Feng Shui and your health in 2025
It's the perfect time to change your health for the better, forever
I received this question from a reader:
“In 2025, I want to focus on improving my physical and mental health. I’m working out a plan to address what needs to change and would like to know what classical Feng Shui has to say about health this year. Thanks.” — F.F., Seattle, WA
[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.]
This is a great question and one that I know many of us would like to have answered. Each year in Feng Shui, the Flying Stars shift positions inside our homes, and what are called the “Four Afflictions” also take new positions affecting the outside area around our homes. We need to know what’s happening with the Stars and Afflictions to be able to asses what will be helping or hurting our health in 2025 (note: the Feng Shui new year begins on February 4, 2025, not on January 1).
To get these answers for you in personalized detail, I’d need to get a lot of information from you and do a survey of your home or business and what surrounds it. In other words, I’d need to audit your property or if I’ve already audited it, I’d need to do a 2025 update. In this article I’ll give generalized recommendations but be aware that in classical Feng Shui, there is NEVER a one-size-fits-all solution. No one direction or area is “good” or “bad” now or in any other year. Everything is relative and interactive. What you need to do to improve your situation depends on a lot of calculations that can only be done with a complete audit of your home or business. Contact me or someone else who practices classical Feng Shui if you want to have an audit done.
Generally speaking, here are the top five things that I would look for in your home to assess whether your living (or working) space is helping you or hurting you with regard to your health. These are in no particular order as each of them is important.
What the Year of the Yin Wood Snake Brings
2025 is the Year of the Yin Wood Snake, so organs and body systems associated with these are going to be highlighted this year. The main elements and qualities of Yin, Wood (small Wood in this case) and Fire, which is “hidden” in the Snake this year dictate what we can expect. This includes the following:
neck, spine and back issues
fingers and hands
nails and hair and skin
joints, especially in the smaller bones, and the knees
liver
osteoporosis, arthritis, rheumatism
inflammation
circulatory, heart, cardiovascular problems
blood issues
nervous system, including anxiety and depressive disorders
motion disorders: vertigo, Parkinson’s, Meniere’s, balance issues
things that are hard to diagnose/mysterious issues that may come and go
there may be new pandemics, but likely won’t be as severe as Covid was
To minimize or avoid these, I’d find places on you property where you are vulnerable and we would work on balancing those with counter-measures. I would also look at places inside and outside your home/business where helpful Stars and influences lie so I could maximize the protection that they potentially offer to you.
If you already suffer from any of the problems listed above, using classical Feng Shui is a great way to keep them from worsening and hopefully improve your condition considerably.
To note about this list: 2025 offers an opportunity to break free, potentially, from longstanding issues on the list. They are important in 2025 both because they can cause problems for you but also that you can find solutions to existing problems by balancing with Feng Shui. Get ahead of them now by beginning the new year with a full audit so you can make necessary adjustments to maximize your health in 2025.
Finding and Neutralizing the 5 Yellow Flying Star and the 5 Yellow Sector outside
Every year, the Flying Stars “fly” into a new sector of your home or business. Then they combine with other Stars and influential forms of the land, the way your building is shaped, and more, to create your living conditions for the year. I always look for the infamous 5 Yellow Star to see what it’s doing as it can wreck your life in many areas — not just health, but relationships, money, business, you name it.
Inside your home, the 5 Yellow will be located in two areas of the building. One of these will primarily impact the health of those living or working inside, and the other one will impact other important things like your financial situation, relationships, and so on. Some areas where 5 Yellow can be found won’t be so very bad, for instance inside a quiet, mostly unused area like a storage room or a guest room that sits empty most of the time. Other places where it might be have the potential to be devasting, such as your bedroom, most kitchens, a dining area, workout room, right over your home office/desk space, and more. If you live in a building long enough, 5 Yellow will eventually visit every area. I create carefully considered tactics to help neutralize the harm 5 Yellow can wreak on your life, and my first line of action is to take gentle actions that don’t create more conflict than they solve. I like to quietly drain the power of harmful Stars rather than declare all-out war on them. This helps to keep your home more serene and balanced than if I were to introduce a big clash of elements. Why detonate a nuclear warhead when simply erecting a small barrier will work even better?
On the outside, the annual area where 5 Yellow takes residence will need to be handled with utmost care. It should be kept quiet and if it falls in a place that sees a lot of action, like your front/main door, your garage door, etc., I’ll need to design something to drain the power from the 5 Yellow. Every property is different and what works for one won’t work for another as I create countermeasures using a complicated interaction of elements, Stars, and other influences. If this outside area is not addressed properly, you can see mental and physical health of anyone and everyone living or working in the building to get bad quickly and worsen steadily as the year progresses.
Locating the 2 Black Star
Now that we are in Period 9, the 2 Black Flying Star is no longer the villain that it was in Period 8. In fact, 2 Black is actually starting, slowly, to become helpful. In Periods 3 - 8, 2 Black is often Suspect #1 when we are sussing out what is causing your health problems; but now and through Period 9 — so for the next 29 years — 2 Black gets better and better until it becomes the very best Star for the 20 years of Period 2. Right now, 2 Black represents distant future success and health and prosperity. I am finding it to already be neutral at worst and gently helpful at best.
Still, I want to isolate this Star inside your home or business and see what other Stars and elements and features in the building it’s interacting with. If there are issues, I will create countermeasures to neutralize the problems, but in all the 2025 audits I’ve done so far I’m seeing that 2 Black is taking on a whole new and more positive role.
Unless I find this Flying Star in a very bad combination with another Star(s) I will tend to leave it alone now. If it is located right over someone’s bed, the dining table, the kitchen counter/cooking area, or maybe the front/main door of the home of someone already in fragile health, I don’t expect it to be a huge problem in 2025.
The other 3 Afflictions: The Grand Duke, Year Breaker, and 3 Killings
These three, along with the outdoor placement of the 5 Yellow, are the 4 Afflictions. They affect your home or business on the outside and each year they move about and sometimes some of them even overlap with each other. All four are difficult areas that represent vulnerable areas in your life and disrupting them can invite any manner of ills into your life, health, prosperity, finances, career, family, relationships, and more will be affected. For the most part these spaces should be avoided. You would do not digging or remodeling in them (that’s going to be disastrous), you would keep them quiet and ideally undisturbed all year other than to perform maintenance and low-key activities. I will identify where these areas are on your property and recommend what to do and not do with them for the year-ahead to protect your health.
The Grand Duke is unique in that this direction represents the direction each year that we should never sit or lie facing for long periods of time. We want the Duke to be behind us as much as possible. There are complicated reasons for this which I would explain during your audit. It’s fine to sit/lie for short periods of time facing the Duke, but if it’s going to be longer than about 20 minutes you’ll have a problem. Importantly, this rule holds true even when you are not at home. If you are at an important business meeting, making a presentation to clients, going for a job interview, applying for a bank loan, or doing anything important you want to sit so you are not facing the Grand Duke’s direction. I always have my clients check in advance and arrive at meetings and interviews early so they can position themselves so that the Duke “has their back” so to speak. This rule was observed by Sun Tzu who wrote the famous book, “The Art of War;” he advised generals to always plan attacks with the Grand Duke behind them for best results. It’s still taught in many military schools to this day.
Outside your home I also need to see how roads, sidewalks, water features and more are approaching your home or surrounding it. Even the way the neighbor’s garage door opens and their car enters and exits can affect your health! I would recommend countermeasures to neutralize harmful nearby influences impacting your health
What’s Happening in Your Kitchen, Dining Area, and Bedroom
Flying Stars, the way the walls are placed, the way doors and windows are placed, whether or not mirrors are present (mirrors hung on walls are almost always a problem in classical Feng Shui, and doubly so if they are in sensitive areas like dining rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms), and the shape and placement of furniture can impact your health. Sometimes I recommend moving furniture about, removing or adding a piece, removing mirrors or relocating them to improve your health. Sharp edges pointed at you while you are sitting or sleeping are inauspicious. Doors and windows often interact in bedrooms to create what I call a “wind tunnel” that will blow all the healing, life-giving qi right out of your bedroom so that you will experience sleep problems and deteriorating health; you would also find recovery from illness or injury to be slow if not impossible. Anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues are often caused by such configurations and improve markedly when the right changes are made.
If you spend a lot of time working at a desk or table, where it is placed in relation to doors and windows is critical as well as the shape of the desk itself. It may need to be corrected if it is not perfectly square or rectangular in shape. This is not usually difficult to do and can make a world of difference. L-shaped, U-shaped, and irregularly-shaped desks are all problematic unless corrected with a cure.
If you are serious about improving your health in 2025 and preventing new problems from developing, again I urge you to get an audit of your home and business spaces. You can make this the year that changes your life!
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 in person and virtually 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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