When East Meets West – Understanding Your 2026 Through Two Ancient Wisdom Systems

Happy Lunar New Year to you all! As we step into the first day of the 2026 Lunar New Year, can you feel a shift in the air — perhaps something suddenly lighter, or something intense to some others? In the Eastern I Ching system, 2026 is the year of Bing Wu — the legendary Year of the Red Fire Horse, a cycle that returns only once every 60 years. Bing Fire is the Yang Fire of the Heavenly Stems, symbolising the energy of the sun; Wu Fire represents the most ferocious blaze of midsummer noon in the Earthly Branches. When both the Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch carry fire, we call this “Fu Yin” — a doubling and resonance of energy. Meanwhile, in the Western astrological chart, Saturn and Neptune are making a historic conjunction in Aries. Two ancient wisdom systems, born of different civilisations, are pointing in the same direction this year: action, breakthrough, and rebirth.

The awakening of fire energy in the Year of the Red Horse may manifest in your everyday life as: suddenly finding the courage to try a new direction, or finally speaking the truth you’ve long held in your tip of the tongue and also your heart. The nature of fire is to expand upward and outward — it calls us to stretch beyond our comfort zones and express the unique message that only you can bring to this world. At the same time, fire needs balance: the wisdom of water to harmonise yin and yang, and the stability of earth element to think on your feet and bring intangible ideas and plans into tangible reality.

In 2026, both Saturn and Neptune are transiting through Aries — a rare celestial event that hasn’t occurred since 1861. As Aries is the first house of the zodiac, governing “self” and “initiation,” Saturn — the stern teacher — demands that we take responsibility for our new identity and new direction, while Neptune invites us to look beyond the reality and trust in higher possibilities. When the planet of earthly reality and the planet of dreams meet in Aries, it signals the meeting and integration of dreams and the physical world, and the full journey of spiritual guidance taking root, blooming, and bearing fruit. On a personal level, this may look like: defining yourself anew after a period of identity crisis (if there’s any), answering the call of the universe, and truly transforming your spiritual pursuits into something solid that you can rely on.

When we place these two wisdom systems side by side to read 2026’s energy, a clear theme emerges: the awakening of the fire element. This is a year about courage, authentic self-expression, and proactive creation. The wisdom of I Ching tells us ‘when’ would be the right time to launch something new, to speak up, to break through on every level of life. Western astrology reveals ‘why’ we need to align with the cosmic— the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries reflects a long-term collective shift toward more authentic self-expression.

However, how 2026 affects each person is deeply individual. It depends on the strength of fire in your personal divination chart, and on where Aries falls in your natal astrological chart. Some will feel a powerful surge of momentum, while others may need a gentler, more gradual adjustment.

If you are curious about how 2026’s energy will specifically shape your career, relationships, or personal growth, I warmly invite you to follow my content — I’ll continue sharing wisdom from East and West, metaphysics healing, and energy alignment. Or if you’d like an in-depth reading tailored to your personal chart, book a one-on-one consultation and let’s map out your unique energy landscape for 2026 together.

That energy you felt on the first morning of the Lunar New Year — it was the universe extending its invitation. Let’s welcome the possibilities to align with the fire that is about to ignite in your life.

The Sacred Symphony of Alignment

Have you ever felt like something is “off” but could not pinpoint what exactly goes wrong? Perhaps your left side of the body aches while your right feels fine. Maybe you are mentally sharp but emotionally exhausted? Or everything else is going well for you but you feel empty inside?

These experiences are not random – they are your body’s secret language speaking to you about the possibility of misalignment.

True wellness is not about merely perfecting one aspect of yourself. It is about harmonising the intricate web that connects every dimension of your being.

Imagine yourself as a channel bridging heaven and earth. Above you connect with divine consciousness, infinite and luminous wisdom. Below you anchor into your earthly vehicle, solid and secure. When this vertical channel opens properly, you are in a perfect balance of feeling grounded and inspired, practical yet living your purpose. You walk the earth while breathing stardust. But when this sacred connection goes wrong, you find yourself either floating untethered in spiritual bypassing, or weighed down by material concerns that you forget you are born with wings.

This vertical axis intersects with a horizontal one that runs through your very body, forming a grand cross. Your left side of the body pulses with yin energy, intuitive and receptive, carrying the feminine principle of allowing and receiving. Your right side activates with yang energy, assertive and logical, embodying the masculine side of taking actions. When these two forces dance together in harmony, you move through life with both grace and grit, able to receive and to act, to listen and to express, also knowing when to surrender and when to lead. Yet notice how imbalance announces itself throughout your body. Does your left shoulder ache with all your reluctance to receive? Does your right hip tighten from pushing too hard? The body always speaks the truth that the mind tries to hold back.

Within this crossroads of heaven, earth, yin and yang, you exist across four interwoven levels. Your spiritual levels directly connects to source, seeking the purpose of your soul. When you dim the light on this level, you may feel hollow inside as you are always living someone else’s life. The spiritual disconnection ripples down into your mental level where thoughts spiral into anxiety, mind fog or depression. The chaos of an unaligned mind then affect the emotional level, where feelings become overwhelming or go numb entirely and your heart gets drowned or frozen in unprocessed pain of disconnection. All these invisible misalignments eventually crystallise on the physical level, manifesting as the pain you can no longer ignore, the illness that forces you to pause, the fatigue that will not lift.

And within your physical body, sacred organs hold their own intelligence. In TCM, the heart works as the sovereign, houses your spirit and joy, burning with the fire of love and connection. The kidneys cradle your deepest life force and willpower, holding the water of your essence and ancestral wisdom. When these two major organs flow in harmony, you experience the vitality of passion grounded by endurance, the warmth of emotion cooled down by wisdom. Yet when this axis misaligns, you might feel anxious yet exhausted, inspired yet unable to manifest, your fire raging without the water to sustain it, or your water stagnant without the fire to move it.

All these misalignments could trigger so many problems. You might push through with willpower while your body begs for rest. You chase goals your spirit never chose. Your silence intuitive nudges because they don’t seem logical. The misalignments could become so accustomed to so many of us that we forget what balance feels like. They could be the persistent shoulder tension, the relationships that drain you, the success that doesn’t fulfil or the anxiety that everything seems to be out of control – these become your baseline.

In fact, your body never stop trying to guide you back to wholeness. Realigning these interconnected systems is not something you have to do it alone. In fact, trying to “fix” one level while ignoring others often creates more imbalance.

True healing requires: Understanding where your unique imbalances lies; addressing root causes, not just symptoms; working with all dimensions simultaneously; having support from someone who can see the patterns you have grown blind to.

If this post resonated with you, it might be time to explore what alignment work could look like for your unique system. I offer personalised sessions that assess and address imbalances across all these interconnected levels. Reach out to begin your journey back to wholeness.

2025.9.22 Virgo New Moon Solar Eclipse

The Virgo New Moon Eclipse happened at 3:54am AEST on 22 September 2025.

As the axis moved to south node Virgo and north node Pisces on 18 September 2024, we are currently at the midst of this cycle, looking to end the journey of two years and five months on February 2027.

The eclipses take place at the south and north nodes axis of each year. When we were born, the solar and lunar eclipses energy will enter our physical bodies. The energy sealed the soul contracts that we made with the universe. The solar energy embodies the gifts our soul were born to express, seeking further growth and completion with the eclipse cycles; the lunar energy has selected the soul growth lessons we chose for this life time to heal our past trauma, release the old patterns, and harvest the precious wisdom. When transformed these lessons on an individual level, the whole collective energy of the universe will be able to evolve and balance.

In the Virgo south node lies the karmic pattern of overly living in judgment and analytical mind, not seeing the forest for the trees. While the Pisces north node lead us to purse our heart wisdom, foresee the big bold vision and integrate the Virgo energy to practically evaluate every pieces of puzzle to take actions to ground the grand blueprint into the physical world.

The theme of this Virgo-Pisces axis eclipses is the integration of the judgment and the perception, as well as the balance of the mind and the heart. If the mind analyses, plans and strategises. The heart feels, responds, senses and intuits. Though there’s no right and wrong, choose the path of the heart requires profound courage and deeper trust. The traditional Chinese medicine sees the heart as the sovereign, while the role of the mind should only be the subject creating a temple of receptiveness into which the sacred rhythm of the heartbeat can resound. In this case, we can live without so much foresight, but with more insight and energy in the here and now to create the magic.

In terms of healing physical body at this time, let heart move one step ahead to lead the mind is the antidote for Virgo archetypes to heal their digestive tract and lymphatic system. Meanwhile, all the physical symptoms would need to be treated on emotional and psychological levels as well.

In terms of energy healing, the integration and realignment of mind, body, spirit, divine timing and highest order are the themes we can work on around the eclipses season.

We need to trust that we are at exactly where we are meant to be, doing exactly what we are meant to be doing. When we are in a position to be guided by the heart, we are in alignment with the heartbeats of the universe which generates great love. No matter what appears at times, the highest order is rising as we trust the wholeness and love that are always there.

As you reflect on this eclipse energy, ask yourself:

Where in your life are you leading with your analytical mind instead of your heart wisdom?

What old patterns or judgments are you ready to release during this powerful eclipse season?

How might your physical symptoms be calling for emotional and spiritual healing?

I invite you to explore these eclipse energies together. Whether you’re feeling called to heal digestive issues through heart-centred approaches, seeking integration of mind-body-spirit, or ready to align with your soul’s highest purpose, this eclipse season offers profound opportunities for transformation.

Ready to begin your healing journey? I offer personalized energy healing sessions specifically designed to work with eclipse energies and the Virgo-Pisces axis themes. Together, we can explore how these cosmic rhythms are showing up in your life and create a pathway for deep integration and healing.

Take the first step: Comment below sharing which aspect of this eclipse resonates most with you, or send me a message to schedule your consultation. Your heart knows the way forward – let’s listen to its wisdom together: What is your heart calling you to heal during this powerful eclipse season?

2024.7.6 Cancer New Moon

The first new moon of the second half of 2024 will be taking place at Cancer in 6th of July at 8:57am in the morning, AEST. After 14 months of lunar reversal phase, we are finally back to the regular lunar cycle with this new moon and back to the universal flow of deepening our trust and manifesting our heart desire. 

Cancer Archetypes are someone who can fulfil how you want to be taken care of emotionally in every way. They are gentle, sensitive and considerate, project the energy of a calm lake  as they can embrace every bit of you. They represent everything with the concept of home, like a home-made hearty meal, a piece of well-preserved furniture that has been with family for many years but still in very good shape, the old family album that has been cherished in the cupboard……These are all objects with strong Cancer features that serve as carriers of emotion. Emotion are key word to Cancer Archetypes. It is also their greatest gifts, which could connect them to the most intimate parts of people around them in terms of their feelings, their wounded parts, their longings and their vulnerabilities, and work as a channel to heal these people on emotional level. 

How to react to their own emotion is a big lesson for Cancer Archetypes. They can function very well in the outside world. But when it comes back to home, they can be very emotionally immature. They would release this inner child of them that long for love and nurturing and look for compensations in their marriages or intimate relationships. Both the males and females would have unhealthy tendency to expect re-parenting from their parters. Yet the first big lesson to Cancer Archetypes with regard to emotion is to take accountability of healing their inner child, knowing it is not anyone else’s job to fix their wounds. They need to accept that life has its ups and downs, forgive on what they have not done and realise even with all the wounds, the imperfection, they still deserve to be loved. 

Taking good care of themselves forms the basis of Cancer Archetypes healing their inner child and restoring their emotional security. In every current moment that they feel rejected and not being loved, they would go down the memory lane to revisit their first experience with this wound. But the adult version of them can simply play their ideal parents to re-parent their wounded inner child by giving exactly the kind of nurturing they need. Through this practice of self-love, Cancer Archetypes can realise that they themselves are their ideal parents, ideal partner, ideal mentor and ideal friend. They already have what they long for from others within. Gentle and tender as they are, they would gradually move out of their emotional shell, practicing sharing what they feel, what they sense and what they see with those who are interested and care about them. Their confidence, strength and the emotional satisfaction would get amplified during the way. Even if there are occasionally voice of disharmony like rejection, they would practice not taking it personally. Instead of shrinking back to their shell, they start to learn not to respond to these emotion from their wounded inner child as they are born to transcend those difficult emotional experience to grow into the God/Goddess version of them who master their emotion.

Emotion is not Cancer Archetype’s vulnerability, but their super power. When they start to listen to their emotion – the deepest voice from their souls, and respond to their emotion from a healthy and mature place, they are also working on the emotional level of collective karma in order to heal this world. 

(Artwork by ConsciousCraft.uk)

The Wisdom of Stillness

When we step on a journey to learn to align our mind, body and spirit, the material world would gradually reflect the emerging process of the inner work that we have been doing. However, the emerging process is not linear. Even though we will always have full-on support from the universe, there would still be many twists and turns on our life paths since our channels always have the next layer to be released, or our souls chose to experience a certain designated life lesson that can not be written off to achieve more growth.

When these twists and turns are presented in your life, you probably feel that you are in the midst of a dense fog in the forest. You feel so disoriented. The clarity that you always have could have helped you find your way out of the forest already. But now you feel you are in the middle of a maze. You keep fighting by trying and trying but only get more lost than ever. You feel so defeated. When you can not align with the cosmic weather and divine timing, your survival instinct would consider any obstacles in front of you a tough battle that you think the only option is to fight to the very end, which would lose sight of the more easeful way — stay still and wait for the fog to lift. 

Failure and disappointment are part of life that few people want to accept. This might be that a job that you always wanted does not come through, a lover that you thought was your “true love” turns his back on you, or maybe your children do not behave in the way that you always expected. Maybe a project that you have been investing so much time, energy and money does not succeed at all. But does that mean you are truly defeated? Definitely not. You have been granted an opportunity to learn to keep distance with every noise outside in the quiet eye of the storm. You could see your situation for exactly what it is and not take it personally. You will not have to fight at all or devalue your self-worth like you used to. In this stillness, you choose to be healed. You choose to take a step further to transform into a stronger and wiser version of yourself. 

The portal to the wisdom of stillness would automatically open in daily meditations. When you practice to open yourself to receive such wisdom, you will connect to the vibrational frequencies that could anchor the wholeness of the universe to the material world. In the stillness, your channel is centred, the little you is on mute and you connect to the divinity within. The stillness calls in the miracles. You will truly see the blessings in every situation and realise that it is just a fleeting moment in the millions of moment of your life. The lesson is merely to see if you could truly trust and surrender to the life itself, to give you an opportunity to learn to accept any situations and embrace yourself under any circumstances with compassion, to provide a possibility to heal yourself in the stillness, stay open and receptive to let the light in. All you need to do is to slow down, stay quiet and still in this very moment, anchor deep down into the earth, open your heart and wait for the fog to lift. 

Seeing the Blessing in Every Situation

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It is human nature to naturally want only good things happen to us and stay away from challenging circumstances. Though this quality helps us to survive from various situations from one life time after another, the fear would store deeply in our DNA. As such, we would expect that everything happens in our lives are perfect match with what we want and make us feel comfortable. However, every challenging circumstances would provide us with the opportunities to learn and expand. When we resent or escape from the circumstance that we do not want, we would obscure the energy flow and create duality, resulted in causing this situation to work against us. However, when we learn to develop the awareness to face the adversity that the blessing would always accompany with the shadow, then healing energy would sweep us like a tsunami, encouraging us to face and transform more shadows with more ease, determination and positivity, leaving more and more space to open up to happiness, light, abundance and power to flow into our lives. 

Is your friend or family draining your energy?

When you spend time with them, they will not stop complaining about negative things that happened to them. You will feel exhausted after the conversation, like your energy has been drained. 

This is not a hypothetical scenario. There are people out there who can act like energy vampires. Although it sounds a bit melodramatic, when your own boundary seems unclear, it would be like your garden gate is wide open that any people, animals or situations could get a chance to sneak in. 

When we consciously or unconsciously give permission to friends like that treat us like emotional rubbish bin, we are playing the roles of rescuer. This is one of the Archetypes proposed by transpersonal psychologist Karl G. Jung. It is not healthy and does not matter if your motive is altruistic or not . Besides, if you are someone who always honour other people’s boundaries and would not bother friends too much while others overburdens you with their emotional baggages, then this is not a healthy and equal relationship. 

How to screen people who drain you?

Know when to say no. Then build a healthy and firm boundary.

If you find it hard to say no or have boundary issue, it might be a relationship that are trapped with karmic patterns. Or there are karmic patterns that you might be ready to work on. Energy healing could support you either way to build a strong and clear boundary; turn people down in a gentle but firm way; take actions to end your rescuer pattern. 

If you have similar issues, please reach out to me to support you to work on yourself to build a strong boundary, get rid of the rescuer pattern and realise that you are worthy of an equal and healthy relationship that truly honours your boundary and your right to say no. 

(Artwork by Rassouli)

You Are the Key to Heal Your Family Karma

Before we were born, our souls made commitment to not only come to this world to learn our own evolving and expansion course, we also commit to assume the responsibility of evolving as part of the whole.

Family is one of the special unit among the collective consciousness that can affect the individual to the most extent. Family karmas are usually stored in the DNA of our cells and will be passed on from generations to generations. They would bubble up to the top as negative emotions that you have no clue where they come from, such as anger, grief, guilty and shame; or negative beliefs like “ I don’t deserve what I want.” or “I need to earn enough money to pursue my dream.”. These negative beliefs and emotions will work as interference, like a cassette playing in a loop in lots of situations you encounter, damaging our chakras and auric fields, subconsciously sabotaging the possibility of us enjoying a serene, abundant and blissful life. 

My grandfather has been through the second world war in his childhood. When he was 13 years old, all of his family’s money and assets was ransacked by the robbers. So he was forced to leave for somewhere far away from his hometown to work as an apprentice to help sharing the financial burden of his family. Due to this tremendous fear of losing all of his money at such an early age, he has been licking his wounds and experiencing the feeling of unsafe around money all his life. He has been living an extremely frugal life. Even after he passed away, his life story and the negative beliefs around money still affect his daughters. My mom and her sister have been feeling what their father has been feeling around money most of their lives as well. When I was healing my mom, I found she has a very damaged and broken base chakra. She has been unable to ground herself properly and unable to attract enough financial support from the physical world. She interprets money in such a scarce way that it prevents the healthy money energy from consistently flowing into her life. 

If you ever notice there has been a repeated pattern that seems to happen to several generations of your family, you might stumble across an old layer that trapped you all. The awareness that there is such a pattern exists would be a wakeup call to remind you to remove this obstacle from the ancestral river to resume the vitality flow via doing some inner work or turning to energetic healing. 

We are right past the threshold of All Souls’s Day. The veil between the physical world and the spiritual realm happen to be the thinnest. So now would be a good opportunity to heal the ancestral karmic patterns and open the gateway to transform your future and let your future generations benefit from the work you do now. 

If you are tired of the family karmas that drag you down and feel ready to break free, I invite you to work with me on releasing the old and embracing the new.

(Artwork: Autumn Skye)

Aries Full Moon

Aries Full Moon

The Aries full moon takes place on October, 10th, 2022, at 7:54am at Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). 

The typical energy of Aries are independence, courage, self-sufficient, leadership, assertiveness, straightforwardness, truth, inner trust and strength. This is a playful soul who take the childlike perspective to face his/her life journey. 

Meanwhile, as the full moon symbolises the end. The shadow side of Aries that we can work on are the fear of rejection, which may cause us push away valuable help; the suppressed anger issue. 

In terms of physical body, Aries governs the head, face and the left eye. While we are not consciously learning our soul lesson, the muscle of the left eye tends to weaken. Our body could warn us by twitching around the left eye area. If we are not following our inner voice, our mind, body and spirit could be misaligned, which results in a headache and migraine. If we let others’ opinion influence us so overwhelmingly much that we neglect our inner voice, frequent urinating or low back pain could show up as a warning sign that we’ve lost too much of our power. 

In terms of energy healing, as there was negative issues with over depending on others therefore disempowering ourself in past life times, we chose the soul lessons on realising true independence: separated while connected; trust our inner voice; start anew to challenge our fear of change; stand up for ourself to grow and expand. These lessons will require us to differentiate between how to effectively seek help from others while remain independence on our own; how to stand up for ourselves, release the suppressed anger in a healthy way, preventing them to worsen into depression or violence that negatively impact our whole health; and how to live as an example to inspire others to connect to the sparkle and power within. 

(Artwork by Autumn Skye)

Taurus Full Moon Lunar Eclipse

We will witness a Taurus Full Moon Eclipse takes place today at 10:02PM Australian AEDT. 

Ever since the lunar nodes moved from the Gemini-Sagittarius axis to Taurus (North) and Scorpio (South) at the end of last year, we are currently in the middle of this journey until it wraps up in the mid 2023. 

While the South Node shows what lesson we have learnt in the past and what still needs to be realigned, the North Node unfolds the new direction that our soul would like to pursue. 

South Node Scorpio reveals a series of karmic patterns that were caused by our scarce way of interpretation of self-value and outside resources, North Node Taurus, on the contrary, lead us to go back to what is within us and Mother Gaia to reconnect with the proper prosperity consciousness. By sniffing the fragrance of fresh flowers, feeling the gentle touch from the water and kisses of the sunshine, we will naturally remember that abundance and prosperity are the birthright of each and everyone of us. 

This Taurus Full Moon Eclipse opens another portal to guide us to embrace this beautiful physical world. For Scorpio Archetypes who always tend to interpret this world from a crisis perspective, reconnect to the Earth is just the antidote they need. If we are ever fortunate enough to enjoy everything the nature has to offer such as sunshine, the ocean, fresh flowers, forests, rivers, mountain and the fresh food, we will instinctively sense the abundance that is always available to us. 

In terms of the physical body perspective, if we always interpret the world from a scarce angle, problems such as infections, allergies or rashes would likely to appear on the sensual body parts like eyes, ears, neck, throat and skin. 

In terms of the energy healing perspective, grounding, self-value, relationship between spirituality and money, shift from scarcity to prosperity consciousness are the themes that we could work on at this Taurus Full Moon Eclipse via energy healing. Every time we release a certain theme of the past, we open more space for abundance and prosperity to step in. It will help us further realign with our soul purpose, bring the manifestation of prosperity and abundance to grounding, establishing, blooming and fruition to the fullest extent, living our unique version of ‘Heaven on Earth’. 
(Artwork by Lori Banks.)