Walking in Seward Park you can smell the burgeoning fertility of the earth. The ground is wet and springy silencing your steps so you can hear the bossy blue jay in the distance. The fog makes sounds carry strangely so that it’s not clear where they are coming from or how far away they are.… Read More
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2015 Year of the Wood Sheep Forecast Roundup
The Year of the Wood Sheep or Yi Wei, also known as the year of the Blue Wood Sheep, Green Wood Sheep or Serious Sheep*, will begin on February 4th, 2015. If you want to go straight to the forecasts please scroll down. If you’d like to read my 2015 feng shui forecast for gardeners… Read More
Feng Shui for Gardeners 2015 : Year of the Wood Sheep
The Year of the Wood Sheep or Yi Wei, also known as the year of the Blue Wood Sheep, Green Wood Sheep or Serious Sheep*, will begin on February 4th, 2015. If you have a Horse in your chart this will probably come as a welcome relief. It should be easier to let go of… Read More
Rooster Traits and Self Penalty
The Rooster is one of three animal signs in the Chinese Zodiac that consist of a single element. The other two are Rat (yin water) and Rabbit (yin wood). The energy of the Rooster is pure metal. Being yin indicates a feminine quality, but most of our perceptions about Roosters have to do with an… Read More
Rooster Month in the Garden
Can you feel it? The cooling and contracting metal energy of fall is here, peaking in this Rooster month. It’s a welcome relief for my garden after a long and hot summer. The nights are getting cooler, days are noticeably shorter, it’s harvest time and the leaves are already falling from the trees. The month… Read More
Mammoth Sunflowers and the Yang Wood Element (Jia)
It’s been a great year for those hot weather plants like sunflowers, just as I predicted. I planted nine mammoth sunflowers on the south side of the house near the sidewalk. They are on the dragon side. Sunflowers are a great example of the the yang wood (Jia) element and how it works. They grow… Read More
Using BaZi for Genealogy
Earlier this year I was talking with a genealogist about a family tree she was researching. Genealogists collect lots of birth and death data as well as other documentation of a person’s life so I thought it would be fun to see if we could use Four Pillars natal chart analysis to ferret out new… Read More
Fiery Patterns in Time : Metal Horse Month
I was going through my Twitter feed this morning and came across this tweet from History Link: A historical tidbit like that is just the right thing to get me looking for patterns in time and circumstance. Today is the first day of the Yang Metal Horse month, also known as Geng Wu. June 6,… Read More
Core Theory of Feng Shui : Five Elements
I missed this post when I was doing my forecast roundup this year. In a sense it doesn’t “fit” with the others on the list because it is written by a consultant who uses a westernized form of the traditional Later Heaven Bagua. In the western method the bagua is static and it’s orientation is… Read More
2014 Yang Wood Horse Forecast Roundup
I’ve put together a list of Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology predictions for 2014. If you’d like to read my 2014 feng shui forecast for gardeners click here. 2014 is the year of the Wood Horse or Jia Wu. It’s also known as the year of the Green Wood Horse or the Horse in the… Read More