This week’s question comes from Verosha, who asks, “I recently bought a fish tank. What colors of fish should I get?”

I love this question since it gives me a chance to write about all the ways an aquarium creates good Feng Shui.

An aquarium is one of Feng Shui’s best-loved adjustments, anchoring your intention for wealth and abundance.

It instantly brings harmony into your space since it contains each of the Five Elements: Wood (green plants), Fire (fish colors and lighting), Earth (sand in the bottom of the tank), Metal (shiny fish and round tank shape), and, of course, Water.

Black & gold fish in a Feng Shui aquarium

Nine is the most powerful Yang number in Feng Shui and is used to supercharge the energy whenever possible, so it’s most auspicious that your aquarium contain nine fish: eight gold (or orange) and one black.

According to the Bagua, your aquarium is best located in the Career, Self-Cultivation, and Family areas since these are connected with the Water and Wood elements.

And finally, there are two rooms where your aquarium does NOT belong: the bedroom and the kitchen. Its constant motion creates too much energy for a bedroom; likewise the Water symbolically extinguishes a kitchen’s vital Fire energy.

An aquarium is great for offices, too — but that’s a topic for another post

Do you have an aquarium? How do you feel about the energy it’s bringing into your space?

photo courtesy of tropicalfishonline.info

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