Feng Shui-perstitions 2: Good & Bad Luck Insects!

In feng shui, if bees make hive in a place, that place will be blessed with joy and great fortune. But in western culture, there is a superstition that if bees swarm on a roof, the subject house will burn down!

Bee sting in other cultures is not bad luck! It is attributed to be a cure for rheumatism. More so if a bee settles on your hand, it is an omen that money will be forthcoming. Better still if on your head, it means you will achieve greatness!

With butterflies, in some countries people believe that if you spot a white butterfly at the start of the year, you will have good luck all year around. Most cultures associate butterfly as a soul of a dead person. That’s why in Philippine folklore, if one spots a butterfly in a room, it is attributed to be the soul of dearly departed visiting the place. Thus it is bad luck to kill it.

Crickets chirping in a place are a harbinger for good luck too.

Good news for overseas workers’ families! When it comes to moth flying around a lamp at night, it signifies the arrival of a postcard. If it circles the lamp twice, the arrival of a letter; if thrice a parcel! But some belief also spells out that a white moth trying to enter a house or already in it is an omen of death.

For those hoping to travel abroad or migrate, if you see a spider in the afternoon going down its web; you will journey soon! In Christian European countries there is a belief that spiders should be protected as it brings luck and protection too. This stems from ancient urban legends that a spider hid Baby Jesus from King Herod’s soldiers by weaving a web over Him!

Should you have your own share of learned feng shuiperstitions about insects, you may share it on my timeline on Facebook at FengShuiAldric! So be careful with insecticides as it may bring bad luck... or good if rightly used!