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CHINESE NEW YEAR'S EVE - Chuxi

January 27, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Brioschi54, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

If January’s New Year resolutions have fizzled out, tune into the Chinese New Year’s as the Year of the Wood Snake amps up on 29 Jan. 2025. Lunar New Year follows Moon (Luna) cycles therefore commencing with a New Moon. The upcoming lunation is the first New Moon AFTER the Winter Solstice which dictates the beginning of a Chinese New Year. It also kick starts the more widely known and celebrated of the Lunar New Year festivities - beginning a two week long Spring Festival. Li Chun is a Solar Festival marker and technically occurs on 4 Feb 2025, when the Chinese Solar New Year begins.

Before Kondo, there was Kingston

January 23, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

I’ve remained tight lipped about the Kondō convos for a while now. But I’ve been prompted to chime in from a Feng Shui perspective.

Disclaimer, I’ve not read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up book by Marie Kondō but I’ve watched her Netflix series and encountered the KonMari social media frenzy. Admittedly, I tend to rebel against mainstream crazes, but when conducting my own personal annual preparations for the Solar New Year on Feb. 4th (not to be confused with Chinese Lunar New Year) I decided to check out the best selling author.

12th Solar Term : Major Heat - Dà Shú

January 20, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Long Hot Summer...... by Keven Law. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

☼ 12th Solar Term : Greater Heat (Dà Shú)

23 July ⎯ We’re now in the final increment of Summer, known as ‘Greater Heat ‘ (Dà Shú). This Solar term falls on 23 July in the Georgian calendar and correlates with the Sun’s ingress into the western Zodiacal sign of Leo. However Solar terms reign for an approximately a fortnight and ends 7 August, when we welcome Monkey month.

24th Solar Term of ‘Greater Cold' Dà hán

January 19, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

by Utagawa Hiroshige. ‘Mountain and River on the Kiso Road’. Late in his career, Hiroshige explored the poetic theme of *setsugekka*, “snow, moon, and flowers,” in a set of three triptychs. This panoramic scene features a river passing snow-covered mountains along the Kiso Road, via clevland musuem of arts This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Dragon’s Solar year draws to a close with the final 14 days of the final Solar Term of the year. The 24th Solar term of ‘Greater Cold' (dà hán) 大寒 commences on 20 Jan (7am AEDT), book ending the year on 3 Feb. While Western eyes were on 1 January marking a new beginning, Chinese Lunar New Year begins in 29 Jan 2025. Folks busily preserve and prepare foods for the impending Lunar Festival ahead.

2024 ASTROLOGY PREDICTIONS

January 1, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

This article was originally published by Wellbeing Astrology 2024– Universal Media, Australia

The opening act of a New Age takes the stage. This year promises a ride on the ‘Go big or go home’ rollercoaster. Dragon is the catalyst that propels a new 20-year elemental shift, toward Re-enlightenment.

Beyond the annual changing of guardians — from Rabbit to Celestial Reptilian — there’s also a bigger cosmic state of change afoot. Yang Wood Dragons’ always signal a New Age; which in turn end sexagenary eras. The third and final era of a wider 180-year Great Cycle needs unpacking, as we enter a new elemental interface.

MISTLETOE , DRUIDS, JUPITER & SATURN

December 16, 2024 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Image credit Mistletoe by Loriental Photography

I’ve been musing…. and it’s led me to Mistletoe’s door. Are we entering the Age of Mistletoe or The Return of the Druids? Mistletoe, the little freeloading plant that has remarkably synchronicities and on point themes that weaves a symbolic narrative of the prevailing astro weather. Even main stream media covering the cosmic skies with chatter of the Great Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn; exact back on the December Solstice in 2020. My mistletoe musings unearthed some fascinating lore, far more interesting than stolen kisses, dare I say. And if we were living in bygone times the Xmas staple would be the Ancient’s secret weapon to this current health situation.

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