The front palace, foyer, or entrance, is an important area in the home that is often overlooked.

This is the very first area where new energy enters the home, flowing through the ENTIRE space we live in, carrying with it energy currents that are charged with frequencies that affect the home’s inhabitants.

Check out this post to read more about the front palace from a Feng Shui perspective, and how to find yours in your home.

Based on your Human Design Environment, consider how you want the energy to feel when it enters your home. Prepare your space so it imprints the surrounding energy flow with that charge. Let’s tend to your front palace!

Good Security & Protection

Whether this is a strong lock and bolt or a high tech security system, consider the space you live in and what would make you feel safest given what’s available. By prioritizing security around the entrance of the home, you’re doing your best to protect the mouth of the Cave, controlling how people access you. Give this area in your entrance sincere attention.

Welcoming Colour Palette

What makes you feel cozy, comforted and at home? The first mood, vibe and energy that greets you when you walk in the door is important. Your space needs to hold you. The first impression sets the tone for the entire space, so when you walk in the door, consider the first things that greet you, and how you may introduce a colour palette that emits the feeling of safety and comfort for you.

No overhead lighting

When we think of a classic cave, the light could come from the ground thanks to a fire, or through illumination along the walls by hanging that fire in a torch or post. When light is low to the ground, it creates a comforting glow. And if you can’t modernly exist with candles and torches all over the place, table lamps are a great way to play with this energy, rather than harsh overhead lighting. A light source can often be a sign of safety — having a lamp on a welcome console or drop zone when you walk in allows you to quickly turn on a light if it’s dark when you come through the front door.

Cozy amount of space?

You don’t need a grand massive entrance, and also having a designated space — even if it’s a small one — can do wonders for collecting that welcoming cosmic chi as it spills into the home. Every time we open and close the door we’re activating potential fresh energy to enter the space. Whatever space is available to you, do your best to create an entrance space to your Cave to do your best to control the energy as it comes in. No entrance at all throws in more risky and dangerous energy into your space and into your life.

Prioritize front door

In Feng Shui, the main door is extremely significant, and I think that’s extra loud for Caves people. A SOLID front door made of strong wood is ideal. Glass or windows in a door is less ideal because this glass can be smashed and make break-ins more possible. If the door is flimsy, dirty, or broken, this will significantly impact the flow of energy into your space. It’s as if the energy entering the space is all washed in the door’s energy and now flowing into your space. How might the front door be treated with the utmost respect, care and priority? Playing with the colour of your door with paint can also impact the way the energy feels that enters that space, and create an opportunity to connect with colour that has cultural significant or meaning to you personally. Your home should really represent YOU.

Play with cavey-elements

Think primitive, simple textures, low baskets to catch those shoes and flipflops, or low lighting that’s easy to turn on when you walk in, or rugs that prioritize the floor — Caves People love to roll around on the floor and stretch out! And while you may not lay and stretch out in your entrance, anchoring the space with a rug or carpet can help define a space that isn’t actually there. It can also very practically sop up any outdoor dirt and grime, protecting you from that being brought into the rest of the house.

Intimately consider the entry points

When you enter your home and are standing in the available entrance, notice if you walk into an open concept space, or if there are any doors in view other than the front door. How many entry and exit points do you see in when you walk in? Are there closet doors? Bathroom doors? Doors to other rooms? In classic Feng Shui, many room dividers are used to break up a space and create privacy, controlling the flow of energy. Sometimes just closing the door or curtains can help. Consider how you might be able to create privacy if things feel “too exposed” in anyway when you walk in.