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 WEATHER PREDICTIONS

February 2, 2024 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

The aftermath of last weeks Cyclone Kirrily is omnipresent; as I write folks in QLD, Australia are bracing as a third cyclone looms! Following my retrospective of 2023 Weather predictions; I’m sharing some 2024 weather prophecies and another weather metric — Dragon’s role.