Last Updated on April 13, 2017 by Marie Bautista
Have you noticed the moon during Chinese New Year?
Yep, the Chinese New Year always coincides with the first New Moon that falls between January 21 and February 20 and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the New Year where the moon is brightest is called the Lantern Festival. This is celebrated at night with colorful lanterns carried by children in a parade.
This is a very auspicious time for the Chinese. They believe that when the New Year is celebrated correctly, this will bring good luck and abundance all year long.
There probably would be a million traditions that people tell you about Chinese New Year. One I particularly love is that if on New Year’s Day, one of your plants will bloom, you will be lucky and prosperous for the whole year.
And here is another one that I came to know about just days ago. You should not cook in your kitchen on the first day of the New Year. The Chinese consider it bad luck to have anything sharp like knives and scissors out. Having to cook and cut things will literally cut off your good fortune.
Welcoming the Year of the Fire Monkey may help to welcome prosperity and abundance. After all, the new moon is believed by astrologers to have the power to make whatever you wish for come true.
So, let’s welcome the Fire Monkey and do the following:
One or Two Days before the Chinese New Year
Clean like crazy.
The god of luck hates dirty houses! Keep your house clean but don’t.ever. sweep the floor on the first day of the New Year. They say that you will be sweeping all your good luck out of the door.
Buy flowers.
Create a wish tree.
You can take a tree branch and spray paint it with gold. Write your wishes on satin ribbons or tiny cards and hang them on the tree. Put your wish tree in a beautiful vase and place it in your living room.
Alternatively, you can write wishes on silk ribbons or paper and put them on a tree. Let them blow in the wind like a prayer flag.
On The Night Before the Chinese New Year
Make a New Moon Wish List.
Plan your goals and write your wishes down. What would you like to accomplish for the year career wise? What do you plan for your finances, your love life, your family? Whatever you wish and hope for the year, write it all down.
On New Year’s Day
Eat out with your family.
For breakfast, it is auspicous to drink a big glass of orange juice since orange represents gold. If you can’t go out and have to eat at home, do away with cutting and chopping food since your are like cutting out your luck. Eat finger foods instead.
Wear new clothes today.
Your new clothes represent everything new and wonderful that the New Year will bring into your life. For extra power, wear something red.
Have a beautiful smile ready for everyone.
Enjoy your day.
It is bad to start the New Year with drama. Avoid losing your temper, getting upset, being worried. It would be a good idea to not read the paper or watch the news on TV.
Let your wishes fly and reach heaven.
Write your dearest wishes on a balloons and let them fly!
For the whole day…
leave your door and windows open to let new luck enter and fill the house,
keep the house bright and well-lit,burn incense and real candles for longevity.
Roll gold into your home.
Roll a bag of oranges or baby kumquats into your house to symbolize wealth entering your home.
Make sure your home is ready to welcome the positive vibes and deflect the negative energies. Little feng shui changes can go a long way into avoiding various problems like health and illness problesm to loss of opportunities.
Don’t let 2017catch you off guard. You can be ready for the Fire Monkey and enhance income, enjoy happy relationships and gain financially. Of course, like me, you need a guide, and I found one in Katie who put together the 2017 Year of the Rooster Feng Shui Forecast Success Pack. Her guide last year helped me understand and be ready, helping me avoid that rollercoaster ride with no clue as to what the year had in store for me. Her new guide I bet would make me seize and claim this year.
Are you claiming this year, too?
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I am definitely claiming my year.i am going to be successful this year.