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Happy Year of the Tiger! Last week, on Lunar New Year’s Eve, I did a collective I Ching reading for my blog readers and Instagram community. The I Ching is a book of divination that is deeply connected to the bagua, yin and yang, and the five elements. I Ching divination is one of the practices that we teach our feng shui students in the Mindful Design certification program.
When I asked what the Holistic Spaces community would benefit from learning at this time, I got hexagram 62, which is made up of Thunder over the Mountain. This is wood energy over earth energy. This hexagram is described as Conscientiousness, or the Preponderance of the Small.
The oracle advice is that we could all be a little bit more conscientious in our dealings with the world at this moment. We can benefit from paying attention to the details around us and making sure we don’t overlook things as we attend to our day-to-day matters. It’s really about mindfulness. How can we be more mindful and pay attention to the details of our lives? This is really what feng shui is about: noticing that we’re interconnected and interdependent with our environments.
Be conscientious of all of the things in your life right now. Is there anything that is being neglected? Now is the time to take advantage of this energy, to look more carefully and to have more dignity with your affairs in the world, and to pay attention to your relationships. Are there any relationships that you’ve been neglecting? Give your friends a call and connect with your community. It’s also a good idea to pay attention to financial interactions.
The oracle also says that you may find your hands full of trivial emotional concerns, so be careful not to let yourself fret over those things. Instead, how can you start to see the bigger picture? Now is a good time to really work with your inner development, and approach it with some humility and humbleness. If you do that, and you apply dignity and conscientiousness in all areas of your life, you will find good fortune.
Lastly, what is pulling the strings and what’s happening beyond your control is that this is a time to reform. It’s described as Biting Through. As you experience obstacles, how can you bite through them? How can you move through challenges rather than letting them stop you? Work with this feeling of conscientiousness and mindfulness, and pay attention to anything that you may have been neglecting in your life.
If you’d like to learn more about feng shui, check out Mindful Design Feng Shui School at: www.mindfuldesignschool.com
