The warm energy of fall drifts away as feng shui winter settles in with quiet yin energy. Feng shui seasons are an integral part of attracting and activating positive energy in your life and home. The translation of feng shui is wind and water, and each brings their own benefits and challenges through yin yang seasonal energies. By understanding the chi energy of each season, you can easily balance their effects to enhance your home and personal energy in the feng shui winter season.
What Is the Feng Shui Winter Element?
Winter is associated with the water element and is the most yin season of all. Feng shui winter is a time for passive introspection and awaiting the blossoming energy of the new year. Like the dark skies and short days, yin energy is reflected as quiet and inactive. Because winter energy can easily become lethargic, infusing your home with the energy of yang colors and elements can help to wake up your chi energy.
- Feng Shui Winter Colors: The water element is reflected in all shades of blue and black, and like water, any mirror finish that has a reflective quality.
- Winter Chi Energy: Winter is a solidly yin season. Just as lights and fireplaces are plentiful in the dark of winter, in feng shui the strong yin energy of winter often needs some yang energy for balance.
- Feng Shui Winter Personality: Winter is marked by short days, long nights, and often cold weather with an abundance of rain and snow. It is also a time of renewal, as buds are regenerating for a spring appearance. The winter personality is that of patience and the understanding that brighter days are ahead.
How to Balance Winter Chi Energy
Winter can be seen as a quiet time to plan for the year ahead, or as a sluggish season to endure before spring brightens up the world around you. The imbalance of yin and yang can be felt more intensely in the winter due to the natural elements of the season. Borrowing colors and activities from the yang element can liven up chi energy.
Attract Yang Energy With Color
Like the autumn season, when you add yang colors to your home, it can fire up the passive yin energy of winter for increased energy and mood. Vibrant warm colors of the fire element, like red, orange, and yellow, can be added through fresh flowers, cozy throws, and kitchen linens.
Activate Yang Fire Energy
Fireplaces are excellent for balancing tired yin spaces. Candles and decorative lighting are a quick way to brighten up a dark room. Assess your lighting inside about outside of your home, as increasing the wattage of your lightbulbs can give you a boost until natural light improves in spring.
Make Plans for Spring
Some of the yin energy challenges come from waning personal chi energy. For some, it can be hard to stay positive and focused during the winter. Planning for spring trips, home improvements, and events can increase your personal chi energy.
Plan or Plant a Garden
If you live in a region that can handle planting in the winter, the process of selecting plants and planting them encourages positive yang energy that can help inspire the energy of early spring. If you're unable to start planting, just planning a garden and poring over seed and plant catalogs will activate warm yang energy.
Feng Shui Spring Is Around the Corner
There's so much to do before the transition from winter to spring. Any work that you do in or around your home activates positive chi energy. This is especially true for passing from an inactive yin season to a very active yang season. Home and yard maintenance will clear the stagnant chi from your home and yard, allowing for an easy transition to a feng shui spring season.
