The holidays and the beginning of winter with a Midwest blizzard are the major events of December – unless you are convinced that the Mayan – Nostradamus calendar calculations are accurately figured out and will happen. The official website gives some insight into all those who do believe it. Let’s wait and see. After a very active lunar schedule in November with two eclipses and Mercury retrograde, the sky drama settled down a bit in December.
THE LUNAR CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER 2012
8th Hanukkah
13th new moon
21st Winter solstice – Mayan phenomena?
25th Christmas
26th Kwanzaa
28th full moon
Looking Ahead to Chinese New Year
Despite the Mayan predictions, we are still planning for a 2013 and working on the feng shui cures and Chinese animal predictions for the upcoming year of the Snake. The year of the Water Snake doesn’t begin until February 10, 2013 but we like to have our temporary cures and adjustments in place by February 5th, 2013. (The Snake year ends January 30, 2014.) As we know, the world isn’t standing still. Our environment is always in flux. We feng shui advocates try to “go with the flow†and use our changing environment to our advantage rather than fight the inevitable circumstances. We’ve done our permanent adjustments that were recommended at your initial consultation and are ready to include temporary cures to take advantage of new opportunities. These will be available to clients and students at the end of December.
Feng Shui Cure of the Month – The Bagua Mirror
Are you bothered by the “neighbor problem�
While we don’t recommend you put them on any holiday tree as decorations, as shown, bagua mirrors can be placed outside in shrubbery or on trees facing nosy neighbors, undesirables or noise. You will see them in Chinese shop windows and above doors facing the public. The mirrors are used send negative energy back to its source. They do not create any energy of their own. They merely deflect other people’s stuff from you. The trigrams of the I ching are located around the circle mirror and it is their balanced energy that protects you. Noises that bothered you are still there but no longer cause you concern.
Here are just a few examples of the results we’ve seen after using the bagua mirrors.
- Someone who woke up every night when the 3 am train went by, started sleeping soundly after we put a bagua mirror on her balcony facing the train.
- Neighbors who were unfriendly, became friendlier.
- Neighbors who were bothersome, no longer caused concern. In fact, several of them moved away.
- In apartments and condos, we face the trigrams and mirror part toward the wall or on the floor facing down if that neighbor is poking the ceiling because he thinks you are walking too loudly. They stopped being annoyed.
- We face them upwards on top of armoires if upstairs neighbors’ footsteps and stomping bothers you and it did.
For information on how holiday decorations are affecting your homes, you can check our last year’s December newsletter. For the sake of brevity and long-time clients, we won’t go into it this year.
Feng Shui Tip for Areas of the Bagua:
Areas of the Bagua:
Remember that you can activate an area of the bagua – be it relationship (love) or weath (money), career, fame, children, helpful people, etc., with a crystal or holiday decoration.
On a personal note: In case you have noticed feng shui (career area of the bagua) hasn’t been my only major focus for some time now, I will tell you that it’s been my path and privilege to be helping my elderly (90’s) parents to stay in their ideal feng shui environment – their very supportive home on the shore of a beautiful lake in Wisconsin with no stairs, no basement or other reasons to move. It is a challenge to remain in our homes when we grow old. Some elders like a new place where they can be with others their own age and have help on the premises. Others like the familiar surroundings of their long time home with no major changes at all. This can be especially important to those who have limitations in vision and hearing, mobility, etc., as in my parent’s case. When you’ve created a perfectly supportive environment for yourself you can stay there for a very long time….. A topic for feng shui for another time.
Merry Christmas, belated Happy Hanukkah and best wishes for a very very Healthy, Prosperous and Happy New Year 2013, remainder of the Dragon year and the upcoming year of the Water Snake.