Ask the Animals and They Shall Teach Thee is a STEP BY STEP guide to help you prepare for any New Year by harnessing the energy of Feng Shui and the aspects of the Chinese Zodiac Animals. The guide is full of rituals and advice to start your year off right. This information can be used for the New Year or any time throughout the year to kickstart your energy.

The New Year, whether traditional or Chinese New Year, is a time of new beginnings. It is a time to reduce all that needs to be cleared from your life. It is time to reboot and remember all that is solid and stable. It is the time to manifest and put into motion all that is desired.

In Chinese lore, the Jade Emperor called together the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac to teach mankind lessons to learn from the animals. For eons of time, soothsayers have looked to the animals, stones, and plants for answers. They believe the animals hold the answers from God for their existence. The animals provided food, clothing, and transportation. Signs and metaphors from heaven guide us daily. God speaks to us through the animals. The wind, sky, sun, and moon guide us. Our instincts keep us alive. The oracles learned how to harness the energy of the animals, the earth, and sky to thrive; and so-— can you.

This guide will help you find out which animals you relate to by your birth year and how to begin preparing yourself for the year to come using Feng Shui advice. This book is general information and not specific to any one year.

Some intellectuals have a hard time with the idea of the esoteric realm without scientific proof. Science is a metaphoric actualization of reality to explain life, as is spirituality. The guide to understanding your potential is seeing the science within spirituality and the spirituality within science. The heart may feel the belief but the mind needs proof.

May you believe and harness the energy of the New Year and prosper in health, happiness, and wealth throughout the year.

Mary Shurtleff