My approach to Feng Shui is mainly through the psychological impact of spaces: the subtle inner stirrings from 'environment'. Moods, Decisions, and your Higher Purpose, can all be sabotaged by your own havens of home and office. Feng Shui principles can correct these influences, bringing you into harmony with the Present: supported, not challenged, by your surroundings.

Kerrie's Style   Feng Shui & Mind   China & Tao   Tibetan Bön & Buddhism

Kerrie's Style

For the past 18 years I have been clinically studying the effects of the Feng Shui Bagua (the octagonal map of the major areas of life) on space and mind-orientation, by comparing this to my clients' astrological charts.

Through this study, I have become particularly concerned with healing unconscious sabotage through the placement of furniture, through symbolism of artwork and cultural influences, and through the colouring in rooms. This has shown that your personal needs, use, and experience of any space can be harmonised and enhanced through astrological awareness of your own personal birth chart (the map of your many layers of mind).

I do not use the Lo-Pan (Feng Shui compass) in my assessments (as do some highly qualified Feng Shui experts from other Feng Shui traditions), as I am working more on a psychological and spiritual rather than a phenomenal level. I am therefore greatly inspired by the philosophy and methods of Black Sect Feng Shui, utilising the ancient psychological tradition of the 8-directions (9 areas) of the Feng Shui Bagua from Taoist & Tibetan Bon sources, and which includes Tantric Buddhist practices. Of course, I also pay considerable attention to directions of light access and seasonal changes, and other phenomenal attributes.

Colours, shapes, and the geometrical relationships between the objects in your home, office, or work-space, can have a profound effect on your living experiences. What you choose to be surrounded by can either raise or lower your sense of self-esteem, through echoing back to you your own self-image. A disorganised room full of clutter, for example, indicates a lack of self-respect and a feeling of powerlessness.

RedgateFengShui can assist in bringing harmony, peace, and inspiration to the environments in which you spend your life.

Feng Shui & Mind

FENG SHUI is a useful tool to combine with ASTROLOGY as they both involve your subconscious thought-forms. With skill in Feng Shui, you can actually see your hidden concepts and beliefs in 3-D in your own living and work environments. Any sabotaging concepts can be altered with purposeful guidance through subtly altering your home or office.

Feng Shui does not stop at buildings and rooms, but can also be incorporated, quite significantly, into the mindful placement of objects on your desk and kitchen bench!, as well as into the designs of your business cards and website.

Every space you visually encounter has a Feng Shui map that corresponds to your deepest conceptions about reality. Psychological and even spiritual healing modalities you employ may be subtly sabotaged by the spaces in which you live and work. If you have objects reflecting your difficult past-life experiences (from this and other lifetimes) placed in areas of a room or house related to their stories, you may suffer psychological or even health setbacks.

The subconscious mind will always draw you to the familiar; and itself has no judgement as to whether an object or artwork may have a subtly sabotaging or inspiring effect on your efforts and goals.

A powerful sabotaging effect can occur as the subconscious mind relates to your outer reality purely through symbols, much like your experiences in the dream state while sleeping. Being aware of your own symbolism can be an enlightening experience.

Astrology is a marvellous tool when employed in revealing what is buried in the mind-stream as well as highlighting the direction for this present incarnation. Personal Astrology charts, or Composite charts for couples and families, or Business charts (Registration or Opening dates), can be utilised for this purpose, and are an important adjunct to the entire process. Each space is individual and has a life of its own, dictated by its occupants.

There is much more to Feng Shui than hanging faceted crystal spheres and windchimes. Feng Shui principles can be utilised to replace the negative influences of inappropriate personal symbolism. Often this may be a simple process of moving an object to another corner of the room or to another room in the house. At times, new objects or colours are suggested (Astrology can specifically indicate the symbolic objects, colours and the textures/elements that support and harmonise with one's spiritual/practical needs); and inappropriate old pieces may have to go!

China and the Tao

Feng Shui is but one expression of the genius of the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Tao (pron. dow as in British "cow"), a philosophy which is at the heart of Traditional Chinese Medicine (including Acupuncture).

The Tao is concerned with the balance of all things, and with our own balance within our own environments. This can also extend to what foods we eat within particular locales.

For example, the Scottish people do not traditionally eat papaya and juicy raw fruits (which, of course, do not grow naturally in Scotland) as these take heat from the body for digestion. Instead, the Scottish are famous for their consumption of warming foods such as oats.

The Balinese, by contrast, do not eat oats in Bali's hot, humid environment. They eat cooling foods such as fruits and lightly cooked vegetables and rice (frying foods in hot oil helps to destroy the health-depleting microscopic parasites that can thrive within foods grown in warm humid climates).

Feng Shui applies these same phenomenal principles through a deep respect for the elements that make up our being (earth, water, wood, fire, and metal), in accord with the teachings found within the "I Ching" (pron. yi jing). And just as our diet needs to be altered for various seasons, some aspects of our home environment can also be adjusted when we live in seasonal climes.

These teachings help to bring us back to a state of inner balance within our external environment. Each one of us is composed of a different ratio of these elements. And again, it is the science of Astrology that can so quickly identify these elemental imbalances in our constitutions as well as from transiting astrological influences.

Tibetan Bön and Buddhism

Two other influences that have helped to reshape Feng Shui, with new branches over the centuries, have been the principles of the ancient practices of the indigenous Tibetan Bon religion and also Buddhist philosophy. These brought a decidedly grounded spiritual and ritualistic emphasis to Feng Shui practice, and further developed the esoteric component.

Being a committed Buddhist and Reiki Teacher, I am able to provide written sacred Buddhist mantras and/or Reiki Symbols (for those who feel comfortable with this orientation) which can be hidden in certain areas of the house to uplift and protect. These are not superstitious "magic spells", but invitations to our own higher consciousness and to that of powerfully compassionate Beings in Spirit, to bring healing to our lives. Hanging and placing sacred objects in our home, objects to which we feel spiritually connected and which uplift us, will bring a similar result.

Consultations may be conducted for any location
via phone or internet call, with house/room
plans/photos being emailed to Kerrie in advance;
or in-person where Kerrie is located at any time.
Astrology is also used for correct diagnosis
of the personal issues involved in the space
(for individuals or business charts).

Not interested in Astrology? If you need only a general Feng Shui consultation (eg. for a public space or a house sale), Kerrie also offers her RedgateFengShui service without Astrology.

For more information, and to arrange an appointment,
send Kerrie an email to fengshui@kerrie-redgate.com
or contact Kerrie directly

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