In this episode, the host interviews Jillian Rothschild-Scholar, a classically trained Feng Shui expert with over a decade of experience. Jillian discusses how her purpose is to help people clear confusion over major life questions, enabling them to confidently move forward. She explains the principles of classical Feng Shui and shares her journey into the field. The discussion includes the intricacies of the Chinese New Year, including the differences between the lunar and solar calendars and their significance. Jillian delves into Chinese astrology, the importance of the 'four pillars of destiny,' and how these elements can guide individuals. Additionally, insights on what to expect in the year of the Water Tiger and practical Feng Shui tips for 2022 are provided. Jillian also shares her personal transformation story through Feng Shui, emphasizing the impact of environment on life success and well-being.

00:00 Introduction to Jillian Rothschild Scholar

01:06 Understanding the Chinese New Year

03:53 Jillian's Journey into Feng Shui

08:51 Exploring Chinese Astrology

15:17 Feng Shui Tips for 2022

31:48 Conclusion and Contact Information

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Michelle Lasley

Introduction

This is Michelle Lasley. I call all of my work Balance Shared because I truly do believe we are better together.

Season 3 Introduction

This is Season 3, where we discuss non-linear paths to finding your purpose. I interviewed over 35 people to hear their circuitous path to finding their purpose right now.

My guest today is Jillian Rothschild Scholar.

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She uses the pronoun she, her, hers.

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Jillian has found her purpose to be to

help people who are feeling tormented with

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big unanswered life questions, but are

unable to choose which direction to go.

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So they are looking for someone they

can trust to get clarity, enabling

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them to confidently move forward.

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Jillian is a classically trained feng

shui expert who has been working in

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private feng shui consulting since 2010.

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She helps people who are feeling

tormented with those big questions

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to get clarity and move forward.

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She specializes in collaborating

with clients over time to awaken

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new possibilities and assist

each client in achieving both

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personal and professional goals.

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As part of her classical feng shui,

she consults for both residential

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and business properties worldwide.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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I'm so grateful that we got this to work.

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Jillian Rothschild: Thanks for having me.

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I'm excited to talk with you today.

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Michelle Lasley: So the theme

for season three is nonlinear

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paths to finding your purpose.

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But we also wanted to schedule this

to coincide with the Chinese New Year.

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So before we really get started,

can you just name for me

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when the Chinese New Year is?

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Okay.

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Jillian Rothschild: So there's

like 40 different calendars

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out there in the world, right?

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When we talk about Chinese New

Year, there are two different

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calendars that are referenced.

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One is the lunar calendar and

one is the solar calendar.

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In the work that I do, I focus on the Sha

calendar, which is the solar calendar.

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Known as the farmer's calendar.

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It's fascinatingly accurate.

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It records the passage of time

and is a tool for forecasting.

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And it holds all the information about

time presented in four sections, a

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year, a month, a day, and an hour.

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And it uses the five elements.

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And I mentioned, there's

also a lunar calendar.

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So, the lunar calendar is identified

as the more commonly celebrated date

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for Chinese New Year, it changes

pretty significantly every year.

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It could be January, it could be later

in February, that's a lunar calendar,

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so it can change pretty significantly.

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The solar calendar shifts only by a few

hours, actually, every year, because it's

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a solar calendar, it's very reliable.

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And that is the calendar that we use

and In my experience is more suitable

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for the kind of forecasting that

we identify for Chinese New Year.

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So, the lunar calendar says that

the lunar New Year is February 1st

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of 22, and the solar calendar says

that the year of the tiger begins

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on February 4th at 4: 51am, 22.

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Michelle Lasley: What time zone?

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Jillian Rothschild: wherever

time zone you're in,

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Michelle Lasley: Oh,

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Jillian Rothschild: right?

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So it's your local time when, of

course, if you're living in China,

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you know, the, they say it's,

this is when the year begins but

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because our world rotates, right?

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The hour changes when it hits you

just like every other new year, right?

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Michelle Lasley: All right.

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What was the time one more time?

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Jillian Rothschild: 4.

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52, 4.

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51 a.

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m.

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on February 4th.

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Michelle Lasley: That's fascinating.

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Okay.

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We'll spend more time

on the Chinese New Year.

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I just needed to get those

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Jillian Rothschild: Yeah, it's, the

timing is really interesting because

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the, there's a calendar called the

Jiqi, which are, they're 24 seasons,

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they're called Jiqi in classical use of

a calendar, the Chinese solar calendar.

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And so the season begins

at a very specific time.

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It's not like, oh, it's just February 4th.

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It begins at a very specific hour.

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So it could be like next year, it could

be, you know, three in the afternoon,

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it could be two in the afternoon, it

could be two in the morning, like it,

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but it only vacillates by a few hours

because of how the solar calendar runs.

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So it's almost always February 4th.

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But what that means is if someone

was born on February 4th at one in

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the morning of 22, they're going

to be born in the year of the ox.

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If they're born February 4th after

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six in the morning, they're going

to be born in the year of the tiger.

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That's how specific it is.

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Michelle Lasley: That is so neat.

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Oh my gosh.

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So you've been practicing feng shui and

I would assume your study of the Chinese

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astrology and such for about 12 years.

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Is that right?

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Jillian Rothschild: It seems like forever.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I've been doing this

for over a decade, so that's

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Michelle Lasley: Yeah.

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I had to do the 2022 math, which was a

little weird, but that's another thing.

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Did you always know you wanted

to do something like this?

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Jillian Rothschild: no, I w I was

a little bit of a weird kid and in

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hindsight, I look back and I like move

my furniture around as a kid, but my

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first acknowledgement of doing anything

alternative in Dayton, Ohio, where I grew

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up was like, Arguing with my dad about

the horoscope page of the newspaper.

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Cause the horoscope was on the

same page as the crossword puzzle.

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And that's what, what I remember of

being interested in that kind of stuff.

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But as I aged, it became very

clear that I was not going to be

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doing anything really conventional.

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And I even went down that path.

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I had spent 20 years in

college admissions counseling.

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But on the side I was taking Reiki

and, you know, I was doing Reiki

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work and I was into horoscopes and

doing self help and all these things.

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And it led me to.

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Feng shui.

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Michelle Lasley: Was there any

specific like moment where you're

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like, or was it a series of

little things that kind of landed?

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Feng Shui in your lap.

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Jillian Rothschild: Well, I, I had

actually had a really crappy, for lack of

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a better word, situation in my business

after I moved into a house, actually,

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one of the houses that we bought here in

the city that we currently live in, I had

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moved from my company and the situation.

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started to fall apart very quickly

after we moved into this house, like

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within a few months, the relationship

with the boss wasn't any good.

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My relationship with the

team wasn't any good.

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My spouse wasn't any good.

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Everything felt very unsettled.

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And I had read a couple of books

about Feng Shui and I didn't

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really understand how to apply it.

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And At the end of this really crappy

situation, I remember sitting in my

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living room, like, looking at my newer,

newish house with the kind of empty

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walls that I hadn't decorated, and

I was kind of looking around going,

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like, I wonder if it's the house.

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And that was sort of my low point.

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And that's when I called for help.

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When I called in a feng shui

practitioner and I was like, I need help.

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I wonder if it's the house.

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And that was really my first experience

with having a real application

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of feng shui that I could apply

and then see some results from.

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So

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Michelle Lasley: So what happened next?

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Jillian Rothschild: I, my life started

to change in really amazing ways.

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Things started to feel really good because

the person who came gave me a list of

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things to do and I'm very task oriented.

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So it was like, do this, do

this, do this, do this, do this.

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And I was like, okay, do all these things.

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And it sort of feels like a zipper.

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So it was like, and then everything

kind of clicks together and

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things started to feel better.

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I made a decision about

what to do with my life.

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My work my relationship

with my husband got better.

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And over time I had started to go

down the path of really studying

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Feng Shui because it felt good.

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And then, and then in my business,

when in the work that I was doing,

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I was having a lot of success and

I got a bonus check with a lot of

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extra zeros that I wasn't expecting.

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Michelle Lasley: Congratulations.

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Jillian Rothschild: it was, I

worked really hard for it and it

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was extra zeros I wasn't expecting.

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And my husband was like, cha ching,

there's something to this feng shui thing.

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And that was, I was like, well, if

I can do this, anybody can do this.

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Michelle Lasley: Oh my gosh.

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Jillian Rothschild: then I

really went down the path of.

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finding a master teacher and doing

private mentoring and the way that

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you really should be doing feng

shui, you really shouldn't be trying

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to do it all from a book because I

learned, you know, in hindsight, I

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know it's not all, not all in a book.

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And, uh, so working with my teacher

was really what did the trick for me?

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Michelle Lasley: Do you

still work with your teacher?

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Jillian Rothschild: No, no, I, I'm kind

of, I, you know, I did a year and a half

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of private mentoring with my teacher and

then I just kind of built my, I mean, I

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was still working my day job at the time

when I did my private mentoring with her.

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I was still working my day job and I kind

of did my own thing and I found some other

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teachers and I continue to go deeper in

different aspects of Chinese metaphysics.

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And so, I really feel like that was a

foundational aspect of my training, but

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it's not the only bit of it because.

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Michelle Lasley: Sure.

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Jillian Rothschild: There are some

aspects of metaphysics where people

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will go, you do one thing, and

this is the only thing that you do.

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And you're a purist.

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And that is what you focus on.

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And what I have found in my own

practices, that's not really.

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effective for me, right?

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If a carpenter comes to your

house, you're not going to expect

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them to only bring a hammer.

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You want them to bring a hammer and

a saw and nails and a glue gun and

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a level and all, you know, all the

things that build a table, right?

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So, or in my case, a house.

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So that's how I approach

Chinese metaphysics.

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I have taken the responsibility

of learning different systems and

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different methods and different

perspectives to identify what are the

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best resources to make the results

most effective for my clients.

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Michelle Lasley: Awesome.

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay, so part of the Chinese

metaphysics is Chinese astrology.

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Jillian Rothschild: Yes.

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Michelle Lasley: So, I I'm not that

familiar with Chinese astrology.

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I'm more familiar with, you know, the

Western Greco Roman aspect of things.

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So what is it?

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Jillian Rothschild: Yeah.

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So Chinese astrology is one of

the resources that someone can use

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to understand themselves better.

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It's Chinese astrology is known by the

structure of what the chart looks like.

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It's called the four pillars of destiny.

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So like we had talked about earlier,

when we identify how the year begins,

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every person based on when they're born

and the gender that they were assigned

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at the time of birth is charted out for

a year, a month, a day, and an hour.

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that represents who they are, along

with 10 year luck pillars and it, it

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kind of acts like a guide or a compass,

for lack of a better word that helps

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you understand what your life, sort

of like a map of your life at a 3, 000

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foot view the kinds of, People you are,

your personality, your talents, your

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gifts, your interactions with family

members, with your spouse, with your

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business, with your clients the kinds of

health things that you might encounter.

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And what's great is when you.

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start to understand your chart,

you can start to see any unforeseen

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circumstances that might arise and

some challenges that you might be going

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through so that you can plan accordingly.

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Like my, and I'm not a Western astrologer,

so I'll say this, like my understanding

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is that Western astrology perspective

generates about 500 different charts,

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and the West Chinese astrology generates,

like over 13 million different variations.

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So it means that someone

is extremely unique.

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And most commonly when people hear

about Chinese astrology, they hear about

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the zodiac signs, the animals that you

see on a Chinese restaurant placemat.

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Like you go to the restaurant and,

oh, I was born in the year of the dog.

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Oh, this tells me about myself.

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And actually That's the year of the

dog or the year of the tiger or the

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year of the pig or whatever, and the

rear of the rabbit, whatever it is

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on your placemat that you fit into.

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But actually that's only like

25 percent of the puzzle because

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it's four pillars of destiny.

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So if you're only looking at the year,

you're only getting one little bit.

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So you might actually look at that

little placemat description and go,

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well, sort of, but not really doesn't

kind of fits, but maybe not all the way.

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And it's because it's not a full picture.

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And so That's why I really find

that learn when, when one learns

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one's own chart, you really start

to understand yourself better.

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What things you're really good at, how you

communicate, how you might make decisions.

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And it just is that.

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Nowadays, the way that we most commonly

identify the zodiac is through the

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animal signs, the 12 animal signs,

the rat, the ox, the tiger, the

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rabbit, the dragon, snake, the horse,

goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.

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So that's one component of the chart

is the animal branches or these

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signs, if you will, the zodiac signs,

and then also the five elements.

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So the five elements that are used

in Chinese metaphysics are water,

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wood, fire, earth, and metal.

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And they also have a

yin and yang polarity.

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So it could be a yin fire or a yang

fire or a yang wood or yin wood.

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And all of these have

behaviors and attributes and

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associations and interactions.

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And it's a, it's like a beautiful

thing to take a look at to see why

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something happened in your life,

why it happened at that time.

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And based on your interaction with that

energy in the past, you can get a forecast

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for what you can expect in the future.

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The next time you

interact with that energy.

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Michelle Lasley: I love that in

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Jillian Rothschild: So much there, right?

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Michelle Lasley: yeah,

there's so, so, so much there.

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Gosh.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I was just having a conversation with

somebody and with her work, we were

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talking about basically this growth

to, to aligning with your evolved self.

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So a lot of these traditions that

we know of, whether it's Western

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astrology or you know, if you go to

a Christian church or the Enneagram

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is one of my favorite things.

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It's talking about an evolution

of getting into your highest self.

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So.

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I would imagine there's a big piece to

that in the Chinese astrology piece,

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Jillian Rothschild: Sure.

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Right.

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And one of the things that I love

about Chinese astrology is that it

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acknowledges that everything that

you've experiences, have you that

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have you've experienced in your past

will influence you in the future.

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That is to say, if you go to school

and you learn something, you will

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have absorbed the information and

it will become a resource for you.

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You're never going to be

able to be without it.

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Nobody can take it away from you.

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It will influence the things

that you do in the future.

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That's one piece of it.

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And then you can decide based

on those influences, how you

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want to live in the future.

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What kind of choices

that you want to make.

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One of the really cool things about

Chinese metaphysics is there's

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something called the three locks.

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There's heaven, luck, human

luck, and earth lock heaven.

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Luck is like, Your fate, right?

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When you're born, you can't, you don't get

to decide when you're born, like, you're

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born and you're born into a situation

or a family or a part of the world.

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Like that's just your fate.

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And it's not until you become older

that you can exert your free will and

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go, I don't want to live here anymore.

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I want to live somewhere else.

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I don't like these people

who I grew up with.

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I want to go make other friends, right?

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That's free will.

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And that's really your human luck.

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And then earth luck is

your feng shui, which is.

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The energy of the

physical space around you.

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So the really cool thing about Chinese

astrology is that there is really a

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difference between fate and destiny.

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What is fated is going to come to

you regardless, but you can, with

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your free will adjust your destiny.

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Which is amazing, because if your

chart says, for example, that you

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are going to have a marriage come

in, you can still say no to that.

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Like, you can still say, I've been married

twice before, I'm not going to get married

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the third time, like, I'm not doing this.

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Or, you know, my chart says that

something might change for me,

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maybe I'm going to move, or maybe

I'm going to have a job change.

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And you can decide if that's

something that you want.

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You can, you have free will.

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The other cool thing about it is you

can also take advantage of knowing

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that information in advance and be

the driver of the change instead

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of being at the effect of a change.

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If your chart says, Hey, I'm going

to have a job change and you already

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know that you don't like your job.

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Then you can be looking for a, go

look for something that you want to go

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find something that makes your heart

sing instead of like waiting to get

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laid off and then trying to figure

out what you're going to do that.

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Knowing this information

can be really empowering.

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Michelle Lasley: Oh, I love that.

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Okay.

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So What does this all mean for 2022?

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Jillian Rothschild:

Well, there's two parts.

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One thing to keep in mind is what

the year of the water tiger will

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bring us because we're coming

into the year of the water tiger.

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So we're getting water element

because it's a yang water

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polarity of the water element.

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So that's like the image is

the strength of the ocean, the

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massive waves of the ocean.

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And the tiger carries the element of yang

wood, which is kind of like the imagery

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of a tree oak tree, something that's very

sturdy, something that's extremely strong.

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So they're both really, really strong

elements that we're coming into.

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And in terms of what we can expect,

This is starting to move away from

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time period when there was a strong

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was the year of the yang metal rat.

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In 2021 it was the year

of the Yin metal ox.

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So now we're coming into the yang water

tiger, which is great because metal

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element can often indicate destruction.

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Things breaking down or causing calamity.

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And we've certainly all experienced

that in the last couple of

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years in one form or another.

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And we've seen it prevalent

all over the world.

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And what's nice is that element is

completely missing from the year.

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So if there are conflicts, if there

are people dealing with deep emotions

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that are coming through this wave of

ocean wave coming we're less likely

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to see destruction, which is Great.

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And one of the other aspects of

the Yang Water Tiger, which I'm

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really excited about, is that it's

actually a very special formation.

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The formation of Yang Water

Tiger is known as a pillar.

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So we read it from top to

down top to bottom, Yang water

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on top and the tiger below.

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And this pillar is known

as a spiritual pillar.

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There's only 10 of them and this is one.

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So we're really starting just from that

little bit, we get some information

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about what we can expect in the year.

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If a person has this pillar in their

chart, they are, they could be timid.

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They could be aggressive.

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They could be sensitive.

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They could be relying heavily on intuition

sometimes having an uncompromising

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mindset, like a one track mind.

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And the spiritual aspect is somebody

who's spiritually intelligent, has an

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exceptionally high learning ability.

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Interest in spiritual enlightenment

or spiritual practice and having a

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greater understanding of human emotions.

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That's really exciting to me because.

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I feel like that's definitely been

lacking over the last couple of years.

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And the idea that we will, as we will

all be under the effect of caring

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more about people's emotions, mental

health, emotional health, and seeing

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people being interested in developing

more of a spiritual practice is really

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exciting because we start to, when we do

spiritual practice, we start to go, Oh,

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there must be something bigger in the

world than just me and what's my place

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here and what's my purpose and how can

I do something for the greater good?

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And.

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How can I elevate myself?

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What can I manifest?

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And that is really exciting because

this becomes the starting point

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for a ripple effect that will

happen over the next 12 years.

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So that's one piece of what we can

expect for this particular year.

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And then every year when we talk about

feng shui, People want to talk about

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a system called the flying stars.

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The flying stars is essentially says

that your home or your office is

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affected by annual energetic influences.

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So what are flying stars?

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This is really a system of calculating

how energy moves and behaves.

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Because it works quickly compared

to other feng shui methods.

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It's a very popular system to

talk about for Chinese New Year.

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So what are these stars?

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These stars are unseen energy that

behaves in very distinct ways based

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on the environment that it's in.

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And so when we say stars, Flying

stars, the term fly means they're

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not stagnant, they move and they

keep changing their position.

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And as the name implies, the

annual stars can exert their

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influence only for one year.

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So they become vibrant, they become

really important because they're

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around for a short period of time

and they have a lot of influence.

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Kind of like, When your in laws

come to visit, you want to know when

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they're coming and where they're

going to be staying and what kind

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of behavior you can expect from them

so that you can plan accordingly.

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Same thing with your home.

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This particular year, if anybody's

familiar with feng shui, the position

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of the stars that are visiting for this

year are the same as their home position.

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In something called the low shoe.

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The low shoe indicates the original

position of all the flying stars.

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So essentially, they're

going to their home palaces.

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They're going home.

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And so what does that mean?

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It simply means they're

pretty comfortable.

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They're like hanging

out with good friends.

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They're, assuming that the environment

is supportive to that particular star.

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They're generally on pretty good

behavior, which we like because when

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stars are not on their best behavior,

then they exert negative characteristics.

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And so the flying stars,

there are nine of them.

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The star one and they're there.

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I should say this,

their most common names.

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Are identified by a number

and a characteristic.

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So for example, star one is

known as a noble people star.

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Star two is known as a sickness star.

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Star three is known as an argument star.

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Star four is known for

romance, travel, and education.

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Star five is the misfortune calamity star.

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Star six is the career and authority star.

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Star seven is known as a robbery star.

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Star eight is known as a current

wealth or current money star.

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And star nine is known as

future wealth or future money.

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And so that's the common

way that you'll see them.

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And the thing to do, this is

how I do this in my practice.

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And this is what I recommend to first

thing to do is to identify your own

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life star number or your own life.

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And when you know your life star

number, that particular number

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will also carry within an element.

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If you're not sure how to do this,

on my website there's something

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called a, a BOTSA calculator,

a B A Z I or BAZI calculator.

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And you can put in your birthday

information and you can put in your

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gender assigned at the time of your birth.

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And it'll generate this beautiful Chinese

astrology chart and tell you what your

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life star or your life Gua number is.

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Michelle Lasley: What's

your website really quick.

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Jillian Rothschild: The

website is fsinmotion.

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com.

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And if you're typing

it in, it's fsnmotion.

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com slash B A Z I hyphen calculator.

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That is the, that's the page to

get to the calculator, but it's

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also under the services section.

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So you can just go to fsnmotion.

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com, go to services, and the

calculator is right there.

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And it's free, so you can go in

and you can put your information,

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you get this great little chart.

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And what's kind of cool is you can

just do a little bit of research on

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the, what's called the productive

cycle on the five elements.

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And so knowing your life star number,

you can then choose which of the flying

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stars to hang out with where they're

positioned and what rooms to use and

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what position they're in this year.

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So you can get the energy from that star

to benefit you in a way that's supportive.

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So for example, if I am a Gua

three or a star three person

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that carries the element of wood.

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And so star one carries the

element Of water element.

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And so what that means

is water produces wood.

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So if I'm a Gua three person, I might

want to go hang out where star one is.

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And star one is going to be

located in the north this year.

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So what that gives me

is it gives me resource.

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It helps me feel nourished.

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It helps me with education, helps me with

love and appreciation, the things that

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make me feel good and give me resource.

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The other thing that someone can do is

someone can use their output element.

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Okay.

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So we'll just continue using

star three as an example.

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Gua three or star three is

the same interchangeable term.

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So we know that Gua

three is a wood element.

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If that's my, my, my Gua, my

output, what wood produces, right?

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You take wood, you put it on a

fire and it makes the fire grow.

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So star nine would be fire element star.

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So To my Gua3, star 9 is my output.

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And if I go to the area where star 9

is, it can help me with productivity,

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it can help me with focus, it can

help me with being, I mean, being

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more productive and having output.

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And when I do that, I can make money.

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When I'm productive and I

do stuff, I can make money.

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So this is how you use the Feng

Shui stars to your advantage.

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Michelle Lasley: So many things here.

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Jillian Rothschild: So much

I know there's so much there.

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Michelle Lasley: What do

you mean go to that area?

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Like, are you talking,

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Jillian Rothschild: So the low shoe

is a very specific arrangement of

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energy and the low shoe says that the

star four resides in the southeast,

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star nine resides in the south,

star two resides in the southwest,

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star three resides in the east.

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Star five resides in

the center, if you will.

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Star seven resides in the west.

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Star eight resides in the northeast.

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Star one resides in the north, and

star six resides in the northwest.

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So if I'm a Gua three person and

I want to take advantage of star

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one, I'm going to go spend time

in the North sector of my home.

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Michelle Lasley: Interesting.

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Jillian Rothschild: I'm a Gua three

person and I want to take advantage

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of my output star, which is star nine,

I'm going to spend time in the South,

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which is the home position of that star.

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And that's where it is this year.

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That's how you use that.

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Michelle Lasley: Interesting.

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Interesting.

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So fascinating.

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So you could.

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Theoretically, just rearrange your home

within I mean, probably your kitchen's

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not going to change its position,

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Jillian Rothschild: Yeah, your kitchen's

probably even the changing a kitchen is

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very expensive and usually not something

that we do here in America, although it

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may be a little bit easier for you to

change the position of your bedroom right

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if you have, if you are in a home where

you have more than one bedroom, and the

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bedroom that you're in is With a star that

is not so comfortable for you or things

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are not going as well as you would like

them to go, then you could try sleeping

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in a different room with a different star.

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And the other cool thing about that

Bazi calculator is that when it gives

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you your life star number, it will

also give you your lucky directions.

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So like a more advanced technique

is go, okay, I'm a Gua three person.

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I'm going to go sleep in the

North because it's my resource.

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And.

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The southeast is one

of my lucky directions.

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So then I'm going to turn my

bed so that the head of my bed

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is to the southeast direction.

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So then I get like a twofer.

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It's like I get the sector

and I get a good direction.

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Michelle Lasley: Right, and I

would imagine you could even

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do this on a room level, right?

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So, like, in some houses, like, so our

house, we have 758 livable square feet.

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We live in Portland, Oregon,

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Jillian Rothschild: right

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Michelle Lasley: so, like, our

room is my husband and ours room.

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We're not going to be changing rooms,

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The kid gets his room.

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So, like, you could probably,

like, say he's having some bad

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sleep or school isn't going.

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Like, we could rearrange

his room then to accommodate

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Jillian Rothschild: Yep.

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Yep.

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That's a much more advanced technique,

but it's something that we do as

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practitioners is we can take, we can

take this map, if you will, and we can

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make a microcosm of it or a macrocosm.

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And so we can shrink it for a space.

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And there are some advanced

things that we can do.

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To give somebody something,

something tweak it fine.

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We call it fine tuning to fine

tune something very specific.

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Michelle Lasley: We only have a couple

minutes left, which is, always happens.

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What are some the three to five takeaways

people could use for the next year?

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This, this year of the the yeah.

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Jillian Rothschild: it's

the year of the water tiger.

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So one thing is to avoid

the negative stuff.

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If you can just avoid the negative

stuff, you're automatically

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you're doing really well.

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So the three areas that

are negative this year.

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Our Northeast three, which is

the position of the grand Duke.

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That's the actual position of the

tiger animal sign on the compass.

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And this is the emperor

energy of the year.

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This is the tie sway is the most

important energy of the year.

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And you don't really want to

disturb the emperor star, you don't

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want to upset the emperor star.

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So you don't want to break ground.

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You don't want to renovate.

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You don't want to.

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Just do repairs in that area of your home.

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Just let that area of

your house be real quiet.

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The next is the north.

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The north carries an energy

called the three killings.

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Generally, You don't want to disturb the

three killings and that's in the north.

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So, again, no repairs, no renovations,

no remodeling, no breaking the ground.

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You don't want to do any of that major

stuff in the north sector this year.

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And the opposite of the grand Duke.

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So I said, the grand Duke was in Northeast

three, the grant, the opposite of

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that is the year breaker or the clash.

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Which is the monkey animal sign

in the Southwest three sector.

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So again, no disrupting the

ground, no repairs, no renovations.

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If you could just avoid that,

like just that alone can be really

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helpful just to avoid negative stuff.

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Yeah, so that would be

one thing I would suggest.

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And the other thing I would say is to

do look at your chart and see what your

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animal signs are in your chart, because

if you have a tiger or a monkey You may

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have more change happening this year.

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You may have more surprises if you will.

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Sometimes things are challenging.

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Sometimes things are really great.

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Like people look at their chart and

they go, I have a tiger in my chart.

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It's going to be my year.

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Cause it's the tiger year.

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And it's actually, it's a little bit of a

myth because it's not always so favorable

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for you, depending on the balance

of elements that are in your chart.

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So it's helpful to do things with

caution, make sure that you're being

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safe, that you're not jumping out of

a perfectly good airplane this year.

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Don't do things that are, I would

consider risky, like anything that

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involves signing your life away to

like base jump or to dive out of

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an airplane or motorcycle riding or

anything that I would consider dangerous.

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Those are the two things I would suggest.

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And then in addition to that,

keeping in mind that here in

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America, we have a lot of stuff.

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We are, spaces are typically bigger

than most of the world's spaces.

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Our homes are generally pretty large

and we just have a lot of stuff.

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And the way to allow energy to come in

is to free up space and decluttering

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is talked about a lot, but the

reason for that is because you cannot

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fill a cup that's already full.

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If it's already full, there's

no room for anything else.

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You do need to get to make space.

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And I just recommend that people use

the time before Chinese New Year to

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do deep cleaning dust, pull out behind

couches, find all the cat toys underneath

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the fridge and underneath the stove.

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And, you know, the cats will be so happy.

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Their toys are back.

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Like you'll find things

that you didn't know.

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And.

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To, to give away the things that

you're not using and repair things

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that are broken and make sure that

you're feeling really ready for

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this new energy that's coming.

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Cause it's coming whether

you're ready or not.

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But the more that you can get ready,

the more you can take advantage of it.

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Michelle Lasley: I love how the Chinese

New Year lands right around Imbolc,

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which is or Candlemas, Bridget's Day.

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And so when you're looking at the

Celtic tradition of the wheel of the

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year, it's like the time of dawning.

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So it's kind of like, you know,

you're looking at these awakenings and

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then in the Western astrology, Aries

season happens shortly after that.

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So I'm fascinated with how

these new year traditions.

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There's a lot of overlay.

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Jillian Rothschild: Yes, I mean,

there's 40 different calendars,

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something like 40 different

calendars out there in the world.

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And there's no one right system.

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You just may find that one, one feels like

it resonates with you more than another.

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And for me, it really resonates because

I spent years making resolutions for

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January 1st on a Gregorian calendar,

but really what ends up happening is

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what I learned is we're still working

with the previous year's energy because

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energy hasn't actually shifted yet.

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And so of course my resolutions weren't

getting me anywhere because it was.

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working with the same unfavorable

energy that wasn't helpful

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to me the previous 11 months.

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So why would I think that it

would be different in January?

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Michelle Lasley: Okay.

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We have like a few seconds

left, which is crazy.

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So, where can people find you

and get connected with your work?

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Jillian Rothschild: Oh, thank you.

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Yeah.

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So, again, the business

is feng shui in motion.

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The website is F S in motion.

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com.

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I'm also on LinkedIn,

Instagram, and Facebook.

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Michelle Lasley: Links to those

on your website, I assume.

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Jillian Rothschild: yeah.

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And anybody who's listening to

this, if they want to get some

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more information about Chinese

new year, I will make available

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a free essential guide available.

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And so I don't know if that's

something we can put in the show notes.

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Michelle Lasley: Yes.

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Thanks.

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Awesome.

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Jillian Rothschild: And it's, it's

got lots of the information that

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I've talked about Chinese New Year

and some of the charts and some

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of the ways so you can understand

how to do the feng shui yourself.

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Michelle Lasley: Awesome.

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That would be terrific.

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Jillian, thank you so much for

being here and cruising through

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Chinese New Year and giving us

like an amazing, amazing overview.

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And there's so many places to dig in,

so please contact Jillian, check her

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out on her website, and thank you.

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Jillian Rothschild: Thank you very much.

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Have a great day.

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Michelle Lasley: You too.