What is feng shui? Sometimes I’m asked for a scientific explanation of traditional Chinese feng shui. Which is a reasonable request. I tend to reply something like: if you plant tomatoes on a North-facing wall, don’t expect great salads. Worse if you do it in January. Because everything is changing all the time; all things… Read More
Snake Diary: what to expect in May 2014. Snakes and Ladders. May 5th 22:16pm until June 6th 02:32 inclusive. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. This month is an Earth Snake. The last time the Earth Snake ruled an entire year was 1989. By most accounts that was pretty cataclysmic; as a Tweet correspondent reminded… Read More
Bunny Hop. Fire Rabbit month, Wood Horse year. March 6th 00:09am. Big Light, Big Heat. The placid yin Wood of the Rabbit can be an anti-climax after the drama of the Tiger that opens the year. It’s a bit like the time after a tropical dawn. The Sun rises almost instantaneously, a flag hoist aloft,… Read More
Tiger, Tiger. Fire Tiger month, Wood Horse year. February 5th 06:21am. Big Fire, Big Ice: Big Water. The Tiger opens the year with a burst of Fire. To some extent this is always true because the Tiger is part Fire. In some years this blast of spontaneity, of visibility, of passion is more marked than… Read More
“When you can tell Fire from Water, you are a Master.” Grand Master Chan Kun Wah. Merry Christmas Li Ka Shing. For more than a thousand years, the town of Godalming, deep in the Surrey woods, has been saved from flood by its Lammas Land. Although it is at the base of the Wey valley,… Read More
Ox Bow Wood Ox month, Wood Horse year. January 6th 20:07pm. Oxymoron Now, in the Ox month, human beings having stuffed ourselves either side of the solstice, are designed to lurk in our caves awaiting the spring. For many Masters the Year of the Wood Horse is already here and some are on the watch… Read More
Hi All: So… I’d thought I’d let you know that Richard’s Animal by Animal Forecasts for 2014 are now available on the website. Some absorbing reading over Christmas! If you want to take this further & have a personalised ba zi, read about them here & do contact us. If you are still considering having… Read More
6th December 2013 A View from the Roof Beam; what to expect in the Rat Month.Wood Rat month, Water Snake year. December 7th 08:21am. Rationale In the Rat month human beings are programmed to overeat. After that we’re supposed to sleep till the opening of the New Year with the Tiger on February 4th. Unfortunately… Read More
Hi: Sheila here, I thought that whilst Richard is in Singapore that I would just keep you up to date with what he’s going to be doing when he gets back. So…. 1. Hitting the ground running on Tuesday November 26th, he’s talking at the (London) Kabbalah Centre http://www.kabbalahcentre.co.uk/ to introduce Authentic Chinese Feng Shui… Read More
Pig Power Water Pig month, Water Snake year. Started 7th November 15:45. Pigs in blankets. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne is a Pig. That, I hasten to add, is to say that he was born in 1971. One traditional trait of the Pig is to believe they know how other people should behave;… Read More
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