programmed not only for the particular individual/family but also for the specific purpose/problem. They should also be placed in the indicated location.

How you live is a picture you paint of yourself for not only the rest of the world but for you. Many people fail to realize that their immediate surroundings greatly affect their ability to feel good about themselves. Interior designers have known this for years and make their living off of designing spaces to affect the psychology of the people who will inhabit their designs.

In commercial applications, realize that it is no mistake that fast food restaurants are brightly colored and well lit. The goal is to get you in and out as quickly as possible and vivid colors and bright lighting make people uncomfortable other than for short periods of time. Contrast that with an expensive restaurant with rich colors, mood lighting and a staff who’s main goal is to get you to stay as long as possible to order more off the menu.

If you are interested in self improvement and want to begin on the easiest of base levels, consider the space that you live in. What does it say about you? Does it support positive feelings and reinforce the ideals that you hold for yourself? Or is it neglected, unkept and lacking in personal details?

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I give beginning collectors the following formula for roughly determining the value of an art object:
Value = Materials + Age + Workmanship.
What this means and how you apply it could mean the difference between acquiring a collection that is merely pretty and one that has investment potential, or will be a much-appreciated inheritance.

Materials:

The beauty and scarcity of the raw materials used in a piece, along with other factors such as hardness and durability (or lack of it), add up to what we may call intrinsic value. Simply put that is the value of the raw material itself, separate from the quality of the carving or its historical significance or any of the other factors that add to the desirability of the piece. Determining intrinsic value requires some understanding of the relative value the raw material carried during the time period the artisan was working it.

Jade and ivory, for instance, have had value since very early in the Asian cultures. Certain kinds of woods, the roots of particular trees, the burl of the root and other organic substances such as amber, also have found their way into some of the best representations of Asian art. With the exception of bronze and a limited number of cast materials, most of the materials used in Asian art could be found naturally or traded. When altered in some way, by carving or firing, and turned into art, they became valuable.