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.

It's common for people to begin articulating a thought with the statement, "If you're anything like me...". Or, they will speak about a topic leading with the assumption that everyone is like them. They think, if you're in their sphere of influence, you must be "just like me".

After nearly two decades of hustling, people are overwhelmed and work weary, bone-tired and completely burnt out. And rightly so! The glorification of busyness and prioritizing work over everything (and everyone) else, to feed the insatiable hunger for more, has done irreparable damage to people's relationships and destroyed their health.

There's a lot that lies beneath the cover of a book. A fellow human. A real life.

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.

Yellow Earth, home at the enter of the bagua, is directionless. It has no compass direction. No personal trigram. No associated family member. No Chinese zodiac animal. No age or stage of life. No dominant yin or yang energy.

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.

Mountain Earth broke me. It broke me, vertebrae by vertebrae, piece by piece. Pulverized my bones to dust, as if they were dry and brittle. To blow away in the wind and find a new place to settle.

The echo chamber could also be called the ego chamber. It's a sounding board that reflects back only the words you give voice to. Everything you think and say is repeated back on a continuous loop, reverberating through the halls of the mountain.

This week has been intense! I'm experiencing the high highs and low lows of the many peaks and valleys of Mountain Earth. Not being a physical element myself, it's been interesting to experience awarenesses though messages from my body.

As I prepare to release the 2022 Annual Guides with excerpts from my series of unpublished books, I thought I would share my journey from feng shui enthusiast to The 8 Elements™ master and future published author of The 8 Elements: Feng Shui for YOU!

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".