Feng Shui Experts Reveal the 6 Best Places to Put a Jade Plant in Your Home, for Vitality, Longevity and Good Fortune
Discover how to align the natural symbolism of a jade plant with the energy flow in your home
The jade plant is a much-loved staple in Feng Shui, often referred to as a money plant or friendship tree. It is closely associated with wealth, prosperity, and steady growth, with its rounded, coin-shaped leaves believed to attract good fortune. Its evergreen nature also symbolizes resilience, vitality, and longevity, making it an ideal choice for encouraging abundance and positive energy within your home.
Beyond its symbolism, the jade plant’s easy-going nature makes it both a practical and powerful Feng Shui plant. Caring for a healthy jade plant is thought to support the smooth flow of beneficial energy, or chi, throughout a space. Correct placement is essential to unlocking the jade plant’s full potential and aligning it with your intentions.
Why a Jade Plant is a Favorable Choice in Feng Shui
Feng Shui is all about creating a harmonious balance between individuals and their environment. This can be achieved by thoughtfully arranging spaces – and the plants within them – to optimize the flow of qi, or positive energy.
'Within this practice, a jade plant is regarded as the most auspicious plant for money luck,' explains Dee Oujiri, Feng Shui strategist and biophilic design practitioner.
As a Feng Shui plant, the jade introduces both the wood element, which represents vitality, growth, and expansion, and the earth element, or Kun Qi, which nurtures stable and harmonious energies. Together, these energies help foster steady success and upward momentum in both personal and professional life.
A jade plant's lush, vibrant appearance, rich green color, and succulent, rounded leaves are closely tied to growth, renewal, and abundance. As an evergreen plant, it symbolizes steady growth and longevity, while its ability to thrive with minimal care reflects resilience, persistence, and the idea of building wealth over time.
The jade plant’s coin-shaped leaves also resemble the precious gemstone for which it is named, further enhancing its connection to financial abundance and lasting fortune.
'This is a succulent plant that has juicy coin shaped leaves that call in wealth and prosperity. Placing it with intention can help bring slow and steady financial growth,' says Anjie Cho, holistic interior designer and Feng Shui expert at the Mindful Design Feng Shui School.
A little jade plant like this is perfect for placing on your desk as a simple of success and productivity.
Trailing jade is perfect for cascading off a bookcase in your living room, one of the best places to put a jade plant.
This jade plant comes in a sleek white planter, perfect for minimalist spaces.
Dee Oujiri is the founder of Homes That Heal, a bespoke consulting firm dedicated to crafting luxury spaces aligned with nature and well-being. With a blend of expertise in Feng Shui, Biophilic Design, and energy alignment, Dee transforms homes, properties, and developments into sanctuaries of harmony, prosperity, and timeless elegance. Beyond her professional work, Dee is a passionate advocate for connecting with the earth’s natural rhythms and creating spaces that resonate with positive energy.
Anjie Cho is a creator of holistic spaces, specifically focused on designing architectural interiors, and teaching feng shui and meditation. She is the author of Mindful Homes and Holistic Spaces.
Best Locations to Place a Jade Plant According to Feng Shui
'In Feng Shui, it's not just about where you place your plants but also the intention behind it,' says Dee Oujiri.
This translates as positioning the plant in a way that aligns with the energy you want to attract or enhance in your life. It has to involve some intentional thought, as Dee explains:
'Placing a jade plant in your wealth corner without any thought is like expecting to win the lottery without buying a ticket,' she says. 'Take a moment to set your intention when placing your green friends. After all, your jade plant can't manifest that corner office for you if it doesn't know that's what you're after.'
You can use the Bagua map – otherwise known as the Feng Shui energy map – to strategically place your jade plant in specific areas, or 'Guas', that align with your intentions. The Bagua divides your home into nine sections, each representing a different aspect of life.
To learn more about the Bagua map, you can consult The Art of Feng Shui for Modern Living, available from Amazon.
Here is what our Feng Shui experts say about the best locations for your jade plants, to maximize their energy-boosting potential.
An Entryway or Front Door
Entryway Feng Shui is believed to welcome positive energy, good luck, opportunities, and abundance into your home.
Anjie Cho says: 'A jade plant near the entry can be placed with the intention to invite wealth and prosperity.'
Positioning the plant in the foyer, near the front door, helps attract these sentiments into your life, creating an inviting space filled with potential.
Southeast Corner – The Wealth and Prosperity Gua
In Feng Shui, the southeast sector of your home is thought to be the 'Wealth and Prosperity Gua'.
'Many people like to put a jade plant in the wealth area to cultivate and enhance the growth of financial income,' says Anjie Cho. Positioning a jade plant in the Feng Shui wealth corner of your home is believed to attract wealth, abundance, opportunities, and financial growth.
To locate the southeast corner, simply identify the area of your home that corresponds to the lower-left section when looking at a floor plan or layout.
Your Workspace
In office Feng Shui, placing a jade plant in a workspace is particularly beneficial, as it combines the plant’s natural association with growth and abundance with the flow of productive energy.
According to Feng Shui principles, positioning a jade plant in the southeast corner of your office or desk – an area traditionally linked to wealth and prosperity – can help attract financial opportunities and support career advancement.
A jade plant also works well on a desk or shelf where it is clearly visible, as this placement allows you to engage with its energy regularly. Keeping it healthy and vibrant signals a flourishing work environment and promotes a sense of calm, focus, and steady progress.
Feng Shui expert Anjie Cho explains, 'Place a jade plant in the office or work from home space to enhance the prosperity of your business, career, or work. Your workspace represents your prosperity, success, and career.'
For an extra Feng Shui boost, some practitioners recommend placing a small dish of coins or a crystal near the base of the plant to symbolically reinforce intentions for prosperity and growth.
Eastern Corner – Health and Family Gua
The east area of your home is linked to health and family harmony in Feng Shui. Placing a jade plant in this location is believed to promote vitality, and well-being, and strengthen family bonds.
To locate the health and family Gua, simply refer to the Bagua map, where the east corner corresponds to this important area of life.
The Living Room
In living room Feng Shui, this space is considered the heart of the home, where energy gathers and circulates.
Since a jade plant symbolizes growth, abundance, and harmony placing it in this room can help balance energy, creating a calm, inviting, and prosperous environment for family and guests.
For optimal Feng Shui, position the jade plant in the southeast or east corner of the living room. Its presence can enhance the flow of positive energy throughout the space, encouraging prosperity while fostering a sense of balance and wellbeing.
Even simple placement, like a jade plant on a coffee table, sideboard, or windowsill, can act as a reminder of growth and abundance, inviting steady prosperity and positive energy into your daily life.
The Dining Table
'A jade plant on your dining table symbolizes abundance and nourishment in all forms, be it financial, emotional, and physical,' explains Dee Oujiri.
'For an added boost, position it where it reflects in a mirror, this is believed to double its energy and amplify abundance.'
Where You Should Not Place a Jade Plant, According to Feng Shui
It’s important to avoid placing the plant in areas of negative energy, such as near cluttered spaces, electronics that emit strong heat, or directly under harsh artificial lighting, which can disrupt its beneficial qi.
Instead, pairing the jade plant with natural light and clean, organized surroundings amplifies its positive influence, helping to foster both creativity and financial stability.
The bathroom and the laundry room are considered unlucky locations for a jade plant. Symbols of wealth and abundance are discouraged in these rooms, as the wastewater energy can send your money luck right down the drain.
Dee Oujiri elaborates on Feng Shui in the bathroom: 'Placing money plants like jade in the bathroom is like trying to fill a leaky bucket with dollar bills. The draining energy associated with bathrooms can metaphorically wash away the prosperity these plants symbolize.
'Keep your wealth-attracting plants far from the toilet unless you're aiming for a very expensive way to clean your finances'
She also warns that the bedroom should also be avoided: 'Jade plants and other vigorous growers have a bit too much yang (active) energy for a space dedicated to rest. Instead of promoting peaceful slumber, they might keep you planning your next big adventure.'
FAQs
Is a Jade Plant a Good Gift According to Feng Shui?
The gifting of a jade plant is a traditional Feng Shui practice, especially in business relationships. This gift is believed to be very auspicious for a new business or venture.
Being mindful in your interior design is also important when it comes to harnessing the positive qi (energy) of Feng Shui plants.
Remember to keep the space around the plant clean and uncluttered to allow for a free flow of energy.
