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Birthdays! Part II

Today let’s look at some practical applications for celebrating your birthday.  What type of energy do you want to experience on your special day?  Do you want to soar, be lifted high, be away from and above every day routines and chores?  Should it be a yang type of celebration with music and laughter and spirited activities?  Or do you prefer a quietly grounded yin type of ambiance with a few family members or friends to share a simple birthday meal?

If yang is your preference, let the wood or fire element guide you with color choices for décor and dress.  Is someone giving you red roses to vow everlasting passion and devotion?  Are you wearing your striped shirt or flaming red dress?  Create a wood memory, i.e. Tao connection with a new plant – a peace lily, a phalaenopsis, or lucky bamboo.  You could also plant a tree or shrub in your garden to grow with you from birthday to birthday.   

If all this is too much hype, let’s look at some earth options to tone it down.  Yellow flowers will underscore your good wishes for continued good health, and a card with dancing cranes is a symbol for vigor and longevity.  Perhaps you want to be on a nature walk or settle on a sandy beach for a picnic with your best friends. Sitting around a fire in a cozy setting will also give you this earthy feeling of togetherness.   

Metal and water might spark your creative options for finding a private hide-away on a secluded island or a historic point of interest.  Whatever your choice, make sure you feel connected and let the Tao be your guide in creating memories of the present and the past.  A family photograph, taken on your birthday, will anchor this point in time for future Tao connections. 

Metal and water can be instrumental in creating your secret list of wishes to be fulfilled.  Focus on the time span of your personal new year, the next 12 months or moon cycles, in lining up desires or projects.  Let your ideas germinate in the secrecy of the water element and then sprout in the growth cycle of wood. 

For your birthday menu let mother earth guide you to healthful choices from a variety of seasonal produce, mixing a painter’s palette of foods in elemental colors.  A feng shui salad of leafy greens with ripe tomato reds and yellow peppers, mixed with slender disks of summer squash or zucchini, offset with black olives or edible blue flowers, will be visually satisfying and pleasing to the taste buds. 

Unwrapping presents, tissues, foil and ribbons will be your touchy-feely session; a fragrant bouquet of flowers or the scent of burning candles on your birthday cake stimulate your olfactory nerve;  a musical card, playing the chicken dance, will make you bounce, and the tune of “Happy Birthday to You” will joyfully complete your sensory experience.

Enjoy Your Birthday without Too Much Fray
By Planning with Pyramid Feng Shui!