The 15-day Lunar or Chinese New Year Festival is a gorgeous feast of customs and ceremonies inviting good fortune, health and prosperity for the forthcoming Year of the Metal Ox arriving February 12th. It’s believed that whatever happens during the festival determines your luck for the entire year! To that end, people will make the […]
Make a Kuan Yin Grotto by Gwynne Warner
Give yourself the immense pleasure of creating a Kuan Yin grotto or sanctuary in your own garden, patio, or balcony. Or perhaps a secret place in a nature park. If you absolutely can’t create something outside, then enjoy listening to a recording of birdsong and waterfalls on headphones, such as Deuter’s Bamboo Forest, as you […]
Feng Shui and Fruit by Gwynne Warner
Displaying fresh fruit is a fabulous, beautiful, effective, and affordable Feng Shui adjustment as they embody the metaphor of things in your life being “sweet”, progressing “smoothly” and being “ripe” for success. They’re wonderful color adjustments to a room with their bright and cheery colors (just make sure that when the chi of the fruit […]
Create an Outdoor Sacred Space with Feng Shui by Gwynne Warner
“Sitting alone in the dark bamboo grove I strum the qin and whistle in forest depths that no one knows, the bright moon comes to shine on me.” {Wang Wei} Give yourself the immense pleasure of creating an outdoor refuge in your garden, patio, or even on an urban balcony. No matter your design aesthetic […]
Floral Feng Shui by Gwynne Warner
“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. “ {Matsuo Basho} Color and fragrance are two of the classic ways to adjust and uplift an environment for more harmonious Feng Shui and using fresh flowers is such a beautiful, easy and affordable way to feel an instantaneous transformation. […]
Rituals for Bathing Your Home, Gratitude, & the Full Moon by Gwynne Warner
I’m wishing the happiest of birthdays to 10,000 Blessings Feng Shui! She’s 16 years old today and I realize I’ve now sent more than 400 newsletters over the years–wow! My heart swells with gratitude for my teachers, especially Grandmaster Lin Yun, Grandmaster Lillian Too, HH the Dalai Lama, Catherine Ingram and Andrew Harvey; for my […]
Kuan Yin, Our Goddess Of Mercy by Gwynne Warner
“Kuan Yin’s presence is the abode of compassion in which we live…” ~Stephen Levine Beloved throughout Asia as well as the West, Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, is an emanation of the universal Divine Mother and cherished as an inexhaustible wellspring of love. She is an awake, fresh, living and breathing nuclear movement of […]
Preparing for the Chinese New Year – Part 2 by Gwynne Warner
The Lunar New Year celebrated as the 15-day Chinese New Year Festival, arrives on January 25th in 2020 as the Year of the Metal Rat. See Part 1 of Prepping for Chinese New Year here On Chinese New Year’s Eve, January 24th in 2020, invite beautiful, fresh and auspicious energies by… Decorating with beautiful, colorful […]
Auspicious Preparations for the Chinese New Year – Part 1 by Gwynne Warner
The Lunar New Year celebrated as the 15-day Chinese New Year Festival, arrives on January 25th in 2020 as the Year of the Metal Rat. Before the traditional altar cleaning and decorating days, it’s time to tend to these pre-ceremonial preparations… Deep clean your living and working spaces—everything should be sparkling! As you clear away […]
Preparing for the Chinese New Year by Gwynne Warner
The Lunar New Year, celebrated as The Chinese New Year Festival, arrives on February 5th in 2019. And before the traditional altar cleaning and decorating days of early February, there’s still time to tend to these other meaningful tasks. PREPARING FOR THE CHINESE NEW YEAR – PART ONE 1 – Carry on with the deep […]
