2015 Year of the Wood Sheep Forecast Roundup
The Year of the Wood Sheep or Yi Wei, also known as the year of the Blue Wood Sheep, Green Wood Sheep or Serious Sheep*, will begin on February 4th, 2015.
If you want to go straight to the forecasts please scroll down. If you’d like to read my 2015 feng shui forecast for gardeners click here.
Say goodbye to the soon departing Wood Horse. It pays to be careful when you’re near the rear end of a horse, but now that we are past the last showy clash of the Horse year and the Rat month it feels like we are clear of the hooves. Time to say hello to the Wood Sheep. What’s going to happen?
Even though it’s a bit long, this video might give some background on what’s about to go down.
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The video illustrates the relationship of the Chinese Zodiac animals Horse and Sheep. The glamorously headstrong horses gallop around looking looking important and fast while the sheep simply follow their lead or stare at them from the safety of their herd. Just as there is no I in team there is no I in Sheep. The sheep will do what the horse wants but is wise not to get too close to the horses. The horses don’t like it. You should just sit back and admire them.
One of the common disagreements about the coming year is whether to call 2015 the year of the Sheep or the year of the Goat. I’m going with the Sheep moniker because I really hope this will be a year of people looking to protect and take care of each other. Sheep power comes through their relationship to each other – they group together and follow. They lose power when they are not together. You’ve probably heard the expression “culled from the herd”. This innate stick-together quality of sheep is explained by the Selfish herd theory. This is what selfish herd behavior looks like. The blue dot is a predator, the red dots are the sheep.
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In contrast to the behavior of sheep, goats seem to gather together for the purpose of creating chaos – they are aggressive and destructive. My interpretation of the goat vs. sheep debate is that you can’t really have the yin (sheep) without the yang (goat). I think we will see both types of groups this year; those who join forces to make peace and progress, and those who band together to make war and destruction. If there’s any year to team up it’s got to be 2015. Be sure to know exactly what you’re signing up for before you commit.
But enough of my musings. You’re here to read the forecasts from the experts. I may add other forecasts as they come out so you may want to check back later.
I wish you the best of luck in 2015!
Raymond Lo is a Hong Kong based Feng Shui Master, teacher, author and public speaker. In this year’s forecast he writes about world events and economies, popular culture, five element interactions and health issues.
Edgar Lok Tin Yung is from Melbourne. He writes three different forecasts and explains about the timing of the new year’s arrival.
Richard Ashworth is a well known Feng Shui Master in the UK. I say this selfishly but he hasn’t been writing as much as he used to, darn it. He is still one of the most prolific, curious and compassionate writers out there when it comes to BaZi. He might make you cry. He might make you laugh. Here are his predictions for 2015, followed by his animal by animal forecasts.
- Wool Gathering 2015: The Year of the Wood Sheep. The Year of Gathering.
- On the Year of the Wood Sheep (video)
- Animal Forecast 2015: 1. The Rodent Less Travelled, outlook for Rats in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 2. Ox Stalls – Or Not, outlook for the Ox in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 3.Tiger Feet, outlook for the Tiger in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 4.Rabbiting On, outlook for the Rabbit in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 5.Dragon at the Hub, outlook for the Dragon in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 6. Serpent Uncertainty, outlook for the Snake in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 7. Neigh Sayer, outlook for the Horse in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 8. Wool Gathering, outlook for the Sheep in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 9. Easy Monkey, outlook for the Monkey in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 10. Game Bird, outlook for the Rooster in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 11. Barking Restricted, outlook for the Dog in 2015
- Animal Forecast 2015: 12. A Rasher Time, outlook for the Pig in 2015
You’ll want to read Bernice Low’s entire blog if you are a student of BaZi. If you decide you want to ask her a question it better be clear and specific. She doesn’t have time to try to figure out what you want to know. I can respect that.
Master Paul Ng is based in Canada. He writes about Feng Shui, business and economies, politics, weather and health for 2015. The link below will take you to the animal by animal video predictions on YouTube or to his feng shui predictions.
Susan Levitt is based in San Francisco and studies Tarot, Astrology and Feng Shui. She is able to write from both western and eastern perspectives.
Ken Lai (when you get to the site, click on lecturer profile on the left for a bio)
Ken Lai is a Hong Kong born teacher of Chinese metaphysics. He lives in Minneapolis and writes two blogs, as well as offering in-person or correspondence classes.
Laurent Langlais is a French Feng Shui master practicing in London UK, Paris and Los Angeles.
- Predictions for the Wood Goat year 2015. Part 1: Wood goat, sheep, ram…
- Astrology: predictions for the year of the Wood Goat 2015. Part 2: the world.
- Astrology, predictions for the year of the Wood Goat 2015. Part 3: Your sign.
Sarah McAllister is another UK based Feng Shui master. She is also an urban planner and an author. She writes general forecasts as well as forecasts for each zodiac animal.
Lynda Cook, a student of Joey Yap, is practicing feng shui in the UK. She also blogs about feng shui and bazi.
- Year of the Yin Wood Sheep(or Goat or Ram)
- Chinese Astrology 2015 part 1 (Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat)
- Chinese Astrology 2015 part 2 (Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse)
Lunghu
You’ll notice there is no link above for the mysterious Lunghu. All I know is that he writes a blog called Waking the Dragon. Sometimes he writes about feng shui.
*From Derek Walters The Chinese Astrology Bible, 2008, p.246-247