Fire, Wood, Water, Metal, Earth

Feng Shui literally means "wind and water" and thus refers to the basis of our lives. According to Asian philosophy, luck and wealth are attracted to the home of those who succeed in directing and enriching the flow of life energy, called Chi, into their living and working areas. It should be able to reach all rooms unhindered, which is supported by openings in the walls, flowing lines and rounded shapes.

A Feng Shui expert also advertises using the slogan: "Give your career a boost, that's what Feng Shui can do in your life." The realisation of Feng Shui is thus meant to promote stability, prosperity and health, so that career and private life may experience the highest degree of human earthly happiness.

This method of Feng Shui is considered harmless also by us Christians. The origin of Feng Shui can be found in the Chinese cult of the dead. The graves were aligned according to this teaching. Later, it became rooted in Chinese astrology and divination. In traditional China, every Feng Shui specialist is at the same time an astrologer and an expert in divination according to the I-Ging . In the practice of Feng Shui, one speaks a.o. of elements of the supernatural, of gods, spirits and stars, both in the astrological and in the mythological sense; of visible and invisible powers, of the principle of Yin and Yang. In many cases, magical-religious objects are also buried.

We Christians should not make use of these Chinese "lucky charms", as the warding off and guiding objects are called within Feng Shui in China. We do not need the animal symbols of the four cardinal directions to ward off evil from us. We do not need the stars of the I-Ging oracle to give us signs for our future. Our life and our future are aligned with a power to which we have committed ourselves since our baptism. We should take this power into our homes and flats through the blessing of the church.