The Best Spot For Your Christmas Tree To Boost Your Luck, According To Feng Shui

When it comes to finding the ideal location for your Christmas tree, the usual considerations are centered around where it looks best, can be enjoyed by guests inside and out, and has the ideal functional flow based on pathways and power sources. However, this year, give yourself a boost in luck by using the principles of feng shui to place your tree. Feng shui is the art of spatial alignment for the purposes of achieving harmony and balance, as well as elevating your home's positive energy flow or chi.

According to the feng shui energy map (also known as a Bagua map), your home or room has nine sections or energy centers that represent different aspects of your life, from health and career to family and relationships. While the ancient art of feng shui can take many years of study and practice to master, a newbie can use the very basics of feng shui at home to improve energy flow and help manifest desired goals in a number of ways, including using your Christmas tree as an element for success. 

Depending on your home's layout and desired areas of good luck, there are three feng shui zones that are positively compatible for a Christmas tree: wealth and prosperity, fame and reputation, and family. But before we dive into locating the perfect Christmas tree spot, it's important to first align the nine sectors of the feng shui energy map within your home, then relocate or place the tree and tailor your decorations according to the elements and colors that best support those energy centers for maximum prosperity, luck, and positive flow.

There are two approaches to use the Bagua energy map. The first is the traditional, highly technical compass method that uses cardinal directions to align the energy map, with the career and life path sector always pointing due north. The second more modern and westernized method (often called Black Hat) aligns the career section of the energy map with the front door or main entrance to the room, where the external energy flows into your space. So unless you live in a north-facing home where both methods would be in alignment, choose whichever method resonates with you. The maps can be adapted to your whole home's floor plan, an entire open concept living area, or a single room for optimal holiday feng shui.

Now that your energy map grid is oriented correctly in your room or main floor, it's time to find the fame, wealth, and family areas: The ideal zones for the Christmas tree. If you're using the compass method, fame and reputation is the zone to the south, wealth and prosperity is in the southeastern corner, and family is the easternmost area. For the Black Hat method, stand at the front door facing into the room. The area directly across from you at the rear middle of the room is the fame area, the back left corner is the wealth section, and right in front of that, near the middle of the left side wall, is the family zone. Placing your tree anywhere along the walls in the left rear quadrant of the room will locate it within one of these three areas ideal for energy flow.

According to feng shui principles, there are many reasons why a Christmas tree located in these three energy centers is particularly successful. The practice is centered around five elements, each of which is linked to specific colors and shapes: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. Naturally, a Christmas tree is a powerful wood element, which is associated with growth, new beginnings, flexibility, vitality, and navigating change. In addition, the triangular shape and Christmas lights also make your tree a fire symbol, also supported in these three zones.

You can get the most optimal luck with trees in your wealth and prosperity corner if it's supported by the wood element, vertical column shapes, and the colors purple, gold, green, blue, and red. So focus on these hues with your decorations to bring abundance to your life. For trees in the reputation area, this energy center is best supported by the fire element and triangular shapes, so energize it with the color red and lots of warm Christmas lights and candles to manifest respect, recognition, and appreciation. The family energy center is best supported by the wood element and vertical shapes, as well as a green-and-blue Christmas decoration color scheme. To further activate positive energy within your family and community relationships, decorate your tree with pictures of loved ones and family heirloom ornaments.

By following the colors, elements, and shapes best associated with each of the three recommended feng shui zones, your Christmas tree can become a powerful symbol for manifesting positive energy and change in your life.