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Unlocking Feng Shui: Enhancing Harmony and Energy in Your Home with Maggie (Part 2)

• Stephanie Graham • Season 1 • Episode 10

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Unlock the secrets of transforming your home into a sanctuary of success and serenity by tuning into our latest episode featuring the brilliant Maggie, a black hat feng shui expert. Maggie shares powerful insights into boosting career aspirations and fostering harmonious relationships through the strategic placement of symbolic objects and the mindful use of affirmations. You won't want to miss Maggie's expert advice on enhancing your home's energy flow to invite abundance and career success.

As we journey into the realm of personal interests, we explore how integrating family and travel themes into your living space can create a harmonious environment tailored to your passions. From massive atlas maps to false gold coins, we discuss how these elements can symbolize prosperity and vibrancy. The conversation touches on the importance of nurturing relationships with personal touches, like photographs and plants, and how managing your time wisely can deepen connections with loved ones.

Discover how mindful changes in home decor can profoundly impact emotional well-being and personal aspirations. Our discussion delves into the artistry of feng shui, exploring how water imagery, colors, and symbolic elements can enhance wealth, fame, and relationships. From understanding the delicate balance of elements like mirrors and colors in specific areas of your home, this episode serves as your comprehensive guide to applying feng shui principles for a balanced and fulfilling life.

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Steph:

Hello, welcome back to Tranquil Topics. I'm your host Steph and on the last episode I had Maggie with me. Maggie is an expert in black hat feng shui and this week's episode is an extension of the conversation we had. Maggie talks us through all nine areas at the home and tells us how we can enhance the energy in every area. I thought this could be a whole episode on its own, so I hope you enjoy. I wish you all a happy Christmas and New Year and I will see you back in 2025 and, as always, thank you so much for listening.

Steph:

So can we talk about the different areas specifically now?

Maggie:

Yeah

Steph:

So if I start us on the career area, if you're in a job and I don't know, you want a promotion or you want to change jobs.

Steph:

You want something specific, maybe you want to move department. I don't know, how do we, is it written affirmations?

Maggie:

So I do written affirmations and then I say them out loud while I'm lighting each candle for each area when I'm finished. But I do, yeah, I always write it down because I think the written word has more, um, longevity, actually, because thoughts come and go, can't they? If you're just like, oh, I'd quite like to be, uh, in that position, that can. That's a thought that can stay and come and go, whereas if you write it down and in three months time you have a look at it again, go yes, I wanted to have that job and actually that's not how it's turned out. You can actually look at right, well, what's my barriers to that, why haven't I done that, or what's changed in that. So I do think the written word has got more power than just thoughts. But again, you know it's chanting the affirmation out yeah, this is what I want, this is why I want it, this is where I want to go.

Maggie:

Have a think about why you want to be. Do you want to be in that? Because you want to be rich? Do you want to have that job? Because you want to be well respected, and it's having that like real emotional conversation with yourself and not just going. Well, I want it because you know well, what else am I going to do? You know you really need the intent is so important here. It needs to be heartfelt for our reason doesn't even have to be a really good reason. It could be because I don't want to see that bitch in that job anymore. I'm going to make sure I'm good. No, that's not very good feng shui for you, but it's. But it could be. It could be one of your purposes of getting where you want.

Maggie:

You know it's intent and it might not always be for you know, it might be for other reasons to get other people out because you can't stand them. But to be honest, those are your intents, aren't they? I'm not going to say that always works and I'm not going to say you're suggesting to do that to people, but different people have that, not just because, yeah, well, whatever, that's my next stage, whatever that should be. You know it has to be a bit more passionate behind it, everything that we do. But yes, I always write it down and I give myself a bit of a timeline. I mean I don't say like by next week, but I know a lot of people that do by next week. I want to be in this position doing that, but more times than not that that will lead you up to failure and I don't always think that's a good idea.

Steph:

Do you visualize as well when you write your affirmations?

Maggie:

I don't. Actually that's something I do separately. When I'm doing meditation I don't actually know, I don't, but I maybe should do, but when I'm doing, when I'm lighting my candle, I'm usually chanting the same thing. This is what I want for myself. These are the emotional reasons. These are the physical reasons why I want that for myself. Um, but I'm not. No, I'm not seeing myself in that job, wearing that suit, doing the power walk, although that would be my worst nightmare job. But you know, no, I don't do that. But that's a very good point.

Steph:

It's something you could do okay, so are there any objects that you would categorically avoid in the career area?

Maggie:

Um, no, there's not, it's black and white. So I always have and I've given one to all my the people that I do feng shui for my friends and other other people. I have a yin and yang which is a perfect unison yin and yang sticker and I put it on the back of my shoe cabinet. So it's there, it's hidden and it's there. And underneath my shoe cabinet I have like a silver spoon. When you read about feng shui a bit more in detail, I have a silver spoon, some salt and some coins in a usually a gold sort of dish which represents money. But that's not about my career progression and where I want to be. That's more about getting the abundance that I need from it.

Maggie:

Okay so there's lots of little things you can do. Oh, and also a flying dragon. A flying dragon is. I've got dragons hidden all over my house Feng Shui Chinese love dragons. So a flying dragon with its head up and wings is also good at your front door for career.

Steph:

Is that like an object, or can that be like a printed picture?

Maggie:

Could be. I've got an actual flying dragon on the top of my, but I've also got a jade turtle. I've also got some buddhas, I've also got gorgeous flowers. You know, I've got lots of different artifacts, but I've actually got a flying dragon. Um, um, it's like a, it's like a stick-on thing. It's quite big and I've stuck it on the wall that you can't see. That's behind the shoe cupboard okay so it's there, if you looked, but nobody can see it interesting.

Steph:

I was just thinking that I don't remember seeing that at yours.

Maggie:

You won't have you won't have, because it's all hidden and this is the thing about feng shui.

Maggie:

Some of the things that they use in feng shui actually quite grotesque. If you're not into like chinese um stuff, you know. It kind of like oh my god, what's she doing with a dragon on her wall? That's ridiculous, uh. So I hide quite a lot of my stuff. I know they're there and I know the intent has been there when I put it up, but that's not doesn't mean that everybody needs to see it so you could walk into your house and not know it's Feng Shui, no you wouldn't know.

Steph:

Okay. So if we go on to the knowledge area, yeah, Again, any objects to avoid. Like how do we, you know?

Steph:

I said like we can use the career area to change or improve our job.

Steph:

What would you suggest is a good idea for the knowledge area? Does that link in with career? Does that just mean I? Might want to learn a new language.

Maggie:

All of the areas should link in with each other. All of the areas should incorporate little bits of each other. As I say, it's a blend and a balance of nine areas and not just like one area. But the knowledge area it can be anything. It's so expansive. Some people might want to learn about trucks and boats and automobiles and have lots of different artifacts of that there and books on it and stuff other people might.

Maggie:

My thing is travel. I love history and travel and, um, all the other things that I do as well. It's a bit busy in that area, um, but I've got a big, massive atlas map as well that I yes, I think I've mentioned before um, but I also have my bowl of fruit on there because I want to be nourished, I want to be healthy. Again. I'm trying to incorporate and also have a little bit of money in that area as well. Like false coins. I buy um from like Amazon. You can get like false, false gold coins and false money, you know, like not pound coin, pound notes, but notes of like 20s and 50s and I'll place them in there because, even though I've got these wishes to have all this knowledge about travel and all the things I'm interested in. I need the money to do it. So it's like I'm trying to incorporate a little bit and love as well. I have my crystals in there, um, because I want it to have all that special energy of like all the different areas as well.

Steph:

So, yeah, okay, so the family area. Are there any objects to avoid? I know you said nothing spiky.

Maggie:

I've got my fridge freezer in that area, which isn't good, but I've tried to like, as I said, I've um, tried to change that a little bit and put like a big poster of our family at the back of it. So, even though it's cold and it's fridge freezers are not good in any of the house, to be honest, um, and I do sometimes feel the freeze from family members, I definitely do, uh, but you know, in that area, nothing spiky, no sharp objects like knives or broken things, like broken cups that you're like, oh, I'll just put that to the side, I'll fix it later, don't just chuck it. Um, so it's represented by the color blue and green in that area as well. So anything that incorporates healthy plants, you know that you're nurturing like you're not your own. I have read once that somebody had, like um, a box of bunnies in there that gave birth to lots and lots of little leverets. Little baby bunnies, um, for fertility. So there's lots of little leverets, little baby bunnies for fertility. So there's lots of different things you can do in that area.

Maggie:

But again, the list is extensive, but it's whatever represents. I mean, some people don't want their family, they hate their family and they don't want their families to be around them at all and their family and other friends, so they put pictures of all their friends up there. There's nothing of their family at all. So it really is an individual. Again, you have to look at it.

Maggie:

What's my emotional bonding? What does family mean to me, friends and family, and that is how you incorporate that. I've got lots of photographs all over my fridge and on my wall in that area of my family as well, and I've actually got a clock in that area which is all different colours, and it kind of reminds me to spend time on other people as well, because you can get a bit busy, can't you in life sometimes? And god, I've not seen my friend for ages on my. I've not seen not spent quality time with ships move, ships moving in the house, not spent time, and that is kind of also where my dining room table is just about. So I have that area because obviously it kind of encroaches on the knowledge area. I have that area where we dine together. My friends and I dine together in that area as well.

Steph:

Yeah, it's like time just goes so fast, doesn't it? And then it's like, especially if you're working, and then you've only got the evening, yeah, and then you've got to see your friends, your family, your partner.

Maggie:

And if you've got kids, then your evening's taken up until they go to bed at a certain time at night and then eventually you just sit down and go. I just want to zone out. I don't even want to talk to anybody now. So it is making time for people and you know we don't always we forget to do that we get lost, don't we in the busyness of life?

Steph:

Interestingly, at my mum's house. She had a load of problems with people because she was trying to go out and join these different groups. She went dancing. She's done all these different things. She's now doing tai chi just because she wanted more friends in her life, um, and we was at her house and I noticed that in the family area there were three pictures on the wall and which she found when she moved into the house and when I look closely, it was a view of Stockport. So each one was a different view of Stockport, but, like back in the day and the there was so many figures drawn on these pictures and they were all had the backs facing and there were buses or people getting on the bus, and I was like Mum, you know, like if you think about Feng Shui, you've literally got a busload of people with their backs turned to you, not talking to you.

Steph:

Trying to get on the bus and leave and we were like no, so we took them down.

Maggie:

Good, good, and I would suggest be very careful what pictures you put up.

Maggie:

I had a similar one, um so, a woman, a really successful, really good-looking woman. Her husband had left her, like eight years previous, and she's like, oh, please, come and feng shui for me in my house. I was doing tarot for her as well. In the house there was a massive, massive painting that her dad did. So she was very sentimental about it, but it was right in the middle of her love area and it was of a woman on her own, naked, a very sad look, like she was crying with her head down. It was a very sad and I said, well, you need to get rid of that picture for a start in your love area. And she was quite like well, that my dad did that. My dad's passed away now and I feel really attached to that. He'd find some way for it, but it isn't in your love area. You know, and she did, and you know what? Within about eight months, she met the guy that she's now married to very happily, and she'd been single for a long, long time. So, and there's other situations, and love areas seems to be a big one that people ask me about because obviously people want relationships, don't they? As well as money and career and stuff. But quite often people come about the emotional things in their life, um, but yet that is a classic one. If you can see sadness and and people standing on their own and lonely and turning their back to you and getting on a bus and going away, that is so, so pinnacle to get.

Maggie:

Look at your pictures in your house because they will represent what you were getting. Really important. And water in pictures is a real difficult one because in most areas it represents tears and turmoil and emotional upset. The only places it's very good in is your money area, which is the next one you're going to ask me about because you've gone through them um and uh. Maybe in your career area. That's fine. You can have a, you can have like goldfish in your career with water, as long as it's clean. But do not put water vast amount of water in your love area or fame and fortune area. Maybe in your um, knowledge or understanding area, but that's it, nowhere where you don't want tears should we be avoiding.

Steph:

Because I love the sea, anything to do with the ocean, I love it but if it was a picture with like a rough sea should that be avoided?

Steph:

Are we looking for calm?

Maggie:

No, I don't even think. No, it doesn't matter. If you have a large body, you see, and it's rough and it's like I mean, if it's really dark and gloomy and you've got it in a corner that's dark and gloomy, then I think you know common sense would tell you that's probably not the right place for it. But um, no, I don't. I don't think there's rules to what the sea looks like or how fast it is or how you know rough it is. I think you can have a picture of a little waterfall. Waterfall is a great energy. Actually you'll see a lot of waterfalls in chinese restaurants and stuff, because it's fast flowing water, it's clean water and it's coming down from a great height. They do love that, less so of vast oceans. But no, I don't think it matters if it's you know you're a bit moody okay.

Steph:

So wealth area...

Maggie:

So your wealth area is a big one, isn't it?

Maggie:

So water is good in this area, so I have uh, running water, I have my taps there, I have my stove there, so I'm cooking water. There's lots of steam, all very good feng shui. I've got my kettle there, my toasters there, my cookers there, obviously. So heat water, anything that causes energy. You know sound all of those things. Obviously purple, gold, green. They represent wealth, don't they? If you think of all the kings and queens, all their shrouds are usually purple and majestic, and gold, of course, is the colour of wealth.

Maggie:

But I have like little bowls on top of my units where nobody can see. I've got little bowls full of coins, not real coins, fake coins and and lots of money in there. I've got like a little bank in there. It looks like it's part of the jars selection, but actually it's a bank with lots of little money. You know fake money as well, so it doesn't always have to be real, um, but yeah, you can do loads in your water area. It's one of the areas that's really quite unrestricted. I even have some knives in there. Although it's not advisable, it's not completely dangerous, because you know you have to cut through the rubbish. You have to cut through any of the nonsense to get to where you need to be, and sometimes life is a bit cut-throat when it comes to money, so there's nothing really there that I would say oh, that's restricted in that area.

Steph:

Brilliant.

Steph:

So fame and fortune now um it does give off the impression when you first hear it that like you're going to be famous and all that yeah does this tie in more heavily with the career for being like recognized?

Maggie:

It can do. It can do. Um, it's just really what resonates with you? I want to be resonated. I want people to know that I'm an honest, down-to-earth, helpful, loving person. Um, and, yeah, it would be quite nice if, like the, I was well regarded in my career. Yeah, if I'm truthful, yeah, that's something I would probably focus on as well. But it's not just about your career, is it? It's about how you are in relationships and how you are as a pair, how people see you. People are talking about you behind your back. It's those things that you are manifesting, or you want to hear them say about you. Does that make sense?

Steph:

Yeah.

Maggie:

Like recognition so if your main goal in life is being big in your career, that will be what you're focusing on, but actually, if you're a well-rounded person, I'm not saying that people who are career people aren't but it's life's not just about career, is it? And feng shui is not just about one area or another, and so fame and fortune is about how you want people to be talking about you when they're speaking to you. Oh, I've got this friend or I know this person. That's how you want to be seen and you know, yeah, she's good at her career, she's good at what she does, but she's such a really nice girl as well and she's really helpful. And, oh my God, we had a laugh the other day.

Maggie:

You know, it's what you want people to be saying about you in private okay.

Steph:

So also behind your back as well.

Maggie:

Yeah well, people will talk about you behind your back, but you wanted to be like positive yeah yeah okay.

Steph:

So loving relationships I know we spoke about this. It's mainly the bedroom um having things in pairs anything else.

Maggie:

So, again, this is another area that, oh, I meant to say, you know, in the money area. I've got a gorgeous, cute green dragon in there, because they're very good for money dragons as well. So in the feng shui, the love symbol is the dragon and the phoenix. So I've got little icons with the dragon and the phoenix in a perfect circle with each other chasing each other's tail, type thing, um, in red. So those symbols light anything that smells nice, anything that represents romance and love to you. I mean one person. I've got a friend who's like oh, that's rubbish, all that wine and roses wasted on me, this is what I want. I want someone turning up every day, I want someone to listen to me. So it's what everybody is representing. And then I've got other friends that go oh, if they're not buying me a Gucci bag, he's obviously not that interested in me, so it's whatever, yeah. So again, you have to have a real good think about what it is, what your values are and what it is you want for yourself.

Maggie:

Be careful what you wish for, though, I know a couple of people have been stuck, yeah, have been stunned with that and gone oh god, that was just too much and changed it then. I don't want that next time. This is why you know that was too much for me or they were too confident. You know they overbought me.

Maggie:

Whatever this, you know when I'm doing it, I've written down a list of characteristics I like, I would like in a partner, I like in people, and you know these are things that I focus on what their values are, what their morals are, rather than I want them to be six foot tall, with a six pack and six figures, you know. But if that's your goal, then that you know. No judgment. Go ahead and do that. Good luck with that. But let's just hope you've got all the sixes as well, if that's what you have to be a 10 for, to get a 10. But uh, yeah, it should be more about what values these people can bring to you, what qualities they have as a person.

Steph:

And what if you're already in a relationship?

Steph:

Or if you're married should you be still, because obviously, like people change, don't they over time? Should you be still focusing on qualities, should you be focusing on together?

Maggie:

I think you would want to be putting something that represents you growing together, don't you? The biggest reasons for separation is when people have got together at a certain age and stage in their life and then they've kind of gone off on different directions. Well, I want to go and travel the world. Well, I want to stay at home and, you know, have children or whatever it is. So the hope is that you're growing together. So I'd use lots of things that bind you together contracts, marriage contracts, mortgage contracts together, where you're both materialistic and in love, bonded together. You know a joint bank account statement or anything that kind of bonds you two together or intertwines your life together. So you're kind of growing with each other instead of growing as individuals and apart. And even I don't think that's unhealthy for separate people to have their own interests, but as long as they can come back together again at some point, I'd be representing like a tie of a knot. In the olden days, in the pagan days, you get married with a knot tying process. So it's something like that. You know maybe a tie of his, a belt of yours, or you know something that ties you together but incorporates the female, the feng shui the um, not the feng shui, what's it called the yin and yang is a very good one, isn't it? The male and female energy, so anything that's got male and female energy kind of coming together in a blend, that's perfect in that area.

Steph:

Two things coming together, so interesting.

Maggie:

Mandarin ducks are meant to be fantastic, but I personally don't like them. That's perfect in that area. Two things coming together.

Steph:

So interesting.

Maggie:

Mandarin ducks are meant to be fantastic, but I personally don't like them. And camellia the flower the camellia flowers, roses, of course, romantic things, flowers are very auspicious in that area. But yeah, it depends on your taste. I don't like mandarin ducks and I wouldn't have them on my wall. So you know, I've chosen other things.

Steph:

What about the thorns on roses?

Maggie:

Oh, I know well, yeah, they're not great cut them off yeah, you don't need thorns on cut flowers, do you? They're no purpose at all. They have their purpose in nature to keep the beasties away. But in the house you don't need them.

Steph:

Okay, so the creativity in children section. Is there anything that should be avoided in this area? Is there anything specifically good? Is this the area that you would focus on in terms of fertility?

Maggie:

Yes, it is a fertility area as well, so it's represented by the colour, white and silver. Things are very auspicious in this area. Again, because it's about creativity and everybody has a different idea of what creative, fun things that are. You can be a bit messy with this area. It's probably the only area that you can be a bit messy with. So anything in here goes, really, but they do like to have the main focus with silver. But anything that you know, those fertility you've got some fertility statues, don't you? And again, because it blends in with the love area, it's perfect for fertility If you've got like two people interloping, two lovers, two naked people together, and if you want to have a family, etc. Again, that's another area. You can have your little puppies if you you have dogs having some puppies or your kittens, your cats having kittens is perfect area for that, but anything goes in that area. It is the only place that you can have messy whatever in this area.

Steph:

So you know you mentioned about having two people intertwined.

Steph:

If you were looking to start a family, would you put um like, for example, we have I don't know what area this is, maybe you could tell me after the podcast, but in our dining room we have two ducks, uh statues, just because I really like them. I think they're lovely, but if that was in somebody's creative, as in children area, and they were looking to start a family, would you suggest putting a third duck?

Maggie:

Ducklings.

Steph:

Ducklings!

Maggie:

So you have to be careful with three adult anything because you're introducing a third person or an interfering person or an interfering mother-in-law or whatever. So if you're wanting to enhance the children vibe, you put babies of that animal.

Steph:

I see. Ok, thank you for clarifying that.

Maggie:

You can avoid it.

Steph:

Well, I just thought, because I don't. I mean, feng Shui is quite new for me, but I do find it really interesting and like you can walk in a room and feel the energy. So, it's there, regardless of if you can see it or not. So I'm totally invested in this. I just find it fascinating, and the different areas as well. It's like if you can help yourself by doing it, like what's there to lose, do you know what I mean?

Maggie:

So again, actually now, just while you mention it I don't know why it's popped into my head but mirrors are a huge thing in Feng Shui in every area except for your love area. It's not good for a mirror to be facing a couple's bed, whether you're married or just intimate whatever because it introduces a third person or a watcher, if you like people looking over your relationship with the wrong intent, if you like so. But apart from that, every area should have a mirror in it. Feng shui loves mirrors. You have different kind of bagua mirrors as well that are concaved and some that are, some that go in and some that go out. I can't remember the opposite of concaved, but they have special, with different lines on them to represent the sun, the earth, the moon, the earth, the heavens and below. So there's lots of different things, but mirrors are great, except for in the love area. Be careful with mirrors and love area.

Steph:

Okay, so helpful people in travel.

Steph:

Um, I would love to travel more. I know you said about the balance and wealth and everything, I know Alan wants to travel. What would you do?

Maggie:

So in my travel area I have like. So if you look very specifically at feng shui, it talks about having silver boxes okay and having different things in silver boxes. So one of the silver boxes should contain a list of the people that are really important. You need an emergency, the emergency contact number, your doctor, your nearest hospital, the police, blah, blah, blah all those things that you need in those situations your lawyer, people that you need who are higher than you. You know that can help you, that you don't have the ability to do, and then you have your. You know what is it you want and you do.

Maggie:

I have my people from my career in it that I know can help me in my career, like uni lecturers or you know books that I know of authors I think are brilliant at what they do, etc. And I'll have those books in those areas in my travel area. It's a bigger box, a bigger silver box, than any of the other boxes, and those littler ones go inside that silver. But I've got like my passports in there my children's passports are in there as well and I've got maps of places that I've been and maps of places where I want to go and things that I've printed off, like you know, Australia when I was going to go to Australia, I had all the itinerary of where I wanted to go, what I wanted to see, and all of that still stays in that box.

Maggie:

It's a keepsake box now, actually, where I can keep lots of memories in there of places that I've been with different people and had a lovely time. So anything that's related to travel, um, you can keep it like you know, oh right, we're going to go to Switzerland. Let's compile some stuff, let's enter real how we would get on there, where we would want to go. Do we want to go to Geneva? Do we want to go over there? And you're compiling little pockets of information of that place that you're going to visit. I never get rid of them. So when I come home I've got lots of different things and from different places that I've visited, postcards, even things that I just think look nice, photographs of people that I thought, oh, that was a great holiday.

Steph:

Is the silver specific to that area?

Maggie:

Yeah, so the color for that area is grey, but silver boxes seem to be the thing in feng shui. I don't know the relevance of it, if I'm honest, but that's what I've been led to believe with the studies that I've done over it. So three silver boxes, all different sizes, and they all fit into each other.

Steph:

Organised I love it.

Maggie:

Well yeah.

Steph:

And finally, the health area so I know this is in the center and it's super important, but if I mean, everyone has different health, don't they? Some people are simply fine, some people have, I don't know, an operation coming up or they're working on improving their health. So is that affirmations?

Maggie:

So the health area, as I said before, was yellow. It's a yellow color but it's about the glow, the warmth, the happiness, like quite often you'd have some really abundant fruit in there or vitamins, as I said before. Um, avoid sharp objects in there because we don't really want it. We will have surgery if it's necessary, really really necessary, but otherwise people would avoid surgery. If they could help it, couldn't they even like chosen cosmetic surgery. If you didn't have the need, you would avoid it, wouldn't you? Nobody would choose to do it if you naturally didn't need it. So avoid anything sharp in the health area. Think about round things. You know things that are abundant and full and gorgeous.

Maggie:

The thing is about the health area, though it tends to be in an empty space, in the middle of people's feng shui areas, in the middle of a house, or it tends to be like where joins your walls are joining with each other. You know it doesn't tend to have its own room, if you like. All those other places in the peripheral of your walls usually have their own space and very specific designed areas, but the the health area usually is a mix match, so obviously it touches all those different areas that we've talked about the eight other areas, so it should be incorporating. If you're balancing every single one of them, it should balance what goes in the middle. So it's not always easy to enhance that area. If I'm honest, if you think about your health area here, you've got your door there, your wall from your living room, your wall from your hall. It's not actually a designated area. But if you've enhanced and balanced all the other areas, it should be helping your health area, because health is about balance, isn't it?

Steph:

is it true that you should avoid candles in the health area?

Maggie:

I've not, no, never heard that, really. What have you read about that?

Steph:

Um, I heard that if you light a candle in your health area it's deemed as burning your health away, but I'd never thought about sharp objects that you just mentioned relating to surgery.

Maggie:

No, I've never heard that, because fire is a good energy. It's a cleansing energy, so I've never heard of anything to do with fire or flame or candles that has negative connotations with it, even in health, especially not the health area, to be honest, because if you're thinking about cleansing stuff, would you like lots of different things. You're cleaning and cleansing an area. Fire is one of the things that we we do to cleanse areas, isn't it? So I don't understand why that, but I don't know everything and I'm always willing to listen to the reasons why. But no, that's not something that and I burn candles in that area and not touch wood, I've not had any an issue with it, so no.

Steph:

Oh, thank you so much for clearing that up.

Steph:

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