Five Days To The Feng Shui New Year - Your Intention Now Matters

The calendar might say one thing, but your home is already feeling the turn. As the Solar New Year lands on 4 February, we explore the subtle fade from wood snake to the high-velocity fire horse - and how to get your home and intentions ready so you steer the speed rather than chase it. 

From there, we lean into a version of manifestation that actually works: intention paired with action. I share a real-world story of being selected for a  business audit and break down the quiet moves that made it more likely - showing up, being visible, and naming a clear outcome. That same approach underpins our Feng Shui prep. We map the nine life areas, write crisp, specific intentions for each, and place them discreetly to anchor your aims in the physical world. This is about clarity over chaos, because the fire horse rewards direction and punishes scatter.

We also focus on the front entrance, the true mouth of qi. If that threshold is cluttered or stressful, it signals delay at the exact point where opportunity arrives. With simple storage, better light, and low-maintenance systems, you can keep it calm and welcoming. 

 Want tailored guidance? Grab the free guide to locate your nine life areas, explore the Home Energy Blueprint for accurate mapping and house personality, or step into a full Home Energy Alignment for personalised remedies. 

Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Solar vs Lunar New Year

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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, something everyone can use. Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Feng Shui podcast. Um okay, so we are now, what is the date today? So I'm recording this on Wednesday the 28th of January, which means that we are exactly one week, one week until the um Feng Shui New Year on the 4th of February. So I would have been asked lots actually over on Instagram um this week about why some people use the 4th of February and why some people use the 17th of February. Um so I did a little story on it on the Instagram today, but just in case you don't follow me over there or you didn't see it. So the Chinese New Year, which is the 17th of February, that is aligned with the lunar new year. It's a little bit more predictable, so it that that is the 17th of February kind of date, um, and that's the Chinese New Year. In Feng Shui, in Flying Stars Feng Shui, we use the solar new year, so that tends to fall around the 4th of February each year. Um, it's a little bit less predictable, so the date can change ever so slightly. Um, but that is kind of that's what's seen as the light, the light cycle, the energetic cycle is the solar new year. So that's the difference between the two dates and why you might have seen a difference between them. So, in that vein, the solar new year, the 4th of February, is in exactly

Energies Fade And Fire Horse Rises

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a week today. So when this comes out, it will be Friday, so it'll be what we'll be it'll be five days. Five days to go. So this kind of shift of energy is ramping up now. And as I've talked about before, when the energy is um, you know, it's not like a start-stop, it's not like one switch goes off and and one energy stops and the next one starts. It's not like that, it's like a fade, it's almost like a you know, it's kind of that rainbow effect where it starts to eke in a little bit and then one becomes more dominant than the other and then it takes over. And that's so we and that's how it works. So at the minute we have still got this um this wood snake energy of this kind of the the energy cycle that we're in now, um, but the firehorse energy dominance is really, really ramping up. Um so you know, any time from now, really, it's advisable not to change any remedies in your home until the 4th of February. That is the advice, and you know, it's up to you whether you do or you don't really. But I would say if you have got time this weekend and you have remedies in your home, if you've got time this weekend to make that a really intentional practice rather than on the fourth making it super rushed, I would be changing them um if I had more time this weekend. I am personally going to change one on the fourth because I don't have any time to do it this weekend, and the fourth for me will be a time whereby I can um put put a bit more intention behind that and take my time with it, which is so important because as you know, as I talk about reasonably often the the intention behind things is just well the most important thing. Um so there's a few things. One is that we have got the final full moon before the new Feng Shui year this weekend. So if you have got remedies in your home, um you can put them out for a moon bath and a sunbathe if there's any sun. So make sure that your metal gets outside and it gets some access to the fresh air for a good 24 hours before it needs to go back in on the fourth. Um, the the metal in particular does a huge amount of heavy lifting in terms of settling and grounding the energy in our homes. Um, I kind of feel like metal's a

When And How To Change Remedies

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massive sponge, and it just like it's like it for me, I could visualize it as like a magnet. So this negativity that you know flies around in every home because spoiler, life's not perfect as much as Instagram would tell you otherwise, life is not perfect for anybody. And I kind of visualise um the metal as being this like magnet that just sucks all this floating negativity towards it and kind of clings onto it. So, in order for it to be able to do its job, it's gonna be getting tired by this point in the year because of the amount of work it's done over the last 12 months for us, or however long you've had them in your home. So, for me, that's all gonna go outside for a good 24 hours and it's gonna have a moon bath. And hopefully, I mean, I am in the UK, so who knows, it might not get a sunbathe. Um, it probably won't get a sunbathed, to be honest, given the current current weather over here, but it will be outside open to the elements. I'll probably give it a wash with some soapy water, like give all my metal a bath, and I know this sounds bonkers, like I do know that it sounds bonkers, but I am the sort of person who says, I don't care, I don't care if it sounds wacky and wild. I know it works, I know firsthand the difference that it's made to my life, and therefore I'm cracking on with it. So I would um I would encourage you all to do the same. So, yeah, we've got the final full moon to be able to get all of our um you know remedies out for a good sunbathe and a moonbathe. And if you are listening to me going, I don't know what remedies I need, I don't know what to do, then obviously the home energy alignment is available to you. And if you are interested in that, the links will be below um in the show notes, and you can just take a look at that if that sounds like something that you want to learn more about and get a bit involved in. Um, so the other thing that I'm going to talk about is the intention on these remedies, so when they go back in, um, and just intention in general. So I love intention, I love gratitude, and if you follow me on Instagram, you will know that I've been doing um the most amazing gratitude practice each week, or each morning, sorry, for the last 27 days now. Tomorrow is the last day of a guided, guided practice, um, and I'm really gonna miss it. But

Moon Bathing And Resetting Metal

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the intention side of things, so manifest manifestation, it's got a bit of a rap, hasn't it? It's you know, everybody's like, oh, you don't have to do anything, you just sit here and you just dream of what you want, and then it will be. And I don't get on board with that version of manifestation, I'm afraid. I am absolutely on board of the version of manifestation that involves dream what you want, but also put the work in. So a combination of action and intention, and that for me is like the golden nugget. And I had the perfect example of this um last week, actually. So I was doing a kind of workshop, I suppose you would call it, with an amazing business coach who teaches people all sorts of incredible things about um about business. And she offers as part of this free workshop, so she's doing a free workshop, and it's basically her lead magnet. This workshop is her lead magnet. So you go to this workshop, and then at the end of the workshop, she will sell her very amazing but high cost programme to join her. And I love her, I I love her anyway. I watch a lot of her content and see a lot of her content, and I think she's brilliant, and I like the way she's just so honest and authentic, and obviously, queen of the honest and the authentic, I think that that is um that is great, and so she was doing this workshop and she was giving the opportunity to a certain number of people to if you signed up to the workshop quickly enough and you were within the first 100, I think, you could join a VIP group where you'd get access to her via Telegram for three days. Um, and she would look at you know, look at different bits of different people's businesses, and from those 100 people, she would pick, I don't know, I think it was like three or four people to do like an audit of their business. So I got the email, I signed up, managed to get into the VIP slot. Now it's not like me to open an email like that and act on it quickly. I tend to, you know, my emails are full of things from school. I've got to pay somebody something, I've got to sign a form to give consent for something. You know, I'm not very often at 6 a.m. looking at my like work-related emails. Anyway, for whatever reason I opened it, so I got into that first 100 tick, point number one. And then we started this three-day kind of it was over three days, but the kind of um the face-to-face intensive bit was only

Intention, Gratitude, And Real Manifestation

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I don't know, like an hour once a day for three days. And on the third day, I think it was the third day or second day maybe, she gave the opportunity to have a look at somebody's business. And I just sat there and I thought, you know, I just like imagined, felt really in my bones what it would sound like when she said my name, how I would feel when she said my name, because I really wanted her to have a look at what I do, and I really, really leaned into it. So I made sure that I was really active in the group. I made sure that when we were on Zoom, I wasn't the person with my camera off. I made sure that I was engaged and not doing something else at the same time, so that when she was looking at her screen, she could see that I was, you know, actively engaged in what she was saying. Um, all of these tiny, tiny little things of action, I mean, ultimately, I couldn't influence whether or not she was going to choose me or not, but there were things that I could do to try and make that more likely. I could make my name a name that she saw regularly in that process. And if you've listened to Denise Duffield Thomas's um, is it Lucky Bitch? Yes, it must be Lucky Bitch, um, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about here. And if you haven't read that book, it's a total recommend. Um, in fact, more than more than reading the book, I would do it on audio because listening to Denise Duffield Thomas read her own book is unreal, like she's so good. It's a bit like Mel Robin's um Let Them Theory. That is another phenomenal book to listen to because I love the way they speak. And anyway, so long story short, I did the did the action and I really learned into the intention. I felt what it would feel like. I let the like adrenaline surge into me at what it would feel like when she called my name and how nervous I would be at putting my business bare bones in front of her for her to quite rip me to shreds and stuff. Um and hey, guess what? Guess who she picked? It was me. So manifestation, intention, it's all so so real. So, how can we use that in relation to Feng Shui? We're obviously prepping for this new energy to really settle in, um, and we're so so nearly there. So, my kind of um invitation, I suppose, to you this week would be to have a look at the nine life areas of your home, which um, if you don't know where they are in your house, you can go to my website, which will be in the show notes, and you can download my free guide for how you can identify the nine life areas of your home. Um, it's not going to be free for much longer because I'm actually having a real shift around of what I'm offering. Um, so if you want to get that and you haven't got it, go get it now, and the link will be in the show notes. So you can download that for for free for now, and that will show you how to basically divide up your house as we do in Feng Shui so that you can learn which area of your home looks after which element of your life, essentially. So, in preparation for this shift in energy, it's time now to start thinking about not what we don't want, we don't want to be thinking

Action Steps To Be Chosen, Not Lucky

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about what we don't want, we want to be thinking with clarity. So the fire horse year needs to be full of clarity. There is no point in this year, it's gonna move so fast that if you you can't just scatter gun this year because you'll end up going in a completely wrong direction and you know just getting dragged down this wrong direction. There has to be clarity. So I will be absolutely before the 4th of February sitting in each area of my home, and I'm gonna do written affirmations and I just hide them on, you know, post-it notes or little pieces of paper and fold them up and put them under plant pots or whatever. And I'm gonna be really, really clear and specific about what I want support-wise from each area of my home and my vision for this energetic year in the realms of that part of my life. So, you know, I'll have specific work things, a direction that I want to go in. I will have specific things for my family, and I'll have specific things for my children, and all of those different areas I will have, you know, an overarching kind of lane, if that's what you want to call it, so that I can always come back to what that lane is. And I for me, I find it easier to write it because I find a bit there's a bit more clarity there. Um, and it also means that I can give gratitude in advance for those things and for being supported in my quest for those things. Um, so that's what I'm gonna be doing. That is gonna be the absolute best prep work that you can do ready for the 4th of Feb. The only other thing, and it kind of links into what I was talking about last week about clearing in in clearing in preparation for the preparation that we're doing this week, and then next week we're gonna be talking about how you can align with the energy. But um the front entrance of your home is just gonna be such an important part of how we structure this year. So if your front entryway is an area of your home that gets bogged down really easily, I would have a look at what systems you can put in place, what storage you can put in, um, whatever it is, to try and make sure that that entryway has the best chance possible of staying as clear as it can and as low maintenance and as calm as it can over the next kind of, you know, what will be 12 months of quite wild energy. We don't we want what we don't want is that we don't want any negativity being picked up on with as the energy comes into our home. Um, we want it to be clear, we want it to be positive, we want it to be fresh, we want it to be evervescent, we want it to be joyful and abundant. And if it's got to kind of flow through chaos and this area that is just full of kind of mental load and frustration from your perspective, that's not going to be supporting, you know, this flow of this sort of beautiful energy that we want to come in this year. Um and it's not, you know, there's a lot of scaremongering out there. I just keep reading so much about it, and it is, it's wild and it's intense, but it's also exciting. Like it's an exciting year, and the potential is boundless. It's it's huge, and it's it's a very rare kind of energetic year, and it's a once-in-a-lifetime

Prepping The Nine Life Areas

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for for you know a proportion of the population. So for me, I just think let's get ready for it, let's clear as much as we can, let's close as many loops as we can, and get ourselves into a position where you know we're we are able to move forward with clarity because that's going to be the issue. Life is not going to be perfect, you are not going to be able to get rid of bad things that happen. That is just not reality. Um, but we can kind of ride the horse rather than let the horse drag us along, and that is by knowing where we want to go, and therefore we can make decisions based on is this going to get me closer to my end goal, or is this decision completely taking me off on a tangent? And if you choose to take the other version of the other route, then that's fine, isn't it? But that's that's then made with intention rather than not having that kind of clear goal that you you want to align with. So they are my invitations for you for this week. Um, and I the next time I record the podcast will be after the Feng Shui Yu year. So I will come to you then with as much information as I can about how to align with the energy of the year. Obviously, I can only share on here and on my Instagram and on my website kind of the generic practices, the generic tips, the generic information. I can't tell you in this capacity specifically what to do with your home, and every home is so different. Like the only thing that I can see is a theme that has come up this year so far in doing everybody's um remedies for this coming year is like an emotional and intensity and a sharpness to communication. That seems to be an overriding theme, but how you balance that and fix that is so dependent on each individual house. So, yeah, I can only share with you kind of the generic factors, but I will absolutely be doing that next week. Um, so if you want to go and have a look at my free download to work out how to map your own home, go over to my um website, which will be below, and it's under free resources, I think it's called on my website. If not, you can go to my Instagram, it is on my bio on my Instagram. But you probably have got, I'm gonna say maybe two weeks um until that disappears. So if you haven't got it and you do want it, then go grab it now. And if obviously if you have any specific questions or any issues, you are always welcome to email me, and I will always help you as much as I can without obviously having the details of your home and things like that. And if you are on the fence and looking

Writing Clear Affirmations For Speed

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at whether or not you want to go forward into this new year with a more personalized approach, obviously there's the home energy alignment which is available to you. I've also got my home energy blueprint. The blueprint is um a really great, cost effective kind of entry level way. Of looking at the specific energy of your home. So it doesn't go into your personalised inside remedy. So there are remedies that go into each area of your home, but it does tell you about your home's element, so um it sort of its personality, how it responds to change, what it's great at supporting you with, and how you can kind of supercharge that. It also tells you what your house type is, so whether it is supportive or not of the people who live there and their money. It also tells you how to fix that if that is not great. I also will do a full mapping of your home. So if you've got a rectangular home, that's usually a fairly easy thing to do. Um, although it can be a bit confusing, it's if you've got a rectangular home, it's much easier. If you've got a home that isn't rectangular, maybe you have got a conservatory, or maybe you've got a shallow bungalow where upstairs is smaller than downstairs, or you've got an L-shaped home, or anything like that, really, the mapping becomes um much more tricky. So the home energy blueprint is the one it to choose if you are looking for a really great entry level to personalised Feng Shui and you want your home mapped accurately for you so that in 2026 you can actually like lean on those areas and know exactly where they are. So I will leave you with that. Um, I hope you have an amazing last few days of the wood snake. Don't forget you are still in the shedding zone. We still have a little bit of that energy left. So wrap up anything that needs to be wrapped up, get rid of anything that is causing you frustration um so that you are ready, basically, so that you're ready to move forward into this most incredible year, and I will speak to you. That was so exciting. I'll speak to you in the fire horse year. Have a great, great few days.