Preview: 2025 Year of Yin Wood Snake + Time for Annual Updates
Lots of changes, many long overdue, are on the way . . .
Let’s consider the new year beginning in February 2025. Why so early? Two reasons: 1) it’s time to have your annual home/business update scheduled; and 2) things move fast in Period 9 (have you noticed?) and the new year will begin affecting us more and more, gradually flowing into our lives, starting very soon. It doesn’t just suddenly become effective on the first day of the new year, February 3.
[Note: This article is offered for entertainment purposes only. I do not offer medical advice, make financial recommendations, or do psychological counseling. Please consult professionals in those fields for your related concerns.]
Annual updates are for clients that’ve had their homes and/or businesses audited by me in the past. Each year a property’s annual update should to be done before the new year begins, in fact well-before, so you have time to implement any changes before the year begins. You want to bring out the best of the new year’s helpful Flying Stars and other Feng Shui influences and to deal with the potentially harmful ones; waiting until the new year is already underway means you lose valulable time, money, and opportunities.
Annual updates include the new year’s Flying Stars charts as they affect your property and you/your family/employees. This lets you know how to tweak your property to have a successful year. You won’t have to change everything, but some shifts are usually necessary. I’ll tell you about the year’s annual afflictions including the Grand Duke, Three Killings, and location of Five Yellow as well as other potentially harmful areas in and outside of your home or business that must be avoided or controlled. I create a comprehensive plan for you that covers the entire year as well as a monthly breakdown so you can plan ahead for your best and most challenging months of the year. We’ll collaborate and discuss any changes you have made since our last update and I’ll incorporate those into your report as well. Then we discuss it all during a phone call or in-person visit after you’ve received the report.
Snake (2025) and Dragon (2024) are the two “karmic” signs of the Chinese zodiac and we see lots of dramatic events in the two-year period they occupy in the cycle. Of the two, Snake tends to bring more unexpected and severe happenings, like the Stock Market crash of 1929, the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the attack on NYC’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon in 2001. Events don’t have to be unhappy or catastrophic, though; happy things do happen during Snake years but we don’t often view positive events as being as dramatic so they don’t make for big headlines or memorable examples.
If you aren’t properly configured in Feng Shui terms to move through 2025, you could have issues with lawsuits and other legal issues, people saying and writing things about you that cause problems including slander and libel. Someone could try to pull a sneak attack to hurt you, your family, or your business. Liars, con-men/women, dishonest employees or family members, etc. can bring trouble in deceptive ways.
On the other hand, Snake brings powerful powers of discernment, intuition, intelligence, and the admirable ability to hold back and take things slowly and carefully as a winning strategy. You can out-wait the competition in Snake years to your advantage, so be patient, prudent, and know when to remain silent. Snake contains Yang Fire which infuses you with righteous honesty and forward-thinking insights to the future. The more selfless, humble, kind, and open you are this year, the better your life will be. Snake energy is magnetic and often wildly popular, and if your charts are well-aspected and activated this year you could see substantial gain in business and financial success. I also love Yin Snake years for the elegant beauty they bring; it’s a great time to update your look or decor with this in mind.
2025 is also a “traveling year,” because Snake moves fast despite the lack of legs. This could take you far and wide for reasons of career, personal travel, or even making a major relocation of home or business. Long-distance relationships are possible, or perhaps expanding your business to a new location. Ambitions are often realized or at least significantly advanced during Snake years (again, if you are working properly with your Stars and charts). Adventure and positive changes await those who invite them in and are in a position to receive and capitalize on them.
Elementally, 2025 is Wood, Yin Wood to be exact. Yin Wood is associated with plants, crops, grass, vines, and flowers that are fast-growing and have the ability to spread. The year favors innovation, growth, endurance and persistence, entrepreneurs, new ideas, imagination, creative collaborations, and expansion. Flowers and plants and crops love the sun and rain, and even the wind because it helps them to proliferate. This is why ideas and innovations pop-up and spread so well and effectively during Yin Wood years. Things you do now can really catch on and pay off professionally or personally.
Partners may become more possessive or even jealous now if their charts are afflicted and not corrected — or maybe you’re the one who feels that way. The positive possibility here is that you or your partner decide to commit and have an exclusive, long-lasting relationship without the jealous overtones. Flying Stars and other features at your home, and how you either enhance or correct them, will determine which turn matters take.
Snake is in the Fire group which also contains Yang Fire, Yang Earth, and Yang Metal. Yang Fire brings sunshine, heat, summer, and often wildfires. Yang Metal brings strong winds, and Yang Earth is mountainous terrain. 2025 might bring more remarkable weather events like we are seeing in 2024, and perhaps even bigger, including forest/wildfires, and hurricanes. Even though it’s not a Water year, heat (Fire) makes hurricanes bigger and more destructive, and Metal wind expands them.
On a happier note, this combination of sign and elements makes 2025 collectively more passionate, warm, sociable, friendly, and opens us to new relationships and experiences. Groups previously closed-off to you may become accessible now if you play your cards right.
This is the first year of a longer cycle where Fire dominates so another ongoing trend will be technological advances which, just like the current climate changes we are seeing, are already predicted to happen but will come about even faster than anyone believed possible.
Generally speaking, 2025 will help folks the most who have a lack of the element Fire in their Bazi chart. That could be you if your Day Master is Earth and Fire’s lacking elsewhere especially, but there are many different ways it could look in your chart. Fire feeds and supports Earth, so if you have important Earth features in your chart and not too much Fire, you should benefit. I’d have to read the charts for you and your home/property to tell the story. If there’s already a lot of Fire present then we’d want to act to make sure the Fire doesn’t get out of control because you know what happens then: disaster.
Everyone can benefit from this group of elements and be protected in 2025. If you have never had an initial Feng Shui audit done (or you haven’t had one done by me, or done recently by anyone) this is the ideal time before the new year settles in and while you still have enough time to make changes before it does.
It’s a whole lot more complicated than this and I’m no fortune teller, but if you know your Day Master’s ruling element (if you don’t, contact me to schedule an appointment), here’s a quick take on what 2025 can do for you providing your Feng Shui is in order:
Earth: You will feel valued, promoted, supported, respected, and receive praise and accolades that you’ve waited ages for
Fire: You will feel optimistic, more energetic than you have in some time, and opportunities to socialize will increase
Metal: You will feel challenged at work and even at home, but if you rise to the occasion, you may break through to new levels of success
Water: Expansion, growth, and increase are all possible with investments and at work but don’t take your eye off of the ball, stay focused
Wood: You may want to take lots of time off to play, relax, and have fun with others this year, and should do so as much as possible within reason
Katarina Lang, MArch, MA, advises clients on classical Feng Shui projects for residential, investment, commercial, and corporate properties. She works with individuals, businesses, and corporations from all over the world to improve their well-being, encompassing career, relationships, health, creativity, and wealth. In addition to holding master’s degrees in both Architecture and Anthropology and being a master of classical Feng Shui, Katarina graduated from culinary school and is a professional Dowser.
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