Prepare your home to welcome the visiting energies of the new year. Making the effort to clean and create space in your home will increase your capacity to enjoy all the blessings already flowing into your life. Beautifying your home with chi lifters will activate the auspicious energy so you can benefit from it all year long.
The feng shui or Chinese Solar New Year is on February 4, 2019. And the Lunar Chinese New Year follows a day later on February 5th.
So, a few days before the new year, spend some time making your home sparkling clean, clear of clutter and energetically cleansed. Get some lucky bamboo, prosperous green jade, blossoming healthy plants and fresh cut flowers. Open all the windows and doors. Clean your front door and polish your door handles. Display a bowl of citrus fruits. Take the day off of cooking duty and kitchen patrol. Buy something new to wear. And set your intentions for the year ahead.
Clean your home inside and out! Turn on some music and get to work making your house feng shui clean. Wash all the windows and their coverings. Power wash the exterior of your home. Haul away any garbage and yard slash and debris. Sweep the path leading up to your front door. Place a new welcome mat. Remove all the cobwebs and dust everything. Move all the furniture and vacuum behind or sweep and mop under everything. Polish all of the furniture. Empty all the trash cans. Do the laundry, fold and put it all away. Wash your bedding and make up all the beds with fresh linens. Deep clean all of the bathrooms. Put out fresh towels for everyone and fresh hand towels in all the bathrooms. Throw out expired, stale, unused and processed foods and old spices. Clean out the refrigerator and restock it with fresh healthy foods. Wash all the dishes and wipe down all the counters.
Feng Shui Clean Spray In a dark amber glass spray bottle, add a few teaspoons of sea salt and top off with warm water. When the salt has dissolved and water cooled, add 10 drops of sweet orange essential oil. Spray and wipe down your front door, inside and out.
Clear your stuff. Be ruthless. Use the KonMari method of decluttering and tidying up. Make piles of similar items, like clothes, books, papers, miscellaneous and sentimental belongings. Donate or throw away everything that does not serve a vital daily function in your life and spark joy for YOU. Let it go!
For quick decluttering, get an empty laundry basket and walk around the house for twenty minutes, visiting each room. Pick up trash and any items that are out of place or you don’t need anymore. Throw them away or bag them up to be donated immediately.
Cleanse your space. Burn sage with a few sprigs of lavender. Walk around your house with a smoking stick of Palo Santo. Or light some incense. Add water and a blend of citrus oils, like Citrus Bliss, to your aromatherapy diffusers and turn them on. Light candles for an hour in each space. Clap or ring bells to break up stagnate energy and get it moving out through open windows and doors.
IMPORTANT Perform a Fire Energy Cleansing Ceremony in every room to burn off unseen energy, low vibes and negative emotions.
Move 27 Things. There is a Chinese saying, “Move 27 things, change your life”. As you clean and declutter, you will be moving a lot of things. Consider moving your furniture to honor your best directions and create better flow in your space for the chi to collect at the entry and meander effortlessly throughout your home. Move a favorite chair or angle it differently to change your perspective or access a better view. If you took my advice last year and did not sleep with your head to the North, you can move your bed back now, if you like.
Plant a blossoming plant. The Chinese believe that if a plant blooms on new year’s day, they’ll enjoy prosperity all year long. So, go get a beautiful plant with blossoms and plant it in your yard where you can enjoy it from a window or sliding door when inside or porch swing or garden bench when outside.
Get some beautiful flowers. Go out and find or create a big bouquet of colorful flowers to put in a crystal vase and place in your kitchen or dining room, entry or living space. Add 1-2 drops of Melaleuca essential oil to the water to keep the flowers vibrant and alive longer.
Add citrus. In China, citrus, especially oranges, represents gold and therefore wealth. Chinese families like to get a big bag of oranges and roll them in the front door on the Chinese Lunar New Year to symbolize money (or gold coins) rolling into their home and life. If that would be fun for you or your children, go for it. If not, just place a big beautiful bowl, full of clementines or mandarins with the green leaves still attached, on your kitchen counter or dining room table. Or buy a big bag of oranges to display on new year’s day before juicing them over the next week.
Set your intentions. Write down your goals for the year. Place them in the appropriate areas in your home. Love and romance intentions in the North. Career and cash flow intentions in the West. Abundant Life intentions in the Center. A wish list in the East. Intentions for future prosperity in the Northwest. Health and safety affirmations in the Southwest for women.
Three Kings Bringing Gifts In the East, place a round mirror and your wish list, anointed with a drop of the King of Oils, Frankincense, under a healthy jade plant in a round gold pot. Activate the wealthy benefactor energy with some amethyst and citrine.
Make your vision board using the Western Feng Shui bagua map as a guide. Frame it and place it in your home office to inspire your work day. Or, laminate and tape it inside your closet where you can see it as you get dressed each morning. Make digital versions of your vision bagua for your laptop and smart phone.
Place your annual remedies and enhancements. Don’t feng shui and forget it. Your feng shui needs to be renewed each year with the energy shifts that happen the first week of February. Protective feng shui recommends that you remedy the inauspicious energy first. Then, add your chi lifters to enhance the auspicious energy.
5 Yellow Remedies In the SW: Outside, hang two metal wind chimes with 6 rods each. Inside, place a pair of heavy metal, brass or pewter statues, vases or platters.
Prosperity 8 Enhancement Place a large beautiful ceramic vase in the Center of your home to collect this year's abundance energy. Let it hold space for your personal wealth and resources. May your cup runneth over!
Get a new outfit. Buy something that fits and flatters YOU now. Wear your new shirt or dress on the feng shui new year with the intention of 2019 being a truly HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Choose a color that makes you happy.
Water - iridescent
Mother Earth - pink, terra-cotta or salmon
Hard Wood - orange, coral or pink grapefruit
Soft Wood - lavender
Hard Metal - white, gold or rainbow
Soft Metal - silver or red
Mountain Earth - yellow
Fire - red
Go get some cash. Put some money in a red envelope and give it to someone with a sincere smile or warm hug. Then, place some $100, $50, $20, $5 and $1 dollar bills in your wallet with a feeling of affluence and appreciation. Give to receive.
Go out to eat. In the Chinese culture, cooking is avoided on the Chinese lunar new year. They believe that the use of knives cuts off the wealth energy flowing in. So, have some already pre-cut fruit and yogurt or favorite fresh baked pastries ready for the morning. Have pre-washed veggies and dips, platters of assorted cheese and crackers or bowls of nuts and other sweet treats to enjoy during the day. And then, for dinner, take your family to a favorite restaurant to eat.
On February 4th, do something that makes you feel the way you desire to feel all year long. Spend time with people you love. Or, call your best friend. Spend time doing something you love to do. Write, read or journal. Or, do something that makes you feel successful or rich. Close a sale or splurge on something that makes you feel abundant. Include self-care. Get a massage. Go for a walk. Take a leisurely bath with rose petals and Lavender essential oil.
Feng shui for peace and prosperity and have a happy and fulfilling 2019!
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