Chinese New Year Customs and Celebrations for a Healthy, Happy and Properous 2024, Year of the Wood Dragon
This year on Feb. 10th, the world will celebrate the beginning of a new lunar year, known in the Chinese calendar as the year of…
Category: Chinese Cultural Tips
Chinese New Year Customs for a Healthy & Prosperous 2020
This year on January 25th, the world will celebrate the beginning of a new lunar year. In the Chinese calendar, this is described at the…
What Factors Influence Our Destiny?
Why where you live matters. From a young age, I have always been curious about the factors that influence our destiny. As I navigated the…
What’s the process of building a new home with good Feng Shui?
So many new home builders call me “wanting to include Feng Shui” in the design and building process thinking it is to appeal to the…
Chinese Grandmother’s Laws of Life
Over the years, I have had many Feng Shui and Metaphysics teachers. One of my favourite teachers was Lily Chung. In many ways, she was…
Chinese Customs: the Lion Dance
Asian Cultural Insights and Tips By Martha Dahlen Adapted from: nationsonline.org According to traditional Chinese belief, the lion signifies courage, stability, and superiority. The Lion…
How to Design Your Destiny and Create Success in 2016
A wise teacher said something years ago that has stuck with me ever since – “Suffering occurs when we are not in alignment with our…
The History of Feng Shui – Burial Feng Shui
My first real introduction to Burial Feng Shui was 2006 on a Feng Shui tour of China. I had read in my early studies on…
See a Dragon, Be a Dragon: Symbols in Chinese Culture
An early Chinese scholar observed, “All the inhabitants of oriental countries… are gifted with a vivid imagination—a quality of important constructive value.” With this imagination,…
Mirrors: more than just a reflection
Mirrors (鏡) enable us to see what the eye cannot. In modern times, we use mirrors to see more of what is already visible: reflections of…