Today is the first day of the year of the Water Rabbit.
My little china rabbit (pictured above) is looking at me as if to say “Yes bitch, and it’s also the first day of the rest of your life, so what are you going to do with it?”
Since I kicked off 2023 with planning, I can confidently state my intentions for this Water Rabbit year, and mostly they centre around learning things.
I will be putting even more energy into my ongoing quest to #BeMoreFrench
I’ve been studying French for some time, and my Franglais now contains a lot less anglais and a lot more Frrrr …. I am still heavily reliant on body language to make myself understood though – the pout and the shrug are my signature moves. To achieve fluency in the French language I need immersion, so this year I will be trying to find ways to get to France more frequently, and to stay there for longer periods of time.
I will also be working on my Chi
Last year I discovered the very engaging and accessible Joey Yap, and implemented a few of his Chinese Metaphysics suggestions.
The little white rabbit that illustrates this post is one example. It lives on my ‘Identity Palace’. This is a shelf on the South wall of my flat that holds all sorts of things that are meaningful to me. They’re all arranged in a higgledy-piggledy-but-pretty configuration that makes me happy whenever I look at it – and it appears to bring me good luck!
Who would have thought that part of my Identity is to be a Kept Woman? I only discovered this interesting fact thanks to my Identity Palace! I set up the little shelf hoping it would bring me gainful employment, but whenever I turn the fairy lights on, my partner gets offers of work, not me! I am quietly proud of how effectively I am channeling auspicious energies to my own (lazy) benefit.Â
I am also reading Mr Yap’s books and learning that my Day Master is actually quite industrious and capable, so this might be the year that I try to live up to that ….
And I am (re)-learning how to DJ
Margot and I used to DJ thirty years ago, playing vinyl, and we always welcomed the help of a strong friend or stranger to haul our record box in and out of venues. But that was thirty years ago, so now I’m getting my head around using nice modern things like USB sticks and phones which have the added benefit of holding a thousand times the number of tracks that you can stuff into a record box.Â
It is massive fun and with any luck will pay off financially as well, because my hope for this Water Rabbit year is that in 2023 I will be able to integrate all these three interests – French, Metaphysics, and DJing – into #GaddingAbout opportunities for me and people of like mind.Â
Here’s hoping this Water Rabbit year is a good one for us all – KUNG HEI FAT CHOI!
