The next two years promise to be extremely emotional ones. After back to back mental energy years followed by a year of physical rest, humans will be provoked to emote. Soft Wood next year will be followed by a Hard Wood year in 2024, providing the fuel for the new era of future prosperity to ignite, catch fire and slowly burn for the next 20 years.

In feng shui, energy shifts in 60-year cycles, 20-year cycles and 9-year cycles. The energy is also shifting on an annual basis, and even monthly and daily. In classical feng shui, we remedy and enhance our living and working environments every year and tweak our feng shui each month.

Each month a new energy moves into your personal element's house. This energy is represented by one of The 8 Elements. Since your energy is currently visiting your own house all year, 2022 is the perfect opportunity to really pay attention to how the energy of the personal elements affects you and the area of life your house governs.

These elemental influencers are like an Instagrammer on your daily feed that you can't unfollow or even mute. They are just visiting, but they are in your house for the entire year. Best to find ways to cohabitate peaceful, even if by now, you feel like they have overstayed their welcome. If you are curious to see what effect your house guest's energy is having on YOU this year, read on!

We've all had first hand experience now, with the imprisonment and isolation energy that the Soft Metal 7 can bring. But how the "stay home, stay safe" orders statewide or nationwide affected The 8 Elements may have been very different.

If 2020 was traumatizing, or disappointing, or something in between, you can release the regret.

This month we will be given opportunities to learn the life lessons 2020 presented us with for our soul's growth and personal development. Beginning on December 7th, the energy visiting each house this month is the same energy visiting each house this year, doubling its strengthen and effects. Earlier in the year, when we had this energy in March, I called it, "Double Trouble".

On October 8th, the 9 entered the center gua bringing its light and life, happy vibes and hope for future prosperity. This visiting Fire energy will be roomies with the annual Soft Metal energy until November 7th. Which means that this energy combination will still be present on Election Day, November 3rd.

The Fire energy of the South will activate and intensify the energy of the Woman, making more of who you are being in the world. And the visiting Earth energy of the Mother Earth element will smother hazardous fires to keep everyone safe, while keeping the home fires burning to keep every warm and content.

With Fire entering the center of every home and space, everyone has the potential to find a home they love or return to a home where they know they are loved. Get famous and seek their fortunes in 2018. Build a good reputation in their community or industry. Receive blessings already on their way, sometimes in disguise. Spend quality time with their family and friends. Entertain and be entertained. Celebrate the joys of life. Enjoy career advancement and scholastic achievement. Experience the divine within and see it in others. Have dynamic spiritual experiences with others in large gatherings and sacred spaces.

In this second part of the blog series on 2018 Personal Feng Shui, you will learn more about what this year holds for you based on your personal element. In addition to the energy visiting your personal element’s gua, your personal element’s number is also visiting a certain area, or Life Center, for the entire year ahead. Unlike the energy of the number visiting your gua that brings potentials, where your personal element’s number lands and sets up housekeeping contributes to helping you set intentions about where your energy will be spent and expressed.

In the first part of this blog series about personal feng shui in 2018, you will learn about the energy visiting your personal element’s gua. Each year as the energy shifts, a new dynamic is created between permanent personal energy and visiting annual energy. While understanding the five element dynamics of the Fire year energy on your person element is important, knowing what effect the annual energy has the potential to have on your personal energy is also essential. That way you can make it the best year yet or at least make the best of the year ahead.

The spark of fire that will burn brightly and cheerfully through 2018 has been kindled.  How fast it burns and how wildly the flames blaze through your life, will depend on the energy dynamics that are created between your personal element and the Fire element. In this blog, you will learn about the potential effect fire energy will have on you during this very auspicious Fire year.

Each year the numbers in feng shui play a game of musical chairs. The energy they represent trade spaces, all moving in a perfectly choreographed dance. The elements make room for its nearest neighbor and move into another room in the house.

Each of the Five Elements are associated with a unique taste. Foods that have that distinct taste are the go to or favorite foods for The 8 Personal Elements. These are the foods they love or crave, the foods they get really good at making themselves or the foods they might eat every day without getting bored.