How to Prepare for Chinese New Year of the Earth Ox 2009

Chinese New Year comes early this year. It’s on January 26, 2009 (Yes, that’s coming Monday!) and that day will mark the beginning of the “Year of the Earth Ox”.

Basic Chinese Astrology

In Chinese astrology, there is a sixty-year-cycle that consists of two sub-cycles.

2009 Horoscopes

The first cycle is the cycle of the ‘Heavenly Stem’, which rotates the elements of water, earth, fire, metal and wood, every two years. The first of these two years is yang, the next year is yin.

The second cycle of the ‘Earthly Branch’ rotates the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac signs: i.e. rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar.

What this means is that not all Ox-years are the same. In 2009, it will be a Year of the Ox, an Earth-year and a Yin-year.

The zodiac sign of the Ox (or cow or buffalo) symbolizes prosperity through fortitude and hard work. The major element in Ox is Earth. So it being the “Earth Ox”- year, the major focus in 2009 will be the earth/land/ground-related issues. I would say … root chakra!!! (oh,will I ever get away from this emphasis ….??!! I want to focus on my higher level chakras instead!!… ). And I’d say: WORLD HEALING is VITAL.

Yin represents the feminine principle of the yin/yang balance.

Earth is the land and the ground under our feet. The ground is very steady. It requires lots of energy to make it move. Certainly, it’s necessary that people put extra efforts and time to work on Earth-related problems.

Chinese astrology says the Earth season is the days between the seasons, i.e. the 18 days before each season. The Earth Cycle will repeat about every two and a half month. The total Earth days in a year is 72. Because Fire is the mother element of Earth, it is said that the strongest period of Earth is the 18-day before the season of Fall.

So, I’d say that we should have an increased focus on ‘We Are One World Healing’, and get more people to work with us to help heal planet Earth. That seems very important.

Our Year of the Ox

OK. Let’s get our minds around a year of hard work, and get set to enjoy it. When I envision an ox, he’s carrying a wagon or a plow breaking new grounds, row after row, in a very organized manner. Single line, straight ahead.

I suggest we embrace the powers of the ox this year: methodical, strong, and focused (i.e. good-flavored ‘stubbornness’). I can be ox-like for a year, can you?

Chinese New Year: a New Moon, a New YOU.

At present we’re between the Western New Year (January 1), and the Chinese New Year (and the New Moon Day, January 26). Now is the time for change to bring more enlightenment and light in your life. And so, we should be ox-like in going for this.

Chinese Way of Preparing for the New Year Before the New Year: clean the house today: that means a ‘tidy up’ plus a ‘spring clean’. You’re not meant to sweep in the beginning of the new year or you’ll sweep your good luck away. New Year’s Day: Traditionally, one welcomes the Gods from the heaven and earth. Day 2 of the New Year: Prayers to ancestors are added to prayers to the Gods. Day 3-15 are filled with celebrations, food and family. Day 7 is the birthday of all mankind Day 15 closes the festivities with the Lantern Festival on the full moon.

What do you sense should be your direction & focus? Now is the time to get clarity about what you want and need in your life. What are your plans? Now is the time to finalize them in actionable detail.

It appears that the Year of the Earth Ox won’t allow you to dillydally. When the 26th of January comes around, we will be living in a time of by-passing the ‘I’m going to do it’-phase and plunge straight into ‘this is what I’m doing’-mode (although we do get 2 weeks easing into things…).

We Heal ‘Us’ and Help Eachother

While this is apparently not the ‘sit around and talk about it’- year, I feel that it nonetheless should be a year of helping each other, and encouraging each other, to be true to themselves and to focus on what is best for them.

To kickstart this, share your NEW YOU, New Year or New Moon resolutions, plans and actual endeavors at the forum: http://www.therapeuticreiki.com/forum *. Every New Moon this year, we will revisit our visions & plans on the forum, so we all stay ‘on target’ with our individual progress. I’d love to hear about your challenges and successes over time.

Plan with Spirit & Angels

Personally, I believe that consulting angels and planning are the things to do in the next 10 days. Consult archangels for spiritual direction as well as practical clues. Ask for their help. Did you know that the word ‘change’ is part of the word ‘archangel’, i.e. Archangels help you change for a living.

We look forward to hearing from you, wherever you’re at in this process on the
forum.

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

© Copyright 2009 – Astrid Lee, http://www.TherapeuticReiki.com – All Rights Reserved.

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How a Feng Shui Attracting Love Technique Brings Love – A Crystals Approach (Part One)

“The feng shui attracting love technique works!” Julia declared excitedly. “We are dating now.” “Just when I thought love will never enter my life, he showed up.” She continued. “Congratulation!” Janice was elated. Finally, her best friend found love. They could hardly contain their excitement as they hug tightly in the cozy Starbucks. Almost everyone was looking at them but it didn’t bother them at all.

Being in love is a wonderful feeling isn’t it? You will feel like you are on the top of the world. What feng shui attracting love technique did Julia use to attract love into her life? It’s one that taps into the transforming power of crystals and the Chinese ancient art of placement and arrangement. Most people when applying feng shui attracting love technique simply shift furniture here and there. Or all that they truly want to know is the crystal they should buy to get love.

Probably you already know that rose quartz is the best crystal for attracting love. Nothing new or secretive about that. Ask yourself this question: How many know how to unleash the power of the crystals, and tap into the power of feng shui, to dramatically and positively change their own life? Not many. Here’s a feng shui attracting love technique that may turn the latent power of the rose quartz crystals into a powerful force of energy that can draw love to you.

Love is a matter of the heart. To get love, you must give love. Again nothing new but few truly understand and appreciate it. So what is the true meaning behind it from the crystals’ perspective? It means that you have to open your heart and let love flow out freely. You have to first develop the feel toward them. Maybe I sounded insane, illogical or even profound.

Let me explain: When you do crystal programming, effectively you are channeling your thoughts and energy onto the rose quartz crystal. In turn, the enumerating energy of the rose quartz crystal transmits your desired result into the atmosphere to draw love back.

Use visualization to program and embed your love message into the rose quartz crystals. But what sort of message should you program?

Relax and ask yourself, what is your desirable outcome? What make you feel blissful? Let say you resonate with the mental image of yourself walking down the church aisle, this is the image you should program into the rose quartz crystal. Get a crystal ball or heart shaped rose quartz with at least 3 inches in diameter. After cleansing and charging, you should proceed to program it.

You are now ready to invoke the force of Nature (feng shui) to attract love. According to the Chinese feng shui, the south-west (or north-west if you are located in the southern hemisphere) point of your room is the relationship corner. You can determine this point by placing a compass in the centre of your bedroom. Place your rose quartz crystal in this position.

In few easy steps, you are ready to let the vibes of rose quartz crystal attract love to you.

For the ladies, you may choose to wear rose quartz rings, rose quartz pendants or any other rose quartz jewelry on top of the crystal ball. This is a good way to create a magnetic aura and pull love to you. Julia is open minded to use feng shui attracting love technique to draw love to her. Are you as well?

In part two, I will reveal more feng shui attracting love techniques to bring and propel your love to greater heart with the power of feng shui and crystals.

Just a hint. Its about using crystals to draw deep love, commitment and devotion. It’s not rose quartz this time. Watch out for it.

By Glen Lim

About the Author

Glen Lim specializes in tapping the energy of crystals to improve life. If you like his article, will you like more? Now, you can easily get them in crystalsbay. His website, http://www.crystalsbay.net, provides a wealth of informative articles, resources on everything you need to know about crystals, including rose quartz and feng shui.