Category: Astrology

Chinese Astrology 中国新年

新年快乐. Happy Year of the Rooster! May the New Year bring you good fortune! 

The beginning of the lunar year has begun, and millions of people across the world will be gathering with family and friends to get out the fireworks and celebrate Chinese New Year.
January marks the beginning of the Year of the Rooster, defined by the Chinese zodiac cycle. Chinese New Year takes place on a different date every year, because it is based on the lunar calendar.

The New Year is traditionally marked with the giving of gifts, lucky money and celebrations with family, as well as looking to what the sign of the Rooster symbolically means for the year ahead.

Living in China for one year, I was teaching ESL & Music at a Montessori school in Guangzhou China. Chinese New Year brings upon memories in my mind as an unforgettable experience. 
Celebrations began on New Year’s Eve, and it lasts around two weeks, called “Spring Festival” making this the longest holiday in the Chinese calendar. It is celebrated with the ringing of bells, the lighting of firecrackers and watching traditional lion dances and dragon performances. It is seen as an important date, with families gathering together for a reunion dinner. Fireworks are then released to signal the end of last year and the beginning of next. 

On New Year’s Day, families gather, clean their houses and wipe away and sweep away bad-fortune. Red envelopes stuffed with “lucky money” are given to children, along with written wishes for their kids to grow up happy and healthy.

People also decorate their houses with red paper cutouts, banners and special New Year paintings during the festive period. For this year, it is likely to see Rooster themed decorations. Chinese people believe that a good start to the year will lead to a lucky year. 

Year of the Rooster. Every 12 years there is a Rooster year, beginning at Chinese New Year. A year of the Rooster comes after a Monkey year and before a Dog year. In Chinese astrology, each zodiac year is not just associated with an animal sign, but also one of five elements: Gold (Metal), Wood, Water, Fire, or Earth. 2017 is a Fire Rooster year. Element-sign combinations recur every 60 years.

This is a year believed to bring Trustworthiness with a strong sense of timekeeping and responsibility at work. It is also a year of courage. 

Happy Chinese New Year,
Kelly Krishna Dunn 

Happy Full Moon- Intuitive Moon

First Full Moon of the year, Jan 12, 2017. This moon is in the sign of Cancer. Cancer is a water sign. With the water signs also comes a deeper ability to tap into our intuition and inner knowing. It is normal with this astrological placement, to have the desire to move through a cleansing and a detox for your spirit. There will absolutely be some pearls of wisdom to appear & come out of the next few weeks ahead.

Full Moon wishes come true,

Kelly Krishna Dunn 🙂 

Happy New Year 2017

The best Pranayam: Exhale the Past without any regret, Inhale the Future without much expectation, hold the present with pleasure. And then Enjoy 2017! Happy New Year!!
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Mercury Retro Winter Solstice

Throughout this Mercury retrograde, we are making the necessary changes and adjustments, as well as receiving insight and gaining awareness, in the realm of responsibilities, plans, ambition, career, social status, physical social structures, goals and strategy areas in our lives.

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The Energetic Doorway 

Everything that we create can be changed. If we have had an unhappy experience, at least one that we judge to be unhappy, going back and revisiting it and asking for a new way to view it to see what the gift is in it, because every experience has a gift in it. Sometimes it does not feel much like a gift as we are coming through it, but going back and asking to see it differently, sparks up that there has been a gifting in it. 


This weekend’s energetic doorway is like a moment in time when we can have flashpoints of awareness and other personal breakthroughs. Some of these may be so unprecedented that our entire life view shifts in radical ways. 

With a new view, life may look vastly different than it did before including potentials and path forward. This could relate to personal life path or expression of life purpose. It could be about key people too – those you know and perhaps those you will be meeting. It could relate to the ability to shine your light in a more meaningful and fulfilling way. 

These new insights, when acted upon with divine timing, could radically shift your daily experience of what it is like to truly live in this world connected to All That Is. 


 And so it is. 
Sparkling Blessings,

Kelly Krishna Dunn 


 
     

Summer Solstice and Strawberry Full Moon

This year’s solstice coincides with the Strawberry Moon, Native American tribes called Solstice moon Strawberry moon. 


It is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. 

Bringing a day with the most amount of sunshine as the sun will reach the highest point throughout the course of the year and Full Moon. 

Plus it marks the beginning of the strawberry season. The two events coincide once every 70 years.

Solstice I love the name, meaning “sun stands still”. 

Happy Summer Days!! 

Solstice Blessings,

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