Ritual Bowls
Feng Shui
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of aligning and harmonizing the flow of chi or life force energy. Chi is the flow of life itself – Chi flows continuously through your body, your home, through the earth, the heavens and the cosmos. This energy can flow freely in a harmonious environment but if it is unbalanced, obstructed, or stagnant, it can affect you negatively, deplete your energy and hinder your ability to live a meaningful, vibrant, and nourishing life.
By using Feng Shui you can interact intentionally with your environment to help create the conditions you desire of peace, harmony and prosperity.
Wealth Bowls
Keeping Wealth Bowls, pots and jars, in homes to enhance wealth luck has been practiced since ancient times in China. A Wealth Pot symbolizes never-ending good fortune and wealth. In Feng Shui, the wealth bowl can be used as a wealth generator. It will clarify your space and amplify good energy to generate a fortunate, harmonious and healing environment. It will continuously recycle Chi in your surroundings and then start to build an aura in the space that will grow with time creating a sacred space where it is placed.
Attracting all Kinds of Wealth
The idea of wealth can mean a lot of different things. To many of us it means money, however, being in a state of wealth is not limited to just a financial state. Feng Shui can be used to increase the wealth of our non-material assets as well. This includes helping to foster a calm, clear, relaxed state of mind, as well as a joy for life. The wealth of clarity and consciousness is real wealth.
How to Use your Wealth Bowl
Wealth bowls filled with treasures are extremely auspicious and a wonderful way to energize Chi and to attract prosperity luck and lots of good fortune into your life
Traditionally, wealth bowls were filled with gold coins either tied with red thread or in a red envelope, rice, semiprecious crystals and small animal figurines. You can fill your wealth bowl with whatever you wish to attract. You can also write what you wish for on a piece of paper and add that to the bowl.
Some Sample Rituals
Fill your bowl with 1-2 cups of uncooked. Place 3, 6, or 9 coins in the rice. You can either bury the coins in the rice or insert them sideways so part of the coin sticks out above the surface. Place three sticks of incense in the rice as well. Place the rice bowl in a prosperity power spot or on your home altar, with the intention that it will help you to experience a healthy cash flow.
At the end of each day, take all the loose coins from your purse or pocket and put them in your bowl near your front door or in a wealth power spot. Do this every day for 27 days. On day 28 count up your coins and spend that money on some kind of a treat, and enjoy the experience of having extra money to spend on something non-essential.
Challenge yourself to see how many pennies or other coins you can. Keep an eye out for stray coins on the sidewalk or anywhere else they may appear. Whenever you see one, pick it up, and say "thank you!" Start each day by visualizing for a moment that you've found another coin, being sure to feel the satisfaction and appreciation that it brings to you. Collect your found coins in your bowl. Although you may not find a coin every day the important thing is to expect "found money" to come into your life, and to notice, claim, and appreciate it when it does show up.
Paper Bowls
Of all the materials that people have employed down the ages, paper is the most widely used around the world. Crude papers were being made in China by c. 100 BCE. Its name derives from papyrus the material used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Papyrus, however, is only one of the predecessors of paper and are mostly made from the inner bark of paper mulberry, fig and daphne as are some of the handmade papers used in these bowls.
These paper maiche bowls are visually enticing as well as practical. They can be used as decorative objects or containers.
The bowls are made out of 100% recycled newspapers and handmade papers and then coated with a water-based finish to make them sturdy and usable.
If you do not care to use the bowls for ritual purposes, they can be used as beautiful containers for any of the following (and more): earrings, jewelry, rings, thumbtacks, stamps, paperclips, pins, shells, stones, buttons, candies, business cards, keys, pills, dried flowers, pocket change, natural gemstones, guitar picks, slips of paper with inspiring quotes, fruit, marbles or potpourri.
Place what you want to achieve inside this bowl; to renew a friendship place a telephone number; to help get a job place the advertisement; to smooth difficulties with your children place something that belongs to them; to reaffirm a marriage place a piece of jewelry with a special meaning.
Of all the possible meanings that these bowls can have, it is what they mean to you that is the most important.
The Symbolism of the Bowl
The form of the bowl is the circle, an ancient and universal symbol of unity, wholeness and infinity. To earth-centered religions throughout history, it represents the feminine spirit or force, the cosmos, a spiritualized Mother Earth, and a sacred space. with generative and regenerative powers
A bowl is a container of beneficence and the site of transformation.. Throughout history it’s various forms have manifested as the holy grail, the goblet and the chalice, the magic cauldron, Persephone’s Golden bowl of healing that can regenerate the dead and heal the sick, and Demeter’s Cista Mystica or magic basket and the Alchemists crucible.
The Begging-Bowl
According to legends associated with the historical Buddah, shortly before he reached enlightenment he began meditating beneath the Bodhi Tree and a young woman named Sujata offered him a golden bowl filled with rice. He divided the rice into 49 portions, one for each day until he would be enlightened, and then threw the precious bowl into the river. It is also symbolic of the Buddha's teachings on nonattachment.
The empty bowl is also a symbol of going on a pilgrimage and also points to the monk's way of life and their sacred journey, being open to the gifts of life. A bowl is a powerful symbol of nourishment, emptied and refilled over and over throughout life.
It can serve as a symbol that what we need will come to us and that at the end of the day our bowls will have been filled and we will be nourished.
May Your Bowl Always Be Full and Your Soul Always Well Nourished
