How to Bring Good Luck and Positive Energy to a New Home

Moving home can be a wonderfully positive experience. A chance to start afresh, to leave the past behind, and to embrace a wonderful new future.

Whatever the reason for your home move, in the last few weeks you have probably heard ‘good luck in your new home’ or ‘good luck with your home move’ a thousand times.

Will those wishes actually bring good luck to you or into your new home?

Who knows, but if you believe enough in something, if you want something bad enough, it is amazing how powerful positive thinking is. The mind is an incredibly powerful tool.

And cultures across the world believe that there are many ways that positive energy and good luck can be harnessed and encouraged into our homes.

Combining the powers of the universe with the power of your mind to bring positive energy and good luck to your new home and into your new life.

In this week’s home moving blog, we will look at ways to bring positivity and good luck into your home using traditions that have been handed down through the centuries.

From moving preparations to moving day to making your new house feel like your own home, here are some of the most trusted ways to ensure you have the best possible start in your home.

Declutter for a Positive Home Move

A house full of clutter is a sure way to stop the positive flow of energy around your home.

So to not only save on your home moving costs and make your packing quicker, and your home move easier, be sure to declutter every room in your home before starting to pack.

That way you will only take the things to your new home that are functional and that you really love.

Use a floor planner to ensure that all the furniture you intend to take fits into the new home.

You can also use the floor planner to experiment with different layouts that are aligned with Feng Shui principles.

You may also like to read:

• How to Declutter for a Home Move in which we guide you room-by-room as to the best way to declutter for your home move and save money.
• Where to Donate Things After Decluttering. Donating your unwanted items is a great way to help others and many organisations will collect your unwanted items for free too.
• How to Create a Floor Plan for Your New Home. It is essential to create a floor plan for your new home so that you can be sure that your furniture fits in the available space and you do not waste money moving things that will not fit in your new home.

How Do You Arrange Furniture in Feng Shui?

If you are going to use a Feng Shui furniture layout in your new home, then now is the time to ensure that the furniture you have fits your requirements. It makes little sense paying to move furniture that you will be getting rid of.

What are the basic principles of Feng Shui furniture layout?

• Keep furniture away from the walls as it creates negative energy
• Place chairs and settees in a way that promotes communication
• From the sofa, you should be able to directly see the doorway
• If your front door opens into the living room your sofa should not be directly in your line of sight
• Place beds as far away from the door as possible
• The more minimalist your furniture layout, the easier it will be for good energy to flow
• Ensure that it is easy to move around your furniture, again this promotes good energy flow

What Day is Good Luck to Move into a House?

Let’s get your home move off to a positive start by ensuring that you arrive in your new home on what is considered to be a lucky day for home movers.

Thursday is considered the luckiest day of the week to move into a new home, whilst a Friday, Saturday, or a day when it is raining, is considered unlucky.

What are the Most Auspicious Dates for Moving Home in 2024 and 2025?

A full list of auspicious moving dates for 2024 and 2025 according to Vedic Astrology can be found at www.findyourfate.com

If you prefer to use the Chinese calendar to determine your auspicious moving dates for 2024 or 2025 visit www.chinesecalendaronline.com

You may also like to read: When is the Best Time to Move Home in which we look at the best times to move home to save you money on your removal costs.

How to Create Positive Energy on Moving Day

Moving day is the first day of your new life and in Feng Shui, it is an auspicious event.

There will be plenty happening today, but if you have hired a good removal firm to help you move, then you will be more relaxed and able to give your new home more attention.

Here are some easy ways to ensure that you bring positive energy to your new home.

• Move in when positive energy is strongest. The hours between 1100 and 1300 are believed to have the strongest yang energy and so is the ideal time to move into your new home.
• Keep Control of Your Emotion. The emotions that are displayed today will be mirrored in the days to come in your new home. Avoid any conflict or negative thoughts during moving day so that they are not brought into your new home.
• New Brushes Clean Best. Don’t bring your old mops and brooms to your new home. It is believed that any old troubles from your previous home will be swept into your new home by old mops and brushes.
• Clean out Negative Energy. Give your new home a thorough clean to get rid of any negative energy that may have been left by the previous occupiers. Be sure to open all the windows and doors to help blow any negative energy away.
• Clear out Negative Energy. After you have made your new home spotlessly clean, it is time to clear out the negative energy that may be lurking in the corners of your home. Sage is perfect for removing stale energy from the home. Just take a bundle of dried sage, light it, and then extinguish it immediately after it catches so the bundle creates enough smoke to waft through the entire home as you walk with it between each room. Hold the sage over a bowl of water so that you can catch any falling ash and also enable you to easily extinguish it when you have finished.

You may also like to read: How to Deep Clean a Home When Moving. No doubt you will want to give your new home a good clean before you start unpacking. In this guide, we share some great cleaning tips for every part of the home as well as some recipes for eco-friendly cleaning products.

Bonus fun tip: How to Roll a Pineapple in a New House

In Singapore, a pineapple is rolled into a new home whilst the phrase “huat ah!” is said.

Always roll with your hands, never with your foot, and roll the pineapple between each room of the home.

This is believed to bless the home and ensure that the home is a prosperous one for the occupants.

You may also like to read: The Bright Side of Moving Home. Keeping a positive state of mind is essential for a stress-free moving day. In this post, we look at all the positive aspects of moving to a new home.

11 Crystals for Good Luck and Fortune When Moving Home

Crystals have always been believed to channel good luck and have healing properties.

So what could be easier to bring positive energy and good luck into your new home than a lucky crystal?

Wear them around your neck, place them around the home, or sleep with them under your pillow to release all the incredible powers they harness.

So what crystals would be beneficial to have around you during your home move?

Whatever your reason for moving home, there is a crystal that will help and benefit you.

• Labradorite – Unsure if moving home is the right decision? If you lack the motivation to get packing or just feel stuck in a rut and unsure if you are making the right decision by moving home, Labradorite will promote motivation, and clarity, and attract good luck.
• Amazonite – An ideal Moving Day Crystal. Amazonite is said to promote harmonious relationships, promote understanding, and help us clearly express our emotions. On moving day stress levels are usually high and having a calm and pleasant state of mind will help ensure that your home move is as stress-free as possible.
• Amethyst – Another moving day crystal. A crystal that is believed to transform negative energy into positive energy and brings good luck into all aspects of our lives.
• Smoky Quartz – Moving home to start a new life? Smoky quartz enables us to reduce painful memories and remove negativity from our lives. It is regarded as a crystal that brings an abundance of positive energy.
• Citrine – Great for home movers. Citrine is a positive energy stone that promotes happiness and positive thoughts. It is a stone of new beginnings, which is exactly what your home move is, a wonderful new beginning.
• Carnelian and Garnet – Ideal if you have moved to a new place for work. Carnelian is said to attract prosperity and success, confidence and courage, make us more productive, promote creativity, and generally make good things happen. Whilst Garnet is said to bring luck in your career.
• Rose quartz – Moving for love? Rose quartz is the stone to have. It promotes a loving state of mind and removes negativity from our lives.
• Moldavite – For good luck in your new home. A very rare and beautiful crystal that is extremely good and powerful at attracting good luck and positivity into your life.
• Tigers eye – Ideal for when you start unpacking in your new home. A promoter of resilience, emotional power, physical strength and vitality, this is the ideal crystal to have around when you start that unpacking marathon.
• Jade – Relocation depression? Jade attracts wealth and luck whilst helping bring clarity of mind and thought. Ideal for helping you realise what a great choice of new home you made.
• Selenite – Placed by your front door this is a great crystal for maintaining a positive vibe in your new home

You may also like to read: How to Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle When Moving Home. Health, happiness, good luck and positivity often go hand in hand. But during your hectic relocation, your healthy lifestyle can often go by the wayside. In this guide, we suggest simple ways to stay healthy during your home move.

How to Use Feng Shui for Positive Energy in the Home

Over 3000 years ago the principles of Feng Shui were founded in China.

Principally, it is the balancing of energy within your home and life to promote health and good fortune.

So how do you attract positive energy and good luck into your home using Feng Shui?

#1 Always Use the Front Door

The front door of your home allows good fortune and positive energy to enter your life.

Try to use the front door rather than the back door as often as possible to maximise the benefits. Ideally, your front door should have plants on both sides and a light to draw positive energy to your door.

#2 Maintain Your Doors

This is especially important for your front door, but all doors should move freely with no squeaks, creaks, or groans.

The cry of the squeaking door affects your positive energy, so get it oiled.

#3 Put it Away

The hallway represents opportunities, so make sure that it is clutter-free.

Put coats and shoes in a closed cupboard so that negative energy cannot accumulate there.

To increase the positive energy in your hallway place fresh flowers and a mirror there.

#4 Waterfall of Wealth

The waterfall represents the flow of wealth into your home, so a waterfall placed near your front door, inside or out, pointing towards the centre of your home, will help ensure that a wealth of opportunities will flood into your life.

#5 Shut the Lid

Continuing wealth is represented by water, and because we do not want those opportunities to drain away, keep the toilet lid down and the bathroom door closed.

Having live plants placed in the bathroom helps soak up the water which helps slow the draining of your wealth.

#6 Mind the Gap!

Negative energy can accumulate in dead spaces above your kitchen wall cabinets for example.

So if there is space between the ceiling and the top of the cupboard, put some lighting or plants there to encourage positive energy.

You may also like to read: How to Love a Home You Hate. In this guide, we share lots of practical and useful ways that will help you bond with your new home and make you fall in love with it.

Positive Energy Home Décor

Colour has the ability to instantly make our home feel different just by changing the colours within it.

If you are struggling to make a new home feel like your home, then there is no surer way to make that happen than to give the walls a fresh coat of paint.

Not only are colours believed to have a psychological effect on us, but even a physical effect.

The ancient Egyptians and Chinese practiced light therapy which is still used today in holistic treatments.

Chromotherapy, colorology, or light therapy as it is variously termed, use the following colours in alternative therapies:

• Yellow – Purifies the body and stimulates nerves
• Orange – Increases energy levels and is said to heal the lungs
• Red – Stimulates both  the body and mind and increases circulation
• Indigo – Believed to be beneficial for skin ailments
• Blue – Used to alleviate pain and soothe illness

You can find out more about how colour affects our feelings and behaviours in this study at www.verywellminded.com

There are some colours which will instantly arouse in you a certain emotion, or feeling.

In Feng Shui, colours are used in the home to create balance and harmony. Each one offers you a source of emotional well-being and calmness.

There are 5 elements to Feng Shui: Fire, Earth, Metal, Wood, and Water, and each element has attributes and colours associated with it.

Fire: Passion and high energy: Red, orange, purple, pink, bright yellow

Earth: Nourishment and stability: Pale yellow, beige, and sand

Metal: Precision and clarity: White and Grey

Wood: Vitality and growth: Green and brown

Water: Calmness and abundance: Blue and black

You may like to read: How to Make Your Home Feel More Relaxing. In this guide, we share some simple tips to make your home a sanctuary of peace and relaxation.

What Colours Give Positive Energy and Bring Good Luck to a Home?

Each colour within the elements promotes and encourages certain things.

White – White represents a fresh start and is often used widely in Feng Shui-inspired homes for the calmness and clarity of mind that it brings.

Grey – An extremely popular colour that can span a variety of shades to help boost creativity and your career.

Yellow – The happiest colour in the Feng Shui range. Yellow promotes happiness, hope, and clarity.

Green – Green epitomizes growth, health, and life. In Feng Shui, green is associated with regeneration, growth, renewal, and freshness. When using the colour green in your home plan on using different shades to represent the balance of nature.

Brown – Brown represents strength and stability, whilst boosting energy. With vast shades to choose from, this is a universal colour that promotes a calm and stress-free environment.

Blue – Blue is said to evoke a feeling of calmness, and with such a wide spectrum of blue shades to choose from, is extremely popular within Feng Shui balanced homes.

Red – Use on the front door, in the kitchen, or in the dining room. The colour red will stimulate your energy and appetite. In Chinese culture, red is associated with good luck and happiness.

Orange – Ideal for when you need the attributes of the colour red but want a less vibrant colour in your home. Ideal for use in the dining or living room as orange promotes social interaction.

Salmon – A balancing colour that promotes conversation and social interaction.

Pink – Soft hues of pink will give you a soothing effect and should be used when you need a gentle infusion of energy.

Black – In Feng Shui black is used to channel energy and can be used in any room, although not in children’s rooms or on ceilings.

Lavender – Lavender invokes calmness and peace of mind and is especially suited to bathrooms and bedrooms.

When people ask how to bring positive energy into the home, the use of colour is usually the easiest and most common way of doing this.

What Colour is Good Luck for a Front Door?

Your front door is where energy enters your home and the colour that it should be painted is determined by the compass direction it faces.

There are harmonious and productive colours associated with each element of Feng Shui giving you various colour options for each compass point.

Here are the elements and associated colour for each point of the compass:

North: Water element: Water colours are blue and black. Harmonious colours are white and grey.

Northeast: Earth element: Earth colours are pale yellow, beige and hues of brown.

Northwest: Metal element: Metal colours are white and grey. Harmonious colours are pale yellow and beige.

East: Wood element: Wood colours are brown and green. Productive colours are blue, black and purple.

South: Fire element: Fire colours are yellow, purple, orange, magenta, and pink. Harmonious colours are brown and green

Southeast: Wood element: Wood colours are brown and green. Productive colours are blue, black, pale yellow, and light shades of beige.

Southwest: Earth element: Earth colours are pale yellow, beige and hues of brown. Harmonious colours are red, yellow, pink and orange

West: Metal element: Metal colours are white and grey. Harmonious colours are pale yellow and beige.

You may also like to read: How to Give a Home Kerb Appeal. If you want that feeling of arriving at your home and loving what you see, this guide will give you lots of inspiration to give your home kerb appeal.

What Should I Hang on My Front Door for Good Luck?

As your front door brings positive energy and good opportunities into your home it is important to not only get the colour right but decorate it in the appropriate Feng Shui manner.

#1 Hang a mirror or shiny objects from the door handle to reflect away negative energy

#2 To attract money to your home hang bells and golden coins from your front door handle

#3 Place 3 gold coloured coins under the doormat to attract good luck into your home

#4 Good lighting is essential to welcome in your good fortune

#5 Do not forget your front garden which should have a wind chime, bells, a clock, or a fountain which will help the flow of good energy into your home.

8 Front Door Good Luck Charms

Many cultures around the world hang objects on their front doors to attract good luck. So what should you hang on your front door for good luck?

#1 Horseshoe – Hung with the open side of the horseshoe facing upwards may bring good luck to all those who live within the house. Hung with the open side facing downwards is believed to bring good luck to all those that walk beneath it.

#2 Dutch hex sign – Often in the shapes of flowers, hearts, or birds, these intricate signs are believed to bring prosperity to the home and protect it from negative energy.

#3 Elephants – An elephant figurine whose trunk points upwards is considered good luck. Placed near your front door it will protect your home from negative energy.

# 4 Acorns – Ancient druids believed oak trees to be sacred and that acorns brought good fortune. Scatter some acorns around your front door to attract good luck into your home.

#5 Lucky numbers – 7 has been regarded as a lucky number in many cultures, and the number 8 is especially lucky in Chinese culture. If your house number is either one, or both, then that can only be a good sign.

#6 Lucky animals – Many animals are considered lucky. In Feng Shui, goldfish are considered very lucky, and turtles, tortoises, dragons, horses, swallows, and pigs are also thought to be lucky. A picture or figurine by the front door of one of these animals is said to bring good luck to the home.

#7 Evil Eye Charms – In Turkey, evil eye lucky charms, glass beads with rings of blue or green, are said to bring good luck when hung by the front door.

#8 Wind chimes – Wind chimes are made in a range of materials and have differing numbers of rods, each having its own auspicious properties. As we are trying to attract positive energy and good luck to our home, the most auspicious wind chimes will have 5 cylinders which represent the five elements of Feng Shui. Traditionally, wind chimes should be made of metal rods and hung using red ribbon.  

14 Plants That Bring Positive Energy into Your Home

Of all the good luck things for a new house that people often give as a housewarming gift, a plant is probably the most common.

Not only do plants add visual appeal to your home, but they also have health and spiritual benefits too.

Read on to find out what plants are good luck for a home.

#1 Bamboo – Regarded by the Chinese as the luckiest of all plants and a must-have for any home.

#2 Jasmine – Attracts positive energy. Believed to stimulate energy and calm a troubled mind.

#3 Rosemary – Promotes good physical and mental health whilst purifying the air within your home.

#4 Basil – Basil is an excellent air purifier whilst it is also great for clearing negative energy from your home.

#5 Sage – Sage promotes positive energy whilst its cleansing properties rid your home of negativity and anger.

#6 Lavender – The strong aroma of lavender invokes happiness and relaxation.

#7 Aloe Vera – An excellent plant to help purify and cleanse the air in your home.

#8 Orchids – Not only do orchids boost positive energy within the home but are believed to boost fertility.

#9 Snake plants – Snake plants are known to help purify the air as well as evoke happiness in whoever sees its vibrant colours.

#10 Peace Lily – An auspicious plant that oozes tranquillity and peace. Not only does a peace lily promote positive energy within the home, but it is also said to boost your mental well-being.

#11 Cactus – Believed to absorb the electromagnetic energy within your home, to ward off anxiety, and to actively promote positivity within the home.

#12 Jade plant – Place near your front door to reduce anxiety and stress within the home.

#13 Eucalyptus – Great for purifying negative energy, whilst Eucalyptus is also believed to increase concentration and productivity.

#14 Golden Pothos – An ideal plant for promoting calmness and positivity within your home.

You may also like to read: How to Move Plants to a New Home. In this guide, we share tips on how to ensure that your plants are undamaged during their relocation to your new home.

9 Superstitions and Traditions That Bring Good Luck into Your New Home

Moving into a new home is a significant event in anyone’s life, and all around the world, there are traditions that are followed which are meant to bring good luck into a new home.

#1 Bread and salt – The bread is given so that the inhabitants never know hunger, whilst salt symbolizes the flavour that will fill your new life.

#2 Boiled milk and rice – Traditionally an Eastern tradition, an overflowing pot of milk and rice symbolizes purity, long life, and an abundance of wealth and food for the new inhabitants.

#3 Ring a bell – Open the windows and ring a bell to rid your home of negative energy and symbolize the fresh beginning in your new home.

#4 Stepping over the threshold – Enter your new home by the front door and ensure that you exit the same way. It is believed that you will be unable to settle into your new home unless you perform this simple task.

#5 Scatter rice or coins – Scatter rice or coins on the floor to attract prosperity and wealth to your new home.

#6 Throw a housewarming party – Filling your home with joy and laughter will drive out any negative energy and fill your home with positivity. Throwing a homewarming party to thank all those who helped you move and to get to meet your new neighbours is a great way to do this.

#7 Light a candle – Many countries around the world believe that lighting a candle on the first night in a new home will bless the house and bring light to it. The light from the candle represents good, purity, and strength. It is the origin of the term ‘housewarming’ although today we associate housewarming with a party.

#8 Move Home on a Thursday – Thursday is believed to be the luckiest day of the week to move into a new home. It should save you some money too as Friday is usually the busiest moving day and therefore the most expensive day to move home.

#9 Hang fennel above the door – Hanging fennel above your front door will help ward off evil spirits.

You may also like to read: How to Throw an Unforgettable Housewarming Party. Filling a new home with joy and happiness is a surefire way to get your new life off to a great start. Here we look at some great ideas to make your housewarming party unforgettable.

We hope you found some useful tips here for bringing good luck into your new home.

Remember that positive thoughts and good deeds are two of the most powerful tools you have to bring good luck and positivity to your new life.

But if you want to stack the odds in your favour it will do no harm to try just a few of the suggestions above, you never know, it may just work.

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There is also a whole library of guides, tips, and advice to be found in our home moving blog which will make your home move cheaper, easier, and safer.

If you have any more old wives’ tales about moving home that you would like to share, just leave a comment below.