by llenore | Feb 6, 2024 | Balance, Blog, Chinese New Year, Energy, Feng Shui, Good Life, Linda Lenore, Number 9, Number 9, Optimistic, Self Care, Spiritual, Symbolism
Lunar New Year for 2024 brings additional energies according to several Feng Shui schools. Most people don’t know anything about this, yet it is a powerful tool – one to consciously consider and utilize in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. It’s a 20-year cycle and it’s just starting!
Hello Period 9
The “period” systems mainly comes into play determining energies for construction dates of buildings. Most people don’t have control over unless they build a new home.
Yet these energies are prevalent in all areas of our life. I’m not predicting the future, I’m sharing qualities and energies experienced in past Period 8 and Period 9 timeframes.
Period 8 – based on the number 8 – is associated with balance, ambition, giving back, and prosperity energies. Some of its challenging energies are materialistic, authoritative, and feeling entitled. We have seen extensive examples of ambition, materialistic focus, entitlement, and authoritarian influences worldwide, especially since 2020.
Period 9 – based on the number 9 – is about endings of cycles. It’s an energy of transformation, guiding, and empowering leadership. It’s humanitarian at its heart and awakening inner wisdom. It’s being tolerant, not judgmental. The potential downsides energetically are resentful, sacrificing, and suffering without reason.
In past Period 9s the energies were started for major changes that happened in American history. Two cycles ago, the first Bible was published in America giving guidance for transformation. The New England states changed leadership many times during that same Period 9 cycle – many times resulting in resentful and sacrificing energies. The last Period 9 saw empowering leadership that started efforts to abolish slavery (humanitarian). They were concluded in Period 1 (the next Period), which becomes an example of an ending cycle guiding to a new transformation cycle.
This is not a history lesson, nor am I going to get into political issues. I’m sharing some of the major energies brought to the forefront historically during Period 9.
The main point is: there is a shift of energy on the horizon unlike anything we’ve experienced. My reasoning is because each “period” is 20-years long. That means a person would have to live 180 years to have participated in this energy. I don’t know anyone that has lived that long. (The oldest documented human lived to be 122 years old.)
So, hold on! We’re going to see an energy we haven’t seen in the world. The most powerful number is the number 9. According to numerology, 9 is the number of wisdom and leadership.
Spiritually speaking – let’s pray we see this!
by llenore | Feb 2, 2024 | Business, Chinese New Year, Energy, Energy, Energy, Feng Shui, Food-Recipes, Health, Optimistic
I love to have fun with Feng Shui, which makes the energy created even more powerful. The energetic vibrancy of joy, happiness, love, playfulness, creativity, and beauty – to name a few adjectives of high emotional vibrations – can change just about any possible bad vibes.
Groundhog Day Cookies from Penzey’s website
That’s why a sign I used “on stage” at the 100’s of presentations I did around North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s had the word FUN in bold letters!
Hence, this blog is about having FUN!!! (I also incorporate FUN FRIDAY FENG SHUI posts on my social media most Fridays.)
GROUNDHOG DAY – COOKIES & DO OVERs
When I lived close to a Penzey’s spice store, they had a special promotion on making Groundhog Day cookies. I immediately purchased a cookie cutter to celebrate this fun and unique day. You can find the recipe I used here: https://www.penzeys.com/shop/recipes/groundhog-cookies/
Official Groundhog Cookie Recipe from “VisitPA”
It turns out there is an Official Groundhog Cookie Recipe from Pennsylvania here: https://www.visitpa.com/article/official-groundhog-cookie-recipe
I always loved the movie, Groundhog Day, because it gave me hope that I can “do over” anything until I get it right – or close enough!
Groundhog Day Movie image from Amazon
Do Overs – Getting It Right vs. Doing What Works
There was a time I wrote a blog every week – sometimes every day. I loved sharing my knowledge, especially the many things not usually discussed about Feng Shui.
You see, I was not an advocate of Feng Shui when first introduced to it nearly 40 years ago. Always asking “WHY?” got me dismissed from several Feng Shui schools. That lesson taught me to keep asking questions until I found the answers. That’s a DO OVER of one type.
Since I love to share the “little known” or “held privately” knowledge, I’m committed to write blogs more often. There is a huge amount of unmentioned knowledge about Feng Shui. I do share them in my courses and will be sharing here as well.
Because I was always asking WHY, I figured out how many other diverse modalities I’ve studied connect to each other. EVERYTHING IS ENERGY! EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED! That’s why you will find me discussing and sharing Feng Shui in a way that connects rather than isolates.
Chinese New Year Checklist
As part of the interconnectedness, I celebrate the Chinese New Year. It’s a time to think about what I want to DO OVER. What worked? What didn’t work? This year it starts on February 10th, 2024.
It’s a time to focus on gratitude when I’m not exhausted from the holiday madness that results with the Western calendar year. I love the symbology and the shift in energy that’s created when I utilize some of the customs.
Dragon Reflection in the water as part of the Chinese or Lunar New Year Ceremonies
I’ve created a CHECKLIST with things to do in your house BEFORE the New Year, activities or tasks to shift your personal energy in preparation for the New Year (both of these can be done for any “new year or new beginning”), and the customs for the FIRST DAY of the Chinese New Year. You can get your FREE eBook here: https://lindalenore.com/cny2024/
Since one of the customs is doing a deep cleaning of your home and tomorrow is the last Saturday before the New Year, I will be doing my deep cleaning this weekend!
How about you? What are your thoughts on Groundhog Day, “DO OVERs,” and Chinese New Year? Please share in the comments.
DON’T FORGET – GRAB YOUR 2024 CHINESE NEW YEAR CHECKLIST HERE! https://lindalenore.com/cny2024/
by llenore | Jan 31, 2024 | Beauty, Blog, Energy, Energy, Feng Shui, Health, Linda Lenore, Mind-Body Connection, Mind-Body-Environment, Optimistic, Sacred Space, Self Care, SelfCare, Spiritual, Symbolism
Blessings
Here is another example I wanted to share.
Second example:
In September I reached out on social media for prayers for my brother & husband. (My brother is doing well, and my husband is better.) Within the course of two days my husband was in such poor health he had an emergency blood transfusion.
They told us to head back home after waiting two days to make sure he didn’t have a negative reaction to the transfusion. Also, they made it clear we needed to see specialists within two weeks because they couldn’t find the cause of his anemia.
Over the next couple months numerous doctor’s appointments and tests lead to a medical procedure in December. Within 2 hours of returning home after the procedure, we found water on the laundry floor. Unbeknownst to us a small, non-detected leak within the walls was now a broken plumbing connection to the washer.
According to Feng Shui, our laundry room is the area related to the “oldest male” in the family; hence, the area associated with my husband. Ultimately, the procedure doctors had performed earlier that eventful day had found a “small, non-detected (blood) leak” in his plumbing.
The plumbers had arrived and fixed the washer problem quickly. I felt confident the doctors had found and fixed the leaky blood vessel within my husband. I felt the interactions of the household plumbers was a BLESSING to let me know the doctors had done the equivalent procedure with my husband.
Blessing a Home, Blesses Your Life
Moral of the stories
Calling bad or challenging situations a BLESSING is not easy! FEAR loves to jump in immediately. Yet when I can change my mental state – my mindset – by saying, “This is a blessing,” it changes the energy I put out into the Universe!
These last few months have shown me when life goes sideways, I have choices and opportunities to grow, learn, gain a new perspective, discover my strengths, and make course corrections. They all start with my thoughts and mind! What we think about, we attract! I’m attracting BLESSINGS!
That’s what Feng Shui does also. When we can change any part of our home, we change the energy around us. We can change the “negative” into a “Blessing” just by shifting the mental picture of it.
by llenore | Jan 30, 2024 | Blog, Feng Shui, Good Life, Health, Linda Lenore, Mind-Body Connection, Mind-Body-Environment, Mindfulness, Optimistic, SelfCare, Symbolism
Sometimes life goes “sideways” even with the best of plans, using all the knowledge I’ve gleaned through my Feng Shui trainings, and implementing correct protocols from numerous modalities.
I’m Calling it a Blessing
The question is: How does one navigate these times? (Hint: I call them BLESSINGS!)
Having a PERFECT FENG SHUI HOME does not stop bad things from happening. (BTW – there is no “perfect” Feng Shui home!) The point is to use your home – knowing through Feng Shui the interaction and interconnection your home has with your health and life – to figure out what the growth, lesson, and opportunity are in the situation.
What are the hidden treasures in the detour your life has taken. Rarely are the “treasures” known or understood until some point in the future. When you can look back.
I’ve had a virtual “Treasure Map of Learning Opportunities” the last 6 months. I’ll share a couple brief ones to give you an idea. It would take numerous blogs to share them all!
First example:
We took our first vacation in years during the summer. We went to a quaint little town I’d heard about and seen in photos. We walked around trying to find a restaurant that would accommodate my allergies. They promised they’d look after me. Two hours later I was having a horrible allergy attack that lasted several days. We ended our trip early. I needed to recover at home.
Blessing a Home for the Lunar New Year
When we arrived home, we found a toilet had been running the whole time and overflowed. We arrived back just before the water was about to flood the carpet.
From Feng Shui, the area where this happened in the home and the symbolic relation to where my allergic reaction occurred in my body were identical!
Thus, I call my misfortunate allergy attack a BLESSING because it prevented us from having thousands of dollars of damage to our home.
Tomorrow I’ll share another example.
by llenore | Jan 27, 2024 | Beauty, Blog, Chinese New Year, Color, Color, Feng Shui, Front Door - Entrance, Health, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Red, Self Care, SelfCare, Symbolism, Yellow
As the Chinese New Year approaches, which is an important time to re-evaluate your home through Feng Shui eyes,
Nine Yellow Chrysanthemums in a Red container bring Good Luck, Abundance, and Power for the New Year
households across the world are adorned with vibrant decorations to usher in prosperity, good fortune, and happiness for the coming year. Among the various symbols and traditions, yellow chrysanthemums stand out as a significant and auspicious floral choice for this festive occasion.
Yellow, being a symbol of wealth and good luck in Chinese culture, makes chrysanthemums of this color particularly auspicious during the New Year celebrations. These radiant blooms are believed to bring positive energy and attract good fortune into homes and businesses. Their sunny hue not only adds a touch of warmth to the surroundings but also aligns with the vibrant spirit of the Chinese New Year festivities.
Chrysanthemums, in general, are highly esteemed in Chinese culture for their symbolic meanings. They are associated with longevity, resilience, and even immortality. The use of yellow chrysanthemums during the New Year celebration reflects a desire for a prosperous and enduring life, making them a popular choice for decorations and gifts.
Moreover, the intricate layers of chrysanthemum petals are likened to the layers of success and prosperity that individuals aspire to achieve in the coming year. The flower’s resilient nature, often blooming in the autumn, also serves as a reminder of overcoming challenges and embracing change—a fitting sentiment as families bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new one.
In addition to their positive symbolism, the aesthetic appeal of yellow chrysanthemums contributes to their popularity. Their bright and cheerful appearance complements the festive atmosphere, creating a visually pleasing environment that resonates with the joyous spirit of the occasion.
Plants of yellow chrysanthemums play a crucial role in enhancing the overall ambiance of the Chinese New Year celebrations. As families gather to usher in the Lunar New Year, these radiant blooms not only symbolize good fortune and longevity, they also serve as a beautiful representation of hope, prosperity, and the endless possibilities that the new year holds.
by llenore | Jan 14, 2024 | Balance, Beauty, Blog, Calm, Chinese New Year, Color, Dreams, Feng Shui, Health, Interior Design, Mindfulness, Sacred Space, Self Care, Spiritual, Visions - visioning - Vision Boards
Step 6: Aromatherapy and Positive Energy Infusion (10 minutes)
Aromatherapy image & products by West Elm
As our transformative journey continues, immerse your home with the soothing scents of aromatherapy, one that is carefully orchestrated blending Western wellness trends and traditional purification practices.
In just 10 minutes, infuse your living space with the refreshing aroma of citrus or the calming essence of lavender. As these fragrances delicately permeate your home, negative energy dissipates, leaving behind a profound sense of clarity and renewal.
This intentional act ensures that your home transcends the realms of the physical and becomes a sanctuary of positive energy, aligning seamlessly with the very essence of the Chinese New Year. The fragrances linger not only in the air, but also become an integral part of the very essence of your living space.
A vase filled with roses in all their glorious colors brings fragrance and the Five Elements of CTM to create balance. Also, it adds the personal touch to make your home uniquely yours!
Bringing in natures’ natural scents, like a vase of roses or boughs of pine, connects you and your space to the elements of Mother Earth. They create an environment that not only promotes well-being; it exudes an aura of balance since it encompasses the Five Elements of Chinese Traditional Medicine (CTM); the elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. This step continues our journey, contributing to the ongoing positive transformation of your living space.
#AromaHarmony #SacredScents
Next Stop: Invoking Prosperity with Part 7
Step 7: Invoking Prosperity with Personal Touches (20 minutes)
Our journey unfolds as we delve into the realm of personal touches to invoke prosperity.
In just 20 minutes, infuse your living space with elements that hold personal significance and meaning. It could be a cherished piece of artwork, a family heirloom, flowers from your garden or the Farmer’s Market, or items that resonate with your aspirations for the dreams you hold in your heart. These personal touches add a layer of uniqueness to your home, deepening the connection between your space and your personal journey.
As you strategically place these items, visualize them as anchors for the prosperity you seek. This final segment is a culmination of our efforts. It allows you to personalize your space in a way that aligns your head, heart, and hands with your goals and dreams – a powerful tool to start the Chinese New Year.
Dreams you hold in a jar called your heart!
#PersonalizedProsperity #HomeAsAnAltar
In embracing the rich tapestry of Chinese New Year traditions with a Western twist, these Feng Shui tips are thoughtfully curated for the dynamic, busy woman seeking a harmonious home. In just a few hours, you can successfully transform your living space into a sanctuary of joy, balance, and prosperity. May your home beautifully reflect the intricacies of your unique journey in the Year of the Wood Dragon!
#HomeHarmony #ChineseNewYearDecor #YearOfTheWoodDragon #WoodDragon #ChineseNewYear2024
