What is Feng Shui Cure and How to Use It
In the ancient scrolls of Feng Shui, there is a concept that often escapes the hurried modern ear: the Feng Shui cure. It is not a superstition, nor a charm to be bought in a market stall. It is the deliberate placement of matter to converse with energy. Imagine a simple clear vase filled with water standing silently on your cabinet, guarding your house from fire. A flower in a blue pot, unnoticed on the windowsill, shielding your home while you are abroad.
These are not myths, but precise adjustments born of centuries of observation. A cure in Feng Shui is a tool that blocks, redirects, or transforms energy. It is invisible medicine prescribed for the bones of your home.
How a Master Chooses a Cure
There is no universal prescription. A Feng Shui cure is selected individually, the way a physician would tailor treatment after reading a pulse. The master studies the annual chart of your home, listens to its hidden breath, and identifies where energy stagnates or turns hostile.
Often, the signs are visible: the room where bulbs always fail, the corridor where people stumble, the corner where tempers flare. Once identified, the master prescribes the cure: a vessel of salted water, natural stones, a cluster of crystals, or a bronze vase heavy with quiet authority.
The Weight of Precision
Here lies the first truth: a cure works only when aligned with the exact configuration of energies. Place it wrong, and it is no longer medicine but ornament. Clients often send me photographs after installing a remedy — not for vanity, but to ensure alignment with the stars has been achieved.
A Master’s Anecdote ✦
Once, in a villa perched on a Tuscan hill, I detected the shadow of fire in the charts. The family adored candles, their rooms glowing nightly with flame. Yet the house whispered of danger. I prescribed a metallic vase in the precise afflicted sector. At first, they replaced it with ceramic, dismissing the detail. But clay feeds fire, while metal restrains it. Only when the vase was changed did the restless energy settle, and the family slept again in peace.
The Shelf Life of a Cure
Energy is not eternal. Remedies expire, not in material decay, but in energetic relevance. A Feng Shui cure functions for as long as the annual cycle demands. From the 2nd of February to the 4th of the following year, the map of your house shifts, and so must your cures. That is why true Feng Shui is not an act of decoration, but of annual maintenance — as essential as renewing insurance for your property.
Four Categories of Feng Shui Problems
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Flow of Qi
When the entrance door aligns perfectly with the back exit, energy rushes through like wind in a tunnel. Wealth slips away. The cure may be simple: a screen, a row of plants, or a well-placed light fixture to buffer the current.
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Invisible Energies
At times the imbalance is magnetic, not architectural. Here the five elements serve: water in a fountain, wood in a living plant, fire in a warm light, earth in stone, metal in bronze. These can be ordinary objects you already own — the key is not the purchase, but the placement.
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Exterior Challenges
The landscape itself may be unkind. A road rushing towards your gate, a lone tree blocking the view, or a slope carrying energy away. Adjustments may involve paths, fences, or the gentle curve of a garden.
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The Costless Cure
Sometimes the greatest cure requires no object at all. To sleep facing a new direction, to enter by a different door, to place your desk where creativity thrives — these remedies cost nothing but awareness.
Why Cures Are Misunderstood ✦

Minimalist interior with a mirror, framed stone, and natural greenery ✦ classic Feng Shui cures that harmonise energy and bring subtle protection.
Many websites peddle dragons, coins, or trinkets claiming mystical power. They glitter, but they rarely heal. This confusion arises because popular culture has tangled ancient remedies with folk superstition. A bronze dragon may indeed work — but only if metal is required, and only if placed with precision. Otherwise, it is clutter at best, poison at worst.
Practical Wisdom for Modern Leaders
For a business leader, the right cure is not only protection but strategy. It shields against accidents, tempers disputes among staff, and clears paths for negotiation. One client placed a crystal sphere on his office table, prescribed by chart. Within weeks, meetings softened, contracts flowed, and tension dissolved. The object was not magical; it was aligned.
The Quiet Luxury of Protection
True luxury is not the acquisition of rare things, but the possession of invisible security. A well-placed vase may prevent fire. A discreet mirror may shield a company from betrayal. This is Feng Shui as investment: an unseen bodyguard for your wealth, health, and legacy.
✦ Practical Takeaways
Never imitate blindly. Remedies that work for one house may harm another.
Think natural. Stones, metals, plants, and water outperform trinkets.
Update annually. Energies change every year with the solar calendar.
Consult, don’t guess. A master’s chart ensures precision.
Blend with design. The most powerful cures are those unnoticed by guests.
A Master’s Reminder
Do not chase superstition. Do not decorate in the hope of luck. Instead, listen to your house. Let a master read its map, and place the precise medicine where it belongs.
When remedies are aligned, your home becomes more than walls and furniture. It becomes a guardian. And in a world of uncertainty, that is the truest luxury.
When Not to Use a Cure ✦
There is a paradox in Feng Shui: sometimes the wisest act is restraint. A vase, a crystal, or a fountain placed without need is not neutral — it may awaken the very danger you wish to silence.
Consider fire. In Chinese tradition, red is associated with joy, wealth, and vitality. Yet in the wrong sector, red ignites quarrels, lawsuits, or infertility. A family once filled their dining room with crimson walls and lanterns, believing it auspicious. In their chart, the room belonged to the fragile wood element. Fire consumed it. Arguments became daily bread. When the colour was removed and balanced with calm earth tones, harmony returned.
Thus, the first principle is clarity: never apply a cure without understanding the chart.
Hidden Dangers in the Home
Not all threats are visible. Some lie dormant, revealed only through calculation. These are known as “flying stars” — shifting patterns of energy that visit different sectors of your property each year.
For example:
- A star of illness may linger in a bedroom, silently draining health.
- A star of robbery may reside in your entrance, inviting theft or betrayal.
- A star of fire may alight in your kitchen, amplifying accidents.
The cure is not a guess, but a targeted prescription. Salt-water jars absorb illness. Heavy brass statues suppress robbery. Still water calms fire.
What matters is precision: the right cure, in the right place, for the right cycle.
The Business Dimension ✦

Stylish interior with a patterned vase and natural materials ✦ a Feng Shui cure that harmonises energy, protects space, and adds timeless elegance.
A home is one thing; a company is another battlefield altogether. Leaders often seek remedies not only for protection but for growth. The placement of a desk, the alignment of a boardroom, or the positioning of an entrance can decide whether negotiations bloom or collapse.
One CEO invited me to audit his headquarters. I identified a sector burdened with quarrelsome energy. His sales team worked there, clashing endlessly. The cure was simple: a round metal sculpture installed in the corner. Within weeks, disputes eased, focus sharpened, and revenue climbed.
The sculpture was not art alone; it was medicine disguised as beauty.
Cures for Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Every leader deserves remedies that are subtle, powerful, and aligned with their ambition. Here are some timeless examples:
Metallic accents in negotiation rooms — calm tempers and foster clarity.
Water features near entrances — when correctly aligned, they attract opportunities.
Natural crystals on desks — stabilise decision-making and reduce emotional volatility.
Strategic mirrors — not for vanity, but to deflect negative energy from partners or rivals.
Directional seating — the cheapest cure: face your auspicious compass direction in meetings.
These adjustments are not decoration. They are strategy, encoded in matter.
Why Remedies Feel Luxurious ✦
The luxury lies not in ostentation but in invisibility. A well-placed object that guards your health or protects your wealth is a privilege that requires neither display nor noise.
True elegance is silent safety.
The Science Behind the Mystery
Though born in metaphysics, many remedies align with principles modern science respects. Saltwater jars purify air. Flowing water humidifies and calms. Plants recycle carbon dioxide. Metal absorbs and grounds electromagnetic fields. The ancients observed effects; modern physics explains them.
What you place in your home or office is therefore not mysticism alone. It is practical influence disguised as ritual.
✦ Practical Takeaways (Part II)
- Update remedies yearly: energies shift every solar February.
- Blend remedies with décor: medicine is strongest when invisible.
- Less is more: a single aligned cure outweighs a dozen random trinkets.
- Nature prevails: wood, stone, and metal outperform plastic replicas.
- Seek mastery: the cure’s power lies in calculation, not the object itself.
To those who think of remedies as superstition, I say: view them as insurance. Just as you would not drive without a seatbelt, do not inhabit a home without energetic protection.
Feng Shui cures are not charms to collect, but investments in safety, prosperity, and legacy. They cost little, yet their value is immense.
In a world that spends endlessly on what shines, the quietest purchase — a vase, a stone, a mirror in the right place — may become the truest luxury of all.
Natalia Zhuravel — Feng Shui Master
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Natalia Zhuravel is a Master of Classical Feng Shui and an expert in Chinese metaphysics. She lives between Italy and Ukraine, offering consultations to clients around the world — from Europe and the US to Asia and Australia. A graduate of Grand Master Yap Cheng Hai Academy, Natalia combines scientific clarity with metaphysical depth. Her work is a refined synthesis of logic and intuition, space and time — guiding thoughtful individuals toward harmony, clarity, and transformation.
