Edgar Cayce A.R.E.

Feng Shui: Living an Intentional Life

Mentored by
Peggy Joy Cross
February 17- March 16
Price: $120

"But making an artistic home, making a home that is the expression of beauty in all its phases, is the greater career of any individual soul. This is the closer expression of that which has been manifested in the experience's of man's advent into materiality."
Edgar Cayce reading 2571-20

The intent of this eGroup is to empower you to work confidently and competently with the energy within your home, to hear what your home is telling you that you don't yet hear, to see with "feng shui eyes", and to address some of your issues through material changes that support your intentions. These four weeks will be an introduction to essential concepts and an initial analysis of your home. Feng Shui is an ongoing process. As our lives progress our intentions shift, our circumstances change; indeed we change. If you embrace these principles you have the choice, the ability, to live an intentional life.

You will learn techniques that assist you to:

Bring more love into your life - a date, exciting romance, a new love
Create more opportunity in areas of your career.
Enhance your finances.
Identify how clutter is holding you back in your life.
Express greater creativity in your life.
Heal estranged family or business relationships.
Manifest help when you need it and be conscious of helping others.
Create a more comfortable and supportive home environment.
Identify symbols around you that do not reflect who you wish to be.
Experience a deepening of self knowledge.

You will learn about:

The history and background of Feng Shui
Yin and Yang balance
The Five Elements (water, wood, fire, earth, and metal)
The Bagua (Life Map)
Element Cycles
How the above mentioned systems relate to each other and how to use them together
Some basic rules about "poison arrows", beams, and adjacencies of room placement
The importance of proper bed and desk arrangements
What makes a home, office, or any space, comfortable or not so comfortable
Various "object cures" such as mirrors and crystals
The three secrets, the intention setting ritual for object cures.

Learning Methods:

Audio presentations: Each week there will be an audio-streamed lecture on that week's teachings.
Journaling: You will be asked to identify and begin with three intentions for your life that you desire to work on during this eGroup. As you learn to align these intentions with areas of your life, you will record in your journal where they are physically in your home and metaphysically according to the Bagua, or life map. You will be asked to identify your clutter. You will be asked to note the changes that you make within your home, the object cures that you use, and any specific occurrences or general changes that you observe.
On-line readings and lessons: Each week you will be given articles to read, all of which are authored by Peggy unless otherwise designated. You will be given exercises that support the week's teachings and enhance your analytical abilities and your "feng shui" eyes. You will then be able to bring additional insight to the energy existing in your home and see further modifications that you may wish to make in order to enhance your life.
Floor Plan: You will be asked to draw a simple floor plan of your home to work with in conjunction with the Bagua.
Edgar Cayce readings: You will have (at least) one reading each week that relates to Feng Shui teachings, and there are many.

Mentor Bio:

Peggy Joy Cross, Founder of Designs for Harmony, has been a professional Feng Shui teacher, lecturer, writer and consultant since 1998. Her mission is to assist and guide her clients, friends and family in achieving beauty, joy, harmony, and desired change in their lives.

In her pursuit of excellence, Peggy has traveled coast-to-coast studying Feng Shui, including Compass School, Vaastu Shastra, Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui, Pyramid School and Space Clearing. Although she has trained in several Feng Shui schools, she finds the practice of Black Sect Feng Shui to be the one she turns to most often because she believes this school is more empowering for her and for her clients. She is also a great believer in following one's intuition, our connection to the Divine. She honors the wisdom of the Master, H. H. Professor Lin Yun, who advocates staying open to all Feng Shui teachings in the belief that there is always more to learn and there will always be new things with which to work in our rapidly changing world.

Peggy incorporates her background as an interior designer into her work in Feng Shui. Her belief is that beauty, and this is beauty to the individual living in a space, is a constant uplifting energy for the inhabitants. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One of Peggy's design gifts, realized long before she was a professional designer, is her ability to make any home or office comfortable, regardless of the style of design. One of her favorite teachings comes from William Morris, a designer and philosopher of early last century: "Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be functional or believe to be beautiful."

Living in Virginia Beach, Peggy has become much more familiar with the philosophy and readings of Edgar Cayce. Looking at the Divine inspirations for Feng Shui and Cayce's teachings, she has been led to research that compares these two powerful schools of thought. Her first article on the alignment of Feng Shui and Edgar Cayce teachings will appear in the July/August 2007 issue of "Venture Inward", the magazine published by the Association of Research and Enlightenment, or ARE, and sent to its membership world wide.

In addition to Hampton Roads and other areas of Virginia, Peggy has Feng Shui clients in California, Florida and several Midwest states. She has had a dozen articles published in SW Florida's "Natural Awakenings". She has been published in the "Naples Daily News", appeared as a guest on WTVK in SW Florida and interviewed on radio regarding relationships and Feng Shui. She has been featured in the Florida publications "Fort Myers New Press", "Properties of Distinction", "Naples Illustrated" and "Gulfshore Life".

Peggy Cross received her BFA in Interior Design from The Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL and her BA in Political Science from Indiana/Purdue Universities at Indianapolis. She is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers and The International Feng Shui Guild as well as a Florida licensed realtor.

What's an e-Group?

eg903 tao symbol Your A.R.E. eGroup will meet on an Internet discussion board. This discussion board has been created especially for A.R.E. by BulletinBoards.com, a secure Internet site that makes learning online interactive and easy. In Internet terms, your eGroup is called a "discussion board", a virtual meeting room where you will join with other like-minded people and your mentor, Peggy Cross, in an interactive discussion on Feng Shui.

In the virtual meeting room, you will have access to the written and audio materials prepared for you by Peggy. Every Wednesday, Peggy will post a lesson along with exercises for you to practice during the week. Posting is very similar to sending e-mail, except that all the e-mails are viewed within your virtual meeting room. You may post your thoughts, questions, and experiences on the site for Peggy and the other participants to read and respond to. In this way, everyone will benefit from one another's experiences and insights and the coaching offered by Peggy to individuals.

Once you register for your A.R.E. eGroup, we will send you an e-mail from eGroups@edgarcayce.org detailing how to access and navigate our discussion board for the eGroup Feng Shui Living an Intentional Life. Then, you're in! You will be able to visit your eGroup any time you desire. The meeting room is accessible 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week and you may participate at your convenience from anywhere in the world. There are no specified times that you have to be in the room. You decide when and how often you wish to participate.

"For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home--home--with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word home! Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm-O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?"
Edgar Cayce reading 1286-1

If you would like more information or to be notified when a group is forming,
please e-mail us at egroups@edgarcayce.org.