From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Grand Duke is here, what to do?

December 31, 2009

As the lunar year comes around, it is a time for making arrangements to appease the Tai Sui. Actually appeasing may be the wrong word. The more apt phrase may be to make offerings. This Tai Sui. Some have called it the Grand Duke Jupiter but that may not be entirely correct. Neither is it [...]

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Wishing all a Happy & Prosperous 2010

December 31, 2009

Hi Folks, May All have a Happy and Prosperous New Year filled with Loads of Joy and Plenty. The One who has Contentment has it all!!!

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Recommended Days for House Clearing and Cleaning

December 24, 2009

It is a Chinese practice to set aside days for a sprucing up the house in time for welcoming the Lunar New Year. (this year it falls on February 14). It is something like the spring cleaning that preoccupies the Westerners. The only difference is that the Chinese place great importance in selecting a suitable [...]

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Are You Having The Right Picture Hanging On Your Wall?

December 23, 2009

Are we having the right paintings (or pictures) hanging on our walls? A very innocent question but as they say, a story tells more than a thousand words. I remember the advice of a feng shui master who taught that we should never hang pictures of tigers and ferocious animals on walls of our homes. [...]

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How The Animals Are What They Are

December 17, 2009

There are many side stories related to the characteristics of the twelve astrological animals. Here are some. Rat – the rat is a creature of the night. It is the yin-est of yin. Horse – the yang-est of yang. They are tough, swift of movement and beauty of gallop. Cow – loving, caring and tough. [...]

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Five Critical Guides for Houses

December 13, 2009

Looking for good qi? The 8 houses school and the flying star school both talk about qi. Qi as a subject will take pages but for this time, let’s look at how the qi are looked at by these two schools. More importantly let us see how we can get feng shui to work. In [...]

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Tiger Year 2010 Forecast for Tigers

December 8, 2009

Those born in the tiger years should be turning 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, 85, 97, 109 on their birthdays this year. The last of the lot would likely qualify as the oldest person on earth. Congratulations! A young man asked me what he should do since he is a tiger year born. If [...]

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Fengshui Twelve Astrological Animals and Historical References

December 6, 2009

You must have heard about the story of how the twelve astrological animals came to be associated with Chinese astrology. In that story, these twelve animals were accorded their positions in the twelve year cycle based on the timing of their arrival at the Buddha’s Parinibbana. According to scholars, there is another version. But be [...]

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Dubai Debacle

December 4, 2009

Dubai has made the headlines again. Only this time it was negative news. Hardly a year ago, it was the city to rival Baghdad of the Arabian nights. But this time it fell to the syndrome of human folly, greed, aggression, and if I may say, madness driven by egoism. This burst of the Dubai [...]

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Bedroom Rules

December 3, 2009

In arranging the bedroom and the bed (where else should the bed be but in the bedroom.. ), there are at least two approaches. The first of these follow the qi formula method. Commonly practiced are the East-West method of selecting the area of the house or room and the other is the Sanyuan method [...]

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