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Write Your Most Beautiful Story Possible

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Create your new chapter as bright as your smile!
Dear Friend, are you as excited as I am about 2025? Let’s create a  successful beginning by closing 2024 intentionally. The process is simple. Wrap up all your affairs, mend relationships, express forgiveness and your heart will be ready to write the most beautiful story possible for yourself. You will create a new chapter that is as bright as your smile.

Begin by keeping your eyes wide open as December 30 new moon ushers in the Ox to the zodiac stage. This is the final month of the Year God (Yang Wood Dragon). Complementary in strengths, the truthful, confident Ox and the proud, lively Dragon may shake things up as they tango across the sky in January. Be aware of things that are hidden these next 28 days, the Year God, the Dragon might “swoosh its mighty tail” one last time and send you flying. The Dragon’s influence is waning but it doesn’t mean it’s gone.

Second, take measures that help you stay in balance during the shift in influence before the Chinese Lunar New Year, January 29, 2025.
• Put your thoughts on paper to manifest your wishes quickly.
• Add insurance (accidents).
• Draw upon the super powers of focus, patience, stability and practicality to meet challenges.
• Exercise like yoga, tai chi or walking release excess tension.
• Recite a mantra such as “I am committed to my well being.”
• Look about before you walk or talk.
• Keep those protective talismans on (Snake’s BFF is coming).
• Do a good deed every day to ensure the best possible luck.

Communication is key. When explaining your point of view to others whether a co-worker, partner or child be sure to take the extra step, in fact it might be a good maneuver to ask them repeat it back to you before you depart. Also be sure to communicate what is expected from one another and that you are on the same page.

In January the home begins to hum with sweeping, shopping, putting up decorations and planning the Reunion dinner  for the Yin Wood Snake Year starting January 28, 2025 at Chinese New Year’s eve.
January 7, 2025, Laba Festival: Eight Treasures Porridge is the essence of good fortune.
January 19, 2025, Sweep Away the Old: Clean misfortune from every corner.
Enjoy the festivities with Chinese New Year’s Eve Rituals/

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Wan Shi Ru Yi! May everything go as you wish.

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Spring Festival Is A Hop Away

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“Fluffiness makes everything better.”
– Anonymous

Feng Shui not only harmonizes your home and honors your relationships, it recognizes the influence of seasonal changes and the importance of beginnings and endings. January 11 new moon the truthful, confident Ox was ushered onto the zodiac stage which makes the Spring Festival (aka The Chinese Lunar New Year) a hop, skip and a jump away. In less than one month the Yin Water Rabbit will relinquish its reign. This brings up a word of caution. Every year between January and February beware of the Year God. The tactful Rabbit might turn tactics and with a “swoosh of its cute bob” send you flying. Instead of anticipating stress, end the year with lucky opportunities and good fortune. In this first of a series of short blogs I have included tried and true methods to ready you for an amazing beginning to the Spring Festival/Chinese Lunar New Year, February 10, 2024.

• Add insurance (accidents).
• Draw upon the super powers of focus, patience, stability and practicality to meet challenges.
• Exercise like yoga, tai chi or walking release excess tension.
• Recite a mantra such as “I am committed to my well being.”
• Look about before you walk or talk, “silence is golden”.
• Keep those protective talismans on (a blog for the Dragon’s BFF is coming).
• Do a good deed every day to ensure the best possible luck. This will enhance your Feng Shui cures.

Communication is key before Spring Festival. When explaining your point of view to others whether a co-worker, partner or child be sure to take the extra step, in fact it might be a good plan to ask them to repeat it back to you before you depart. Also be sure to communicate what is expected from one another and that you are on the same page.

In January the home begins to hum with sweeping, shopping, putting up decorations and planning the Reunion dinner for the Spring Festival/Wood Dragon Year.

January 18, 2024 Laba Festival: Making “Eight Treasures Porridge” is the essence of good fortune.
January 30, 2024 Sweep Away the Old: Clean misfortune from every corner.
Want to know what the Asian community does to prepare for the most powerful time of the year? Click on the link to start making your list for Chinese New Year’s Eve Rituals.
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Wan Shi Ru Yi! (
May everything go as you wish)

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