How Do You Use a Feng Shui Fish Tank?
You have probably seen plenty of pieces of Asian and Chinese artwork featuring goldfish or koi carp. There are also Asian water gardens which you can incorporate into your home, including these beautiful fish. Fish are very important when it comes to Asian and Chinese culture.
Therefore, when you consider feng shui, which is both an art and a science, you might be curious as to how you can use a feng shui fish tank in your home. How do you introduce it, and where should you keep it? Are there places you should not include a feng shui fish tank?
Sometimes, in Feng Shui, Small Is Beautiful
Many people are under the mistaken impression that when you talk about a feng shui fish tank, you are talking about a large aquarium that takes up an entire wall of ones home. This actually is not true. All of the basic principles of feng shui encourage balance and simplicity, and trying to squeeze a large feng shui fish tank into a small home or room will only add to a cluttered feeling in the room ” another feng shui no-no.
Instead, for a small space, a small feng shui aquarium is just fine, especially when it’s perfectly balanced to the room itself. In addition, a feng shui fish tank doesn’t even need to be an aquarium, necessarily. A simple small fishbowl with just a goldfish or two will do the job nicely as long as it’s properly displayed and maintained.
This is probably good news to those who are on a budget and dont want to spend the hundreds of dollars necessary to purchase a large aquarium and then stock and maintain it.
Where to Place Your Feng Shui Fish Tank
You might already be familiar with the five elements in feng shui, which are water, wood, metal, fire and earth. These are the embodiment of feng shui and the elements complement one another and stop each other from monopolizing a whole room. This is why your feng shui fish tank will be useful. With a smaller fish tank or bowl, the balance can be attained by using it as an accent to the room.
If the room is colored in earth tones, such as tans or browns, you’ll need a water element to bring in balance. If your living room is this type of color scheme, the water element needs to be incorporated here. This is especially helpful if the fish inside are colored brightly, such as fish with yellows, oranges, or other bright hues that will offset the warm earth tones.
It is a bad idea for your feng shui fish tank to have to compete with a stronger element. If you have a large fireplace in your family room, you shouldn’t have a large aquarium in the same room. These elements are both strong and will conflict with one another, resulting in a lack of harmony and balance. In this case, you can either choose a smaller fish tank or place a large aquarium in another room where it is not competing against anything.
Make sure that you place your fish bowl somewhere it can complement the room and the environment in it. This will ensure your feng shui fish tank is used to its best advantage.
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