Double NINTH Festival

October 29, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Happy Seniors’ Day! Since 1966 the Double Ninth Festival has celebrated Senior members of the community. The ‘Double Ninth Festival’ is also known as Chong Yang Festival; which burrows its name from the calendar date meaning the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in the Chinese calendar. In Chinese ‘Chong’ means ‘double’ and ‘Yang’ is a nod to the number nine (9) which is the highest Yang number. and its also known as as the Chrysanthemum Festival. This year the festival falls on Sun 22 Oct 2023, in the Universal calendar.

2025 FENG SHUI FORECAST

September 18, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

This article was originally published by Wellbeing Astrology 2025– Universal Media, Australia

Fuxi and Nüwa — primordial beings with serpent bodies, take on added timely significance. The father of Emperors Fuxi discovered the Ho-t’u arrangement of trigrams, a key tenet of Feng Shui and the underlying nature of all things. While Nuwa the supreme mother, shows up as the annual moderator. Together when depicted as conjoined serpents they form a double helix — the secrets of life; cells, DNA, and years later its double helix shape all occurred on snake’s watch.

US 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

November 4, 2024 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Image credit; Roller Coaster by Jeremy Thompson via CC BY 2.0 creativecommons

It’s hard to escape the US presidential election. According to pollsters the 2024 race to the White House is tight — The same can be said for both Harris’ and Trumps’ Bazi charts; the roller-coaster car sits a top the steep descent, the ride on the go big or go home roller-coaster starts tomorrow. Who has the edge?

Lily Ledbetter, led best.

October 14, 2024 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

We’re in an eclipse period and some big lights get their lights dimmed . . . sadly on 12 Oct 2024, Lilly Ledbetter, the American women rights activist who fought for pay inequality, passed away. An opportunity to pay a little homage to the passing of the icon and a retrospective of some 2024 predictions.

ASTRO REFERENDUM PONDERINGS

October 17, 2023 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Astro fiends oft ponder a covert astrologers involvement when big events or high profile people randomly seem to benefit from an auspicious chart. In the industry such timings are known as ‘electional charts’ – a coincidental pun by the way! US President Regan was said to frequently work with an astrologer during his tenure. However, Australia’s recent referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament lacked the benefit of recognising astrological red flags in advance.

2021 Ox Year Forecast - Part Two

February 12, 2021 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

As the rodent of 2020 bids a speedy exit stage left, the Ox ambles towards the podium to herald in a New Year. The temperament shift is slow and one of transition, inviting us to pause for thought and recenter. I’ve taken a leaf from the Ox’s handbook; and chewed the cud while ruminating on the ruminant.

Chinese metaphysics offers a myriad of methods to decode 2021’s comings and goings. Last year’s purely visual forecast honed in on but one predictive tool - visual elemental outcomes in Interiors.* This year we dive deep and lean into the written word to contemplate what’s masquerading behind the pensive gaze of the affable bovine. In Part One of the Yin Metal Ox forecast we looked back via the legacy of sexagentary cycles. Now in Part Two, we’ll unpack 2021’s Elemental alchemy, Zodiacal tendencies, Cow Commerce and ponder some industry Cash Cows¹.

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