This week, I'm going to give you some simple pointers (no pun intended) on how to discern Sha Qi and when not to be worried about Sha Qi.
Sha Qi Urban Legends
It does not mean that everything that is pointy or sharp produces Sha Qi. If you take a moment to think about it, if you have to eliminate everything that is pointy or sharp in your life, there would be a lot of inconveniences in life. You can't use a pen or pencil, eat with chopsticks and you can't have any kind of furniture in your house unless it is of a round-shape. You will have to sleep in a round bed, and you'd have to find some other way to cut your food because you can't have a blender or a shredder or a knife in your house.
Plants do not produce Sha Qi. Furniture does not produce Sha Qi. I know that I have said that Qi is energy produced by the natural environment but let us be realistic: how much Sha Qi can a potted cactus produce? Even if for the sake of argument, there is Sha Qi emanating from a cactus - compare the size of the needles on the small potted cactus to the size of the average human being. Proportionality will tell you that any Sha Qi will have minimal effect at best!
If you have a giant cactus growing right in front of your Main Door, to the point that it blocks out all light from your Main Door entrance, then okay, I'll concede that you may have a problem. But it is not due to the cactus - it is because the cactus is placed in a location that obstructs Qi from entering the property, and not because the Main Door is being 'skewered' by the Sha Qi of prickly cactus needles.
That goes the same with having shelves in your room or the pointy corner of a desk aimed at your bed. These are really small and very minor issues. Of course, in Feng Shui, we prefer harmonious and rounded surfaces, but that applies to the large structures more than the small matters like your book shelves.
Of course, some of the examples here do not make sense and are absolutely outrageous but these are actually questions that I get in my email box or get asked at seminars. It is not that people are being silly - it is that they are genuinely concerned and have been given this notion by New Age Feng Shui practitioners, making them think that their new L-shaped sofa is producing Sha Qi. That is why you should not be paranoid when it comes to Sha Qi because then you will start to see Sha Qi where there is none!
You can't get rid of it all!
In this modern day and age, it is virtually impossible to live in a civilised society, without some form of something sharp, somewhere in the environment. You want to have Astro in your house? Then you're probably pointing something sharp at one of your neighbours in order to receive the signal. Unless you are prepared to go back to nature or live in the boonies without electricity or cable TV, some sharp objects have to be accepted as part of your environment.
So what is your best defence against the Sha Qi bogeyman? Be practical, use common sense and develop a sense of proportionality. A large pointy structure like a lamp post directly outside your Main Door or a pylon outside the building you live in, is obviously exerting a more significant effect on the Qi in your environment than that souvenir miniature Eiffel Tower you bought on a trip to Paris that sits on your desk. That's being practical and using your common sense. Being proportional means looking at the distance between your location and that of the Sha Qi and determining the proportion of the problem. Let's say you know that within a 10km radius of your house, there is a pylon. But this pylon cannot actually be SEEN from your house. Then it's not that big a problem.
Accordingly, when it comes to Sha Qi in your environment, before you press the panic button, you should also consider this question: does it affect any one of the three important factors: the Main Door, the bedroom and the Kitchen? If the Sha Qi is near, and affects your Main Door, then you may have a serious problem, which may require a Feng Shui professional's assistance to evaluate and resolve. Similarly, if you have internal Sha Qi in your house, but it points at your toilet door, your problem is minor. I mean, how many of us really do 'important business' inside the toilet?
Sha Qi is of course a cause for concern when it comes to the quality of the Feng Shui in your environment. But that does not mean you have to live in constant fear. Dealing with Sha Qi is truly a matter of understanding what it is, appreciating when it is a problem and when it is not a problem and most importantly, differentiating the Sha Qi you should be concerned about, and the negligible stuff. In my next article, I will show you some examples of major Sha Qi problems and explain how to deal with Sha Qi.
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