Year of the Fire Monkey – 2016

The Year of the Fire Monkey!  (Feb 8, 2016) Many of you used to receive “Chinese Astrology Updates” from me. I stopped sending those when my friend, teacher, and founder of my acupuncture college Liu Ming passed away last April.  I’d been giving an annual talk on the Chinese Years at the Jacksonville New Years festival for the…

Thoughts on January 2014

NOW is an appropriate time for retreat, planning, preparing, visioning, and resting.  The weather and general seasonal ‘qi’ says so. According to the Asian lunar calendar we have another 4 weeks before the new year comes – this one on January 31st. And the next year is very different in its mood – the shift…