Return Of The Dragon 2024

Starting 10 February 2024, the Year of the Green Dragon brings opportunities and challenges – an ideal time for a favourable change in your life. Year of the Green Wood Dragon On the day the Dragon takes over from the Year of the Rabbit, my mother, a lucky Tiger, is following the advice of Feng …

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Year of the Black Water Rabbit

                      In Chinese Astrology, the Rabbit symbolizes patience and luck, so the Year of the Rabbit 2023 will bring what we have lacked in 2022: peace and success. The people born under the Rabbit sign are calm, decisive, and rarely panic. This is why they easily get out …

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Year of the Yin Metal Ox

According to the 2021 Chinese horoscope, this year is synonymous with hard work, discipline, loyalty and a fair appreciation of tangible reality. The characteristics that gain influence are constancy, a taste for traditions, but also the internalisation of feelings, discipline and making savings. The energies of Wu Xing (Five Phases) and Feng Shui (Wind Water or the Chinese art or practice of …

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Resilience for the Year of the Yin Metal Ox

12 February 2021 signals the end of the tragic and turbulent Year of the Rat and the start of hopefully a calmer, yin Year of the Metal Ox. A perfect time to cultivate your inner strength * Meridian therapy: how it supports the immune system * Year of the Ox * Online Qigong & Taiji …

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New start: year of the White Metal Rat

25 January 2020 marks the start of the spring festival or Chinese New Year of the White Metal Rat. It’s the beginning of the 12 animals zodiac and so time to start something new. Have you tried moxa, taiji or qigong? In this newsletter: Power of Moxa Year of the Rat Taiji: Chansigong Silk Reeling …

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Year of the Yang Metal Rat

The origins of the Chinese Zodiac go back a few thousand years. According to the myths, Buddha decided to call all the animals on earth. But only twelve came. In recompense, he assigned each of these animals a year on the cycle affirming that children born in that year would acquire the personality traits of …

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Turning Japanese in the Year of the Pig

This year I’m offering patients the chance to experience Toyohari acupuncture. Based on the Chinese classical medical texts and meridian therapy, Japanese acupuncturists in the 1960s developed a non-invasive method of acupuncture and moxibustion based on pulse diagnosis. Like all traditional East Asian acupuncture the aim is to restore health by bringing the body back …

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Chinese New Year of the Earth Dog

Chinese New Year begins on 16 February 2018, which is the 4715th Chinese New Year. With each year there is a related element and this year it is earth so it is also said to be the Yellow Male Earth Dog year. According to Chinese horoscope theory, the Male Earth is represented by mountain and …

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