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
Rooster Month: Stuck On the Yin Side?
The lack of good water placement dates this month is indicative of the Rooster’s uneasy relationship with Water. I’d say it’s something like seduction vs. truth telling. I don’t necessarily see those concepts as opposites or mutually exclusive even though they often seem to play out that way in real life. In a Rat year… Read More
Monkey Month : Strangers, Guests and Gods
Possibly even more so than November, this is the deciding month of the year. It’s a Wood Monkey month so decisions will have a lasting effect. If that makes you anxious, you need to know it’s care that will make all the difference. I’ve seen the evidence that this is true many times. Caring can… Read More
Water Horse, Willow Tree
The coming Water Horse month starts Friday afternoon. That’s June 5th. The Full Moon arrives that day along with a penumbral lunar eclipse. June 6th suggests hoped for but unexpected good news. My calendar tells me this month is going to be better than the Snake month for sure. There are many more good days… Read More
I Want to Believe
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