Winner Wednesday! – 5 feng shui ways to gain success today

It’s a pretty special time in the feng shui calendar as today’s Metal Ox sign aligns with this month’s Rooster and our annual Snake sign to make an extremely strong metal influence.This affects us all on a personal level and could bring great opportunities for wealth, relationships, creativity, power and vibrancy. 

As this form of astrology is an extremely complex subject, it is impossible to generalise, but to give an idea how it affects you, see our attribute cycle.

For the odd few, today may seem overwhelming and should you feel this way, just use the earth or water elements to balance. The link above will also tell you how to do this. Similarly, if someone you know appears overly stressed today, send this link to them.

Our feng shui almanac is in a positive mood and here are the top five things to do today.

1.      Travel and visit friends

2.      Hunt or shop for bargains

3.      Pamper or indulge yourself or loved ones

4.      Move home or refurbish

5.      Change your bed or sleeping direction

Conversely, brewing, fermenting or even funeral duties are best postponed until tomorrow at least. Speaking of which, that’s also a good day for whole other reasons. Join us tomorrow and we’ll tell you why.

Until tomorrow, enjoy every moment of NOW!

Finn & Slim Shooey

How feng shui could turn stress into… Success!

As everything in our world is made of energy, or uses it, Feng Shui can tell us exactly how our environment affects our quality of life. It’s five element principles are applied to all materials, shapes, colour, relative position within a space, as well as the client who is the principal consideration. 

Going with the flow!

When energy is allowed to flow from one transformational stage to another, we live life in harmony and contentment. When these phases are interrupted, stress ensues.

Science will tell you that we absorb energy from our environment and this indeed determines our quality of life.  So do you want success or stress with that? Luckily, our website provides tons of free information to help you balance your space.

Alternatively, our professional feng shui consultation services can quickly and efficiently analyse your home or business and make simple recommendations to help you, your family or staff change stress into success. Of course we will also include natural cycles of energy, which leads us to…   

Warning; Ox signs possible headache ahead?

Tracking nature’s flow of energy through the feng shui calendar informs us of today's alignment between the Snake day sign and this month’s Rooster sign. You only need to have an Ox as one of your four animal signs, or be under its influence in a time cycle, to feel the full force of a metal trine. You can find out if you, or someone you know, has one with our free Chinese horoscope.

Now, depending on the equilibrium of your Chinese horoscope, today can be truly memorable and provide outstanding opportunities to improve wealth, relationships, power, authority or creativity and vibrancy. Conversely, if metal is unfavourable, your chart could be adversely affected and as this influence represents the head, this is where you may feel the stress and pressure build up.

As there are almost 13 million different types of Chinese astrology charts, it is impossible to give general advice. However our free attribute cycle will give you a good idea of what you can expect. We also include advice with our consultation services.

A way of balancing this headache today is with water; drink it, be near it or go for a swim if your day starts to get bent out of shape.

Go… with the flow!

Taking a positive attitude to this metal alignment, the Feng Shui almanac is “smiling” and once again, most activities are favourable. These include meditating or honouring ancestors, asking for blessings, visiting friends, taking a course, getting married, having an astrology reading, buying or making clothes, seeing a doctor or choosing a treatment, emigrating, opening a business and trading, refurbishing a home or office, laying foundations, fixing a roof, moving home or even hunting (bargain, we trust?).

And so to success!

In addition to our auspicious triple alignment, it is literally a “Success” day in the Jian Qu system tracked daily in the book of nature. A great day for planning events or changing lifestyles and is the main reason for our extended daily blog.

I am also reminded that its perfect to learn something new and this seems like an appropriate time to remind you that we are finalising our next professional feng shui consultants course starting next week on September 21^st. If you would like to continually “change stress into success”, help all you come across and would like to enjoy an extremely satisfying profession, then enrol today!

We will see you soon.

Finn & Slim Shooey

Enter; the Dragon!

A day of new beginnings, perhaps leading to hidden treasures?

I like a title that works on many levels and today is no exception. Firstly, it’s a Wood Dragon day and this particular type of Wood denotes a new heavenly cycle, therefore entering a new cycle. And secondly... it’s a Dragon day!

But that’s pretty obvious, so there must be something else happening too. Well in the Twelve Palaces system of divination, today is an Open day that makes it appropriate to enter a new phase and do new things such as taking a course. The Chinese almanac also recommends meditating or honouring ancestors, having a haircut, getting engaged, having an astrology reading, emigrating or fixing a roof.

It advises against laying foundations or opening a warehouse, but that’s because it’s also a  Ghost day in the 28 Lunar mansion system, and you don’t want long term endeavours to return to haunt you, do you?

We started with news of a heavenly cycle and we end with news of another, namely tomorrow’s New Moon, traditionally a time to start new ventures. I am reminded that as “one door opens, another closes” and sadly the 1973 film of Enter the Dragon was the last made by legendary Bruce Lee. However, it marked the start of Jackie Chan’s’ career, who was actually also born under the Dragon influence.  

If like other Wood Dragon celebrities such as Matt Dillon, Juliette Binoche, Russell Crowe , Lenny Kravitz , Sandra Bullock, Clive Owen, Joss Stone, Tom Clancy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seth Rogan, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jennifer Garner, Maria Sharapova and Kirsten Dunst, you would like to discover what today has in store for your Chinese zodiac sign, please see our dedicated Wood Dragon web page.

As we are teaching this weekend we will return from next Wednesday. Until then, enjoy every moment of NOW!

Finn & Slim Shooey

Beef wellingtons?

Secrets of nature unveiled as today celebrates the light at the end of the tunnel!

You are probably expecting a recipe to follow today's title, but apart from it being an Ox day you couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s actually a Water Ox day, and falling as it does in a Water Snake year, means that there is a lot of water around, so wellington boots may be your best choice of transport today.

Actually, in just a couple of days we begin one of the Chinese 24 seasons called Grain Rain, meaning that for the next 15 day period, it will be wet and you may not want to take your “wellies” off. However, there is a very big light at the end of the tunnel which according to the Chinese book of nature will be the start of the summer season and the height of the fire element.

According to Chinese philosophy, each year is divided into five elements which comprises a 72 day period. The earth element is seen as the stabilising force and occurs as an 18 day period added to the end of each season, making 90 days in all for each season. Today is a fine example; the spring season with its wood element has been prevalent for the last 72 days and today is the start of the earth element.

This period is known as the reign of the Soil King and marks the transition from spring to summer. This is a time in which we honour the fruits of the earth and a natural lifestyle. We do not dig or lay foundations until summer begins and in ancient times there was also travel restrictions as ones feet had to remain on terra firma.

These restrictions have been updated for the modern age and for today only it is not a good day for breaking the earth or travelling by boat. It is however a good day for hunting and making a fire; as good a reason as any to break out the barbecue, although looking through the office window, it seems that beef and wellingtons might be more appropriate.

To see how your own sign will fare under today’s Chinese astrology influences, see our dedicated Water Ox page. 

We’re still very busy but we should return tomorrow on a Wood Tiger day. Until then, enjoy every moment of NOW!

Finn & Slim Shooey