Each year when babies are born, it’s both their sex and date of birth that determines their personal feng shui element. Feng shui’s Eight Mansions trigrams honors both the yin and yang number orders. The yang number order of descending numbers, that establishes the element for the year, is also assigned to every male born that year. The yin number order the has its own column of ascending numbers, is used to assign a personal element to all females born that year.

2023 is the Year of the Writer! In addition to prosperity and romance, Soft Wood years are excellent for artistic creativity, academic achievement and writing. This element’s energy is especially supportive of writing copy for entrepreneurs, writing essays for students and writing manuscripts for authors.

Soft Wood energy is highly auspicious! It brings love and romance, a steady stream of wealth and prosperity, as well as, youth and beauty, entrepreneurial success and academic achievement, literary fame and artistic creativity, and travel for business and pleasure to the four corners of the world!

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.