2025 GLOBAL PREDICTIONS

September 18, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Kitagawa Utamaro | Rat Snake with Dayflower Plant | January 1788 | Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last year’s rollercoaster ride eases as Wood Snake’s tenure commences on 29 January. Snake continues to do Dragon’s bidding donning the Little Dragon moniker, partnering with yin wood brings insights and adaptability. Serpent sits at the midpoint of Earthly Branches — the pendulum oscillates — destiny hangs in the balance. Will 2025 restore equilibrium, equate, renew, unify or play with fire?

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.

2025 ASTROLOGY FORECAST

September 8, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

snake coiled pine tree 1821 by keisai Eisen public domain via yale university of art

This article Part 1 of 2 was originally published by Wellbeing Astrology 2025– Universal Media, Australia

Standby mode is set in motion. Snake is poised to jettison the divesting of an outdated status quo. Ready to reveal, ready to reconcile and ready to reignite — what is woken?

Longtaitou Festival - Dragon raising its head

February 28, 2025 FENG・SHUI ・ISM

Azure Dragon (the mural of the Goguryeo Tomb) 1915 Source/Photographer 朝鮮古蹟図譜. Credit via wiki commons

1 March 2025, is second lunar day of the second lunar month in the Chinese Calendar. It marks an extra significant Longtaitou Festival; a traditional Lunar festival that honours the ‘Dragon raising its head’.

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.

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The Wheel of the Year

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.

Armchair Aesthetic + Feng Shui

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.

‘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?

2026 Half Yearly Review

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?

SOLAR + LUNAR ECLIPSES IN CHINESE COSMOLOGY

Sol and and Luna’s allure have captivated nations and cultures since the dawn of time. And the mystical obscuring of either celestial body’s illumination continues to beguile us today. In times past, the phenomenon of eclipses must have been scary when playing out in our skies. We’ve unpacked the cosmology and folklore behind the ominous occurrences. And the upcoming New Moon marking the Fire Horse’s entrance is solar ring of Fire Eclipse on 17 Feb 2026!

Full Moon + Hungry Ghost Festival

August’s Full moon lunation goes by many names*, depending on your domicile and cultural preference. Named the Red Wyrt, Corn/Barley Moon by Indigenous communities while Chinese folk refer to this lunation as Harvest moon. The calendar month is Osmanthus or Skills (flowers associated with Autumn). You’ll also hear lots of Lunar Eclipse chatter, not visible in Australia but on 28 Aug Luna is technically fullest at 2.18pm in Sydney*(more Full moon times below). Eclipse aside, it’s no ordinary Full Moon.

QiXi Festival - Chinese Valentine's Day

Happy Chinese Valentine’s Day!

Unlike International lover’s day - aka Valentine’s Day - which follows a set annual date, the Chinese version fluctuates according to the 7th day of the 7th lunar Month, known as the Qixi — Double Seventh Festival. This year (2026) in the Gregorian calendar it falls on 19 August.

2026 CHINESE ZODIAC HOROSCOPES

This article was written in May 2025 and originally published Oct 2025 for Wellbeing Predictions Almanac 2026.

2026 GLOBAL PREDICTIONS

Snake of 2025 slithers off the podium, with a manifesto hanging in the balance. Yang Fire Horse 丙午 is crowned torchbearer, primed to trailblaze a path to the summit. With an unapologetic entrance on 17 February, a spirited tenure begins. Horse promises powerplays from a playbook written for Black Swans⓵.

WORLD CUP PREDICTIONS 2026

FIFA World Cup fever is cranking up. All 12 groups are finalized and 48 countries are in fine tuning mode for the holy grail of titles. Argentina are the reigning champions and a 2026 favourite, but who has the edge astrologically speaking?

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This article was written in May 2025 and originally published Oct 2025 for Wellbeing Predictions Almanac 2026.

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