In the stillness of Jane Li Fox’s home something stirs.

Some may call it magic.

Every morning when Fox awakens, she walks into her living room and chirps, “Good morning everyone.”

In her backyard, blue jays, crows and squirrels flock to her like Snow White, as she throws peanuts and sings, “Little squirrels, little squirrels.”

The Kirkland resident says that since everything in life is connected, you can have a relationship with anything. It starts with the element of love, which transforms things – even your own reality, said Fox, who doesn’t own a TV or a computer.

That is the message of her most recent book, “Feng Shui for Horses,” which just hit local bookshelves, including Parkplace Books.

“So that’s the element I bring to everything is the magical element, because I put love into everything I’m doing and things just sparkle,” said Fox, who wears sparkles on her cheeks. “That’s the reality I live in.”

When Fox is not writing, she does feng shui consultant work, housekeeping and landscaping – all part of her business, Alchemy Options.

She said the best-known goal of an alchemist is to turn base metals into gold. However, “you can’t turn something out there into gold until you first do it within yourself,” said Fox, who has lived in Kirkland nearly 20 years and has a doctorate degree in theology.

“Feng Shui for Horses” guides readers to create a more intimate relationship with their horse, and ultimately, themselves.

Fox was 45 years old when she got her first horse, Prince. She found the black Arab horse when a Bridle Trails resident put an ad in the newspaper, looking for someone to lease her horse when she went back to school.

Fox fell in love with him right away. And soon, so too did kids in the neighborhood who Fox would find hanging out with Prince in the pasture when she came to visit him after work. On Sundays, Prince would give local children rides.

“He loved kids and kids loved him,” she recalled.

About nine years later, Prince died. And from there everything seemed to fall apart, Fox said. She and her husband divorced and lost their house.

But something from deep within caused Fox to look at her misfortune as an opportunity.

“When something blows up and you think, ‘Oh, this is the most horrible thing,’ the gold is always there,” she said, adding everything that happens in life has a silver lining. “If you want your life to be different, you have to let go of the story … and you can start a new story anytime you want.”

Now, life for Fox is a “wonderful, magical experience and that’s the kind of reality I live in every day of my life.”

As a feng shui consultant, Fox has been featured during local workshops, including at Simplicity Décor in Kirkland, where she has talked about energy. Though she doesn’t believe in labeling things, she said even the concept of feng shui is often “put in a box” when people immediately tell her what is wrong with their homes.

“Look, it’s not about that,” she tells people. “You can have everything in the ‘right’ place or have your home feng-shui perfect, but if there’s no love there, who cares. It means nothing,” said Fox, who hopes to one day have a few horses and a facility where she can offer horse rides to children again. “That’s what gives the juice and the energy is love and acceptance.”

She points to her dining room table and explains how it’s made up of molecules and atoms.

“All of this is energy. So that kind of connects everything to everything when everything is energy.”

She believes that all of life is “sacred” and should be “honored.” She wrote “Feng Shui for Horses” because she hopes others will honor their horses so that they may foster a deeper relationship with their horse and with life.

To get to the core of that relationship, you must listen, said Fox, pointing to a sign on her living room wall that quotes Mister Rogers: “Listening is where love begins.”

“If people will be willing to sit in the silence, you can know anything you want.”

Reading and book signing

Kirkland author Jane Li Fox will read and sign her new book, “Feng Shui for Horses” on Aug. 1 at the QFC store in Totem Lake. For information, including the time of the reading, call 206-257-0451.