Annual Forecast & Feng Shui Remedies for 2007 : Yin Red Fire Pig Year - Dragon Sign Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese Zodiac Astrology is ancient, interesting, accurate and loved by millions across the world. The Chinese Zodiac is based on cyclic concept of time : a cycle of 12 years, repeated again and again. The 12 Years are associated with 12 Celestial Animals : Rat (or Mouse on Mongoose), Ox (or Buffalo or Bull or Cow), Tiger, Rabbit (or Hare or Cat), Dragon, Snake (or Serpent), Horse, Goat (or Sheep or Ram), Monkey, Rooster (or Hen or Cock or Chicken or Phoenix), Dog and Pig (or Boar or Hog). The animal names occasionally differ with the Oriental Country they originate. The Chinese Yearly Horoscopes are basically built around these 12 Animal Signs.

Your Chinese Astrological Zodiac Animal Sign is directly based on the Chinese Lunar Year of Birth that you were born. The Chinese New Year is mobile and could start anywhere between 21st January and 20th February, depending upon the year. If your Date of Birth falls into any of the following Chinese Lunar Years, then, because you are born in the Year of the Dragon, you are symbolically identified by your Celestial Animal, the "Dragon" :

From 16 Feb 1904 to 03 Feb 1905

From 03 Feb 1916 to 22 Jan 1917

From 23 Jan 1928 to 09 Feb 1929

From 08 Feb 1940 to 26 Jan 1941

From 27 Jan 1952 to 13 Feb 1953

From 13 Feb 1964 to 01 Feb 1965

From 31 Jan 1976 to 17 Feb 1977

From 17 Feb 1988 to 05 Feb 1989

From 05 Feb 2000 to 23 Jan 2001

In Chinese Hsia Calender, 2007 is the 4704th year and significantly, is also the fourth year of the New Feng Shui Land Luck Cyclic Period 8. The forthcoming new Chinese Lunar Year is from 18th February 2007 to 6th February 2008. The next Chinese New Year, the Yang Earth Rat will begin on 7th February 2008.

Enjoy the Annual Forecasts and learn about the suggested Feng Shui & Crystal Remedies that you may need for the coming "New Lunar Year 2007 : Ding Hai, the Year of the Yin Red Fire Pig" :

CAREER 2007 is a year of considerable promise and signals an upturn in your fortunes. You can finally see the rays of hope at the end of the dark tunnel. Take advantage of every single opportunity and derive mileage from your experience and capabilities. Remember to take the advice and support of your friends and colleagues. Team work will yield much better results. Hard work and perseverance will bring you success. External pressure and competition will surface but timely help from your benefactors will help you win them. Make sure you control your temper or you might end up disrupting some good interpersonal relationships. Beware of female back-stabbers. Keep your cool and be modest and humble about your success. If you are onto trading, travels, marketing, exports and imports, hotels and marriage halls, you will do much better than others. If you are a salaried employee, recognition will come your way with promotion and salary increment. But be alert and do not get involved in battles for influence or take sides in internal politics. If you wish to venture out on your own or in partnership, now is the right time. Display the statue or real photo of the Great Mentor Kuan Kung in your North West to get the best out of 2007. Attending training classes or refresher courses will greatly contribute to your future prospects. Keep your diaries and documents locked up in a safe; encrypt your computer files and assign a safe password and beware of enemies listening into your conversations secretly - you are likely to be a victim of information theft this year and suffer from deteriorated fame and reputation because of that.

MONEY Financially, an encouraging year with increase in income supplemented by commissions. Your investments will pay up. Surplus money will accumulate. Put a ban on your luxurious spending sprees and plan your budget well. Impose fiscal discipline on your bank accounts. Now is the time to reduce your borrowings (if you have any) and save up for buying assets in the future. Place a three-legged toad (opposite to your main door, but as if it is coming inside your home) to create a conducive atmosphere for buying assets. If you were born in 1976, you may get a remarkable windfall luck. If you were born in 1964, you could be hit by lawsuits this year.

HEALTH Most of you will face many health problems including high stress levels, skin allergies, insomnia, food poisoning, migraines, digestive and respiratory disorders. Females should watch out for problems related to sexual organs. If you are a female and in post-natal recuperation, you have to increase the immunity powers of your body. Avoid sexual promiscuity. If you are carrying over abdominal and gastrointestinal problems from last year, it could worsen this year. Accidents might happen during travels or in sports. Hang two large sized natural Chinese Sacred Gourd Wou-Lous : one near your main entrance and the other in your bedroom, on your headboard side. Keep a Black Tourmalene Crystal Tree near your bedside. If you were born in 1928, you might become light headed, weak and not in full control of your bodily functions. If you are a female born in 1964, you could be affected by gynecological ailments.

LOVE Excellent love luck with high levels of sexual appetite. A good year for marriage and child-bearing. Singles will get engaged and then get married within a short span of time. If you are married, you may make use of the intense sexual energy in the air to restrengthen your relationship to your spouse and build up a more harmonious equation. However refrain from indulging in extramarital affairs or else you will face severe penalties in near future. Install the icon of a Rooster in the South West of your bedroom and carry a set of 3 Qui-Yong coins with you always to discipline yourself. If you were born in 1964, you could face a serious love triangle problem.

STUDIES A good year for all those who are studying. But you need a higher level of motivation. Set yourself a challenge. A challenge that will be realistic as well as enjoyable too. Then you will accomplish. This is a year for acting on ideas. You could learn a new knowledge skill or take up a new social interest, for personal satisfaction. Maybe you will join a local society or arrange a meeting group for fellow enthusiasts. This will open up a new vista of opportunities and contacts which you will cherish in the years to come. If you are a female born in 1988, you will be immersed in Peach Blossom luck : do not lose your head or chastity, but concentrate only on studies. Install a Pagoda Tower in the North East of your study room.

Birthstone : Ruby Good Relationships with : Rat, Rooster and Monkey, for 2007 Conflicts with : Tiger Ox and Dog, for 2007 Polarity Force : More Yang Lucky Numbers : 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 21, 34, 35, 36 and 45 Zodiac Protector : Puxian or Samantabhadra (Sanskrit)

A NOTE ABOUT REMEDIES :

The above analysis has suggested some remedies/cures for reducing the impact of negative energy and has recommended certain enhancers for increasing and improving upon the beneficial energy of the year. For the remedies/enhancers to be effective, they should be cleansed, energised, blessed and programmed not only for the particular individual/family but also for the specific purpose/problem. They should also be placed in the indicated location, to derive the maximum benefit. Any or all of these remedies can be reused for the forthcoming new years, but they may have to be repositioned according to the specific new year.

Janarrdhana Guptha is an Energy Consultant, Kabbalah Energy Numerologist, Crystal Master & Clairvoyant Karma Reader. His speciality is permanent Karma Energy Correction through custom-built Crystal Energy Fields. His E-Mail : crystalvaastu@yahoo.com. His website :www.crystal-vaastu.com/home.htm & www.newage-kabbalah-numerology.com

Feng Shui Is Another Element In Which You Can Have The Advantage Over Your Competition

It is a common practise in the eastern countries that Feng Shui masters are consulted for their homes and offices. This is applicable for corporate executives and more so for Entrepreneurs. Why are Feng Shui so important to these people? Will Feng Shui really improve our life, luck and businesses?

First, let's us understand the concept of Luck.

There are 3 types of luck in the centuries old Chinese belief. This so called Trinity of Luck are equally distributed, that is 33.33% each. We can do something to 2 of them to improve our luck and there is only one we cannot control. Let me explain.

Heaven Luck - this is luck that has already been fixed by the heavens for you the day you are born. We do not and will not have control over it. Called it Fate. This is done by reading your palm, calculate your date of birth and some times reading your face.

Earth Luck - This is the environment we are in which deal with our locations and the things around us. We can use Feng Shui to enhance good forces or to prevent any bad forces that can affect us. This is the reason why you opt-into my page and you want to know more and do something to improve your luck.

Human Luck - This is about yourself and your upbringing. It is about what you can achieve through education and willingness to work hard towards your goals. You can definitely control this luck.

Therefore, having the right mindset and attitude is important. The right mind to believe that there is a science of getting rich while applying Feng Shui, you already control 66.66% of the Luck you need for your life!

It is not uncommon to see many eastern entrepreneurs re-arrange their office to cater for good Feng Shui in order to usher good luck and prosperity. They are also aware that Human Luck is also important to their success. A person's attitude to work, interpersonal relationship and the quest to learn is important. To improve human luck, one needs to have continuous educations and refinements in their skills. This is what the west is good at. They have developed management science that the east are looking for. China is now learning all the skills that have been developed by the west. Many techniques such as goal settings, project managements, software and manufacturing techniques and business franchising just to name a few.

If we combine the knowledge of the East and West together, we can achieve success with more certainty. In a New York Times interview in 1994, billionaire Donald Trump commented: "Feng Shui is another element in which you can have the advantage over your competition...This is something we cannot ignore."

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Feng Shui for Singles: How to Attract a New Love to Your Life

Despite successful careers, loads of money, fantastic looks or physique, the truth is even the most seemingly perfect single people will tell you that they would be happiest if they had someone to love. It is said that there is someone for everyone, it is just a matter of finding that someone. Ay, and to quote Shakespeare, theres the rub.

If you talk to a scientist, youll hear that meeting someone is just a matter of numbers. If you can raise your exposure to a greater number of potential candidates, then you raise the likelihood of cupids arrow hitting the mark. Well, most single people I know are surrounded by thousands of people everyday at the grocery store, at the office, in airports, at the gym, etc., etc., but they havent met the person that pulls their heartstrings.

Maybe you have tried singles mixers, speed dating at the local sports pub, or even resorted to having your friends set you up with eligible singles. And what if all that turns up zero? Then maybe its time to see if your house, your office, or your business could be undermining your efforts to gain a suitable partner in love. So, what exactly are the key elements for singles to look for when determining if the energy of their space is killing their romantic prospects? You are about to find out. Now, get ready to make a serious assessment of your space to open your life to a new love!

1. Is a man or a woman missing in your life?
You could be without a special someone because you are missing a NW or SW corner! Every space must have a NW and a SW corner. These are the cornerstones of a space, and in feng shui thought, the two most important sectors. The NW corresponds to a man and the SW corresponds to a woman. So, if you are a single woman, you need to activate your NW sector, or a single man, the SW sector. By the same token, both single men and women need to activate the SW sector because it is also the sector of marriage, romance, and relationships.

If your NW or SW corners are missing, or afflicted by a toilet, kitchen, storeroom, etc., then you begin to see what the problem is. How do you correct this? If you are extremely serious about finding someone, then moving might be an option. However, less drastic measures are also available. Use these tips to guide you.

If the NW or SW corner is missing: Place a mirror on the wall where the NW corner should be so that it visually expands. Outside, where the missing corner is, try to delineate this space with a light pole, a heavy rock or object, or create a fenced area or garden to put back this missing area.

If the NW/SW corner has a toilet: Make sure this room has a mirror in it. Keep the door closed. You can also try the following remedies of placing a heavy rock in the NW toilet, and candles and red objects in the SW toilet. DO NOT make the mistake of putting candles or red objects in the NW or a stone in the SW because this will make things much, much worse!

If the NW/SW has a kitchen:
In the NW, this is a very bad placement. Kitchens in the NW are not good. You can try to add stones here, such as geodes, or whatever strikes your fancy. You can also paint this room a beige color. This will help strengthen the NW energy with the earth element of the beige color. Avoid water or fire elements in the NW kitchen as these hurt the precious NW energy.

In the SW, add pairs of objects here, such as setting a place for two at the table, even if there is only one dining! You can also had a stone object here or paint the kitchen beige to add more earth energy.

2.Tap your personal marriage and romance direction.
Orient the bed or sleep with your head pointing in your marriage and family direction based on your kua number. Move your desk to face this direction (although, you should make sure you do not ever have your back to the door). Eat facing this direction, and enter doors from this direction.

Here are the orientations for both men and women:

NumberOrientation
1South
2Northwest
3Southeast
4East
5Northwest (male)
West (female)
6Southwest
7Northeastearth/fire
8West
9North

Besides using the doors according to your kua number, sitting, eating, and sleeping, you will also want to energize the corresponding areas in your living room.

3. Fake it until you make it.
Make your bedroom appear as if a couple lived in it. So be sure to decorate it in a gender-neutral manner (no fussy flowers and pastels or severely masculine rooms). Make sure there are pairs of lamps (one on either side of the bed), and pairs of objects in the bedroom.

Put lots of romantic images in here! Display pictures or figurines that say romance to you. Pictures of couples kissing, holding hands, anything to inspire your loving feelings. Some people intentionally remove any pictures of romance because they dont want to be reminded that they are lonely. Wrong. You need to be reminded and inspired because it will work to activate you more to seek out a new partner.

4. Activate the man and woman in your space.
You should activate your home, your bedroom, your garden, your desk, and your office, and any other space you occupy to increase the influence of the NW and SW energies.

FOR WOMEN ONLY:
To activate the MAN area (NW) in your space:

Desk: Put a phone or fax here, add a radio, or put the computer on this corner of your desk, place a picture of a handsome man here, or add a moving metal sculpture; (metal pendulum clocks are great).

Home/Living Room: Put your television or stereo in the NW sector (unless it is the bedroom). Or, you can put manly objects in this area if it is your bedroom. Objects such as books a man might read (or your ideal man would read!), the sports page, or a picture of a handsome man (or men? Chippendales calendar, maybe?) in this location is good.

Bedroom: A CD player with romantic music that you listen to nightly would be wonderful in a NW corner of the bedroom.

Yard: Place a shepherds hook here and hang a windchime on it. Anything metal would be excellent here.

Office: Gold windchime with a fan gently blowing to make it tinkle softly. This is also a good idea in the living room.

FOR WOMEN AND MEN:
Remember, both women and men want to activate the SW corner of their homes, bedrooms, living rooms, offices, and desks! Thats because the SW corresponds to romance, marriage, and women.

To activate the WOMAN and ROMANCE area (SW) in your space try these ideas:
Desk: Place a beautiful stone (such as rose quartz) or a beautiful vase in the SW corner of your desk. You can make a copy of the double happiness symbol and place it on this corner; its believed to make married men out of confirmed bachelors. Add red items in this location, crystal objects (a crystal pendulum clock would be wonderful here!), or red crystal paperweight is also a perfect addition. You will also want to place a copy of the Double Happiness symbol here.

Home/Living Room: Make sure the SW sectors of your home and living room have love objects appropriate to the SW corner. This can be a terracotta or porcelain vase, candles, picture of a mountain, such as Ayers Rock, would be especially auspicious.

Bedroom: A CD player with romantic music that you listen to nightly would be wonderful in a SW corner of the bedroom. Place a lamp in this corner and make sure it stays on at least 3 hours a day. Better still, keep it on the entire day while you are out!

Yard: Place a large boulder or group of boulders here. Or, place a cement bench in this location. You may also wish to put a statue of a couple in this location, or plant some red or pink flowers here.

Office: Add a picture here of a mountain (provided it is not directly in front of you), or some other romantic scene that is tasteful. A lamp in this location is also a good idea.

5. Eliminate the old to bring in the new.
If you have pictures of old boyfriends and girlfriends hanging around, then theyre still there! Get rid of the pictures and mementos. Make sure that you have new sheets, too, to sleep on. Old energy can linger in the bed as well.

One single woman (she was divorced) had pictures of her ex everywhere and wondered why her love life was poor. What man wants to compete with a former boyfriend or worse, an ex-husband.

6. Employ some magic.
Some feng shui stems from Chinese folklore and superstition. But if it helps you draw Mr. or Ms. Right, who cares, right?

Rainbows for love.
Hang a crystal in the SW windows. Then, let the suns rays shine on the crystal to create rainbows in the SW sector of your house for extra romantic energy in your space.

Use a magic box.
This is said to draw a spouse to you. Purchase a silver box, either round or square shaped. Write your deepest desires for a spouse on a piece of paper. Place this box in the SW or NW corner of the house, in a cupboard or out of sight. A square box should be placed in the SW and a round box in the NW.

Kathryn Weber is the publisher of The Red Lotus Letter a FREE weekly feng shui ezine. Log on to www.redlotusletter.com for your free subscription. Copyright 2003 Kathryn Weber. Reprints with permission, attribution, and website link.

Feng Shui-What It Can Do For You An Intro

The ancient art of Feng Shui can bring you success in a number of forms including better relationships, health, creativity and generally more success in work and your personal life.

It's easy to do so lets look at Feng Shui in more detail.

Pronounced different ways depending on the dialect feng shui (fong shway, foong swee, etc) is the very ancient Chinese proto-science of space management.

It comprises the arranging of buildings, interiors of buildings, and spaces between and in between in order to harmonize the environment with the perfect order of the universe. Feng Shui roughly means ?the way of the water and wind?

How Old is Feng Shui?

Actually, there is no evidence of an origin, or even of a certain place.

Ancient Chinese villages from over 6,000 years ago show graves being laid out in classical feng shui style. However, in ancient Europe, there are many of the same evidence, and it appears that our ancestors were pre-occupied with this harmonization with the universe. The monolithic stones at Stonehenge are a good example.

The pyramids also are arranged in perfect feng shui. The science may not have been Chinese originally, but has since been taken as a native Chinese art and science.

What Is Good and Bad Feng Shui?

Good feng shui is meant to bring one success, good health, successful relationships, manners, creative talent, and aid meditation.

Bad feng shui block all of these and seem to produce their opposites.

How Feng Shui Is Supposed to Work

The ancient seers and sages were observers of the world and the universe.

They knew that as everything that exists contains chi or qi (life force), and this life force is made up of two opposites, ying and yang.

Yin is the feminine or reception form of the qi, and yang is the masculine or creative and active form.

They understood that yin and yang cannot exist without one another. Furthermore, the sages divided the qi into eight qualities, namely the Lake, the Mountain, Fire, Water, Heaven, Wind and Earth.

The sages devised a system of understanding the energy patters from these elements, and with the proper arrangement, a person who resided or moved within a harmonized environment, gained the good feng shui as well.

This arrangement is called ba gua (Sequence of the Later Heaven), and it is superimposed on each house or interior the feng shui master wishes to evaluate and correct.

Certain qualities are found in each of the eight elements, such as health, creativity, even luck. The feng shui master makes the space arrangement not only in harmony with the universe and qi, but also, your personal situation and circumstance.

Some Practical Examples of Employing Feng Shui

1. Mirrors in one?s home should not face your bed or even chairs

2. The front door or any home or apartment must not be too big or too large. Either of these will keep the qi from flowing properly.

3. Your home should not be near the end of a bridge, a church, or even a highway. All of these will have too fast qi or not enough.

4. Understanding that qi enters one home from the doors, you must have doors facing each other, as that lets the qi move too quickly out of the room (apartment, home). Rather have doors on adjoining walls.

5. When decorating your home, never put a sofa or chair with their backs to a door or window.

6. Windows must have a good and pleasant view, if not, window ?dress? it with flowers or some other ornaments.

7. When buying land to build a house on, but sure the lot is rectangular, preferably on a hill and having open spaces between the house and the end of the lot.

This is only a brief introduction to to the art of Feng Shui discover more and change your life today.

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8 Feng Shui Tips to Make Your Own Buds Bloom

Spring is here and all the energy that was laying low and gaining strength over winter is blossoming forth. Spring is the time for new beginnings. Its a time of increased energy, new beginnings and sunshine moods.

These tips will help you harness this energy.

1. OPEN YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS The air inside your building is up to ten times more polluted than the air outside. This is due to building practices that seal the building against energy loss, and because of synthetic furnishings and carpets which are continually sending toxic vapors into your home.

Opening your doors and windows will bring more energy into your life as this is where the energy enters your homes and rooms.

2. TAKE CARE OF YOUR PLANTS Now is a good time to feed them, dust them, shine their leaves and give them some love. Plants produce movement of air, which helps them remove toxins from your environment. They also produce water vapor which controls humidity.

3. CLEAN YOUR WINDOWS
Often its not until the sun shines on your windows that you can see just how dirty they've become. Create a clear view of your world.

4. BUY FRESH FLOWERS
These will add brightness and vitality to your life. Make sure you replace them when they wilt.

5. WHAT NEEDS DECLUTTERING? Is it time to go through your closet again with fresh eyes? Can you put your winter clothes out of sight? What can you let go of? What do you no longer like or wear? What doesn't show you at your best? How about your garage, your car or your handbag?

6. DO YOU HAVE CLUTTER IN YOUR BEDROOM? Your bedroom is the most important room in your house because you spend so many hours in there. Clutter here will be affecting your health and relationships, and clutter under the bed affects you the most - it will be creating unconscious blocks as you sleep over it.

7. RE-ENERGIZE YOUR GOALS Are you one third of the way towards your goals for the year? What is blocking your way? Do you want to choose a new goal? Choose a goal and commit to taking one step towards it each day. Watch the progress you make and the momentum you create. Do this with a friend or your Coach and check in with them each day. Being accountable to someone else is often what it takes keep focused.

8. REDUCE THE STATIC IN YOUR LIFE Make a list of anything in your life that 'bugs' you and start clearing them up. What distracts you from doing the things you love to do and what distracts you at work? What can you do to resolve these issues?

Spring is a great time to reassess and re-energize your dreams and goals. You are a third of the way through the year and can take advantage of this boost of Spring energy by clearing some space and refocusing.

2003, Vicky White. All rights reserved. May be duplicated with attribution and copyright notice intact. http://www.LifeDesignStrategies.com/

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