Three Feng Shui Rituals for Lunar New Year
To Welcome 2024, Year of the Wood Dragon
A Special Guest Blog post by Anjie Cho
In feng shui, the lunar new year is an auspicious time to welcome the incoming zodiac animal. This year, we celebrate the wood dragon on February 10, 2024. Lunar New Year is also the kick off to the Spring Festival, on the second new moon of the year. The new moon is dark in the sky and symbolizes a time of rebirth. What is it that you’d like to grow, create, and bring forth?
Three Simple Feng Shui Rituals to Celebrate Lunar New Year
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A Bowl of Nine Fresh Oranges
Oranges symbolize uplifting yang qi, life force energy, as well as prosperity and abundance. Nine is the number of completion in feng shui. Place nine oranges in your favorite bowl and place them in your living room to invite luck and health into your home.
Activate Your Door with Intention
On Lunar New Year eve or day, spend some moments in quiet contemplation of this question: What do I wish to grow, create and bring forth in the year of the dragon?
Handwrite a concise list of three wishes for yourself, and fold the paper into any new red envelope. Then place this envelope above your bedroom door with the intention to invite this qi into your life. Everytime you walk through the doorway, you will activate and offer qi to this intention.
Carry a Rooster
In feng shui, there is a zodiac animal that is considered good luck. In 2024, it’s the rooster! So this means that it’s auspicious to carry a rooster with you for protection, like a good luck charm. Luckily, you need not carry a real living rooster (that might be a bit challenging!). In lieu, you can find a three-dimensional figure of a rooster. I hand-make the amulets every year and you can purchase one here.
Happy Lunar New Year my friends!
If you’d like to learn more, I also host an annual Lunar New Year workshop with the Mindful Design feng shui school. We have live online gathering where we guide you through a forecast for each zodiac animal, a person qi clearing called shedding the shell of the golden cicada, and finally we welcome in the wealth gods. It’s all recorded as well, if you can’t make it live. To receive a 50% discount on enrollment, CLICK HERE or simply enter coupon code ‘DragonAnjie’ at checkout.
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Anjie Cho is a feng shui educator at the Mindful Design Feng Shui School. She’s the author of three books: Holistic Spaces, Mindful Homes, and forthcoming Mindful Living. Follow her on instagram @anjiecho and at https://mindfuldesignschool.com/