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Creating Yin and Yang Harmony in 2024
From a Chinese Metaphysics perspective the yang Wood Dragon year 2024 is distinctly a year of change. Its governing annual Flying Star 3 has the trigram Zhen Thunder, which has the dual characteristics of rising freshness, new ideas and vigour interfaced by impulsive vibration and unrest
Celebrating the Qing Ming Spring Festival
The Qing Ming Festival (Remembrance of Ancestors Day or Grave-Sweeping Day) is celebrated on April 5th, the first day of the fifth solar term in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Rabbit Year Revelations
2023 is the Chinese year of the Rabbit, fourth of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. The Rabbit’s element is yin Wood, resilient yet flexible like grass shoots and bamboo. It is assigned to the East, characterised by the freshness of Spring season, vitality, growth, inspiration and creativeness.
The Grass is Greener
The Grass is Greener. Seeing the colour green communicates a sense of contact with the natural landscape. The vibrational stimulus of green neurologically soothes and replenishes, restores balance and inspires creativity. In Feng Shui, green is represented by the Wood element.
Sustainable Feng Shui Design
Sustainable building construction and environmentally considerate living are at the forefront of the changes we are being encouraged to embrace into our lifestyle, and increasingly inspired by climate change precautions. Well, there is nothing new in that.
The Power of Plants
The benefits of having plants around are invaluable for our wellbeing and healthy living. Their green foliage will calm, balance, relax and inspire us, while the sensual aromas of their flowers evoke soothing emotions. They provide us with our basic needs of food, medicine, shelter and fresh air.
Living with EMFs
Living in this electronic era and wireless electro-technology advances brings us many advantages. The increasing presence of electromagnetic fields, or EMFs is part of modern life, whilst raising questions about how to mitigate any potential adverse impact on our wellbeing.
Man & Nature
The principal aim of Feng Shui is essentially to find a harmonious balance and a supportive connection between people and the environment that they live in. From a Chinese cultural perspective there is a fundamental interactive relationship between nature and man, space and time, influenced by tangible and intangible factors that generate human reactions.
Feng Shui Artwork
Owning a work of art that is special to you is sure to inspire your mood and enrich your life. Textiles and wallhangings, wooden carvings and metallic objects, vases and vessels, china and ceramics, deities and sculptures all constitute artwork. Art makes an expressive focal point and the choice goes way beyond just paintings.
Innovative Clutter Clearing
Its an established cliche that clutter holds you up, bogs you down and confuses your mind. It is neither comfortable nor convenient to live with, a visible form of stagnation and an invisible weight on your shoulders. It literally gets in the way of everything.
Feng Shui Decorating
Decorating is a great opportunity to make a fresh impact and create a new sense of harmony and well being.
Wind in the City
Our modern urban society is experiencing a worrying ‘new’ environmental situation that practitioners of Feng Shui have been cautioning about for thousands of years.