The Year of the Rabbit (2011) – Crystal Feng Shui to Improve Your Fortune!
Attuning to these vitally enhances prospects for the period whilst life at loggerheads with them may be fractious and frustrating. Crystal Feng Shui can help individuals harmonise with the Year Energies and benefit from this. Appropriate crystals and minerals are highlighted in the following article with suggestions about their use and explanation of the principles involved.
Animals and Elements
China’s 12 Year Animal Cycle, the Chinese Zodiac was established around 2,700 BCE by Huang Di, The Yellow Emperor, whose achievements were numerous and enduring.The Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine) contains remedies and treatments still used. Key principles, like Yin/Yang, Five Elements (Wu Xing) and Eight Direction Theory (Pa Kua) contributed to the establishment of civilisation and permeated cultural norms. Rabbit Year 2011 is Year 4706 of this calendar.
Accompanying the 12 Year Animal Cycle was a further 10 Year Elemental Cycle with 5 Elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood repeating sequentially in first Big/Yang and then Small/Yin Mode Rabbit Year 2011, fourth in the current 12 Year Cycle (beginning with Rat Year 2008) has Small (Yin) Metal as underlying Year Element, This succeeds Tiger Year (2010) and Big/Yang Metal with Dragon Year (2012) and Big/Yang Water next. Manifesting Animal Year Energies are modulated by Year Element’ energies, producing 10 x 12=120 Yearly variations. Three 120 Year Spans comprise two 180 Year Cycles–Yang and Yin.
Attuning to Year Energies facilitates health, happiness and success. Like a following wind,they will expedite progress towards your goals. Acting contrary to these energies is like swimming against the tide, exhausting difficult and slow.
Enter the Meteor!
Many millions of years ago a huge meteor struck the earth fracturing its crust into today’s tectonic plates ending ‘dinosaur day’, causing the continental drift and the earth’s axial tilt Volcanic activity also began as magmatic materials spilled onto the Earth’s surface, including metal veins mined today. Crystals too, were another consequence as conditions changed drastically in ways leading ultimately to Man’s Evolution. Fu Tsi’s Pa Kua (Eight Sector Diagram) represents the differences between the two states via the Earlier and Later Heaven Array respectively.
Hence Man’s affinity with gems, stones and crystals,both beinbg PM (post-meteor) although the latter, composed of materials present when the meteor struck, are far older! As his ‘Seniors’ and providing a link to pre-meteor times they can help Man to adjust to life on Earth in many ways. In Feng Shui terms crystals require careful consideration as Earth is a dominant Element present in all. However the other Elements are also present in varying ways and degrees–in terms of constituents, properties, colouration, shape,and integration into ornamentation, for example.
Full Metal Rabbit
Metal’s attributes: strong, communicative, brilliant, intense. strengthening, precise, conductive; elemental colours gold, grey,red, silver, white; body correspondences skin, lungs.
Metal discovery and use has been an ongoing factor supporting Man’s evolution, civilisation and society. Once Man developed metal utensils he could cook vegetables at length. Extracting their nourishing vitamin and mineral content, the Chinese believe, caused brain size and capacity to increase dramatically relatively quickly and the appearance of Homo Sapiens or Modern Man.
Crystals and minerals enabling attunement to Metal Rabbit Year Energies for health, good fortune and generally improved prospects include the following:
Quartz: white/clear varieties in particular, individual pieces and clusters. Quartz has many attributes similar to metal. It can store, conduct and transmit energies over a whole range of frequencies superseding metal in micro-circuitry revolutionising communications, information processing and instrument design etc.affecting and improving many aspects of Man’s everyday life.
Iron Pyrites: gold, shiny, reflective (when polished) and protective they make ideal desktop and table-top displays.
Haematite: this too is a fortunate Rabbit Year crystal both the polished steel-grey variety and red kidney-stones.
Galena: containing traces of silver its silver-grey colour owes more to its high lead content and accordingly it should be kept out of children’s reach, away from heat-sources and should not be excessively handled.
Malachite and Azurite: high in copper content, these gemstones have a transformational uplifting influence.
Diamond and Herkimer Diamond; the first for personal wear and the second for display. Diamond’s hardness and perdurable quality resemble metal’s and Herkimer Diamonds’s resemblance make these acceptable substitutes according to Feng Shui principles.
Rooms’ North-West sector, associated with Metal, is appropriate for Crystal placement and display. In 5 Element terms Earth supports/ produces Metal and Earth colour backgrounds (yellow, brown, beige) will enhance the effect of any display (including their use for personal adornment). Mirrors are Metal in Feng Shui terms and the placement of one or more reflecting displays can double their impact and direct their beneficial energies into the centre of a room.
Money Bunny!
2010, Turbulent Tiger Year and Big Metal Year Element saw Financial Emergencies and international and Central Bank interventions affecting many States. Rabbit Years, more peaceful, relaxed and laid back times for culture and cultivation (like 2011) may provide welcome respite from the preceding turmoil. The Small Metal Year Element suggests a switch of focus from National to personal spending and individuals should avoid excess and laxity in this area in particular, as well as in general during this period.
Pyrites, closely resembling gold, can replace it in Feng Shui as a potential wealth-attractor and can be enhanced by Feng Shui coins, ingots and ornaments such as the three-legged toad. It can also be a positive influence placed on work desks.
Peter Allsop M.Ed. teaches Shaolin Kung Fu and Qigong in Yorkshire and Derbyshire U.K. (plus various subjects in Secondary and Higher Education). Senior Student of Grandmaster Yap Leong he is Shaolin Fists International Area Instructor for the region.
Northern Area Coach for Grandmaster Yap Leong’s HYL (Health, Youth and Longevity) Energiser Qigong Programme, Peter is also a Feng Shui Consultant and publisher of ‘Red Dragon Martial Arts Ezine’.
Longevity Training, Iron Shirt and 5 Elements Qigong, Daoism Chinese metaphysics and Astrology are also among his interests. Discover more at http://www.sheffieldkungfu.com or http://www.hylenergiser.com
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