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The Year Cycles
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.
Directionless
Yellow Earth, home at the enter of the bagua, is directionless. It has no compass direction. No personal trigram. No associated family member. No Chinese zodiac animal. No age or stage of life. No dominant yin or yang energy.
What's Your Element?
The 8 Elements™ is just one of many personal typing systems. So, if you don't resonate with your personal feng shui element, you can find a personality typing system that does. Even though most of them are based on Western philosophies, if you resonate more with the holistic Eastern philosophies, you still have quite a few options to explore.
Finding Your Ideal Customer
One of the first things we do when we're creating a conscious business model that works for our life and personal energy is to determine who we'd like to contribute to. This is not just about finding our niche to differentiate ourselves from similar businesses and stand out from the crowd. It's also about finding our people.
House Guests | June 2022
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.
Personal Element of Your House
Just like people, houses and buildings have a personal element. Instead of the birthdate and sex of a person, a building's personal element is determined by the sitting direction. It's the personal element of the building that influences the occupants' life while they are living there.
Listen to Learn
A popular YouTuber who makes "cleaning motivation" videos recently published a video behind the pay wall about the value of traveling, on her subscription website. If you know who she is, you know. If not, it doesn't matter.
Love is in the Air
They say "love is in the air". In Feng Shui, the "Peach Blossom" energy can be enhanced to attract new love and romance. This romantic energy, represented by the Soft Wood element, is known as the "Persistent Wind". So, yes, love is definitely in the air!
Brokeback Mountain
Mountain Earth broke me. It broke me, vertebrae by vertebrae, piece by piece. Pulverized my bones to dust, as if they were dry and brittle. To blow away in the wind and find a new place to settle.
The Echo Chamber
The echo chamber could also be called the ego chamber. It's a sounding board that reflects back only the words you give voice to. Everything you think and say is repeated back on a continuous loop, reverberating through the halls of the mountain.
The Measure of Success
This week has been intense! I'm experiencing the high highs and low lows of the many peaks and valleys of Mountain Earth. Not being a physical element myself, it's been interesting to experience awarenesses though messages from my body.
The Evolution of The 8 Elements
As I prepare to release the 2022 Annual Guides with excerpts from my series of unpublished books, I thought I would share my journey from feng shui enthusiast to The 8 Elements™ master and future published author of The 8 Elements: Feng Shui for YOU!
Under the Influence of the Elements
I have been waking up with a song in my heart, stories in my mind and words on my lips. This morning it was the word fastidious. Other days it's eloquent or precision, mercurial or whimsy, touché or facetious.
Feng Shui for Your Business
Feng Shui for Business supports you in discovering how YOU can build a business you love. Not to get rich quick and retire early. But to create something unique and valuable, financially successful and personally rewarding. And that makes you so happy, you wouldn't ever want to quit your business.
Bad Advice
Self help gurus are the worst offenders of bad advice. It's not necessarily that their advice itself is always bad. It's that what has worked for them, won't work for you, unless you are their same element. Even then, there are subtle nuances to your unique expression of your personal element that you should honor.