Feng Shui colors and their meaning in our living space

The Chinese Feng Shui teaching tries to achieve harmony in people's lives through primary colors and their derivatives. The colors in our living space are fundamental in their design and combination. According to the traditional idea, Feng Shui can be used to “incline the spirits of air and water”. Let's consider the colors and their meaning in more detail.

In a world full of colors, everyone should have a certain understanding of colors. Since we usually have one or two habitats and work space, it is helpful and recommended to find harmony within these walls, ensure greater performance and feel happiness in order to achieve success. There areBAGUA-Zones in a house or apartment that are created based on the entrance door or the cardinal points and are engraved in the floor plan. With the nine quadrants, filled with Feng Shui colors, you promote the 9 living spaces and optimize them for the appropriate use. You can specifically promote and emphasize wealth, fame, partnership, family, Tai Chi (health), children, knowledge, career, helpful friends. According to the cardinal points, this Bagua compass is a quick guide when choosing and reinforcing the colors in each individual room.

Feng Shui basic colors for our living spaces

The wall colors and their combination create the right atmosphere at home. In the teaching, 5 basic elements and their assignment according to the Yin-Yang principle (Yang for the active force and the Yin for passive vibration) ensure thatharmonious designthe wall colors in our apartment. You can recognize the following colors and their element assignment: Yellow, ocher and apricot are the earth colors and are mostly responsible for energy, longevity, warmth and comfort, they are also charged with active Yang power; Brown, green, light blue and turquoise are the elements of the wood color and represent reliability, harmony and peace, and the last two have a calming and relaxing effect and are passive Yin forces; Element water color are black: career and profession, blue-fidelity, care, faith and purple-truth, loyalty, high ideals and are passive yin colors; Element metal colors are white - in China the color of mourning, in the West stands for innocence, purity, gullibility and gray stands for fear, depression and self-denial, assigned according to the Yang principle; The largest group is the element fire with red - love, joy and growth, violet-passion, happy get-togethers, pink-with romance and love, pink- stands as a symbol of modernity among young people. Orange and red are strongly active Yang colors.

Pictorial representation of the colors with cardinal points

The basic elements with activities and effects