How to Identity A Energy Block in Your Home

When wealth or health issues begin to go awry, it could be related to 2024 energy.

Energy patterns change all the time, every minute of every day and that’s because the earth’s magnetic field fluctuates. The universe is a big operating system of electric and magnetic fields, with living organisms tapped into earth’s grid. One of the most fascinating aspects of traditional feng shui is that ancient people understood magnetic energy as a powerful force long before mechanized science confirmed it as true, even if they poo-poo ancient wisdom. Let’s ignore the Western system for a moment and consider the fact that everything is energy, and we are all connected to it. If things in your life have hit a rough patch financially or health-wise, it could be the result of energy block in the space you spend the most time in—the office or the home.

Once the roof is enclosed, that’s is when the energy is said to be enclosed in the home.

Need me to explain that feng shui logic?

A little background information is required to understand how this energy lock happens. First, a building is considered to have a unique energy blueprint based on the sitting and facing direction. The energy that is bombarding the earth at the time the roof is placed on a property is considered to be permanently captured into the space. Using the solar period (e.g. cycle) the roof was attached and the magnetic direction of the property, a map (a.k.a. energy blueprint) is calculated to identify the natural flow of the magnetic energy within the property.

The energy blueprint is divided into nine-grid square (or rectangle). Eight grids are directional areas (NW, W, NE, S, N, SE, E, S), and the ninth is the central area, or the heart of the energy. Each solar cycle lasts about twenty years and is part of a Great Cycle which lasts 180 years. Hence, there are nine-solar cycles in one great cycle. (The twenty-year cycle roughly follows the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.)

The energy block is created when earth enters into a new solar cycle, and there is a conflict between the new cycle and the part of the central grid that governs prosperity or physical-being.

Since energy constantly fluctuates it actually gets stuck more frequently if looking at the mini-cycles (hours, days, months, etc.), but these are usually ignored because the impact is negligible. Most practitioners focus on the larger twenty-year cycle, and to a much lesser extent, the annual cycle. An annual-cycle with a block is not as strong since it will only last a year, whereas a twenty-year cycle means it should be addressed so there is no long-term effect on the people that occupy the home or office.

The technical term for this energy is a lock, and there are methods for unlocking a space that has this condition. However, I use the term “block” since most people can identify with the feeling of being stuck in a rut or having a bad streak of luck. Annual energy blocks could show up as money being tight, or sudden health or relationship issues that appear. But if it lasts twenty years, it could take a toll on the occupant. This is why a feng shui practitioner would advise a client to have it corrected.

Every building eventually goes through this issue, but the timing is different based on the home’s unique pattern. As we begin to go through a new cycle, the impact may not be immediate. It could begin slowly and increase over time.  Increased health, relationships, financial, or career problems may be signs there is some sort of block in your living or working environment.

Placing a sizeable fountain outside the home that includes clean, moving water can help release stuck energy. During the current cycle (2024-2043) there are beneficial locations to place water, and there is a specific place that you want to avoid because it can impact your finances or your health negatively. In this new period, having a water feature in the south is said to hinder financial opportunities. Of course, water fountains are easier to move than pools. And rivers, creeks, or roads (virtual rivers) are impossible to move.

A water feature is commonly recommended for outside the home to release the stuck energy, though there are other methods that are more practical. These do require a little deeper analysis, but placing a portable water feature inside the home to help unblock the energy is far more acceptable than calling the city and asking them to reroute the creek that’s running though the southern part of the yard.

Here is what I don’t like about Feng Shui.

Setting the textbook solutions aside, I also want to express a personal opinion about some feng shui corrections. Yes, this is a Feng Shui rant. Some of the “bigger” energy issues identified with a property require highly impractical solutions. If the client cannot afford to make the correction, then practitioners are told not to reveal the problem since it will create unnecessary worry for the client. If a rich client has a major issue, does this mean it’s okay to tell them to spend a fortune installing an expensive water feature to correct an energy lock they can’t see? Feng shui is less influential to one’s life than destiny and luck, so if it’s relegated that low on the “influence” chain, why does anyone need a drastic solution?

While I do think that feng shui has value in understanding one’s environment, I can’t help conclude it also has a few techniques for correcting a space that are not only impractical, but no longer applicable in the modern world. A thousand years ago, people could easily move the hut closer to or away from water, without hiring real-estate agents and getting construction permits. Telling someone their home has the worse feng shui energy ever and expecting them to sell it on that assessment alone doesn’t fly in the Western world.

The most practical lessons I learned in feng shui were to use the five senses when entering a space to identify what is wrong. Observe how the energy flows inside and outside of a property. Listen for offending sounds. Smell or taste the air to detect offensive odors. Use touch to identify things that may harm an occupant, like thorny bushes and sharp edges. And look for overgrown trees and badly placed headboards are just a few examples of using the senses. Still, I think there two more senses not taught in feng shui, but badly needed.

The Sixth Sense. Considering that feng shui deals with energy, it’s a little puzzling why intuition is not part of the classical teachings. Intuition protected our ancestors from dangerous prey. Humans still have it, though it’s gone dormant since beastly predators are not hanging out in metropolitan areas waiting to pounce on packs of humans exiting commuter trains. Still, intuition does rear now and then as that “gut” feeling when something is wrong. And when we listen to it, it’s usually for the better. Sure, it might not be as predictable as the movement of the stars, but that doesn't make it completely useless either.

Of all the senses used in 4000 B.C.E (the oldest known recording of feng shui symbols) it would seem the sixth sense would have been a big one for someone who was hailed as a Master over energy, and the highest advisor to the ancient Chinese dynasties. The secret teachings were typically passed orally in poems, from a master to a chosen apprentice. Feng shui knowledge was so revered at the upper crust of society, it was forbidden to be taught to the common population.

Eventually feng shui was outlawed and feng shui master’s fled to the ranks of the commoners, where they applied their techniques to benefit poor people. During my formal classes, I was told this is most likely when the cultural icons, superstitions and religious symbols became erroneously mixed into feng shui practices. People observed the corrections, not understanding the process. For example, someone could have thought a silver dragon statue brought balance to the space because of the dragon symbol, when in fact it was the silver content. So it seems plausible that intuition, which is not observable, was possibly a sixth sense that accidentally vanished out of the knowledge base.

The same logic that explains how wrong things were incorporated could easily explain how other things were accidentally left out, and why some things may no longer be applicable to the modern world.

If it feels like money has slowed or health has weakened it could be the inherited energy in your home or office building is being affected by the change in energy cycles that began February 2024. It also could be a host of other things not related to the energy in the property, like inflation or a new virus. Any feng shui adjustment is meant to support the occupant favorably, but it can’t take away the ills of the world. But I’m pretty sure if I told you to install a pricy water feature outside the home to unlock the space, your mental health and bank account might suffer, which is contradictory to the reasons for installing the feature in the first place. This is called common sense, the seventh sense that should be put back into feng shui practices.