Feng shui emphasizes wealth as one of its most popular design topics, and your home contains a specific money corner connected to prosperity and abundance. This area, known as the money or wealth corner, can be identified and activated using the bagua—a feng shui tool that maps energy in a space using a three-by-three grid. By understanding and enhancing this part of your home, you can invite wealth and abundance through elements like supportive plants and specific colors.
Using the Bagua
Your home is a reflection of your life. The bagua is used in feng shui as a tool to help you understand how your home and life correlate. Each area of the bagua corresponds to a particular aspect of life, such as relationships, career, knowledge, and yes, even your financial prosperity. This particular area is called “Xun” in Chinese and is also known as the wealth or money corner. This position relates to your financial wealth and abundance, as well as the prosperity of all kinds. It also represents self-worth, which is deeply connected to material wealth: Our ability to receive wealth and abundance is determined in part by how we value ourselves.
How to Find Your Money Corner
To find the wealth area of your entire home, stand at the formal front door of your house facing in, and locate the far left corner.
Once you’ve located the wealth area, notice what’s happening there. Is it empty? Cluttered? Neatly organized? Think about what this could represent metaphorically. Maybe this area of your home is collecting dust or filled with dying plants and hasn’t been touched in months—could that correspond to an unwillingness to look at your finances regularly, or to make changes in how you value yourself? It’s best to fix these common feng shui decorating mistakes before working on your wealth corner.
Tips to Enhance Your Money Corner
If you’d like to work on attracting more abundance, self-worth, or prosperity, you can activate the wealth area of your home by using a few of our favorite ways to do this.
Fix Anything That’s Broken
This might not sound like feng shui to you, but it’s important to make mundane improvements in addition to the more subtle, energetic adjustments. Items that are chipped, falling apart, or not working properly likely do not make you feel abundant, so it’s best to either fix them or let them go.
Decorate With Purple
Color is important in feng shui and purple is a hue associated with the wealth area, so placing something purple here can activate wealth and abundance. This could be a piece of artwork, a throw pillow, a planter, or any other item that you’re attracted to.
Bring in Plants
The wealth area is also connected to the wood element, represented by plants. Add a healthy green plant to this area to invite steady growth in your finances or improve your self-worth. A plant that is particularly helpful for this purpose is the Pilea peperomioides also known as the money tree, coin plant, or jade plant.
Decorate With Green or Blue
Green and blue are the colors associated with the wood element, so adding these colors in the wealth area can support growth and healing in this area of life. You may want to paint a whole wall green or blue or choose a smaller, more subtle accent, depending on your decor and preferences.
Activate With a Water Feature
In the five elements system, water feeds wood, so adding the water element in the wealth area can be supportive. A small fountain can be a lovely addition to this area—just make sure to keep it clean. Dirty, stagnant water is not going to enhance your home’s feng shui. If actual water doesn’t feel like a good fit for your space, you can also incorporate artwork with images of clean and flowing water.
Add Amethyst
Crystals can feel beautiful and luxurious in a space, and they’re also pretty easy to find. Amethyst is a great addition to the wealth area because of its purple color, and because it resonates with the feeling of abundance. It can also invoke feelings of spiritual abundance, which goes hand in hand with material wealth.
Other Ways to Improve Wealth Through Feng Shui
If you want to work on your wealth, it’s important to understand that working with feng shui on your wealth corner is just one aspect that can help. A skilled practitioner can help uncover other root causes of wealth challenges so you can work on what’s most impactful.
For example, if you are not making as much money as you want, it may be because you’re not in the right career or you need more helpful people in your life who can help you attain your goals. In those cases, it’s more beneficial to work on improving your career choice or inviting more helpful people into your life. You can also work with the bagua to identify what parts of your home correspond to those parts of your life.