January has gone – the month with very little energy, when most of us feel like burrowing under the duvet and hibernating. On the 4th February the new Feng Shui Year brings in the renewed energy for the year, quickly followed by the Chinese New Year, bringing in another much-needed boost of energy.
The Chinese Horoscope for 2025 is the Year of the Snake
In the Year of the Snake, 2025 is expected to be a time of deep insights and thoughtful deliberation. This year encourages strategic planning and inner strength development. The Snake symbolizes wisdom, intuition, and transformation, making it a year for exploring deeper truths and achieving subtle success
Are you excited about the possibilities this year might bring?
I was reading somewhere recently about choosing a meaningful word for ourselves during the year – in fact my word found me, so I will share it with you PATIENCE!
I find as I get older this becomes harder to achieve. No sooner had I acknowledged how important this was in my life, but I was reading ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’ by Richard Carlson – a little book given to me at Christmas by one of my lovely daughters. It is a ‘potent little book and reminds us with simple brilliance of what it takes to rise to our best and what we need to do to enjoy a life beautifully lived’. There it was, Chapter 13 consisting of two pages ‘Become more Patient’ – written for me obviously! If any of you want to know what Richard said – please let me know, I would be delighted to send you a synopsis of this and the next chapter ‘Create Patience Practice Periods’.
What is your word for this year – close your eyes and give yourself a few minutes to consider your options.
Finally – what will it take to create a ‘new you’ in this new year? We are all so busy rushing around, filling our days and generally not giving ourselves the time to really consider what we might have to change or give ourselves in order to receive a better and more ‘beautiful’ way of life.
Two of these that came to me were
• To be kinder to myself – to allow myself to make mistakes and learn from them; to allow myself to consider my needs whilst dealing with everything else
• To bring more joy into my life – life is passing by far too quickly and maybe we should try to let go of things we do not like and that do not bring us ‘joy’. What actually brings us ‘joy’?
I do have more ideas on creating a new you and would like to share them with you at a later date.