Which kind of luck is shaping your life?

Today, I share with you a personal story of how Feng Shui saved my family unit.

Surviving lockdowns, dealing with dysregulated neurodiverse children, and immense amounts of stress meant that I very seriously considered buying a second home.

Not for luxury, but out of necessity.

I also share with you what my vision for Feng Shui in the world of modern women and how I believe it is being gate kept as a practice.

I truly believe every single person can benefit from deep level energtic alignment that comes from Feng Shui and it is my mission to share that with as many people as I possibly can.

I leave you with a glimpse into the theory of The 3 Lucks - Heaven Luck, Earth Luck and Man Luck and how each has the power to shape and transform your life.

Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Welcome And Showing Up Real

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Hello, I'm Rachel. You could say I'm a modern-day Feng Shui consultant here to help you transform your home into a space that truly supports and uplifts you. My passion is showing you how to work with your home to unlock its full potential. I'm here to show you how to tap into the power that your home holds and make this powerful practice simple, accessible, and something everyone can use. Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. So today I have, as usual, done absolutely no preparation for this today because I am really, really leaning into this real-world connection. So this not overly polished, not totally perfect version of life because that is the version of life that every single one of us leads, and I think we can get sucked into, and I can get sucked into, and certainly as a business owner, I get sucked into this idea that everything that I do and everything that I share has to be perfect and polished and professional and all of those things. And you know, I said it a few weeks ago on here that I am really not wanting to go down that line, and sometimes as a business owner, it's very difficult, and sometimes you get pulled back to that through you know own expectations and things like that. So this is me just saying outwardly, it's putting it to the universe that no, I'm definitely staying in my own lane of showing up with authenticity. I have no desire whatsoever to bring you podcast recordings from studios with microphones, with a makeup artist team, and things like that. So, yes, so I'm coming to you today purely with the ideas in my mind of what it is that I am wanting to share this week, really. And you know, I'm so blessed to have this platform whereby so many of you listen to my weekly insights about you know how I view the world and how I think that the place that Feng Shui has within that and all of these things. And I'm somebody who I do a lot of pondering, I do an awful lot of pondering and a lot of thinking, and again, I've said it multiple multiple times that my focus, my focus has been helping women to feel better and thrive and succeed and fulfill all of their

Purpose, Study, And Why Feng Shui

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own personal potential. That has been my kind of theme for I don't know how many decades now, two decades, I suppose, in everything that I've done. And I'm I'm really, really leaning into that now going forward. So you may know that I have been doing some additional study, I am now four weeks into a 12-week learning period, and I'm so grateful for it. And every time I go into sort of a learning environment, and every time I go deeper with this practice, my mind is blown, it's blown again, and there's there's so many reasons why. And I think I have to go back to what my purpose is, and my purpose is, and you know, when I say it's my purpose, like I truly genuinely believe that this is why I was put on this planet, and I truly genuinely believe it's why I have had to overcome the things that I've had to overcome in life from disordered eating, from bullying, from all sorts of weird and wonderful other things that have happened, from being an SEN parent, all of that has formed in me this ability to so desperately want to help other people who are feeling whether it be desperation, because I turned to you know, to fen Fen Shui came into my life. I didn't turn to Fenchuaway, I it's I stumbled across it, it came to me when I needed it. But that was a point of a desk of desperation, and I shared this briefly with actually the group of people that I'm studying with at the moment on Wednesday, and I was talking about this period of my life in 2022. So we'd just been through COVID, and I was a newborn photographer for 10 years before that, and then obviously all of those sorts of industries were closed, and we were closed on and off for those two years because it was a close contact, non-essential service, and you know, small businesses are hard enough to run, and I was really lucky. And every time we reopened, it my business took off again and bounced back. But what it did was absolutely shatter my nervous system. I mean, shatter my nervous system because there was no consistency, and I didn't

2022 Breakdown And Home Decisions

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know you know from week to week what was going to be going on, and then on top of that, I was managing three children being at home and homeschooling and all of those things with neurodiverse kids. It was just a completely wild ride. There were some other issues going on in my home as well, and this all kind of culminated at about 2022, and we were in a position whereby we had had some inheritance money come through, and we'd always said when we bought our house back in 2012, the idea had been that we would extend it to make because it's a shallow bungalow, we'd extend it to make it into a house on the top floor, and so the top floor would match the bottom floor, is what I'm saying. And we had the money to do it, and there was a huge part of me that thought that it was the wrong decision and that we would be better off selling our house, taking the inheritance money, splitting that pot and buying two separate houses, not because my marriage was on the rocks, but because my children essentially couldn't live in the same house. That is the situation that we lived in for a really, really long time. And you know, many of you know I talk about it very openly that my son, one of my sons, is autistic ADHD. He had obviously found that period of uncertainty so wildly dysregulating that he we couldn't function in our home all together. People were getting hurt, he was you know, he was really struggling, and it was starting to affect my other children, it was affecting everything, and you know, I was genuinely contemplating sort of splitting the family and saying one of us would live with him for a week and one of us would live with the other two for a week, and then we would swap over because I was that desperate that I didn't really know what else to do. And it was at that point that I sort of started to learn and understand about Feng Shui. Anyway, long story short, we put the extension on the house. So we didn't buy two houses, we put the extension on the house, and for a good six months, eight months, maybe even a year after we did that, I regretted it. I absolutely regretted putting all of that money into into us all still being together because it was still incredibly hard living as a collective because of the impact of you know all of that dysregulation. And you know, this is me just being really honest, and I've always promised that I would be honest because I need to know that when I share things like this with you, if that means that one person that's listening thinks, whether that be not everybody has this perfect life, that's worth it, or whether somebody who's listening living in a similar situation with similar levels of desperation thinks this person obviously has now got all of this, all of these wonderful things that have happened, then that's worth it because it shows people that there is hope and that there is you know this there's something to something to cling on to essentially. So, yes, long story short, we didn't do the extension and then I regretted it wildly for yeah, probably probably up to a year afterwards, and it was in February 2024 that I was at the point where it was a case of we're either gonna have to sell the house and we're gonna have to go back to what was my my other choice, or I just give Feng Shui a go because at this point, what do I have to lose? And that's you know, that's I laugh about it now, but that's the reality of so many people that I work with one-to-one. Now, I take that really seriously. You know, you see me on Instagram, I'm making silly reels with Velcro and balloons, and I nearly set fire to my desk and all that kind of, you know, you get to see the fun, playful side of me. But underneath all of that is somebody who was so wildly desperate that they will now that you know, that is now my life's purpose is to take other people who are at that level of desperation and do everything in my power to help them through that and to bring them out of the other side of it and play my part in bringing them out of the other side of it. And having that Feinchui analysis on my home means that we still we still all live together, and there was a period of time where I genuinely did not think that that was gonna be our reality, and for me that's that's its power, and I feel like I'm talking about this a lot all the time at the minute with you know what are the feng shui wins, and I even came up with a little thought the other day of for for things to talk about on Instagram, feng shui flex, and then I thought, you know what? What's my feng shui flex? My feng shui flex is that my my family is still together. I still have a marriage, and all the statistics that I read about parents of neuro that neurodiverse children is that there are higher divorce rates, and you know, I just look at the life that we have now, and my goodness me, by a lot of people's standards, if you don't have any neurodiversity, any issues like that in your home, people would look at my life and go, Wow, that's wild. But people who understand what it's

Feng Shui Flex And Embodying Self

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like to live in that environment, to see where we are now, where you know, yes, things are still chaotic and things are still heavy sometimes, but actually, I'm building, you know, I'm I'm I'm mothering three children, one of them particularly high needs SEN, and I'm building a business. And not only am I building a business, I'm managing to do that really successfully, and that's where this sort of new focus, I guess, is coming from because I've always been about the mother, I've always been about helping people and bringing them, bringing them up and lifting them and lighting them up and showing them where they're incredible, and that you know, that was all my work with photography, but now I feel like I'm kind of really understanding where I want my place to be in this world, and that is showing people that not that you can have it all, and not that you can do it all, because that is not what I'm here for, but every single one of us is walking around with a version of ourselves in our brain that we want to embody. There are very few people I know who are completely genuinely happy with how their life is, and and you know, this isn't about striving for perfection, it's not about that, it is connecting with the person that lives inside your soul, knowing the version of that person that you know that you're here to embody, and whether that be that you're not embodying them because your circumstances are making that harder, maybe it's that you're not embodying that because you don't have the confidence. You know, if I think a year and a half ago, if somebody had said to me you're going to make a living by talking on a podcast and sharing your ideas with the world, there's just no way. There's just there's just no way I was too scared to share my myself with the world, to share what I thought about things. I've been shut down too many times, people don't care what I've got to say. All of these stories, all of these stories, and how many people, how many women are living out there right now, you know, going through their everyday, not embodying the person that they want to be. We are here for such a finite amount of time. And why should we not be living as the versions of ourselves that we know we can? Why why are we not stepping into that? And so much of what I am currently learning on this incredible new new training is really about how the the the energy, the underlying energy of a home, can impact individuals in completely different ways within the home. And you know how that then shows up in their life. And we've got it into our heads, and you know, I blame social media for this almost entirely, because when you share things on social media, you are very limited because Fane Show is so personal and because it is so bespoke, you are very limited to what you what what you have available to you to share, and therefore it has fallen into this category of tips and tricks, and because tips and tricks, you know, people want views and all those sorts of things, it falls to things like money. And don't get me wrong, I share tips and tricks about money. That's that's part of my of what I do, it's part of what I share with people, but it is so much deeper than that. And one of the things that is really interesting that I've learned on this new course

Gatekept Knowledge Made Accessible

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is that even in the UK, so it's quite commonly known that feng shui analyses are sort of standardizability inspection over here. But what I didn't know and is new information to me, is that the UK Barclays Bank has their own feng shui consultant. Now, that to me says everything, and I don't mean it from a power and positioning and money and all of that kind of perspective. I mean that is how much people that are in the know, that is how much they lean on Feng Shui. I mean, that in itself is wild as a UK-based business as a UK-based bank that they have their own Feng Shui consultant is absolutely wild to me because it shows that there is a whole group of people that run our worlds, that run our lives, they run all of your money, and they run everything that you do, and they understand the importance of this stuff. And it is being kept this secret, and it has been gatekeep for so long. Is that even a word? Gate kept, but it's been kept for so long as like you know, reserved for the rich and famous, reserved for the elite. And I am just I've had enough. I have had enough, and I want this to be accessible to as many people as possible, particularly women, mothers who found them or find themselves in the same situation that I was in. That is where my you know my drive comes from. And so I've had a huge sort of shuffle around, a big shift up of my services and things like that, which I won't share in on the on the basis of this is a podcast, but I am basically making this as accessible as I can whilst it's still being my business. So there's some really, really exciting sort of changes and things to come very, very soon, which is wild. So things like I will now be offering a monthly like astrology reading, an energetic astrology reading, so that for the period of the month you will be able to know which parts of your home are are more favourable than others. And I haven't quite decided how I'm gonna do that yet. I might do it as separate podcasts in its own right, I might do it as a substack. I haven't, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it's gonna look like yet, but I am gonna be putting as much information out as I possibly can so that as many people as possible can start using this, and this is the thing with Feng Shui, it is not all or nothing. You do not have to have a perfect home. There are so many people, I can't tell you how many people that end up in my emails or in my Instagram DMs that they say, I really want to have my home analysed, but I really want to have my home analysed, but I've got a lot of clutter. I really want to have my home analysed, but we've just moved and I've got boxes everywhere. And there's this misconception that you have to have a perfect home. There's this misconception that your home has to look like something from Instagram, something from Pinterest, something from a magazine. And it's just it's so not true. It is all of these remedies, they do the heavy lifting. And if you don't know anything about the remedies, you can go back a couple of episodes and I did a whole discussion on how the remedies sort of work together and it's all about how the how they balance and things like that.

Heaven Luck, Earth Luck, Man Luck

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One of the things that I want to leave you with today is the concept of the three lux. Now, as we know, Feng Shui is rooted in traditional Chinese medicine and the five-element theory, and according to Chinese philosophy, there are three types of luck, so three types of influence over us and our lives, and they are heaven luck, earth luck, and man luck. So heaven luck is things like what you would call genetics, things like your star sign and your human design. And it's thought that that makes up a reasonable proportion of you as a person and the life and your destiny essentially. These are the unchangeable things about yourself, the things that were were given to you upon birth and that you cannot change at all. Then we have earth luck. Now, earth luck is feng shui. Earth luck is all about your environmental influences, it's about where you live, it's about your home, it's about the geographical kind of surroundings, it's about your environment. And then we have man luck. And man luck is all of the things like the state of our inner voice, how we treat other people, how we talk about and to ourselves. Are you somebody who enjoys gossip? Are you somebody who genuinely wants well for other people? Are you jealous? Are you a cup half full or a cup half empty sort of person? And the thought is that those three things combined is what will basically pave the way and carve out the path of your life. So we know that we can't change our heaven luck, we know that we can't change our genetics and all of those sorts of things, but we can absolutely change our earth luck and we can absolutely change our man luck. But when you decide that you are going to change your earth luck and your man luck together, that is where everything shifts. Because at that point, you are dealing with the majority of the influence over your life. So the Feng Shui, the earth luck, changes, you know, how you're going how you can improve the energy within your home. But the man luck is all about how we change the energy of ourselves. And that combination is super powerful. And it's why when I am working with clients, so much of my work is feelings-based. So much of what I do is about almost like quantum leaping into the version of yourself that you that you know that exists somewhere, that you know that you want to be, that you want to embody. All of the work around intention setting for me is it's not about numbers, it's not about I want, you know, 10 grand in the bank, it's not about I want this house, it's not about I want that car or I want a holiday. That is not how I work. How I work is how do you want to feel? What is the intention of feeling for you? Because that is where the the infinite power comes from. So that is where I'm gonna leave you today. So just have a little almost like an audit of those three aspects, those three lucks in your life. Your heaven luck, what you can't change about yourself, your genetics, your earth luck, your environment, your surroundings, and your man luck, how you show up in this world, and which one for you. is the one that might be holding you back because that is always an incredible place to start. Now, obviously, if you if you feel like it's your heaven luck that is holding you back, then there's very little that anybody can do to change that. So if that's how you feel and you feel that it's your your heaven luck that's holding you back, I would suggest that you go to your man luck and it becomes a you know a way that we can reframe our circumstances. So that's where I'm going to leave you today, just pondering those three different types of luck. Also a little sprinkling of Feng Shui theory in there for you because I feel like I haven't shared much of that for a while. So yeah, I hope that helps. It's a lovely place to start because it brings an awareness and actually awareness is everything. You know if things aren't flowing for you as you would like them to do, awareness is absolutely always the first point of call. So have a look at at those

Awareness Audit And How To Reach Me

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three aspects of your life and just bring awareness to where you feel like there could be some changes to be made and I really really hope that you have a wonderful wonderful week. I've got some very exciting guests coming up over the next few weeks that I will share with you as and when they land and I hope that wherever you are in the world you are happy healthy and well and obviously if you need any help and you want some guidance you can find my Instagram handle below and you can find my email address below and I've said it before and I will say it again everybody and anybody is welcome to reach out to me and ask for guidance and I will absolutely do my very best to help everybody that I can and that is not by selling you something that is by if I can give you guidance for free I will give it to you so if there is anything that you are finding tricky in your life and you think that Feng Shui can help then use one of those links and get in touch and I will speak to you really really soon