Use your personal feng shui birth element for best home decor

Is red colour good for your energy? Should you use blue in your home office? How about
the colors in your clothing, are they supporting your personal energy? One way to find out
the bestcolors for you in both home decor, as well as personal clothing and accessories
is to know your personal feng shui element and understand how to nourish and strengthen
it.
While the main criteria for the best feng shui use of color is based on your house bagua,
the very next consideration is your personal feng shui birth element.

There are five elements in feng shui Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water and each one
of us has a predominant energy quality that you can express in a variety of ways in your
home. There is also a specific feng shui element, called the personal feng shui birth
element, that is determined by the feng shui element of your birth year.
Even though the five elements theory is ancient and complex, you can easily understand its
basic dynamic if you just look at how these elements are represented in nature/how they
interact on a practical level.
For example, we burn wood to create fire (so Fire feng shui element is nourished by
the Woodelement, but Wood is destroyed by the Fire); we use knifes to cut the wood
(so Metal feng shui element destroys Wood element, too). We also use water to help wood
grow (so Water feng shui element nourishes the Wood) and the better the soil, the
stronger the wood/tree (so Earth feng shui element is also nourishing for the Wood
element).

So, if your personal feng shui birth element is Wood, you would be wise to avoid
strong Fire andMetal feng shui element colors and decor items in your home. Why?
Because in the five element feng shui cycle, which is an ancient way to determine the
interaction of these five primordial energies, Fire and Metal elements damage the Wood
element.
However, it is very important to understand that we need all five feng shui elements in our
environment, just in different proportions. We also have all five feng shui elements in our
energy makeup, no one is only Water element, or only Wood element, so be wise and
approach this info in an intelligent way.

If you look at different disciplines (or even at another branch of feng shui called feng shui
astrology, or 9 Star Ki), you might discover that you have different elements at different
levels you can have a predominant Metal element energy in your character, while your
personal birth element is Fire.
Heres my personal example: my feng shui birth element is Earth, and I definitely feel
nourished and supported in a space with a predominant Earth feng shui element decor. I
am also Earth infeng shui astrology, which mostly defines ones character, or energetic
makeup.
However, in Western astrology my main element is Fire, and I certainly relate to the
creativity and passion of this element. Looking further, I am Water in Vedic Astrology,
and again, I can absolutely relate to this element as I tend to feel things very deeply and
have a strong intuition.
So, am I Earth, Fire or Water? Is this confusing to me? No, it is not. I am a combination
of all elements, just like you are, but I also know that for pure feng shui purposes, the
birth feng shui element info is what helps me create surroundings to nourish my energy.
This chart gives you just one facet but a very important one that can help you create a
nourishing home for yourself and your loved ones; follow it wisely.
Because your personal feng shui birth element is based on your year of birth as per
Chinese New Year (which never starts on January 1st) be sure you know your correct year
of birth for feng shuipurposes. This chart shows the beginning of each year as per Chinese
calendar.
How To Use this Chart: Find your year of birth in one of the 5 columns representing a
specific feng shui element; be sure to check the day, too (your date and month of birth
have to be after, not before the day the Chinese New Year started in that year). Note
that the format used in the chart is day/month/year.
For example, if you were born on February 5, 1950 (05.02.1950), your year of birth, for
feng shui purposes, is considered 1949 not 1950. Why? Because according to the Chinese
calendar the year 1950 started on February 17, 1950 (17.02.1950). So, your personal feng
shui birth element is Earth (for 1949) not Metal (for 1950), as you can see in the chart
below.
The info after the chart links to my about.com articles that explain how to use your
personal birth element to decorate your home in a way that best supports your personal
energy.

Enjoy applying the info from this chart!

Your Personal Feng Shui Birth Element Chart

WOOD

FIRE

EARTH METAL WATER

25.01.1925 13.02.1926
14.02.1934 02.02.1927
25.01.1944 24.01.1936
13.02.1945 11.02.1937
03.02.1954 02.02.1946
24.01.1955 22.01.1947
13.02.1964 12.02.1956
02.02.1965 31.01.1957
23.01.1974 21.01.1966
11.02.1975 09.02.1967
02.02.1984 31.01.1976
20.02.1985 18.02.1977
10.02.1994 09.02.1986
31.01.1995 29.01.1987
22.01.2004 19.02.1996
09.02.2005 07.02.1997

23.01.192
8
10.02.192
9
31.01.193
8
19.02.193
9
10.02.194
8
29.01.194
9
18.02.195
8
08.02.195
9
30.01.196
8
17.02.196
9
07.02.197
8
28.01.197
9
17.02.198
8
06.02.198
9
28.01.199
8
16.02.199
9

30.01.1930 06.02.1932
17.02.1931 26.01.1933
08.02.1940 15.01.1942
27.01.1941 05.02.1943
17.02.1950 27.01.1952
06.02.1951 14.02.1953
28.01.1960 05.02.1962
15.02.1961 25.01.1963
06.02.1970 15.02.1972
27.01.1971 03.02.1973
16.02.1980 25.01.1982
05.02.1981 13.02.1983
27.01.1990 04.02.1992
15.02.1991 23.01.1993
05.02.2000 12.02.2002
24.01.2001 01.02.2003

31.01.2014 29.01.2006
19.02.2015 18.02.2007
10.02.2024 08.02.2016
29.01.2025 28.01.2017

YOUR ELEMENT

WOOD

02.02.200
8
26.01.200
9
16.02.201
8
05.02.201
9

14.02.2010 23.01.2012
03.02.2011 10.02.2013
25.01.2020 01.02.2022
12.02. 2021 22.01.2023

BEST COLORS

COLORS TO AVOID

GREEN

RED

BROWN

PURPLE

BLUE

MAGENTA

BLACK

WHITE

EARTHY

GRAY

YOUR ELEMENT

BEST COLORS

COLORS TO AVOID

GREEN
BROWN

FIRE

YOUR ELEMENT

RED

BLUE

PURPLE

BLACK

MAGENTA

EARTHY

BEST COLORS

COLORS TO AVOID

RED

EARTH

PURPLE

GRAY

MAGENTA

WHITE

EARTHY

BLUE

YOUR ELEMENT

BEST COLORS

COLORS TO AVOID

RED
PURPLE

METAL

YOUR ELEMENT

EARTHY

MAGENTA

WHITE

BLUE

GRAY

BLACK

BEST COLORS

COLORS TO AVOID

EARTHY

WATER

BLUE

GREEN

BLACK

RED

WHITE

PURPLE

GRAY

MAGENTA