Feng Shui and the ghost of a housemaid

A Housemaid makes her way home

Feng Shui really is the love of my life and I enjoy and remember every house I have worked on, and we are talking about an awful lot of years now!!

I have worked on new houses, old houses, flats, barn conversions, offices, you name it I have probably Feng Shui’ed it. However, I have found that many of the houses I have been called into have a ghost and often that is why I have been asked to go. As I have always been very psychic, I view it as part of my work and it is always a good feeling to have helped some poor, lost soul move over into the next world.

I am often asked why the house would have a ghost and how it has become trapped. Well, often it is lack of religion that would hold a spirit back from making the final journey. There are many people who, sadly, do not believe in an afterlife and think that ‘when you are dead, you are dead’. Then, when their spirit finally leaves their body and they find that there is something after all, they do not know what to do or where to go. They become stuck and still do not accept that there is anywhere else to go to, so tend to carry on doing the things that they always did. After a while, they may get fed up with trying to speak to the people they find living in their house and get a bit angry and start rattling doors or moving objects around.

There are times when a person is so attached to their house and belongings (especially as they have worked hard all their life to pay for these things) that they may feel reluctant to leave them for someone else to enjoy.

Sometimes, they just get stuck because they have not had an education and have not had the opportunity to learn about religion.

I had an occasion recently when I was asked to Feng Shui a delightful Victorian house. It had been extended several times over the years and was situated in a large and beautiful garden that suited the house perfectly with a large, original ornamental fish pond near the entrance.

I could feel the heaviness of the atmosphere in the kitchen, and the feeling as if was walking through treacle, which extended into the hall where there was an old-fashioned fireplace with charming Victorian tiles on the floor. This was the hub of the house and had a completely different feel to the newer extensions all around. The windows looked original and the sunlight poured in through from the garden which looked much as it would have done many years ago. Although this was a large space, it felt small and the occupants said that they always felt as if someone was here and watching them, and they didn’t feel happy about it.

The house was enchanting to Feng Shui and the owners were pleased with my suggestions for colour schemes and furniture placement for the new and old parts of their home. I then went back to the kitchen to help the unfortunate, trapped soul. With spirit clearing, I am always careful to protect myself well as I never know what I am likely to face but I knew that there was nothing evil here, just a misplaced spirit.

I gently called the spirit to me and she revealed herself as a Victorian kitchen maid. She even bobbed a curtsey to me and looked down as if she felt that she couldn’t look me in the face. I felt that she was probably so used to being humble that she viewed me more as a ‘lady of the manor’. In a sacred ceremony, I guided her to the light and told her that her friends and family were waiting for her – and she literally went over to the next world in a flash. She was just so glad to be shown the ‘way out’. I felt instinctively that she was so used to being told what to do and where to go in life that when she died she didn’t know what to do – so, she just went about her business and did what she had always done. Her territory seemed to be from an old sink in a pantry in the original part of the kitchen through to the hall where she would have made up the fire – and she had obviously continued doing this for maybe a hundred years longer than she needed to!

The owners of the house felt the difference immediately and couldn’t believe how big the space felt in the hall. They held their arms outstretched as they both said, “It feels so big here now”. Well, yes, it would – there was no longer anyone making up a fire that would no longer be lit or walking continually to and from the kitchen.

I still feel very sad about her as she was one of the sweetest and most heart-rending spirits I have encountered. She must have had a hard life and it lasted much longer than it needed to. I am glad that it is finally all over for her now and that she is at peace.

It is not only the older spirits that get trapped. I was asked to Feng Shui an office in Canary Wharf a couple of years ago which had a ghost that was spooking people who worked after hours. The ghost was rattling doors and people could feel a chill as something went by. They had exhausted all possible rational explanations and several people were refusing to work late or on their own. I had heard that Canary Wharf was built on an old Roman battle ground and searched on the net for some more detail but came up with nothing. On the day, as I went around the building I was aware that there was a heaviness in one room and this was where the ghost had been felt the most. I asked my contacts to leave me while I called the spirit to me. I was expecting to see some kind of soldier but it was a modern-day builder who stood before me who had passed over (or rather, not quite) whilst working on the building. He couldn’t work out why he had been stuck mainly in one room and had been getting quite annoyed and had thus started rattling the doors in his exasperation. He was shocked as he had not known what had happened to him but went over into the Light very happily when I explained. The office people came back in and expressed surprise how big the room felt (this is a common feeling once a spirit has been cleared). No more doors rattled, or chills were felt and people worked late again without their additional spooky companion!