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New Year, More Wealth: Aquariums and Ponds Might Be the Key

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Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!! Wow, that’s exciting! 

Our team wanted to give the gift of possibilities to our friends and family so 2020 can be the kind of healthy, prosperous and happy you want to make of it.

We curated thoughtful and simple ways to enhance your way through this new year with peaceful spaces and harmonious vibes. And we took inspiration from the Chinese Feng Shui philosophy since January 25th is the Chinese New Year. New Year, more wealth: aquariums and ponds might be the key!

The 6,000 year-old method literally means “wind” (Feng) and “water” (Shui) and it optimizes living spaces to bring about happiness, abundance and harmony. We could all use a little bit of those. And nothing inspires Poseidon Aquariums’ team more than water-related designs and concepts. According to Feng Shui, aquariums and ponds promote obtaining prosperity and wealth and apparently can help us solve problems too.

Experts on the subject recommend adding koi fish to your pond, a symbol of luck. The more the better. Koi Pond Guide explains that koi fish brings good fortune, nurtures perseverance in adversity and strength of purpose. The meaning comes from a Japanese legend in which a koi climbs a waterfall only to find its death, bravely, on a cutting board, like a samurai – OUCH! We personally don’t like to eat our koi. We rather marvel at its beauty in a pond. The article has quite a few other interesting facts including that Koi sounds like the word “love” in Japanese – awwww!

Sally Painter, a Feng Shui practitioner and writer for Lovetoknow, wrote about location, depth, design, size, shape and so much more in her article “Designing a Feng Shui Koi Fish Pond.” Really great info! Highlights include making sure your pond is deep so your pockets will be too, clean and flowing.

In “How to Attract Wealth and Abundance with a Feng Shui Aquarium,” Rodika Tchi describes how an aquarium holds all five Feng Shui elements, hence its strength in bringing energy of abundance. She says the fish should be bright and have room to grow, like your physical and spiritual wealth. She explains the southeast corner of your space is the Feng Shui wealth and abundance bagua area. North and East are also suitable but with more focus on career and health, respectively. For aquariums, it is best to have them in the living room or in the office so it attracts good luck in business and in the financial category.

The Feng Shui Pundit enumerates some powerful benefits of having an aquarium in your space with a level of mindfulness and symbolism we really enjoyed reading about. Here is one that we didn’t know: aquariums absorb a lot of negative energy and when fish die they are said to take something terrible with them. Their death purifies your space and allowing for positive energy to fill the void. I mean, we really don’t like when our fish die but if they must, better they take bad mojo with them on the way out.

For non-believers out there: we hear you too. The idea is to beautify your living space, to make it harmonious and happy to be in. We truly believe aquariums and ponds do that, no matter the shape, size or placement. Could it be the meditational components of water and water-beings? Why not. Either way we’re all for it.

But one thing we heartily agree 110% with: keeping your pond and aquarium clean and your fish and plants healthy. Feng Shui says a dirty, stagnant, dying water feature is as bad as it gets for your space, for your bank account and for you!

Happy 2020, happy Chinese New Year and we wish you much health, happiness, prosperity, peace and harmony!

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The Benefits of Aquariums and Ponds for Kids (and Parents!)

Underwater ecosystems whether a pond or an aquarium offer a set of unique benefits for children and parents alike. From the expected educational opportunities such as science but also mindfulness – yes, mindfulness! – fish can teach a lot.

We’ll run through some of the more traditional benefits first. You’ll probably agree with us that aquariums and ponds are an open invitation for children of all ages to explore the unknowns of the underwater world. Here are the top 4 reasons kids and parents should have access to them:

  1. It encourages learning. It pushes kids to explore and discover the world under the sea they would otherwise hardly encounter.

“How does the starfish move from the rock to the glass?”

“Why is Nemo hiding in this coral?”

“What is the shrimp picking off the fish?”

From science and social interaction to problem-solving and critical thinking, even a small ecosystem with a couple of fish and corals can help understand a lot. From hard to explain concepts to much more, it allows for a child to come to his own conclusions. Same for adults!

  1. It stirs imagination and creativity. Children look at these aquariums and they see a whole new different world.

Two of the most vulnerable attributes children thrive on find a place to go wild in the underwater world of fish, crabs, shrimps, live sand, soft and hard corals, turtles and so much more.

The colors alone are so brilliant and inspiring in a saltwater aquarium. But add to that the beautiful movements only found in water, the multitude of textures and shapes never to be found on land and the unknown “animals”, and imagination and creativity will be on overload.

Keep those attributes alive in our children and help adults get back in touch with them!

  1. It creates a sense of responsibility and brings children and parents together. Taking care of pets can make an impact on how kids develop their social skills. It also opens a forum to interact with parents through learning and growing together.

As parents we are always longing for the “teachable moments,” those times where we can pass our knowledge along to our little ones while they are still interested and while they still think we know everything. It reinforces our parental sense of responsibility towards our children. On the same token, we can teach them to take care of pets.

  1. It fosters Mindfulness.

    Watching the sequences of moments that make up the lives of the fish and how independent they are from each other brings to life the concept of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is defined as living in the moment. Human’s signature ability to carry the past and wonder about the future are both a blessing and a curse. The concept of being mindful is often explained by turning to nature and how animals care only about the “right now’. Your pond or aquarium is a plethora of moments in which children and parents can focus on what’s happening right now.

Aquariums also offer an ideal physical focus point to disconnect from the hustle of every day activities and meditate. The soothing rhythm of the aquarium system – think pulsating xenia – eases the mind into a state of calmness by promoting the regulation of our breathing. This is a fantastic way to teach children the breathing techniques for meditation.

Whether you own an aquarium or pond or whether there is one at school, the pediatrician’s or at your office, the benefits of really taking in what they have to offer us is priceless. Let the fish teach kids and parents how to master life’s most important skills!