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Lucky Bamboo

Lucky Bamboo is a traditional Chinese plant that is known for symbolizing good fortune, strength, happiness, and good health.

Three stalks represent Fu (happiness), Lu (wealth), and Soh (long life). Five stalks represent the areas of life that impact wealth. 

Six stalks represent good luck and wealth. Seven stalks represent good health. The stalks often twist and bend into interesting shapes so no plants look alike. Bring good fortune and harmony into your home all year round by having one of these beautiful and ornate plants.

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The Meaning of Lucky Bamboo in Feng Shui

For feng shui enthusiasts, lucky bamboo is an amazing plant that brings a very peaceful and wise energy into your home. It teaches the ultimate wisdom: how to be flexible and hollow (open) on the inside so that the spirit can freely flow and heal your being. The benefits of lucky bamboo inside your home also extend to true bamboo growing in your garden, or to accessories and accents made from stalks of bamboo. For example, if you are lucky enough to have bamboo growing in your garden, you know how soothing, almost transcendental, the sound of wind rustling through the stalks and leaves can be. The same is true for bamboo feng shui wind chimes, and the energy of bamboo flooring can also have a profound effect on a home.

A Lucky Bamboo Plant Arrangement

For the proper feng shui impact, a lucky bamboo arrangement should combine and represent all five feng shui elements, considered to be the foundation of a harmonious universe: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. https://43c4e5bec9017ffa1da5788d7dea0cc1.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

• Wood: The lucky bamboo plant (as do all plants) expresses the feng shui wood element.
• Earth: The rocks filling the lucky bamboo container or vase create the foundation of growth for the plant, thereby representing the earth element.
• Water: The water the bamboo needs for its vibrant growth obviously represents the water element.
• Fire: A lucky bambooplant used as a feng shui cure should have a red ribbon tied to it—the color red is the expression of the fire element.
• Metal: The glass pots that contain most lucky bamboo plants represent the metal element. If your lucky bamboo is planted in a ceramic pot, it should have either a metal coin (Chinese coins for good luck) or a metal figurine, such as the laughing buddha.

When used as a feng shui cure, the number of stalks in the lucky bamboo planting has a specific meaning that should be taken into consideration You can have as many stalks as you wish, but there are some traditional symbolic numbers you may want to follow when using a lucky bamboo arrangement as a feng shui cure:

• 2 stalks for Love & Marriage
• 3 stalks for Happiness
• 5 stalks for Health
• 8 stalks for Wealth and Abundance
• 9 stalks for Good Fortune

Placing Lucky Bamboo

For the best feng shui, your lucky bamboo should be placed in your ​wealth & money or ​health & family bagua areas. If you are working with the classical feng shui bagua, these are the southeast and east feng shui areas of your home bagua. In case of the Western/BTB bagua, place the plant in the mid-left and upper left areas of your home.

Caring for Lucky Bamboo

We have seen countless “lucky” bamboo plants that are struggling to survive, have a poor, neglected look; the only luck in them is the “lucky to be alive” factor! Even though lucky bamboo is easy to care for and a very tolerant plant, it still needs your love and attention, as it likes to look good, just like you do. Do not be afraid to touch your lucky bamboo and take good care of it.

Ultimately, the lucky bamboo is considered lucky because of its peaceful vitality and strong growth, and cultivating these virtues requires that you take good care of it, as you should with any plant.