The next two years promise to be extremely emotional ones. After back to back mental energy years followed by a year of physical rest, humans will be provoked to emote. Soft Wood next year will be followed by a Hard Wood year in 2024, providing the fuel for the new era of future prosperity to ignite, catch fire and slowly burn for the next 20 years.

In feng shui, energy shifts in 60-year cycles, 20-year cycles and 9-year cycles. The energy is also shifting on an annual basis, and even monthly and daily. In classical feng shui, we remedy and enhance our living and working environments every year and tweak our feng shui each month.

Each month a new energy moves into your personal element's house. This energy is represented by one of The 8 Elements. Since your energy is currently visiting your own house all year, 2022 is the perfect opportunity to really pay attention to how the energy of the personal elements affects you and the area of life your house governs.

These elemental influencers are like an Instagrammer on your daily feed that you can't unfollow or even mute. They are just visiting, but they are in your house for the entire year. Best to find ways to cohabitate peaceful, even if by now, you feel like they have overstayed their welcome. If you are curious to see what effect your house guest's energy is having on YOU this year, read on!

This year with the Hard Wood energy in the Southwest, women will throw shade.

This year, women might experience things in sets of threes. Annoyances. Minor grievances. And frustrations. With Hard Wood, everything comes in threes.

We've all had first hand experience now, with the imprisonment and isolation energy that the Soft Metal 7 can bring. But how the "stay home, stay safe" orders statewide or nationwide affected The 8 Elements may have been very different.

If 2020 was traumatizing, or disappointing, or something in between, you can release the regret.

This month we will be given opportunities to learn the life lessons 2020 presented us with for our soul's growth and personal development. Beginning on December 7th, the energy visiting each house this month is the same energy visiting each house this year, doubling its strengthen and effects. Earlier in the year, when we had this energy in March, I called it, "Double Trouble".

In this second part of the blog series on 2018 Personal Feng Shui, you will learn more about what this year holds for you based on your personal element. In addition to the energy visiting your personal element’s gua, your personal element’s number is also visiting a certain area, or Life Center, for the entire year ahead. Unlike the energy of the number visiting your gua that brings potentials, where your personal element’s number lands and sets up housekeeping contributes to helping you set intentions about where your energy will be spent and expressed.

In the first part of this blog series about personal feng shui in 2018, you will learn about the energy visiting your personal element’s gua. Each year as the energy shifts, a new dynamic is created between permanent personal energy and visiting annual energy. While understanding the five element dynamics of the Fire year energy on your person element is important, knowing what effect the annual energy has the potential to have on your personal energy is also essential. That way you can make it the best year yet or at least make the best of the year ahead.

The spark of fire that will burn brightly and cheerfully through 2018 has been kindled.  How fast it burns and how wildly the flames blaze through your life, will depend on the energy dynamics that are created between your personal element and the Fire element. In this blog, you will learn about the potential effect fire energy will have on you during this very auspicious Fire year.

Each of the Five Elements are associated with a unique taste. Foods that have that distinct taste are the go to or favorite foods for The 8 Personal Elements. These are the foods they love or crave, the foods they get really good at making themselves or the foods they might eat every day without getting bored.

Each year is imbued with the energy of one of the 8 personal elements. 2015 is a Hard Wood year. For Hard Wood element people, this could be a great year or  it could be extremely challenging. Balanced Hard Wood people who are honoring their needs and living a life in alignment with their values will do well. Out of balance Hard Wood people will be given every opportunity and everything they need to heal themselves and their lives. The other personal elements will be effected by Hard Wood energy in various ways in every area of life. Following are some brief descriptions of the Hard Wood personal element and energy and what you can expect to experience in 2015.