According to Feng Shui, the primary direction that governs love, romance and relationships, as well as motherhood, is Southwest. Create a romance area in the Southwest corner of your bedroom. First, remove clutter—wastebaskets, piled up books, clothes—from that corner. Then, place artwork there—photos, illustrations, sculptures—that show images of happy couples, e.g. Mom and Dad at their 50th anniversary party; your brother or sister with a new fianc or spouse; you and your loved one; images of embracing, kissing or eroticism.

Candles and Peonies
If you are single, place two red or yellow candles in this corner. Use hearts, roses and other flower—especially peonies. Peonies have always symbolized marriage and fidelity to the Chinese. Arrangements of this beautiful flower are ideal for displaying in your daughters bedroom or in the hall outside her room to ensure her finding a good partner. If you are married, place peonies in your living room, but not in your bedroom.

Ducks and Other Symbolic Elements
Images of a pair of mandarin ducks can also go in this romance spot as can any images of the phoenix and the dragon together—a symbol of double happiness for marriage. A porcelain (earth element) "love ball" or vase decorated with these figures are perfect on a table or shelf in the Southwest corner.

Other things you can place here are: anything ceramic, terra cotta, clay, porcelain, china, stone, plaster, resin, pebbles from the beach—basically earth materials, especially if they are in the shape of hearts. Anything you put out must be in multiples of two.

A Few Relationship Don'ts

• Do not install any sort of water feature such as a pond or waterfall on the yin side of your front entrance. The yin side is the right side of the door as you face out of your houses front door. To do so is to attract a competitor for your partners affections into your household, leading ultimately to the possibility of infidelity.
• Do not have pictures of three people in the Southwest corner of your bedroom.
• Do not put any wooden or green items in the Southwest—wood destroys earth in the element relationship chart.

Other directions that can also be enhanced are East (green, wood, dragon, 3); for harmony and family, Northwest (gray/silver, metal, 6); for helpful people and interests outside the home, West (silver/gold, metallics, 7, metal) for teamwork.

Before implementing your feng shui measures, concentrate less on finding the right person and focus on becoming the right person with whom someone would want a relationship. Feng shui must be practiced in concert with the emotional/spiritual, physical and intellectual aspects of your life.