2023 Flying Stars: How to Enhance Your Feng Shui

Yin Water Rabbit Is Almost Here

The annual flying stars for 2023 will take effect from February 4, 2023 through February 3, 2024, ushering in the gentle, compassionate energy of the Yin Water Rabbit.  This shift from the Yang Water Tiger’s bold, face-paced, unpredictable, pounce first, ask questions later energy of 2022 is a welcome change. 

Yin Water is like a fine nurturing mist or gentle rain that supports us to grow and reach our full potential. It represents intelligence, an open mind, creativity, patience, compromise, intuition, compassion, and transformation. The Rabbit is Yin Wood, gentle, sensitive to the world around it and wants to create a peaceful environment that supports growth and development.

When Yin Water combines with the Rabbit, we can expect a gentle, conservative, and compassionate energy filled with extreme clarity of thought, acute intelligence, and a deep pull of creativity.  It will connect us on a human level again, keep us open to others’ ideas, optimistic for the future and willing to take on new challenges with grace.

Flying Stars is a Feng Shui method used to calculate the energy for the year and predict how the chi will interact within your space.  Energy is always moving and changing, however the biggest shift that can affect your home happens annually.  It’s important to review how the Flying Stars will impact your space and prepare to balance this energy shift in your favor.

Below, I’ve mapped the 2023 Feng Shui Flying Stars up against the Bagua so you can see how the 2 sets of energies will interact and where in your home over this next year.

Auspicious Flying Stars In 2023

• Flying Star 1 in the SouthWest– associated with the water element and holds energy for future prosperity. The energy of the 1 star is good for long-term investments success, studying, creativity, intuition, long-term business relationships, growth in long-term personal relationships and brings clarity and direction to your personal goals and career aspirations. The SouthWest area of the Bagua represents Love and Relationships and the earth element. Both of the energies are positive and interact well together. Enhance with Yang Energy: to bring out the fullest of these aspects in the SouthWest all you need to do is use this space creating yang energy. Spend time here, studying, meditating, exercising, watching TV, listening to music, really anything that uses the space will bring forward both of these great energy pools.
• Flying Star 4 in the Center– associated with the wood element and holds energy for academics, travel and romance. This energy can bring assistance with creativity, writing, academic success, helpful people and that special someone to share your life with. The Center of the Bagua represents Health and earth element. Balance with Fire Element: wood controls earth which could negatively impact your health. In order to balance these energies, bring in the fire element by lighting a candle, using a a fireplace located here, keeping the space bright, adding a new floor lamp or using any decor that has a pointy or angular shape as fire is represented by a triangle. Using red, orange, deep purple or pink color is another great way to balance the energy with the fire element.
• Flying Star 6 in the West– associated with the metal element and holds energy for career development, leadership skills, power, authority and can bring in some unexpected wealth too. The West area of the Bagua represents Children and Creativity and the metal element as well. Enhance with Earth Element: if you are looking to pull in any of these types of energies, then adding the earth element supports the metal element of both the Flying Star 6 and the Bagua West sector. Adding items with the earth shape (square or rectangular), material (stone, porcelain, ceramic, concrete, crystals) or color (beige, tan, light brown, yellow, terra cotta) are easy to find and great additions to any space.
• Flying Star 8 in the South– associated with the earth element and is a great wealth star. The 8 Flying Star brings prosperity, generational wealth, nobility, steady growth and successful children. The South area of the Bagua represents Fame and Reputation and the fire element. Enhance with Fire Element: fire supports earth, hence adding the fire element supports both the Flying Star and Bagua energies. Fire needs wood for fuel which is plentiful in 2023 as wood is the dominate element of the Yin Water Rabbit. The energy in the South sector of you home will be very powerful this year. Use it to your benefit and enjoy the rewards it brings.
• Flying Star 9 in the North– associated with the fire element and is another wealth star that also brings fame, new opportunities, achievements, promotions, passion and helps you get projects to a successful finish. The North area of the Bagua represents Career and the water element. Enhance with Yang Energy: what do you get when fire and water come together?…STEAM! With steam you can power a locomotive that can be the catalyst for change you’ve been waiting for. If you have something big you want to pull into your life, this powerful and dynamic energy area of your home in 2023 should be fully utilized. Bring in the yang energy to activate this space. Open up the curtains and windows that face North to bring in that great energy. Use the room as often as you can especially for manifesting your goals. Journal and meditate in this area of your home. Add a healthy plant or fresh flowers (make sure to change the water every other day) for some additional yang energy. Flying Star 9 is also know as a “multiplier” so positive energy only here…keep the negative thoughts OUT of this part of your home.

Affliction Flying Stars In 2023

• Flying Star 2 in the East: known as the sickness star and is associated with the earth element. It’s know to bring injuries, accidents and health issues. The East area of the Bagua represents Family and New Beginnings and the wood element. Balance with Metal Element: by adding metal it exhausts the earth energy of the bad 2 flying star. The wood energy of the Bagua Family and New Beginnings will stay strong this way, especially since wood is the dominate energy of the Yin Water Rabbit to further keep it in flow. This is an important area to address, especially if your front door or garage entry door faces East. Add metal, the heavier the better. The shape of metal is round, oval or domed. Trading out a rectangular doormat for an oval one is a great way to add metal to a front door facing East. Use decor items that are made of metal materials or have a white, gold, bronze or gray color which represents metal. The numbers for metal are 6 and 7. I like to use a 6 rod metal wind chime or tape 6 coins in a row using clear tape and place them under a rug in this area.
• Flying Star 3 in the SouthEast: a milder affliction star that can bring disputes, irritation, quarrelling and is associated with the wood element. Flying Star 3 is not all bad, as it carries good progressive energy, positive developments and can be entrepreneurial as well. The SouthEast are of the Bagua represents Wealth and Prosperity and also the wood element. Balance with Fire Element: both of these energies are wood and the dominate energy for 2023 is wood, so you could see the energy become off balance in this sector. If you are feeling more irritable, frustrated or even combative, you may want to light a candle in this sector and chill. Another great way to counter this abundance of wood energy is to add some red, pink or purple fresh flowers in a vase of water. Just ensure that you change the water every other day to keep it fresh.
• Flying Star 5 in the NorthWest: the strongest of the affliction stars that brings misfortune, bad luck and is associated with the earth element. The NorthWest area of the Bagua is associated with the metal element and represents Travel and Helpful People. Balance with Metal Element: by adding metal we enhance the good energy of the Bagua and exhaust the bad energy of the Flying Star 5. Adding items with the metal shape (round, oval, dome), material (bronze, gold, silver, pewter, brass) or color (white, light gray, gray) are easy to find and great ways to neutralize this bad energy. In addition, I’d suggest ringing a bell in this area every couple of days especially if you notice bad luck popping up.
• Flying Star 7 in the NorthEast: another milder affliction star that can bring conflict, gossip, misunderstandings, theft, financial issues and is associated with the metal element. The NorthEast area of the Bagua is associated with the earth element and symbolizes Knowledge and Self-Cultivation which will need to be activated in some other area because this part of the home is off-limits in 2023. Balance with Yin Energy: unfortunately, there is no good way to enhance the good energy without enhancing the bad at the same time. Limiting use of this area brings a yin quality that helps keep the negative flow to a minimum. Review what you use this part of your home for and try to move some of those activities to other parts of the home. For example, last year this area of my home was where I kept the medicine, band-aids, and other items that are used regularly. I moved them to another cabinet to decrease the flow of energy to that space.

3 Pieces of Advice

Preparing your home for this energy shift may seem daunting, but it should be exciting. Keep in mind these 3 pieces of advice and enjoy shifting the energy of your home to support you.

One small positive change in a room can shift the energy of the whole space.

Use and move what you already have to enhance the energy in your home.

Focus on 1 or 2 areas to address and then feel the shift before doing more.

Everything is energy and when we support our homes, our homes support us. In fact, the energy that 2023 brings is ushering us into a self-care moment. It’s time to reflect, rest and renew our energy. Tune into our gut, narrow our focus and plant the seed for what we really want in our lives so that it can begin to take root and flourish. Everything we desire is in us, as long as we approach it with kindness and confidence.