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A three-legged ceramic burner, raised on slender feet. The elevated form echoes the old bronze censers once kept in temples and scholars' rooms, lifting the burner clear of the surface beneath it. It holds both incense sticks and rolls, and the height lets the...

A sleek ceramic burner with no feet, sitting flush to the surface. Its low, legless form is the quietest kind of incense holder, made to disappear into a shelf or a desk and let the smoke do the work. It holds both sticks and...

The wealth bowl is an old practice: gather the symbols of fortune in one place and keep them where you live or work. Across Asia, prosperous homes and businesses have long kept a bowl filled with gold ingots, coins, and gemstones, a way of...

The dragon turtle carries the head of a dragon on the body of a tortoise, two natures in one creature. The dragon brings drive and courage; the tortoise brings patience and a steady back to lean on. In feng shui the pairing is kept...

In Chinese tradition the dragon is the most auspicious of all creatures, the bringer of success and good fortune. Kept in the home or office, the dragon stands for ambition, courage, and the kind of momentum that carries a career forward. It is also...

A flat sculpting tool, cut from rose quartz, for the slow part of a skincare routine. Gua sha is an old practice of working the face gently with a smooth stone, used in upward, outward strokes to ease tension and help a facial oil...

The Hu Lu, carved in obsidian and etched with the Heart Sutra. The Hu Lu takes its shape from the calabash gourd, long used in Chinese practice to draw off unsettled energy and hold it away from a room. Cut here from black obsidian,...

The pagoda is the tower of clear thinking. Modelled on the tiered temple towers of Buddhist tradition, the pagoda is kept in feng shui to steady a scattered mind and lift the energy of study and focus. It is the classic piece for a...

The three-legged toad sits by the door and brings the money in. One of the best known wealth symbols in Chinese tradition, the toad, the Jin Chan, is usually shown with a coin in its mouth and three legs beneath it. Legend places it...

Gold ingots, the old shape of saved wealth. Before paper money, the ingot, the yuanbao, was how fortune was stored in China, and it has carried that meaning into feng shui ever since. Kept in the home or office, ingots stand for savings, value,...

A prayer wheel holds a written mantra inside its turning drum. In Tibetan Buddhist practice, each turn of the wheel is counted as a recitation of the mantra coiled within it, a way of carrying intention through the day without words. Spinning it is...

The Chi Lin is the gentlest of the celestial guardians. Often called the Chinese unicorn or dragon horse, it carries the body of a horse, the scales of a dragon, and a nature known for goodwill rather than force. In feng shui it is...

The phurba is a ritual dagger, not a weapon. Used in Tibetan Buddhist practice, its three-sided blade represents cutting through the three things that cloud a clear mind: ignorance, attachment, and aversion. The handle stands for wisdom. Together they make a tool for clearing...

In feng shui, the rooster keeps watch. Long kept in the home as a guardian, the rooster is a symbol of vigilance and courage, said to face trouble head-on and call in good fortune with the dawn. It is also traditionally placed to guard...

Two guardians in one figure: the dragon turtle for support, the pagoda for a clear mind. The dragon turtle, a turtle with a dragon's head, has long been kept in feng shui to draw steady wealth and to attract the kind of backing that...