Depending on your persuasion, the wheel of the year is prefixed by many names — Celtic, Druid, Pagan or Wicca. The familiar graphic has near cult status, bedecking the walls, altars and journals of devotees of the cosmos. In more recent times the ubiquitous image has expanded and morphed into a mystical symbol shrouded in layers of occult, spiritual and religious mystery. Freed from the shackles of cultural and metaphysical associations the Eightfold wheel is more universally appropriate and immediately demystified as sun’s celestial journey mirrored via seasonal cycles.
Read moreWitches Sabbath + Samhain + Beltaine
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At sunset on Oct. 31st, the transition point between two luminaries will exchange the baton from day to night. Forget midnight, it’s sunset that marks the close/ beginning of a Celtic day in their calendar. The last day of Oct. is Hallows Eve, (Hallowe’en) a significant Celtic/Pagan festival marker that’s believed to have marked Celtic New Year’s Eve*. While 1st Nov. is Samhain (or Púka’s day). Folks domicile in the S.H shall be celebrating Beltaine’s Eve. Both markers represent two major festivals or Witches Sabbaths; either the beginning of Summer (S.H) or the beginning of the opposing season of Winter in the N. Hemisphere.
Read moreMoving House - Feng shui style
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SOLD - No going back now!
The realtors sign outside says SOLD. Your to-do list is as long as the Nile. The removalists truck arrives in the morning and you are still boxing your memories up, wondering which box do you put your daughter's artwork in? Nearly everything on the list has a tick beside it and it’s your last night in your old home. Tomorrow night you and your family will be sleeping in your new house. New beginnings await you.
Read moreArmchair Aesthetic + Feng Shui
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I'm a bona fida sucker for mid-century chairs. Honestly I can spot one at 40 paces. Not many things make me green with envy but the want monster comes out when I see a great armchair that fulfills both aesthetic and feng shui criteria.
Read more‘Happy Calendar Adjustment Day’
Back in Sept. 2, 2018 ‘Calendar Adjustment Day' fell on 'Father's Day' . But if we travelled back to Sept. 1751, dear old Pops would have slept through the Annual devotion to Dads! Not even an alarm clock could have prevented Dear Old Dad sleeping it out. #confused?
Read more2026 Half Yearly Review
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As any astro forecaster will tell you, we’re time travellers. Time lines blur, so patterns and themes can emerge. Despite owning a 10,000 year calendar; the struggle to recall the current year is real! But one constant is August 7/8; the Solar midpoint of the Chinese year. June’s Solstice is another halfway point, falling under Horse’s purview. Hence a timely midterm review of Fire Horse predictions. Noting forecasts were written in Mar 2025, eleven months before Fire Horse began. Many prediction themes have accurately transpired. So what did the trailblazer deliver to date and what might we expect in the second half of the year?
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