2024 is the year of the Yang Wood Dragon and the beginning of a dynamic new 20-year cycle. These two indications bring immense transformational energies, suggesting big changes everywhere in the world and in the way we do most things.
Every 20 years there is a major energy change in the universe due to movements between the sun and stars. As a result, when a period transits from one to another, it also brings big changes in Feng Shui, which is how all energy on our planet and within flows.
There are 9 cycles each of 20 years, all corresponding to an elemental trigram in the I Ching, completing a total 180-year cycle. Enormous shifts in energy to every space and individual across the world arise as we begin the Li Fire period #9—the last 20 years of the cycle we have been in since 1864. This culmination will be markedly different as the only fire period.
About the Fire Element and LI Trigram
The fire element represents desire, strength, reputation, brilliance, innovation, and energy but also instability and flux. Expect rapid change as we move from a 20-year cycle of earth, mountain, and “stability” (yes, that was considered a stable 20 years) into that of fire, which can bring volatility but also hope and faith.
The energy of fire moves fast and has no form. As fire is an element that is never the same, from flickering chi to out of control chi, some balance is necessary to remain abundant and healthy as everything changes around us.
Fire is the only element that changes every other element (it melts metal, cooks earth, burns wood, and boils water). And fire always needs another element to activate it; it cannot stand on its own.
This tells us a few things: that we can no longer rise or reach our goals without others and networking, entailing more collaboration and community. It also shows that we can no longer rely on a single stream of income, as sudden reversals of fortune are likely. (This can also work to our advantage if we are tuned-in and learn to harness this dynamic energy.)
The Li trigram of fire looks like this:
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Note the two broken lines in the center. This points to inner instability. This tells us that outside changes will affect us internally if we are not working in some way to hold our centers, balance our emotions, and fortify our Selves. If we continue in the same old ways, we will have more fear and anxiety than if we become adaptable and patient.
What We Can Expect
This period brings new opportunities, and wealth, and it is the magic number of completion. If you have been waiting to complete something big, the universal energies now support that movement and accomplishment.
Things will not work in the same ways as they have. The old paradigm of working your way to the top is now out of style. There is no more long-term career growth in a single organization. Where we used to climb the mountain of the last earth period, fire is unstable and unpredictable in how it spreads. Success is not clearly laid out like a mountain, and it is not stable like earth.
Major advances come for technology, social platforms, A.I., and industries that ignite change, set new directions, heal, entertain, and pave the way for an entirely transformed way of living and working.
2024 forecasts increased power and the rise of the middle-aged woman. We can expect lots of progress as fire energy brings happiness, and recognition. We will experience more female leadership, grace, wisdom, kindness, compassion, cooperation, and Divine Goddess energy.
Tips:
- Be open to change as it is the only constant in a fire cycle. Embrace it to succeed.
- Let go of controlling others, of expectations and outcomes, of needing others to agree with you, and let go of needing anything to be perfect or permanent because it won’t be.
- Acquire an abundance mindset—realize you have plenty, see the good, focus on your gratitudes, and be appreciative. Be present to happiness in the day and experience.
- Cultivate additional streams of income. Fire is volatile and always changing, so you need to create side hustles, savings, diversified investments, and even charity work to balance the energy.
- Inner alignment is critical. Counteract inner instability by increasing spiritual energy. Pray, meditate, use tapping, affirmations, journaling, nature—and I mean daily—to assure inner fortification. Focus on inner healing, mind, body, heart, soul, and spiritual alignment. Use calming breath work, Self-care, reflection, creativity, and strengthen your inner purpose.
- Retool, re-skill, continuously learn. Update your skills to remain viable. You need multiple skill sets and to learn new ways to happiness, money, and success.
- Experiment and experience. Don’t give up, failure leads to success. It takes many tries before we get successful, so keep trying.
- Make a plan, but then put it aside and be courageous for great chances in excelling.
- Timing will be crucial in 2024 and may make the difference between enormous success and catastrophic failures. Trust Divine timing and connection. No matter how hard we work, things won’t happen until we are aligned with the universe and stars.
You got this!
