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The bodily associations are the ears, sexual organs, blood, and kidneys. This indicates that this Star 1 energy influence has a lot to do with what moves us deeply, profoundly, primitively, what we connect with intimately, the information we receive and where we direct it, what we can utilise and what we get rid of, what we expel as not useful. It is like a process of stimulation, utilisation, and expulsion, when viewed in the context of bodily associations. It displays a primary need, and serves a necessary function, much like the search for Love that most humans depict in the story of their lives.

The season associated with Star 1 is Winter, so things are happening beneath the surface, so to speak, on a quiet, energetic level, accumulating and conserving at the same time. Quite complex but also quiet in its complexity. (Fear not, all you gregarious types, for 2009 is to be ruled by Star 9, The Angel of Vigour and Vivacity! You've just got to pull back the band on the slingshot for a year and ponder your navel -- happily!)

If there is one thing I’ve noticed about Star 1 energy when meditating with it, or coming into contact with it, is that it brings a definitive signature of Hope. It's that feeling that comes when you realise a situation is able to be resolved or improved, from a previous standpoint, where all looked quite bleak. It’s the heaving sigh of relief, the break in the clouds, the shaft of sunlight, the brightest, most twinklingest star in the sky. It carries with it that kind of energy. And I accept that this is quite contradictory when considering it’s Trigram name of "The Abyss" and "Deep Waters," which sounds ominous extremis. Sometimes, solutions require more courage than staying in a relative safety zone of despair. And really, solutions are a process of one foot in front of another. This forward progression in stages is the essence of ideas, expression, wisdom -- the characteristics of Star 1 energy.

As we are coming to understand, all the answers lie deep within us. We search in vain if we search for something to bestow upon us all the good things in life, all the solutions, because we have them inside all along. Perhaps this is the real energy of 2008 -- the energy that finally makes us realise and wake up to the undeniable fact that we are not only radiant, but the vehicle, driver, navigator and mechanic of our radiance too!

Wishing you a Prosperous, Peaceful and Beautifully Simple 2008.

A more in-depth look at Directional Energy and a Monthly Forecast will be available in the February issue of Holistic Feng Shui MiniZine. (Please visit Feng Shui Connections and send your details via the Sign Up Page.)