Dear friends,

We are all excited to welcome the Chinese New Year – Dragon Year. I would like to take the chance to thank you for your ongoing support and friendship, and wish you and family safety, good health, and a happy and prosperous year ahead!

I have written the 2012 Horoscope and 2012 Flying Star predictions, with much detailed information about the upcoming year. Please visit my web site at http://www.fengshuiaustralia.com to see what 2012 will bring for you.

Also, please check my website for new articles, blog entries and upcoming events.

In particular on 28^th Jan 2012, we will celebrate the Chinese New Year in Crows Nest Sydney.  On behalf of International Feng Shui Association Australian Chapter, I will be presenting a seminar on Bazi/Chinese Astrology for 2012, there will be presentations from other Feng Shui Masters as well. If you are interested in attending, please visit

http://intfsa.org.au/vmchk/Events/World-Feng-Shui-Day-Sydney-5th-Feb-2011/flypage.tpl.html

Kind regards,

Mina R Zheng
郑茹艺

In the past few years,  between Christmas and New Year’s day, my family and I have come to Adelaide for a holiday break.  One of the main holiday activities is to take my son to the Adelaide Oval to watch the cricket match. We are in Adelaide again this year, and this time we went to see a 20-20 cricket match between Adelaide and Hobart.

As a feng shui professional, I often do an I Ching prediction for the match I am attending,  to keep up my prediction skills. However, we were in a rush, so I didn’t have time to sit down and do my study for the match. The other symple way to predict the match result is by checking the elements of the date, and looking at the colour of the  uniform of each team; this exercise requires a Chinese Ten Thousand year calendar, and it takea only  a minute of my time. Generaly speaking, the Chinese calendar records the time by using ten heavenly stem and twelve earthly branches, each stem or branch represents an element; the colour of the uniform also relates to an element, for example, the green uniform is the wood element. If the element of the date is metal, based on the relationships between the five basic elements, metal destroys wood, therefore the team with the green uniform is not supported by the date, the team will have a disadvantage in the match if the other team has a blue uniform. Blue relates to the water element, metal supports water, therefore on the metal day, the team with blue uniform has more luck to win.

Yesterday, I did not have my Chinese calendar handy, and I had  lost count of the day element, so I couldn’t do the prediction. However, when I got my ticket at the gate, I learned the name of Adelaide team was Strikers, and the name of Hobart team was Hurricanes. I said the Hurricanes will blow away the Strikers.

There were more than 27,000 people at the ground, we all supported the Adelaide team.  However, the result of the match was: the Strikers were blown away by the Hurricanes.

Dear blog readers,

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Time ticked away so fast, most of us were busy until the last minutes of Christmas. I wish you enjoy the well earned holiday break, have a peaceful, relaxed and happy time.

Let the ocean takes away all the stress, let the heaven and the earth bless you, let the inner TaiJi of our body in perfect balance and harmony.

Hope the great energy brings you perfect health and abundance.

Love,  Mina Zheng

When I was a young girl, I was studying Chairman Mao’s quotations from year one to year three. From year four, Chairman Mao passed away, the education of the whole China shifted to the way as it is now.

When I think back of the quotations I learned in my early age, some of them seem crazy, but some of them told the truth and have been testified by life practice.

Life Is Movement 生命在于运动 is one of Chairman Mao’s quotations. I often think of these words. If someone can not move, it means they are dead. If someone is not allowed to move, that means they are trapped. Nothing is worth more than life; to cherish our life we need to move, exercise and keep healthy.

The Qi of the universe is moving constantly. The Qi of our body is also moving constantly when we are alive.

Feng shui is about the Qi flow of our living and working enviornment, to tap the good positive Qi is one of the aims of feng shui practice. However each individual is the subject. I always encourage my clients to exercise, to keep thmselves physically and mentally healthy before appoaching anything else.

Hopefully you can also keep good life through movement and good Qi flow.

A few weeks ago, one of my buddies  asked me if I would like to go to Ulura with her on the weekend.  Ulura is in the centre of Australia, it is about three hour flight from Sydney. The request was a bit of a sudden, however I have been longing to  visit  Ulura  for a  long time, and never found a partner or chance to go there. Therefore, I agreed to go with her happily.

Our jurney to Ayers Rock was full of surprise. First of all, we were upgraded to business class, the food, wine and hospitality on the flight provided by Qantas was very impressive.  When we arrived at the destination, we were upgraded to a five star hotel by the Ayers Rock Resort with no extra cost. But the most beautiful thing is the Ayers Rock or Uluru.

Ayers Rock is a very large natural sandstone which stands on the centre of  the desert. The stone is about 348m high, and has a total circumference of 9.4km. The rock was observed by Chief Secretary of South Australia – Sir Henry Ayers  in 1873. It was named Ayers Rock in honour of him. The rock  is an Aboriginal  sacred place. It owned by the Uluru family, and is hence called Uluru.

That was my first time to have a holiday in the desert. Most people choose to have holidays in coastal areas, I was the same. I walked on the red earth with bare feet, and felt the great earth energy from the earth.

We joined sunrise, sunset and evening activities with the tourists. If you want to know the true colour of the rock, you need to see it yourself. The Ayers Rock changed colours as the Sun went by. Sometimes, it looks like a loaf of a bread to me, sometime, it looks like a chocolate cake on the desert. Sometime, it is red, shining like flame, magnificent.

From feng shui perspective, the Ayers Rock has a shape of a Huge Gate (巨门-ju men)– a name of a feng shui star. The element of the rock is Earth. It contains four elements (earth, metal, water and fire), there are some desert wood near by. The sky and the earth look very big in Uluru. The rock harmonizes the heaven and the earth.

The Ayers Rock is not only one of the icoms of Australia, it is also one of the wonders in the world, it attracts many people every day from around the world to visit this natural landmark of Australia .

My family and I were invitted by one of my clients Tony and Louise to celebrate their second Holy Basil Restaurant opening party.The party was full of people, music, dance, drinks and food, great energy through out the whole place and whole evening.

Feng Shui for business is one of the main services for my practice. Tony and Louis knew me about seven years ago. When I first visited their house, Tony was a mechanic. I drew up his birthday chart, analysed it, and told him that he was in a wrong business. He should be dealing with a business which associates to fire, such as a restaurant. Four years later, I was called in by Tony’s wife Louise to do feng shui for their restaurant at Canley Heights. Tony told me: after last consultation with me, he had spent four years to study to be a chef, and here was his first restaurant. I was astonished to hear this, and admired his courage and perseverance.  The couple are very intelligent and hard working.  The Holy Basil was decorated according to feng shui principles. It has become the most beautiful and popular restaurent in Canley Heights.

The second Holy Basil is in the Sydney CBD, it is inside Shark Hotel, with a very different environment to the first one. When I was at the party, I saw all my suggestions were there. It has good Qi flow, the foods are very delicious.

If you are looking for a nice place to dine, Holy Basil will be your choice.

Here are the address: Shark Hotel, 127 Liverpool St, Sydney; 330 Canley Heights Road, Canley Heights.

Resently, I locked myself away to write an advanced BaZi course. To write a good course, I have done a lot of research and spent many hours.  The writing was done on time, and I delivered the course in Sydney on 1st and 2nd October.

My Ba Zi in Depth Study introduced the Ten Gods, twenty one Deities (lucky and unlucky stars), Judgment terminologies for destiny prediction, and Date Selections. Students told me that they have learned a lot from the course.

I will be presenting the Ba Zi Fundamentals and In Depth Study in Melbourne on 29-31 Oct, 2011, and in Brisbane in late Novenber.

If you are interested in this subject, I hope to see you in my class. Details are at www.fengshuiacademy.org

Recently, I was interview by my dear friend Scarlet Vespa for one of her programs: Love Dream Believe .  Scarlett is a very talented film producer, she runs Like Productions.

Here is the link to the interview:

Mina interviewed by Scarlett Vesper

For information about Scarlett, please press here.