One of the most popular topics of feng shui design is wealth. There’s even a corner of your home that corresponds to your prosperity and abundance. You can learn about how to find and activate the money corner (or wealth corner) of your home using a tool in feng shui called the bagua. The bagua is an energetic map of your home that is laid over a space, and it’s divided into a three-by-three grid, with eight areas around a center.Read on to learn how to find and work with the money corner using feng shui, from adding supportive money plants to specific colors and more.
Using the Bagua
Your home is a reflection of your life. The bagua is used in feng shui as a tool to help you understand how your home and life correlate. Each area of the bagua corresponds to a particular aspect of life, such as relationships, career, knowledge, and yes, even your financial prosperity. This particular area is called "Xun" in Chinese and is also known as the wealth or money corner. This position relates to your financial wealth and abundance, as well as the prosperity of all kinds. It also represents self-worth, which is deeply connected to material wealth: Our ability to receive wealth and abundance is determined in part by how we value ourselves.
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How to Find Your Money Corner
To find the wealth area of your entire home, stand at the formal front door of your house facing in, and locate the far left corner.
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To make this simpler, you can also work just with the wealth area of your bedroom or office. In this case, you would stand in the main door of the bedroom or office looking in. The far left area is the wealth corner of your bedroom or office.
Once you’ve located the wealth area, notice what’s happening there. Is it empty? Cluttered? Neatly organized? Think about what this could represent metaphorically. Maybe this area of your home is collecting dust or filled with dying plants and hasn’t been touched in months—could that correspond to an unwillingness to look at your finances regularly, or to make changes in how you value yourself? It's best to fix these common feng shui decorating mistakes before working on your wealth corner.
Tips to Enhance Your Money Corner
If you’d like to work on attracting more abundance, self-worth, or prosperity, you can activate the wealth area of your home by using a few of our favorite ways to do this.
Fix Anything That’s Broken
This might not sound like feng shui to you, but it’s important to make mundane improvements in addition to the more subtle, energetic adjustments. Items that are chipped, falling apart, or not working properly likely do not make you feel abundant, so it’s best to either fix them or let them go.
Decorate With Purple
Color is important in feng shui and purple is a hue associated with the wealth area, so placing something purple here can activate wealth and abundance. This could be a piece of artwork, a throw pillow, a planter, or any other item that you’re attracted to.
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Bring in Plants
The wealth area is also connected to the wood element, represented by plants. Add a healthy green plant to this area to invite steady growth in your finances or improve your self-worth. A plant that is particularly helpful for this purpose is the Pilea peperomioides also known as the money tree, coin plant, or jade plant.
Decorate With Green or Blue
Green and blue are the colors associated with the wood element, so adding these colors in the wealth area can support growth and healing in this area of life. You may want to paint a whole wall green or blue or choose a smaller, more subtle accent, depending on your decor and preferences.
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Activate With a Water Feature
In the five elements system, water feeds wood, so adding the water element in the wealth area can be supportive. A small fountain can be a lovely addition to this area—just make sure to keep it clean. Dirty, stagnant water is not going to enhance your home’s feng shui. If actual water doesn’t feel like a good fit for your space, you can also incorporate artwork with images of clean and flowing water.
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Look for a black art frame, since this is the color that represents the water element.
Add Amethyst
Crystals can feel beautiful and luxurious in a space, and they’re also pretty easy to find. Amethyst is a great addition to the wealth area because of its purple color, and because it resonates with the feeling of abundance. It can also invoke feelings of spiritual abundance, which goes hand in hand with material wealth.
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Other Ways to Improve Wealth Through Feng Shui
If you want to work on your wealth, it's important to understand that working with feng shui on your wealth corner is just one aspect that can help. A skilled practitioner can help uncover other root causes of wealth challenges so you can work on what's most impactful.
For example, if you are not making as much money as you want, it may be because you’re not in the right career or you need more helpful people in your life who can help you attain your goals. In those cases, it's more beneficial to work on improving your career choice or inviting more helpful people into your life. You can also work with the bagua to identify what parts of your home correspond to those parts of your life.
FAQ
What should I put in my money corner?
Put items that activate wealth in your money corner, such as a money tree, crystals, and images of water.
What are the feng shui colors for wealth corner?
The feng shui colors for the wealth corner are purple, blue, and green. Black is also symbolizes wisdom, knowledge, and weatlh and using a touch of it, such as a frame, is beneficial for your wealth corner.
How can I attract money to my home?
To attract money into your home, the most important things to do in feng shui are to brighten up interiors, declutter, and clean. Then you can focus on adding in other feng shui steps. You can also work with a classical feng shui expert to further evaluate your home, such as determining if your house-facing direction is beneficial for attracting money.
