Feng Shui for Luck and Protection in the Year of the Tiger

Guest User January 19, 2022

Silver pig keychain charm on red cord — Photo by Anjie Cho Architect PLLC

It’s been so nice to hear from many of you as you’re switching out your 2021 charms for your new 2022 charms! If you don’t know what I’m referring to, there is a Chinese zodiac animal associated with each year. This past year has been the Year of the Ox, and we will soon be welcoming the Year of the Tiger. In BTB feng shui, one of the adjustments or cures is to carry with you the year animal’s best friend as an amulet or protective charm.

The Tiger’s best friend is the Pig, so it is auspicious to carry a realistic three-dimensional representation of a Pig with you during 2022, the Year of the Tiger. The Pig charms that I sell in the Holistic Spaces shop are ones that I personally make by hand and bless. I enjoy making these charms every year, and I chose to put them on a keychain because it’s a practical way to keep the animal close to you.

I get a lot of questions about these charms, and especially about what to do if they break. If your charm breaks, it’s actually a good thing. The purpose of a protective amulet is to protect you, and if it breaks that means that it’s doing its job. The charm has absorbed or deflected some negative qi. It is a good idea to replace the charm if it breaks, but it isn’t something to be worried about.

Another question I get is about what to do with the old charm after you’ve purchased a new one for the current year. I recommend that you take the old charm off your key ring, and really humbly thank the charm for protecting you and offering you support. Then, you can take the cord off of the charm and burn it. Offer it to the fire, and then be thankful to let go of anything that may have been holding you back, or anything from 2021 that you don’t want to carry with you.

Then, if you’d like to recycle the metal parts, you may do that. You can also keep the animal and place it on your altar or in a safe place. You might want to keep each animal and collect them until you have all twelve animals. There’s a powerful feng shui adjustment where you have one of each of the zodiac animals together, which represents harmony amongst all the different archetypes of every person in the world. You will have gotten to know each of the twelve animal archetypes during the time you carried them with you. As you keep each animal close to you for a year, you start to understand each one.

After you’ve thanked your 2021 charm, and recycled it or put it in a safe place, you can put the new charm on your keychain. With humble thoughtfulness, curiosity, and openness, invite your new Pig charm to offer you good luck, support, and companionship in the Year of the Water Tiger.

Lastly, I want to thank everyone who has purchased a charm from me this year and in previous years. I appreciate you supporting me as a small business, and I hope you have a wonderful 2022!

by Anjie Cho

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Easy Ways to Feng Shui Your Home For 2022, According to an Expert

Guest User January 12, 2022

Anjie Cho was featured on Elite Daily

It’s the perfect time to reorganize your space so you can step into the new year with more energy and a fresh perspective. Elite Daily spoke with architect and Feng Shui expert Anjie Cho for some simple ways to make your space feel like a sanctuary.

Cho has a fresh way of looking at Feng Shui. “It’s about paying attention to details in your environment and see if they’re supporting you or challenging you,” she says. Think: less moving furniture and more paying attention to what’s already there.

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Feng Shui to Welcome 2022

Guest User January 5, 2022

Serene bedroom with white bedding and white walls — Photo by Anjie Cho Architect PLLC

I think everyone can agree that the last couple of years have been especially challenging. As humans here on this earth, we can acknowledge that we’ve experienced some trauma during this time. We’ve been working with challenging emotions and situations, and this has activated our fight-or-flight response.

One of the most important aspects of feng shui is to look at this phenomenon of fight-or-flight. We all have a yearning to feel safe, and there are ways that feng shui can help us to cultivate feelings of safety and stability in our homes. In feng shui, we can create environments that support us, even when there are so many ups and downs in the world around us. You can start to welcome this new year by taking some time to get quiet, and just listen and connect to your home.

I would also encourage you to look at the feng shui concept called commanding position. This is a basic principle in feng shui, and the idea is to set yourself up in your home to reduce any challenges that exacerbate your fight-or-flight response. This is one way to set up your home to feel more safe, which is especially important right now since we’ve already experienced so much fight-or-flight.

To begin working with the commanding position, I recommend starting with your bedroom. You want to make sure that when you’re lying in bed, or sitting in bed with your back against the headboard, that you can see the door to your bedroom without being directly in line with the door. Usually this will put you in a position that is diagonally across from the door. You should also have a wall behind the headboard, which will help you feel more secure and supported. Being in the command position allows you to know what’s coming towards you, so that you can sleep and rest with more ease, and less fight-or-flight activation.

When your bed is set up with the door behind you, it actually creates more stress and difficulty and activates our fight-or-flight response. If you’ve been feeling especially raw or traumatized because of the happenings in the world, I would really recommend you take a look at your bedroom and set up your bed in the commanding position. If this is impossible because of the design details of your bedroom, you can instead set up a mirror so that you can see a reflection of the door while you’re laying in bed.

I hope this helps you welcome the new year in a supportive and nurturing way. First, recognize and acknowledge that this has been a very difficult time, and then find the ways in which you can create a home that supports you. Most importantly, make sure your bed is in command so you can soothe and heal yourself while you’re sleeping, which is a very healing and passive time.

by Anjie Cho