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Stand in your bedroom doorway tonight and look at the far right corner.
The new moon was Saturday. If you wanted a small reason to start something, that corner is one.
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You Are Not Being Silly for Making Room Before Anyone Arrives
Feng shui is the Chinese practice of arranging a space so it works with the people living in it. Practitioners read a home as a map, with one area of it standing for partnership.
Where that area sits depends on who you ask. The classical compass school puts it in the southwest part of a home. The Black Hat school, a Western version, ignores the compass and puts it in the far right corner as you stand in the doorway.
The two schools do not agree, and many classical practitioners think the newer one oversimplified things. You do not have to settle the argument to use the part they share. Practitioners in both tend to give the same advice for that corner: keep it clear, clean and lit, and put things there in pairs.
In a lot of American bedrooms, that corner holds the laundry basket, the exercise bike with a sweater on it, the box from the last move, or the suitcase that never got emptied. Sometimes it holds a hoodie that belongs to someone who is not coming back for it.
The practice takes one evening. Find the far right corner from the doorway, then open the compass on your phone and find the southwest. Clear both.
Take out what belongs to the past: the hoodie, the card you never reread, the photo turned face down, the gift you never used. Put back two of something you chose yourself, like two candles, two pillows, two chairs, or two mugs.
If someone is back in your life, the pair is not a reason to move him into the corner. It is a picture of the matched effort to look for from him.
If the phone has been silent, the hardest thing in that corner may be the one that still smells like him. It can go in a bag in the garage. Nobody is asking you to throw it out tonight.
And if there is no one right now, this is the purest version of the practice. You are setting out two of something before you know who the second one is for.
You can clear it for yourself. You can light it for yourself. You can still leave room in it.
The new moon was three days ago, and the practice has no deadline. The corner can be tonight.
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If you are making room before anyone arrives, Chosen in Love walks through what clear, mutual love looks like and what has to be different if someone comes back. It is free, and it ends with a short section on letting love meet you in reality.
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Keep your power in your own hands.
Sofia
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Feng Shui Puts Love in One Corner of Your Bedroom, and It Is Usually Full
Two schools of feng shui disagree about which corner of your bedroom stands for love. Both agree on what goes there: two of something, and nothing he left behind.
