In a Metal Snake month in a Metal Rat year, conspiracy theories abound. As Stewart Brand is credited with saying in 1984 (a Wood Rat year): Information wants to be free. This phrase in itself supports ideas about conspiracy, and since then people have used it to leverage various causes. For example, a librarian might… Read More
Prescience or Pre Science?
When you’re used to walking on Fire, always growing and expanding, it takes a little longer to learn to walk on Water. For some, contemplation is a downer. Even though I had some ideas about what was coming, I didn’t take in the scale. And it has taken me a little longer than I thought… Read More
12 Animal Fortunes for 2020 ~ Metal Rat Year
How To Use The Animal Fortunes If you already know your Four Pillars click on the animal name or your birth year in the table below to go straight to your Zodiac Animal character and forecast. You’ll want to read the fortune for all four of your pillars. The position of each pillar will tell… Read More
Metal Rat 庚子 2020 : Bearing Witness
Observers who go unnoticed: this is your year. Take back authority through your revelations and actions. I’m talking to those who aren’t sleeping at night because they are making plans to protect their families and the planet. We’ve been heading in this direction for some time and now we’ve arrived in a place where we… Read More
Metal Rat 庚子 2020 Feng Shui Basics
Here’s what you need to know to get ready for the Year of the Metal Rat. Tai Sui, Sui Po and San Sha In the Year of the Metal Rat, which opens on December 22, 2019 at 13:04 to be exact, the Tai Sui is in the north. If you’re not already familiar with the… Read More
Metal Rat 庚子 2020 Your Good Directions
Ming Gua, East and West Life Groups The Ming Gua is a number that is calculated using gender and birthday in order to employ the Feng Shui method called 8 House, 8 Mansions or Ba Zhai. Each number corresponds to a trigram and an element in the Later Heaven Bagua. The Ming Gua is also… Read More
Wood Pig 乙亥 Month: The Sty Ward
In the Metal Snake year of 2001 I became close friends with Rena who was born in a Pig year. At that time, as mothers of young children and budding entrepreneurs, we had a lot in common. We liked the same music and food. We both really loved to dance. Looking back now I realize… Read More
12 Animal Fortunes for the Water Monkey Month
Water Monkey Month August 8-September 8 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Water Monkey. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth date and time. If you don’t know them get in touch. Each of the… Read More
Sheep Month : Earth, Wind and Fire
America traditionally bids farewell to the Horse month of June in a haze of rockets’ red glare, cordite and insomnia. This year we significantly magnified Independence Day’s carbon footprint thanks to you know who. Many people mentioned recently that they can’t tell the difference between the noise of the gunshots and the fireworks. I thought… Read More
A Horse In The Running : Joe Biden
The Horse respects rules only in the sense that rules are for others. This is slightly less true with Water and Metal Horses. That’s why it will be interesting to see what transpires with Joe Biden this summer, especially in August. He’s a 1942 Water Horse born in the Metal Pig month. With those two… Read More