(yes,...it's a compass...ancient Chinese style...just to confuse the beejeeses out of you)
Flying Stars is the ancient form of Feng Shui used by the elite of China, and developed in secrecy from Master to student over a period of some thousands of years. It has been incorporated into the often complex and confounding cultural and ‘traditional’ Feng Shui we are more used to seeing in the media, but rarely are the ‘bones’ of this study revealed as simply as Flying Stars can and does. This is because until approximately 1980, it was not even taught to Westerners. The following Forecast is a simple and holistic view (told in my language) of the incoming influence for 2008. I hope it carries with it some guidance and a message that will be useful for you.
This ancient form of Feng Shui uses the numbers 1-9 to track energy influences. It is not numerology, although there will be some correlations you will notice, if you’ve ever studied numerology. Each year, a new energy influence comes into dominance over the period of the new Solar Cycle, which occurs somewhere within the last week of January and the first week of February. Commonly, it is given the date February 4th.
2008 sees the Annual Star 1, The Angel of Sheng Chi, coming into dominance. This beautiful energy is a welcome reprieve from the energy of the 2 Star, that influenced 2007, and which brought with it a lot of personal responsibility issues, especially towards our health. We may have had a year where some aspect of the connection between our emotional, psychological and spiritual health impacted upon our physical health. Such was the energy of the 2 Star, it is Mother after all, and if you don’t listen to her asking you to take care of yourself, she will smack your bum J...or bring up some long forgotten happening and make you ‘deal with it’.
The Angel of Sheng Chi is associated with ideas, wisdom and expression, but it is also associated with danger! Sometimes the passions and interests that will inspire ideas and the expression of them, is indeed quite dangerous. All in all though, this is a beautiful energy influence and will encourage an optimistic outlook from most that choose channel it into their daily lives.
It is a Water number and will therefore be useful for emotional dealings. The Trigram (an ancient form of writing using three lines to describe an energy) has been translated as ‘Deep Waters’, ‘The Abyss’, and so indicates that this kind of energy can be used to explore our inner Self, to find/recapture/reacquaint oneself with integral parts of our Self that may have been neglected/removed/damaged. Being like water, it will seek to find the easiest way around something, but will also be beguilingly powerful.
The bodily associations are the Ears, sexual organs, Blood, and Kidneys. This indicates that this Star 1 energy influence has a lot to do with what moves us deeply, profoundly, primitively; what we connect with intimately, the information we receive and where we direct it, what we can utilise and what we get rid of, what we ‘expel’ as not useful. It is like a process of ‘stimulation, utilisation, and expulsion’, when viewed like this, in the context of bodily associations. It displays a primary need, and serves a necessary function, much like the search for Love that most humans depict in the story of their lives.
The season associated with Star 1 is Winter, so things are happening beneath the surface, so to speak, on a quiet energetic level, accumulating and conserving at the same time. Quite complex but also quiet in its complexity. J (fear not all you gregarious types, for 2009 is to be ruled by Star 9, The Angel of Vigour and Vivacity!...you just gotta pull back the band on the slingshot for a year and ponder your navel…happily)
If there is one thing I’ve noticed about Star 1 energy when meditating with it, or coming into contact with it, is that it brings a definitive signature of ‘Hope’. Its that feeling that comes when you realise a situation is able to be resolved or improved, from a previous standpoint, where all looked quite bleak. It’s the heaving sigh of relief, the break in the clouds, the shaft of sunlight, the brightest, most twinklingest star in the sky. It carries with it that kind of energy. And I accept that this is quite contradictory when considering it’s Trigram name of ‘The Abyss’ and ‘Deep Waters’, which sounds ‘ominous extremis’. Sometimes solutions require more courage than staying in a relative safety zone of despair. And really, solutions are a process of one foot in front of another. This forward progression in stages is the essence of ideas, expression, wisdom; the characteristics of Star 1 energy.
As we are coming to understand, all the answers lie deep within us. We search in vain if we search for something to bestow upon us all the good things in life; all the solutions, because we have them inside all along. Perhaps this is the real energy of 2008? The energy that finally makes us realise and wake up to the undeniable fact that we are not only radiant, but the vehicle, driver, navigator and mechanic of our radiance too!
Wishing you a Prosperous, Peaceful and Beautifully Simple 2008.
Jannette
Flying Stars is the ancient form of Feng Shui used by the elite of China, and developed in secrecy from Master to student over a period of some thousands of years. It has been incorporated into the often complex and confounding cultural and ‘traditional’ Feng Shui we are more used to seeing in the media, but rarely are the ‘bones’ of this study revealed as simply as Flying Stars can and does. This is because until approximately 1980, it was not even taught to Westerners. The following Forecast is a simple and holistic view (told in my language) of the incoming influence for 2008. I hope it carries with it some guidance and a message that will be useful for you.
This ancient form of Feng Shui uses the numbers 1-9 to track energy influences. It is not numerology, although there will be some correlations you will notice, if you’ve ever studied numerology. Each year, a new energy influence comes into dominance over the period of the new Solar Cycle, which occurs somewhere within the last week of January and the first week of February. Commonly, it is given the date February 4th.
2008 sees the Annual Star 1, The Angel of Sheng Chi, coming into dominance. This beautiful energy is a welcome reprieve from the energy of the 2 Star, that influenced 2007, and which brought with it a lot of personal responsibility issues, especially towards our health. We may have had a year where some aspect of the connection between our emotional, psychological and spiritual health impacted upon our physical health. Such was the energy of the 2 Star, it is Mother after all, and if you don’t listen to her asking you to take care of yourself, she will smack your bum J...or bring up some long forgotten happening and make you ‘deal with it’.
The Angel of Sheng Chi is associated with ideas, wisdom and expression, but it is also associated with danger! Sometimes the passions and interests that will inspire ideas and the expression of them, is indeed quite dangerous. All in all though, this is a beautiful energy influence and will encourage an optimistic outlook from most that choose channel it into their daily lives.
It is a Water number and will therefore be useful for emotional dealings. The Trigram (an ancient form of writing using three lines to describe an energy) has been translated as ‘Deep Waters’, ‘The Abyss’, and so indicates that this kind of energy can be used to explore our inner Self, to find/recapture/reacquaint oneself with integral parts of our Self that may have been neglected/removed/damaged. Being like water, it will seek to find the easiest way around something, but will also be beguilingly powerful.
The bodily associations are the Ears, sexual organs, Blood, and Kidneys. This indicates that this Star 1 energy influence has a lot to do with what moves us deeply, profoundly, primitively; what we connect with intimately, the information we receive and where we direct it, what we can utilise and what we get rid of, what we ‘expel’ as not useful. It is like a process of ‘stimulation, utilisation, and expulsion’, when viewed like this, in the context of bodily associations. It displays a primary need, and serves a necessary function, much like the search for Love that most humans depict in the story of their lives.
The season associated with Star 1 is Winter, so things are happening beneath the surface, so to speak, on a quiet energetic level, accumulating and conserving at the same time. Quite complex but also quiet in its complexity. J (fear not all you gregarious types, for 2009 is to be ruled by Star 9, The Angel of Vigour and Vivacity!...you just gotta pull back the band on the slingshot for a year and ponder your navel…happily)
If there is one thing I’ve noticed about Star 1 energy when meditating with it, or coming into contact with it, is that it brings a definitive signature of ‘Hope’. Its that feeling that comes when you realise a situation is able to be resolved or improved, from a previous standpoint, where all looked quite bleak. It’s the heaving sigh of relief, the break in the clouds, the shaft of sunlight, the brightest, most twinklingest star in the sky. It carries with it that kind of energy. And I accept that this is quite contradictory when considering it’s Trigram name of ‘The Abyss’ and ‘Deep Waters’, which sounds ‘ominous extremis’. Sometimes solutions require more courage than staying in a relative safety zone of despair. And really, solutions are a process of one foot in front of another. This forward progression in stages is the essence of ideas, expression, wisdom; the characteristics of Star 1 energy.
As we are coming to understand, all the answers lie deep within us. We search in vain if we search for something to bestow upon us all the good things in life; all the solutions, because we have them inside all along. Perhaps this is the real energy of 2008? The energy that finally makes us realise and wake up to the undeniable fact that we are not only radiant, but the vehicle, driver, navigator and mechanic of our radiance too!
Wishing you a Prosperous, Peaceful and Beautifully Simple 2008.
Jannette
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