If you’ve read any book on feng shui, you’d know that keeping a clean aquarium with fish brings wealth when placed correctly in the wealth sectors of your home! You’ll notice this at Chinese restaurants anywhere in the world. So is there significance in the number of fishes to keep? Someone wrote to me asking…
I am keeping in a 50cm china porcelain bowl in my north sector of my living room. I have read in many recommendations about 9 gold fishes. Because my bowl isnt a big one, I m thinking of just rearing 2-3 gold fishes in it. Is that auspicious? What are the other combinations that are good besides 9?
From a feng shui perspective, numbers take significance from 2 schools - Firstly, they way the numbers “sound” in Chinese have symbolic connotations, and secondly - the meaning of the numbers under the Flying Star intepretation. Generally for keeping fish, I subscribe to the symbolic meaning of Numbers. Good numbers of fishes are 3, 6, 8 and 9. The best combination is 8 gold ones and 1 black one. A pair is good for love. When a fish dies, replace it as it only means that the poor fish has taken away some bad luck on your behalf. Say some prayers and mantras for the poor fish and give it a nice burial.
How about the multiplication of those auspicious numbers? E.g. 16 gold ones and 2 black ones? Will that work?
That’s an interesting observation but unfortunately it doesn’t work like this. The meaning is derived from the sound of the numbers.. so best to keep the numbers as suggested. 16 however, have very good meaning so you can keep 16 goldfish if you like!
Nice article. Thanks
which is better… 3 goldfish and 1 black fish…. or 2 goldfish and 1 black fish.. i have heard that either of these are good from different sources…
2 goldfish and 1 black are better.
i have 3 goldfish and 2 blackfish in my aquarium facing to the left hand side of our room, would that be okay?