Whenever there are water issues in the home, the first thing a Feng Shui practitioner looks at is money. Money is part of the Career, Life Mission and Individuality life area, which is ruled by the water element.

Let me tell you a personal story to illustrate this point:

When my husband Marco and I first moved to Tennessee he was employed by a nationwide corporation that hired him to manage a Chiropractic clinic in Knoxville.

The corporation had very high expectations of how many patients should be seen in the clinic per week, so when after a few months in this position my husband reported there had been a drop in the patient numbers I promptly printed out and framed a waterfall image from my Feng Shui stash and placed it right next to the main entrance of the clinic. Within a few days the clinic was literally "flooded" with new patients. So much so, that the staff was unable to keep up with paperwork.

For my part, I had been struggling with adapting to a new place after already having been uprooted two times prior and having to start over with my local Feng Shui business -- in a place most people had not heard of this art. I knew deep down that this was not the moment to concentrate on the business but to help my family make the transition to this new state, to plant seeds and nurture connections. But when I saw the amazing results at Marco's workplace I unpacked the waterfall that had served me so well at our home in Iowa and tried to place it by the door of my main entrance. However, the frame was too big. It didn't fit. But I was impatient, so I took it out of the frame and pasted it on the wall with masking tape on the back. I have to admit it did look like the water was falling right on my floor and I did have misgivings about this, but I ignored this feeling.

Three days later when we were coming home one afternoon we could not open the front door. It had rained heavily and water had filtered under the threshold of our main door and warped the wooden floors. Of course I took the waterfall out right away and did not put it back until I found a proper frame.

It took us six months to figure out where the water was coming in and we changed the wooden floors to ceramic tiles.

By this time we had settled in the new place, we had made friends with other families and I had met a wonderful connector in the healing world of Knoxville: Barbara Rose, an amazing healer and Reiki master. This encounter quickly led to local classes and workshops and many other connections that have enriched our lives in this city.