Feng Shui at Your Service Water Conservation

Thank you all for this letter about
world peace and how Feng Shui can
help achieve it. What a blessing this
information is to everyone who reads
it.

I am grateful for
an abundant flow
to and from my life
symbolized by
buckets and buckets
of water.

Feng Shui at Your Service
Vikki Albers, Consultant

Going Green with Gray Water

Your city may be experiencing a water shortage due to a drier than normal winter.
You may be asked to reduce consumption;
if you are on well-water consuming less may be a consideration for you also.
Maybe this bucket-in-the-sink conserving practice will
encourage an easy way to begin.

A greater willingness to conserve water in our household began
a few years ago with day-old pooch water.
Rather than pouring the gray water left in her bowl down the drain every morning,
we started using it to Greenly care for the potted plants outside our front door,
the Mouth of Chi.
That felt right and we found it takes precious little to keep geraniums happy.

Two years ago we took greater notice of the
cool, clear water whirling down the drain.
Buckets full vanish every day:
water lost before heated enough to wash dishes;
the remainder after steaming veggies or boiling eggs;
pasta water;
and a bit from rinsing out the coffee pot.
We go through quite a splash washing our hands
especially if we are in the healthy habit of simultaneously singing “Happy Birthday”.
Gallons of water go right down the drain every day –
gray water that might be useful in a number of ways.

The effort to conserve and reuse more gray water
expanded to placing a plastic bucket under the faucet in the kitchen sink.
If you would like to try this,
look in the garage for a plastic bucket rather than buying one.

It’s Greener to use a bucket you already have.

Therein we collect any water not contaminated
that would ordinarily go down the drain.

Contaminated includes anything ants might savor.
Collect gray water sans sugar and fat.
Pour the last sip of cold, black coffee or tea into the mixture.
No juice or crumbs of food, please.
Do be careful that children don’t play in this water
and pets don’t drink it.

The ants aren’t interested in
(and the plants don’t seem to mind)
hand and dish soap rinsed into the gray water;
nor are plants bothered by the pasta starch-residue left in the water after boiling;
these dissolve back into the Earth.
You will be amazed by the amount of gray water you are able to collect and reuse.
If your planted areas are small, like ours,
using the garden hose will become a rare occurrence.
Other Green uses for this gray water are to
pour it into a sauce pan that might need soaking
or use it to rinse plastic packaging before tossing into your recycle container.
(This used gray water does go down the drain.)
Will gray-water collecting shrink the water bill?

It hasn’t reduced ours even once – but it does conserve water.
If you were to start using gray water,
and a friend or neighbor were,
and a friend or neighbor of theirs tries it...
that would have an impact.
We might be able to affect the water conservation efforts
of our local communities, in a very easy way.

Does conserving water support our individual Feng Shui?
Yes, every time we take a step toward increasing our connection with
Green (i.e. Gaia), and every time we consciously
take a step toward acknowledging and appreciating our homes and neighborhoods
we energize our Feng Shui.

Also, remember in Feng Shui
the water element equates to opportunity and money.
This being so, repair all drips and leaks.
We value water and do not want our conservation effort undone by a
drip… drip… drip.

To carry this Feng Shui thought a step further,
your front door may be in the Career life area
(center third of the front of your home),
use that doorway to take the bucket of gray water out of your house to the plants.
Water, the Career life area element, and the front-door Mouth of Chi
combine energies so taking water out through that passage is
another way to acknowledge the flow of opportunity.
All variety of opportunities flowing in and out of our lives –
we welcome and accept good fortune and at the same time
demonstrate a willingness to give back.

Pouring gray water on blooms would be an auspicious time to express gratitude.
We are blessed to have water enough to drink,
even enough to share with plants.

Affirmations

In gratitude and with an intention to serve.

Clearing clutter is
the single most important
action
to take to
cause a shift toward
the Greater Good in your life.

"2005 marks the beginning of the
United Nations Decade of Water.
It is our individual responsibility
to learn all we can about water,
the most precious resource
on our planet,
and to help shift the consciousness
through our thoughts,
through our words and prayers,
and through our commitment to
respect each other
with love and gratitude.
May our understanding of water help
bring peace to all humankind."

Masaru Emoto

From:

The True Power of Water: Healing and Discovering Ourselves

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