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2025 Wood Snake Newsletter

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

This is my first newsletter since December. 2024. Which is almost exactly 12 months ag. I usually start the newsletter in the period between my birthday and 1st of January. More about my birthday later. I am gradually moving towards my full retirement from Feng Shui. But, I'm still of two minds about doing an annual newsletter. If you do wish to remain on some sort of mailing list for an annual update, please email me directly.On a personal note. I am expecting my third grandson. Late January. 2025. The reason I am late sending out this newsletter is he made

2024 Annual Flying Star

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Cure5, 3, 7, 2Enhance or leave alone4. 8. 6, 1, 9Curing the challenging stars 20245 will move to the west into the gua of metal. 5 is Earth by elemental composition and as such can make metal strong – this is not auspicious for 2024. We will need to cure it with water – NOT active water but colour alone – navy, black, indigo. 3 is no longer in favour – it has 3 more cycles before it becomes useable again. We therefore must cure it with fire. We never use literal fire; you can however use a modest sized Himalayan

2024 year of the wood dragon

Friday, December 29, 2023

Chinese Lunar New Year starts 10:23 am on the 10th Feb 2024.Solar New Year starts on 16:27 4the Feb 2024.Start your feng shui fixes on the 13th of January, 20th January - this is the last date before the change of the year that you can make feng shui changes. Use your personal Nobleman hour to make these fixes. If you have a clash with the day - horse on the 13th and ox on the 20th choose the other day. Otherwise you should wait until after 3rd day of CNY. 15th Feb is the next day but not if you

Period of Nine has arrived

Friday, December 29, 2023

Fire2024 is additionally auspicious as it heralds the arrival of the period of 9. It is associated with the 2nd daughter and is associated with Li Gua. This tells us that the dominant qi for the 20 year period of Li Gua dominion brings the spotlight to fire. This means that we draw on all the information we have about the element of fire and the characteristics of the second daughter from the Yi Ching.Movement - it is upward, the associated shape is the upright triangle (pt to heaven), it consumes all the resources it encounters – it does not

Chinese New Year 2023

Saturday, January 21, 2023

2023 Chinese New YearToday is the start of the Chinese New Year (Saturday 21st of January 2023).Today those Chinese who still have family in their home village / town / city will return to family to honour their family, their ancestors and their parents.It is common to sit down to a big family feast, eat traditional foods and give red packets to the children.If you are invited to a meal and want to know what you can take then here are some hints – it should be round, it could / should be gold or red in colour, it should

2023 - Internal-Flying-Star

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

2023 Internal Flying Stars (inside buildings)Sha Qi 2023All sha chi is exacerbated by what is in the environment.if you have Telegraph poles, T intersections, a broken mountain, or work scheduled, or happening on your own home or in your immediate surroundings this is regarded as a form of sha qi. The impact of sha chi is made worse when your front door or back door or your bedroom is in that direction. I recommend that you keep the blinds and all doors shut in that direction and certainly do not place your bed head on the east or west wall

2023 rabbit year

Sunday, January 01, 2023

Important lesson - be very careful when trying to communicate during Mercury retrograde!!!! I wrote a whole spiel, closed the full browser tab - yes you guessed it - before I had saved it!!! Then multiple times the backend refused to save what I had written!!!The stem and branchThe stem is yin water.The branch is rabbit - which has yin wood qi.Water feeds wood - this is harmonious.However, the water is like constant rain - just light but adding to a huge amount of water that can uproot trees as it penetrates the earth deeply, adding to underground water, soakage,

2022-flying-star

Sunday, December 26, 2021

2022 the annual 5 is in the centre. This tells us that all stars take up their home positions and it thus makes stronger the challenges and the benefits.To remind us all the beneficial stars are: 9, 8, 6, 4, 1The challenging stars are: 7, 5, 2,The watching brief is :3 Each of the flying star numbers are codes for many layers of meaning.This blog article goes hand in hand with the forbidden directions in 2022 (aka do not disturb). The 5 falls in the centre. ANY work done on a house will have serious consequences if you live in the

2022-global-events

Sunday, December 26, 2021

What can we expect from the water tiger in 2022 in terms of opportunities and challenges?A gua is an area of qi that can be called a palace or a location like the kitchen or the living room. More about all this in my forthcoming book.Starting at the International Date Line unfold the map and the LoShu pattern from right to left as above. You can see that the qi is not equally distributed as we are dealing with an ellipse. We have two broad types of movement – one that flows on the horizontal plane and travels east to

2022-water-tiger-update

Saturday, December 25, 2021

2022 is the year of the yang water tiger.The water is the stem, sits over the tiger and dominates for the 1st half of the year.The branch is tiger, the tiger contains yang wood, yang fire and yang earth. It is a travel sign and is rather changeable to be nice, or capricious, to give it another spin.The branch dominates for the 2nd half of the year.Hidden StemsThe tiger has 3 hidden stems. They are wood, fire, and earth.Hidden ChiThe primary chi is yang wood, but when it meets another tiger, horse or dog it becomes fire. This means that

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