Sarah’s Belly Laughter

I would have forgotten Sarah by now. It has been nearly a year that she first visited me but as soon as I heard her husky voice I remembered her. Her voice was unmistakable.
“I have not been so happy in my life in years. Feng Shui brought laughter in my house. …the real belly laughter. I am so happy! I thought I must call you.”

But before we go into what happened in her life, a look at the day I visited her house in South Mumbai. They were three: Sarah, her husband Robert and their daughter Katherine.
The mother and daughter duo looked more like sisters and Robert, busy on phone in his home office, looked the father figure that he was. He seemed a little over weight, flabby and tired. He greeted me but remained busy, obviously uninterested in Feng Shui. Ignoring him Sarah took me back to the living room.
“Ours was a May-December marriage,” Sarah began her story and went on, “I was twenty five and he was thirty nine when we got married. The difference didn’t seem too much at that time. It is now, twenty one years later, that the difference has become stark. We do not see eye to eye. For me, it is like I am living with my father. By the time the day has ended, he is tired. Perhaps it is because he is a diabetic and also suffers from hypertension. There is no harmony. We have a daughter. I see that there is no difference between the way he treats me and our daughter. Both of us need to take his permission for everything. We both have to even explain our whereabouts to Robert. It has become boring and monotonous."
“Katherine is keen to go in fashion business. She is beautiful. She can be a model or, for that matter, a fashion designer. But he is against that."
“To put it briefly, I want Feng Shui for harmony, for Robert’s health and for Katherine’s career and marriage. As for me, I have a lot of time at hand and do not know what to do. I want something exciting happening in my life. I am a creative person. I want some thing to happen in my life too.”
Feng Shui is not a healing science though corrections in the kitchen and a couple of Feng Shui cures have a relevance to health. After corrections in the kitchen, I suggested keeping the painting of earth (not available on my web site, yet) and Wu Lou for health.
The painting had to face her T’ien yi.
Sarah loved to write and surf the net. I suggested that she sits in the power sector of her house.
Katherine’s lucky element was Fire, and she couldn’t go wrong in the business of Fashion designing. Enhancing the Knowledge sector and triggering the Career corner with metal energy I was quite optimistic about her career but the main problem was, as Sarah put it, “Will the old man give his consent?”
“I will work out the right timings to bring up the issue. Hopefully, he will agree.” I said and, later, sent her the exact timings. You can never go wrong if you do things at the best timing, on your lucky dates, wearing the colors that are auspicious for you and sit facing the direction that is fortunate for you. I have seen it happening, again and again.
(In fact, one Archana who approached me from USA, writing to me that she got a raise and a promotion from her hard boiled boss who, later, expressed surprise at his own action!)
One by one, every Feng Shui cure required was installed.
To return to Sarah and how she describes her experiences:
“Within minutes, we were able to persuade him to permit Katherine to apply for admission in NIFT. It sounds unbelievable but he went out of his way to locate a friend who helped her in getting admission! In fact, slowly I grew to be a stronger and more assertive individual and Robert mellowed. I got a break to write and to do research. I am making good money writing for a web site. I am busy and also able to meet interesting people. Life has changed for me.”
No wonder. Sarah’s lucky element is Wood and she cannot go wrong in writing and research. She has started getting attention and her work is being appreciated.