January 2023 Energy Update & New Years Resolutions

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Perhaps you're listening after maybe, but as of releasing this episode and recording, it is still December and we haven't gone into 2023. We haven't celebrated that New Year yet. And I wanted to really release this episode because oh, we have something kind of special that happens this month. The energy actually shifts a little bit earlier than usual. So it occurs around the fourth or fifth this month.

You know, that animal sign will shift. And so we're getting the animal sign of the water ox right around the fourth or fifth coming in. So it just occurs a little bit earlier than this year than it usually would like on the sixth or seventh, that sometimes even the eighth of the month. So, you know, I want to get this episode out before that energy shift occurs so you can plan your month accordingly and be ready. So we're still again in the year of the Water Tiger.

Remember the ending of this month right around February 3rd is when the energy shifts again. And it's going to shift us right into that water rabbit energy. And we'll talk more about why that isn't just a minute. However, let's start looking at the energy now for January. So now welcome to the month of the Water Tiger.

Remember that energy does shift right around the fourth or fifth of the month. And I have the fifth written down. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure. You know, kind of interchangeable sometimes.

So that first solar cycle of energy that 15 day solar cycle of energy that starts the month off is occurs right around the fifth and goes to January 20th. And it is called Lesser Cold. The second cycle of Jichi, the solar cycle of energy starts right around the 20th and goes through February 3rd and it is called greater cold. And you may notice that these are around the months that have the, you know, the most brutal coldest weather. And I think of course here if you're listening in the US, you'll know that we just came off of that horrible polar vortex that hit all the northern states, the Great Lake Area and the eastern seaboard.

So I do, you know, wish you guys the best. And I hope you guys are doing okay up there. We felt it down here in Texas, but definitely not as extreme. I mean, we had right around those nine degree, you know, Fahrenheit temperatures. So it was definitely not as extreme as you guys got it up in the north and north east states.

So I do predict kind of that. I think we're going to have more weather phenomena occurring this month, though. If we look at the energies, you know, last month, right after the winter solstice, we had that horrible storm. But I think that that's kind of kind of continue. If we look at the energies that are governing and the animal signs that are governing the energy that is, you know, occurring the next couple months, it's a water energy.

So for December, it was the water rat and for January, it is the water ox. And so those elements are, they have a very strong water with them. The ox not so much as the rat because the rat is the element of pure water with that energy, the heavenly energy of water on top, the element of pure water. And it is just like a hurricane, you know, but if you think of the way water is in the winter, I mean, that's frozen. So I think we can occur, you know, can kind of concur and look and decide that maybe we're going to have some more ice storms and some more weather-related phenomena.

I think it's going to be kind of a cold winter this year. So I kind of look at the cycles and trends in animal signs and past events to predict that. So, you know, hopefully I'm wrong, but be prepared for a little bit colder weather. So kind of revisiting the topic of why the lunar New Year and or the Chinese New Year is celebrated. And it doesn't actually start the beginning of the new animal sign, the New Zodiac sign.

It actually comes in a few days later. So when we're looking at the Chinese New Year, you may notice sometimes it's called lunar New Year. And the reason it's called lunar New Year is because it's actually celebrating the second new moon after the winter solstice. So the winter solstice again occurred, you know, around the 21st. And I want to say the new moon was either on the winter solstice or the day after the winter solstice.

It corresponded very closely. Distributed the winter solstice. So now looking ahead, the second new moon then occurs on the 22nd of January. So thus celebrating commencing the quote-unquote lunar New Year or Chinese New Year. So this celebration goes on for about 15 days up into the full moon.

And that actually marks the beginning of the New Solar Cycle. It's going off a little bit different calendar. And so that energy actually shifts right around February 3rd this year. And then that will bring in the new animal sign and the new cycle of energy of the new animal sign. In this case for 2023, it's going to be the water rep it.

Let's go ahead and get these animal sign predictions for the last month of the water tiger here. We're going to talk about the energy that the water ox is bringing us. Let's start off with the obvious, the Tysolary Grand Duke for the month. And that is the ox. So remember the Grand Duke or Tysolary occurs when you see like the same animal sign.

Okay. So if you see the same animal sign that does mean that that is the energy governing the month. And if you have this in your natal chart, it generally means an all-eyes on new type situation. So I always think of I mean I feel like I've probably made this joke before but the two-block song you know all-eyes on me. And so I always think about that when I think of the Grand Duke or the energy that's governing the month when you have it in your natal chart.

That just means that you're more visible that month. It's like exposing energy. It means you need to make careful choices. So don't it might be a month to lay low or if you really do want to be seen, it's going to be a month that you're exposed or you're more visible. And so if you're exposed more visible make sure it's for the right reasons.

So that's my always my kind of go-to prediction or forecast for when you have the animal sign that is seen also in the month. So looking at the animal signs of snake and rooster. So these combine with the ox to make the element of metal. So and the metal can come in and offer extra support. There's already metal you know hidden within the ox energy.

And so when we're looking at that I really feel like some more focus, attention, the ability to kind of pay attention, organization of your thought process and stuff like that. Remember that the water in the month can help with this metal energy. It kind of helps with the expression of this energy. And so it could be a really good month for you to you know make some videos or do some public speaking or you know just express yourself in a certain way. Maybe you write a blog post or you write some stuff for social media or something.

So it's a really good month for you to get kind of creative and offer that self-expression. Looking at the rad this actually combines and creates the element of earth. I've heard some in some cases it creates water. So I'm going off what I initially learned which is a crazy element of earth. And so when looking at that I get the sense of like stability and grounded you know is the words that kind of come to my my frame of thought.

And so if you have felt kind of off-kilter in that water energy of last month is very extreme for you. You might find that the energy puts a little bit of a boundary to you. It's a little bit of that earth energy and maybe put a little bit of steadiness back into your life a little bit of a slower pace. So my advice to you this month also is to just literally ground you know do some things that are grounded to you do some meditations do some earth thing and put your feet in the dirt if you you know feel like you need to do that or just if the weather is good where you live just go take like a little nature walk hell even if the weather is bad where you live bundle up and take a nature walk because the cold can actually be very invigorating. So I'm literally do some things maybe slow down a little bit keep a steadier pace instead of trying to rush forward into things.

Looking at the seasonal combination which makes the element of water so remember these are all the animal signs that create the winter season so we're in the month of the ox so if you have a pig or a rat in your natal chart that means you can create the element of water it makes the element of water. So when we look at that remember the water has already been present for the year for the month it's just a lot of water so one of the things that I can suggest if you feel up to it is networking you know that friendship because this makes it very very strong it makes the element of water very very strong and so when we are very strong you know sometimes that symbolizes the people around us can contribute create opportunities networking you know things like that if you feel like you need to maybe give a talk or something but I feel like networking like being around friends being in crowds of people is probably the best thing if you do have that pig and that rat already in your natal chart maybe just have the pig maybe just have the rat but it really does that's one of the strongest combinations is what's called the seasonal combination. Again this is the animal signs that make up the season of winter and the element of water so just kind of you know repeating that it is one of the strongest in the hierarchy of combinations you know and it can create opportunity for you so I would really look out for those opportunities and I remember that you can look for days on the calendar that is like a pig day or a rat day to combine with that ox also so you can have all three of these animal signs even if you only have one of them so if you have the pig or the rat look for those days to come in and I do again I put the date selection and I put the animal signs and everything on the blog post that is linked every month so I don't know if the blog post will actually be ready on time but again you can visit that link tree link and it's the monthly energy update so you can kind of keep track of like oh these days are beneficial you know has all species days it has what animal signs combine what animal size clash so it'll be easier for you to identify how to take advantage of those days. Now looking at the clash animal for January so January is the ox so the clash animal is what's called the sheep or the goat so looking at these energies this is one of the months that you will get a clash you know in the year but that's okay a lot of times people look at that opposing energy and they take it as an opportunity to create a change for themselves so if you want to quit smoking enter toxic relationship you know take something or remove something out of your life that's all I'm for serving you then it's a really good month for you to do that um also you don't have a clash every day of the month if you think about the days that combine which are the harmony days so if you look for a pig day or a rabbit day those combine with your animal sign it takes the clash away or if you look at the um what's called the combo six and or sometimes called seeker friend and that's the horse so looking at days I have the horse in them so really you're not going to have very many days that truly clash you in the month so I always tell people don't worry too bad when you see a clash month come on also you can activate that energy in the south that I talked about um I'm gonna well I'm going to talk about in the feng shui segment so the south is a pretty good sector remember if you hit that area of south two where the horse governs then you're gonna take that clash away so you can either work in the south area this month to support you or activate the area with a banner candle and you can help with that clash for the month well speaking of feng shui let's go on to the best and worst feng shui sectors for January after this quick ad break so looking at the feng shui for the month um it is a little bit challenging honestly um there's not a whole lot that's that's I love going on but sometimes it's just like that um honestly for February 2023 for the energy that's coming in for the new year there's not a lot of activations I'm actually going to recommend um the energy shifting in a strange way and there's some sectors that have some good things but all in all they have like things we don't want to activate so even though they might have a good flying star there we can actually activate them for you know the year and sometimes it's just like that and for this month we have some limited options also and so my favorite sectors really are going to be the south and the northeast for this month um this is actually going to be the last time we can activate the south probably up until 2024 so if you want an activator use the area make sure you take all activations down and you mix them by um February 3rd so I'll probably take them down around February 1st you know right right around the end of the month I'll go ahead and ditch those take the activations out and you can start putting up cures and all that stuff for the new year again I'm going to have information for um the year of the rabbit that's all going to become next month but just focusing on this month uh the south I really like it so we have a couple special things going on um we have a four nine combination of flying stars and so when we look at that one of the things that is notable for that is it's the um element of metal and so when we look at the early heaven boggle of the her two combination that actually makes it element of metal and so from what I've learned that's actually a good you know thing to activate it can be very beneficial and so you can if you need to focus if you need organization if you need like that laser focus to finish you off for the month either use the sector or activate it and coming in again number two in my pick of best functuary sectors as the northeast so this actually flying star number three is visiting but again there's exceptions to the rules where we're looking at flying star sometimes and one of the exceptions that I've learned is that you can use it when it is paired with the number eight some schools of thoughts I know but what I've learned and what for my experience has actually been fine um you know nothing crazy going on with the eight three combination and again looking at activating that eight star once again you know what's generally called the well star the work star um it can actually activate some nice work if you need to finish off the year strong and you need a couple contracts or whatever focus on the northeast of your of your sector you know of your space so again you can either work there or you can activate it um and activations both in the south and northeast I can recommend either doing a fan or a candle or working in the area and again probably for best results go to the blog post look at date selection and they'll tell you like functuary activation this day it's pretty easy to use coming in number one for my worst functuary sector for the the month it's going to be that north so remember the north is already afflicted with the three killing so we're not we hadn't done renovations there this year so obviously continue to not do renovations in the north um particularly if you want to avoid activating um loss of monetary you know gains and stuff like that so we don't want to activate that so we have just avoided that renovations in the the north however the flanks are number five is there and it's particularly fierce ugly when it's visiting the north sector and so when we when we look at that remember that north is element of water the five is element of earth so it comes in and makes like muddy water we don't really like that and so for the month I would recommend placing either the salt cure or doing the seven coins in that sector too and just kind of avoid you know and absorb some of that negative energy remember the metal it breaks down the five star uh especially symbolically with the seven coins um so yeah we're gonna kind of negate that energy by adding metal or the salt cure there for the month and again you could take that right around February 1st and generally just keep the area quiet flying stars are activated by movement and that's why say you can either use the sectors or not use the sectors so as long as you keep the area quiet like maybe you don't want to move furniture there for the that month this month um but other than that you should be generally fine with uh regular use should be okay I won't be including a folklore Friday in today but I wanted to look at the topic of New Year's resolution so again and we're at that time of year where people tend to make resolutions or they set themselves up some some goals for the new year and all those things are amazing but I want to take a look at how we can make that successful a majority of New Year's resolutions do fail and it felt pretty quickly and when that happens you can kind of tend to get down on yourself like oh yeah just another thing I didn't complete so instead of doing that let's look at how you can set yourself up for success for the new year I think a lot of the reasons why resolutions tend to fail very quickly is because we think of them as this large mountain of something that we have to climb or tackle but in reality planning and like of planning can uh really really greatly impact these resolutions so a lot of times when we resolve something we really meet it I mean we really really do and we really want to achieve whatever it is but we don't actually plan and make action plan to do it so there's three things I like to do with my action plan um let's talk about that so the first thing I think to start achieving a goal or whatever is kind of identify something that you can commit yourself to so whether that is like a trade show a vendory event you know you're gonna schedule in a networking event maybe you want to work towards a degree and you just register for one class you know it's one it's some of those things the those goals right there that can commit you and that kind of gets the ball rolling on things if that makes sense so to me it's this podcast I know I'm committed to making a certain number of episodes so I um and committed to doing that in number two I break that down into smaller steps so um we again we tend to think of a resolution or a goal is something huge so my goal maybe to make somebody podcast month but now I have to ask myself how am I gonna make that happen and how I can break that down into smaller steps for myself to achieve my goal remember it's those little daily habits that we do that really make the difference I saw this wonderful video the other day where this lady was talking about her habit stacking and she was talking about um you know doing things and increments and I thought this was the perfect analogy so she cut down a tree or some bushes in her yard and she made a big pile of twigs right um so there was branches there was twigs there was leaves and all kinds of debris so she was identifying that in her brain is this huge pile that she had to conquer so instead of doing that she actually was like okay I'm gonna take six branches a day out to the dumpster and so she started doing that and by you know day whatever day seven we'll say those branches were all gone the big branches so she was able to say okay now so so big branches are gone let's take an armilode of branches to the dumpster so since every day she would take one armilode of branches to the dumpster on day three or four again all the branches are gone completely and all she has left is to sweep up the leaves and bag them up you know so in reality breaking those things down and identifying the big piles so to speak um start really adding up in terms of you know you chip away each day so I like to chip away a little bit each day and eventually things get done you know and that starts really just getting started so my I've noticed a lot of people I work with business people the analysis paralysis is the biggest thing so I think people start thinking like you know what if something is wrong or oh I have to do this or I need to build a website or you know I gotta have um you know a lead capture in place or whatever we're doing right oh I need to make a Facebook page for my for my business you know um we I have to have the right aesthetic so don't get caught up in any of that um what happens is that you just start working and you may identify other tasks you need to do but put that in your pile of of sticks so to speak at that to your pile of sticks and chip away at everything each day so I mean it's obviously a little more a little more complicated than all that because we do encounter and run into problems but we kind of just tackle it as we go once you start building that momentum you know you have your goal you break it down in steps and now you're working on those steps so just getting started and working on those steps um it really pushes you and forward and again just chip in way the small piles at a time you know six arm loads of twigs each day guys you'll be far so than you were um you know this time last year so yeah just get started so speaking of resolutions and goals when you make these resolutions on January 1st you feel like the season and the time of year is supportive to you I'm asking this because the other day I came across a video from a Tik Toker name Life the Playway I'll link below but I'm going to play the audio and I'm going to tell you what I think he talks about waiting until spring to make your resolutions y'all better not be doing any New Year's resolutions in January European society got you thinking that you can make New Year's resolutions in the middle of winter they got you thinking that you should start new things when nature is still hibernating this is not the time to manifest new things and that's why most of y'all will not succeed in your New Year's resolutions mimic nature this is a time to drop your leaves shed old things hibernate reflect keep your ass inside journal meditate and keep dropping those old habits that no longer suit you and when spring comes around and nature starts waking up then you manifest something and watch how everything will come to fruition so follow me for more tips I really like his idea of waiting until spring time to manifest and bring forth new ideas maybe we want to hold off on making our resolutions you know around January 2nd the lunar New Year to the beginning of February 4th the solar New Year remember that that solar New Year it is called leachune or beginning of spring and the months of February, March and April are all spring months according to the Chinese calendar so maybe we do need to wait and maybe we need do need to mimic nature and be dormant a couple more weeks and be ready to manifest those new ideas come spring time I really like the way he talks about waiting until spring time to bring forth that new energy so maybe you want to be kind of reflective up until maybe you know January 22nd maybe all the way through February 4th just kind of manifesting around that time and setting your goals and resolutions around that time rather than trying to do it right now remember that in February 4th the solar cycle it's called coming up spring or leachune so the Chinese calendar celebrates spring February, March and April those are all months of the season of spring time so maybe we want to wait until these months to bring forth and manifest in mimic nature just like he was saying so I will catch you guys next week over the next couple weeks I'm going to be coming with information for 2023 in the year of the water rabbit I just kind of been saving it I know a lot of other consultants and content creators have done some some you know videos and stuff so I'm sure you may have seen some of those already I'm going to give my interpretation of the best and worst sectors of coming up in January so January 20th I'm going to be doing the zodiac sign predictions or forecast for the year of the water rabbit so if you're interested in that you can register on the website and the events 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