PEACOCK This beautiful bird signifies dignity and beauty, supremacy and victory. If you are engaged in competition with someone, placing a peacock image nearby will benefit you enormously. The peacock can be used as a substitute for the Phoenix. LOTUS or WATER LILY Symbol of Purity and Great Beauty and brings every kind of good fortune. It has potency to turn bed luck into the good luck. Lotus is also a symbol of enlighnment and signify pure energy. The lotus flower is viewed as a symbol of spiritual unfoldment. The lotus has its roots in earthly mud, but as it grows upward in aspiration toward the light, its petals open out in a beautiful flower. The lotus flower grows in muddy water and rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty. At night the flower closes and sinks underwater, at dawn it rises and opens again. Untouched by the impurity, lotus symbolizes the purity of heart and mind. The lotus flower represents long life, health, honor and good luck. Lotus flowers, which bloom in water, also represent female sexual power and fertility as well as birth or rebirth. BIRDS Birds bring luck of new opportunities and always suggest good news coming in and also recognition of the talents. The presence of birds is always good Feng Shui. Bird images inside your home or office send out all your good intentions and aspirations. The birds are powerful symbol of opportunities and especially the image of birds with water signify financial opportunities, good news and good business and career luck. When you have a hundred birds or more in painting the favorable impact is amazing. BAMBOO Bamboo signifies a life of good health and longevity. The image of Bamboo gives you the resilience to succeed in anything you undertake. Image of bamboo also symbolizes good luck, good fortune and prosperity to the house, business and the people. It is believed that bamboo will activate stagnate energy where it is placed. As Bamboo is flexible and enduring, it is also a symbol of the ability to move with the times and adapt to the changes in life. Bamboo has a deeper meaning in Chinese culture and appears as a symbol of long life. Bamboo is straight and Chinese people also believe that bamboo represents the modesty, strength, and never gives up because it continues to grow taller and taller. All of the traits of a good man. POMEGRANATE FRUIT You can display pomagranate fruit in your bedroom or West part of your home or bedroom to create the luck of having healthy children. The many seeds of pomagranae fruit is a symbol of fertility and conception (very good image for young couple wishing to have healthy children). It is mentioned in the Bible. As for human qualities, the pomagranate fruit symbolized good deeds and knowledge. For thousands of years, the pomegranate, a juicy red fruit with many seeds, has been a source of food and herbal medicines in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean. Its many seeds made it a symbol of fertility, for out of one fruit could come many more. To the Romans, the pomegranate signified marriage. LILY The Christian alternative to the lotus is the white lily which, relating to Mary as queen of heaven, signifies both fertility and purity. "Blessed are the pure in heart," said Jesus, "for they shall see God." Lily also represents sweetness, virginity, purity and majesty. GRAPE The grape as a Biblical motif is the symbol of abundance and wealth. It is also symbol of future prosperity and good living. In companies grapes represents branches, expansion and enlargement of the company. In ancient days the grapes in the vineyard and olives in the grove and the grain of the field were not only wealth but the measure of trade. Time when the grapes were ripe, was a time of joy and happiness. Also their natural beauty of form and color and flavor alone would make them a fitting symbol for abundance. Grape is also a symbol of blessing and fertility especially if it is placed in West of your home or in your master bedroom. PEAR In Greek and Roman mythology, pears are sacred. The ancient Chinese believed that the pear was a symbol of immortality. Pear trees live for a long time. TREE Tree is symbol of life and represents vital energy. Healthy tree is also symbol of health. If you place image of healthy tree or forest on East part of your home you can support your health and family. If you place image of healthy tree or image of landscape with trees and water on SE you can support wealth and flows of income. The Tree with its roots buried deep in the earth, its trunk above ground, and its branches stretching toward the sky, a tree serves as a symbolic, living link between Heaven and Earth. Providers of shade and bearers of fruit, trees have long been associated with life and fertility. Evergreen trees, which remain green all year, became symbols of undying life. Deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter and produce new ones in the spring, symbolized renewal, rebirth after death, or immortality. Trees also came to be associated with wisdom, knowledge, or hidden secrets. The tree is a symbol of wisdom in stories about the life of Buddha, who was said to have gained spiritual enlightenment while sitting under a bodhi tree, a type of fig. Hang up a image of '100's of Birds' in the office or at home will assist in bringing in lots of opportunities. These birds would be well placed in the North for career luck. The birds symbolise oppotunities and water symbolise money. Very auspicious combination indeed! Birds are said to be the messengers of the Cosmos-bringing wondrous opportunities and helping to pass on your most fervent wishes to the sky dragons. Birds have always featured strongly in feng shui folklore and feng shui practitioners charmed by the presence of birds flapping their wings have benefited from their happy presence. GOLDEN MOUNTAIN Mountains are vital for good Feng Shui in the environment and signify the source of heaven luck. They also provide stunning support and backing, anchoring you firmly and preventing you from being swept away by misfortune, bad luck or betrayal. Mountain are classified as one of the Celestial Creatures - Black Tortoise which should be located at your back. A solid mountain behind you gives you support and protection and helps to get your work and efforts recognized. This mountain holds a massive cache of gold signifying immense success accompanied by rich rewards. The orange-yellow combination in this painting makes it most beneficial in the southwest, northeast and central grids of the office. A solid mountain or range of mountains behind you in your office gives you support from your boss and your colleagues, protection against office politics and helps get your work and efforts recognized. The gold color of the mountain bring signify immense success accompanied by rich rewards. The Gold as a treasure from the Earth. One of the most auspicious symbols all career-minded people should have in the office is the picture of a mountain hung behind them where they sit in the office. It is one of the most auspicious symbols in Period Eight which began on February 4,2004 and will end twenty years later on February 3, 2023. Period Eight symbolizes the mountain and it is an earth period represented by trigram Ken. Many of the Feng Shui masters are fond of recommending mountain landscape as part of their practice. When you visit the offices of any of the senior bankers many of them have beautiful image of mountain hanging in certain corners of their offices and especially behind them where they sit. Mountains are not only powerful symbols of support but they also signified the essence of the celestial dragon. In the Flying Star Feng Shui it is very important to activate mountain star (especially very lucky mountain star 8) which represent relationship luck and health luck. When you activate an auspicious mountain star with correct placement of mountain symbols, your relationships will become the source of extreme good fortune, and you will enjoy good health as well. You can hang paintings or pictures of mountains in the auspicious mountain star corners of every important room in your house. It means having a mountain picture in your living room, study room or in your bedroom.