Life with Feng Shui and what needs to release before the Fire Horse Year

Tired of polished hype and quick fixes? 

I'm going deep on a simple truth: when fast energy arrives, it multiplies whatever’s already in motion. That’s why the Fire Horse year is less about manifesting miracles and more about shaping a home that helps you think clearly, finish what matters, and breathe a little easier.

I break down what this energetic cycle actually means in daily life. No vague mysticism: we talk open loops as the hidden source of overwhelm and practical releases you can make this week. 

You’ll hear how Feng Shui acted as a quiet catalyst in my own family, opening doors to support and validation when it mattered most. Not mansions and sports cars; real ease that makes hard days workable.

We move from ideas to action with clear steps: close a handful of draining tasks, cull social feeds and inboxes that sap attention.

If you’re juggling a household, a business, or both, this conversation is a permission slip to do less, better. Release what you can, prepare your paths, align your cues, and ride the surge without burning out. 

If you’re ready to go deeper with a tailored home analysis, check the links in the show notes, subscribe for the next instalment on preparation, and share this with a friend who needs lighter days. What open loop will you close first?

Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Welcome And Unscripted Approach

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Hello, I'm Rachel. You could say I'm a modern-day Feng Shui consultant here to help you transform your home into a space that truly supports and uplifts you. My passion is showing you how to work with your home to unlock its full potential. I'm here to show you how to tap into the power that your home holds and make this powerful practice simple, accessible, and something everyone can use. Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. So today I kind of with this podcast I don't script anything. I'm just sat here and um you know you kind of you get what comes out of my brain. Um and sometimes I think, oh my goodness, maybe you know I should script it, maybe I should um have this more professional like setup and all this kind of stuff. And then, you know, I've been pondering all of this, and in this world of AI and I mean, my goodness, I could just go down rabbit holes of you know, social media and everything everything, everything that we consume now, everywhere is curated, literally everywhere. I mean, you know, even my own like social media, we have to you have to abide by the rules of the algorithm. Like you can't just write what you well you can, I mean you can, but you're not gonna get any kind of vision on your on your um pages and things if you don't abide by the rules of the algorithm, and those it's just so curated, everything is curated, and you know the message can be authentic, and that's great, and you know, the meaning behind everything can be authentic, but the way in which it is delivered across pretty much every platform now is so specifically curated. People do this for a job, you know. Managing people's social media and stuff is a job because that is how curated it all has to be. So, as I was sitting here thinking, you know, maybe maybe I just need to be a bit more formal about it, maybe I should script it, maybe you know, it just needs to be a bit more of a professional situation. I thought, you know

Curation, AI And Authenticity

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what? No, I'm not going to. I'm not going to. Because in this world of AI, like I could put into I can't even remember where I learned about this. There isn't, there's some there's some technology. I can't even remember who told me about it. If the person who told me about it listens to this, just message me because I I don't even remember what it is. But I remember being told about a um, I don't know, like I don't even know what it was, but it was like a technology-based thing whereby you can put your the information even like a blog post, you could load a blog post onto this kind of website interface thing, and it would create a audio, like a podcast, out of AI voices, and they would have a conversation about the content of a written blog post. So my point is, even the podcasts that are out there now are often AI, but more to the point, you know, the big name things, um the big name podcasts, all of these kind of high-end, really professional setups, which are amazing. Like I listened to them myself. This is not a diss at them, but they are very curated, they are scripted and it's a big job, and it's like it becomes something that is beyond like a riff. And I suppose I want to retain this as being authentically me, authentically my values, authentically what I feel that I can share with you, rather than you know, what do I think I can share with you, plus what does AI and a team of people who are, you know, digging to get more content and more likes and more clicks and more listens, and you know. So sorry, you're just going to have to. If you wish to continue listening, you're just gonna have to live with the fact that it is me, my brain, and my microphone, um, and my potentially snoring dog at times. So um, yeah, if you're you know, if you're up for that, then then this is the place to be. So I kind of came in today. I'm

Choosing Real Voice Over Polished Production

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doing a bit of a focus on the firehorse year because there's a lot out there at the minute about fire horse, um, as there should be, because it's information that you know, if you work in the world of energetics, it's very useful to know. Um, and everything pretty much is saying the same thing. There are obviously little bits that are slightly different, but ultimately it is what it is, and that is this huge forward momentum of energy, this sort of unstoppable force that you need to learn to ride rather than like you can't stop it, it's going and you and you're on board whether you like it or not. Um, but what I hadn't really seen a lot of was practical advice about what to do with that and how to manage that. Because, you know, from a business perspective, obviously, from you know, we're talking about Feng Shui, obviously, here, which is energetics, and from a business perspective, learning the very detailed and minute tweaks to make into a specific home is what our business is run from, and therefore it's difficult to provide specific advice, or it's impossible to provide specific advice, but it's difficult to provide generic advice on what to do because it's you know, it's also personal and it's also kind of in-depth to each house. However, there are some things that can be done like across the board to help you um kind of get rid of what doesn't need to be taken forward, prepare for what is coming, and then kind of align your home and your own energy with the

What The Fire Horse Year Really Means

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new energies. So that is my focus on my in my emails and my social media for the next few weeks is how to release what you don't want to take into that forward momentum year, then prepare for that forward momentum year, and then how to align to those new energies. And it feels like it's well it sounds like it's a lot of jobs, and I don't want it, I don't want it to be like that, you know, because for Feng Shui for me, like I've been talking about this a lot over the last few days, um, about how can I continue to help people to a degree for free, because that's really important to me. It's really important to me. Um, but also I know that the massive, the massive like shifts come when like a specific home is aligned and the energies of that home know what they're doing within each energy kind of cycle. And I've just been thinking a lot lately about who it is that, you know, who are my clients, who am I talking to, and who can benefit the most from what I have to offer? Because there are, you know, there are lots of Feng Shui consultants out there. I am not the only one, and I'm certainly not the only one with this kind of modern, slightly less traditional approach. And, you know, what is it about me that is different to the other people who do what I do? And it's been, you know, I've really I I'm very deep, very deep person, and I spend a lot of time kind of mulling things over in my brain, and it's kind of come to me that the people that I can work with, the I don't know, I don't know this is the best, or whatever. I don't know really what I'm trying to say, but you know, the people that I feel that can get the most from me and my experiences are people who are in the same trenches that I have been in and continue to be in. You know, I am a mum of multiple children, I am an S EN mum, I am running my own business, um, you know, I am keeping 110 plates spinning

From Theory To Practice In Your Home

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at any one time, working 10 steps ahead of where I need to be. And for me, Feng Shui in my life makes that manageable. And people like people say to me all the time, people that know me, you know, in in real life, people that know me say frequently, like, how do you do it? How do you do it? How do you do it? How do you keep your house this, your business running, your kids happy, all of the all of the doctor's appointments, all of the paperwork to do with my son, like it is endless. How do I do it? And I'm like, Do you know? I don't actually know, I don't actually know. And I was pondering as I do about um about Feng Shui and about what it had actually brought to my life, and you know, what you are not gonna see from me, certainly now, is these incredible like Feng Shui for me is not about having a mansion. Feng Shui for me is not about a Porsche landing on my driveway. I wouldn't want to call Porsche anyway, but do you know what I mean? Feng Shui for me is not about the lottery win, it's not about all of this kind of grand, almost materialistic, like shallowness. Feng shui for me is about this harmony and it is about having a life that is easier. And when I look back to when I found Feng Shui, and you know, it as it transpires, I've known about Feng Shui all my life. I just didn't know that's what it was called, and I've felt Feng Shui all my life, I just didn't know that's what it was. But when I discovered what it was and I had my home at home analysed, and I look back at what changed at that time, so much so much of it is about my son. And as an S EN parent, if there are any S EN parents listening, the day that somebody listens to you and says, You're not crazy, you're not making this up, you need help, and this is how we can help you, is possibly the most life-changing moment of your kind of motherhood. So for me, when I had the house analysed and I put my remedies in, all around the same time were the times whereby um my son moved into a new school where the um the pastor team just were like, you don't need to convince us, it's fine. Like, we believe you, we believe you. And in all so he was how old would he have been? He would have been seven then, and since he went into reception two years before that, three years before that, we had been basically fighting for anybody to believe that the version um of him in school and the version of him at home were two, it was Jekyll and Hyde and two very different people. So I had my home analysed and suddenly I was believed. And because they believed me, I suddenly had all of these doors open with these are the people that you need to speak to and this is what we need to do. And within relative quick succession, don't get me wrong, it was huge

Who I Serve And Why It Matters

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hours from my perspective, you know, hours and hours of work, hours and hours of paperwork, but I was being helped and people believed me. And in very quick succession, we had a school that believed us, things put into place in school to support him. We had um meetings with psychologists and um doctors and all sorts of things. He had his dual diagnosis. Um, I mean, it wasn't obviously wildly quick succession because these things take a little bit of time, but we had the funds, the funds arrived to be able to pay for him to be assessed privately. Um, we were also told about various different financial um benefits that he was entitled to. Um, so there was just this sudden like influx of oh my goodness. And although it doesn't change, you know, having all of that help and having all of that support and having those doors open doesn't change who he is. It doesn't change the fact that he is a very challenging young man, beautifully loving, by the way, and I wouldn't change him for the world, but he is incredibly challenging, especially given that he has siblings who they don't understand, they're still babies themselves, so they don't understand that he has these needs and his brain doesn't function in quite the same way as theirs, and you know, his reactions to things are infinitely more extreme, and this is why we can't go on a plane, and all these sorts of things. So, you know, it doesn't change the fundamentals of what it's like to live with him, but it changed so much. I will remember I just the biggest thing for me, and it is absolutely ridiculous, ridiculous. The day that we got um his letter to say that he had been awarded DLA. So if you're not in the UK, DLA is our disability living allowance, and you have to apply through the government and you have to fill out a very big form, and they basically make an assessment as to whether or not you are, or not you are, the person that you are applying for, whether that be you or your child, um, is eligible for this payment. And I remember the day that we got the letter to say how they had assessed him and what they were going to award him, like that's what they would call it, awarding him, um, in his um disability allowance. And I remember that they they when I got the letter, I remember ringing my mum and I just cried and I said, It's not about the money, mum, it's not about the money. It is about the fact that somebody who does this for a living and sees hundreds of these applications every year has looked at my situation and said, Do you know what? This is actually really hard. This is really, really hard, and this is, you know, above and beyond what we would consider to be normal. And up until that point, everybody, everybody around me had been like, Well, children are a bit tricky, aren't they? And you know, all of these kind of really condescending and um devalidating statements. And I had this person in an office that I didn't know who looked at my paperwork that I had filled in, didn't have an expert doing it, it was just me and a computer, you know, so really raw stuff. And they went, Do you know what? That's hard. That is above and beyond what most people have to live with. And I said to my mum, in tears, it's not about the money, it is just that I have fought so hard for somebody to see what we live with, and for somebody to go, actually, do you know what? That's really difficult. And to this day, and you know, I will never forget that moment of of of um validation, I suppose it was. So for me, Feng Shui is that. Feng shui opens up these pathways for your life to become easier, you know. For me, it's not about changing, it's not about moving across the world, it's not about having this incredible house. It's not like I have a beautiful house, thank you very much, I'm very grateful for it, but it's not about having a mansion, it's not about going on seven holidays a year, it's not about going to the Maldives, it's not about any of that. It is about waking up in a life that, regardless of what is going on in it, you know, regardless of the challenges, that feels good. That for me is Feng Shui,

A Mother’s Story Of Validation And Support

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and that's the magic of it. And, you know, all of this pondering, that's the people that I can connect with, is the people who they're not looking for the big wins, they're not looking, they do happen. Like, you know, I share it all the time. I've got clients who they they find 17,000 pound pension pots that they've forgotten about, or they get they win a 400-pound robot Hoover, or they win a few hundred pounds worth of um classes for their children, or whatever it is, those do happen. People win lotteries and all sorts of incredible things, but that's not what I'm here for. I'm here for those subtle changes, the subtlety that means that we can just live the life that we are living, but in a way that just feels infinitely lighter. Um, because that for me is, you know, they're they're the people that I can connect with, and that's how I I think that's my my what I can bring to this this world, I suppose. Um so what does it have to do with the fire horse year? Off we go, see, this is where we have a problem because I don't have a script, I just go off on a tangent. Um, so the fire horse year, yes, we are talking about 4th of February, which must be without doing the maths, because maths, quick maths certainly is not my strong point, but we must be about 10-12 days away now. And it's all about at this point just being aware of the things that we don't want to take into that year. So I I definitely saw, was it ages ago, I saw something on probably it was Facebook to be honest, um, where it was talking about how you know this generation of women are so overwhelmed, and what is it that causes the overwhelm? Is it the amount of things that we have to do? Is it the busyness of our lives and all these things? And then it, you know, it was talking about how actually it's the open loops, it's the open loops that cause the overwhelm, the th the half-finished things, the half-finished jobs, the things that you know are pending, um, things that you started that you need to finish. And I thought, you know, that is so true, certainly for me, um, it's the open loops. So, what I've been talking about this week on my um on my emails and my social media is about just thinking about the feelings that you don't want to take into next year. So, really, I mean, if we were being really quite hardcore about it and really quite straight down the line, we would say we don't want anything coming into the beginning of the fire horse year that we don't want to take through into the whole of 2026 because ultimately um the theory is that the energy will just multiply everything that is already going on. So we kind of want to let go of anything that is negative. Now, I don't know about you, but I live in the real world and that's not as easy as it is, you know, if you are a parent or you know, you've got a lot going on in your life, you can't just go, oh, well, I'm not gonna have any of that difficult stuff to manage in 2026. Thank you very much. We're just going to delete it all. That is not real life, and therefore that can't happen. But it's about identifying for me the things that you can be rid of before then. So, what is currently dragging you down or you know, causing that weight in your world that you can do something about? Because, you know, there is very little point with 12 days to go until the new energies come in in wasting what energy and time you have on something that you can't change. Not that you can't change right now. There is just no point in putting the energy into that. But there will be things that are dragging you down or like weighing on your mind that you can do something about, and it might not be pretty, and it might be stuff that you don't want to do, you know, it might be a task that you've got to finish. Know I've got a hundred of them. Um, thankfully, mine don't feel like they're dragging me down negatively and you know emotionally, but there might be things like in your work life that you're just like, Oh god, I just don't want to do that, or in your home life, or whatever it is. So I suppose the point of this week's um musings, if that's what you want to call it, is to just say, maybe I mean, I know how difficult it is, I know how hard it is to just have enough brain capacity and space and time to kind of audit your life and audit what's going on. But you know, if you can, even if it is sat outside the school gates in the car for 10 minutes before you pick the kids up, rather than scrolling on Instagram, rather than scrolling on Facebook, whatever it is, just think about what is weighing you down and can you do something about it. That might be social media, it might be the case that you need to go and do a cull. I've just had a massive cull. Um, I've also had a so a massive cull on social media. Anything that wasn't making me feel good is now gone. Um, I've also had a massive cull of emails. So I go through these fits and starts as well, where you know, if I have an email land in my inbox, if it is an email, we all do it, right? Email lands in your inbox, you're not interested, just swipe it and delete it. If you are doing that regularly to an email, and that includes my own, just unsubscribe. Don't, you know, because every single one of those swipes to delete is kind of a process, a processing that your brain doesn't need. You don't need to be making that decision, just take take yourself off the list. Just take yourself off the list, take yourself out of this arena whereby you are following accounts and you're not being mindful about what you're consuming. Um, you know, I think that's just so important. Anything that is making you feel heavy that you can do something about before this um shift in energy on the 4th of February. I would, you know, that's my request to you really is see if you can do that over the next few days. Next week I'm gonna be talking about um preparation for that shift in energy, like what can you do to prepare for it? So this week is about releasing what can you be letting go of? Start moving towards um getting those things out of your life, and it doesn't need to be instant, like there are gonna be things that you can't just go, oh, I don't want to do that, thank you, and drop it. Like you just again, it's not real life. And if it comes into the beginning of 2026, or the 2026 year, I keep saying 2026, we are 2026. If it goes into the beginning of the firewalls year, it's not the end of the world, like it's not the end of the world. Because actually, if you are working towards having something out of your life that is draining you, that's not a negative thing. So that what you don't want to take in is the negativity of I'm stuck with this thing, I don't know what to do about it, or it's you know, overbearing over me. But actually, if what you're doing is you've made a start to be clearing that from your life, even if it is just a work project, even if it's not nothing major, it's not like you know, it's not a life-changing thing necessarily,

Feng Shui As Ease Not Extravagance

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but it's a heaviness that you don't need. If you have made the steps to be moving towards that and you continue to move towards it, that is not a bad thing to take into 2026. That is no bad thing. So, you know, don't get bogged down by all of this hoo-ha about this new energy. Yes, it's big, yes, it's powerful, yes, we just need to ride it a little bit differently to what we have been over the last few days. It is powerful. A few days, a few years, um, it is powerful, but also what we don't want to do is take in a stress or a burnout, because that's what we've done in this quest to free ourselves from negativity before the energies change. So, you know, go gently, go steadily, and just see what you can be rid of, really. Um and that is across the board, across the board, home, life, social media, what you're listening to, what you're seeing, keep what feels good and get rid of anything if you can that that doesn't, and just focus on what you can change. As my husband says to me all the time, Rachel, control the controllables, because I have an absolute habit of wanting to control things that I have got zero control over. So they are my musings for today. Um, and yeah, shared a bit of a life story there, I suppose, about my own journey with Feng Shui and you know what I feel that it can do for people. And as I say, the big wins are amazing, they're of course they're amazing. Um, but that isn't my soul work. My soul work is you know getting people who have done all of the behind the scenes work, you know, it's the people that have tried to curate this life of ease, and that ease is there, but only if they are so tightly in control, and my message is there is another way, and you don't have to be so tightly in control for your life to feel to feel like it's manageable and flow with ease. Um, and that's what you know, I suppose my my message is all about at the minute. Um so, yes, I hope that has been at least a little bit useful in some way. The energies change on the 4th of February. Um, you will hear from me at least once more before then, I am sure. The obviously the most powerful way of working with it is your home analysis. So if you feel like that is where you are being drawn to, then you know where to find me. I will put my links as always in the show notes. Um, but you are always welcome, and I say this all the time. I'm not I'm here, I am literally put on this planet, and I've said this since I was a child. I've been put on this planet to help people, and you know, I'm not a life coach and I'm not an expert in 101 things. I know energy, um, but my inbox is always open, you know, and regardless of what I do for a living, I will always put free content out there because it is so important to me to make sure that people who are where I was in the trenches and desperate, and you know, I didn't have the funds to be able to have my house feng shui to start with, that was not an option. Um, and I'm just absolutely blessed that that was one of the byproducts for me of it was you

Releasing Before The Energy Shift

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know, I started my business and and and it's all gone unbelievably well, but I think you know, I just want to make sure that the people that are in that desperate place have some access to what I'm doing. Um, but if you are in a position whereby you want to do that more deeply, then you know where I am. On that note, I'm going to leave you because I've been jabbering for a long time, and I will speak to you again next week, where we'll be talking about more of the preparations for this brand new energy. Um, and I hope you have the most incredible week. If you're in the UK, I hope it is slightly less grey over the next week, wherever else you are in the world. I hope that you are happy and healthy, and I will speak to you all really, really soon.