Each of us as humans came to the earth plane with a purpose to create and a talent in our pocket. Somewhere along the journey we lose sight of the original assignment or mission. Early on we show signs of this gift and then around five or six years of age the joy of sharing this uniqueness fades from our memory.

I realized at an early age I needed to express myself through pictures. Thankfully my parents supported this visual effort. Painting lessons were arranged for Saturday mornings and dancing lessons for Saturday afternoons. Every weekend morning I awoke early with the anticipation of these lessons only a six year old could feel. Sitting patiently on the living room couch with a new canvas under one arm and my painting supplies in a wooden box next to my feet I counted the minutes waiting for my mother to drive me across town to enjoy learning the needed techniques by the art teacher. My temperament and health were perfect until noon as I watched the colors fly across the new picture. The world stood still and joy filled my heart. The artist within was on the road to destiny. The dreaded clock ticked away quickly, soon announcing two hours had passed. Now it was time to please my grandmother with her wishes. Dancing classes! My stomach began tightening, I felt queasy as I walked toward her car. Loving her dearly I opened the door to the vehicle, smiled a crooked grin her way and slid across the front seat. She was my jazzy grandma and I loved her. We agreed on most things. Our age difference didn’t matter and we were buddies. I didn’t have the nerve to tell her my dread of dancing.

Although I spent seven years pointing and tapping to the metronome-timed music, my heart wasn’t in the competitive nature of tap and ballet world. The stress of not revealing my feelings finally came to a conclusion one day when my stomach convulsed and I threw up in her car. Unresolved feelings, stuffed down too long must be dealt with. To my delight, six years of dance lesson ended with my confession.

Many children are discouraged and lose sights of the original agreement set in motion at birth between the self and God for fear of hurting loved ones. Other wee ones are forced into their parent’s dream of what delights them because they too as children weren’t allowed to follow their bliss. And so the cycle goes.

My assignment as a feng shui consultant is to awaken that lost gift, hidden at the bottom of your pocket by unwanted jobs, anger, blame and mostly fear. Reconnecting the missing pieces of the puzzle using the bagua will realign your home to harmony, proving balance and restore the desire and permission to follow the misplaced dream. As your present house and childhood home "talk to me" through the bagua or eight-sided octagonal shaped grid placed over the house, I am able to match up the areas of the home with the trouble spots of your life’s struggle spots. The bagua is an eight sided octagon that is used to map or grid your home or workplace.

The placement of a childhood bedroom allows me as a feng shui consultant to determine what type of energy nurtured, the mental, physical and spiritual belief system of your youth.

Invisible energy called chi or the breath of life must be allowed to flow easily throughout living spaces. Blocked energy must be sought out and changed. Letting go of excess is essential to feng shui whether its furniture or old thinking. Blocking chi creates lost job opportunities, arguments, family discord, financial losses and disease. From cobwebs to clutter, removing unneeded possessions and cleaning up your home is the first step to success and prosperity.

As you work on the dwelling inside and outside by following a feng shui consultant’s advice a feeling of heaviness lifts from your life. After removing the excess, the next step is using the five elements in the décor of the home. Water, wood, fire, metal and earth play a most important role. Using colors which relate to these elements aids in the restoration of our physical being.

Now for the unseen, the metaphysical. For example, we can’t see God, but feel a God source presence just the same. So you don’t have to see the chi to know its source.

Each gua or triad of the bagua contains an aspect of ourselves. Starting with the bottom middle section called career, we began our physical, mental and spiritual education of each gua, leaving you with the knowledge to bring back into focus the hidden talent, lost long ago in a fog of other people’s expectations of who you need to be!

Some of us learned early where our joy prevailed and held onto the dream, but if you are still searching for answers to this and other questions the bagua helps to scientifically and metaphysically locate the key to unlock the memory.

Laying the eight —sided template over the structure in question indicates where your joys and sorrows appear, guiding me to identify your unique misplaced talent.

Talent, purpose and destiny are a type of trinity when joined on a spiritual level, locate the hidden gift assigned to you at birth called universal inheritance.