Water is a very important element in the practice of feng shui, and indoor fountains are now commonly being used as feng shui cures by people all over the world seeking to enhance and improve their lives by aligning their energies properly. As an element water is constantly ebbing and flowing, symbolizing the shifting patterns and realities of life and change in general. Water teaches us to go with the flow, to adapt to circumstances and accept constant change in our lives.

Water is also an element of wealth and prosperity, and indoor fountains are literally both capturing this and setting it in motion at the same time. Many people seeking to use their fountains as cures will place it at the Southeast wall or corner of the house in order to compound and tap into the energies there. Southeast corresponds to prosperity and abundance in feng shui, and with the combination of wealth and abundance from water in general you wind up with a powerful concoction of energy. Other people will try to align the energies from water with the North, which symbolizes their careers and life in general. In this way they seek to direct the wealth benefits of mastering water toward their lives in order to increase material value in addition to spiritual growth based off of the change inherent in the water element in the first place.

Water is an excellent teacher in feng shui, and it can both sooth a person or drown them in anxiety and change when need be. Learning to master the element, utilize your fountain, and aligning the proper energies can transform your world and leave you successful and content.