Feng Shui Your Financial House

A Small Ritual to Kick Off Your Money Right in the New Year

Embrace the potential of 2023 and leave your 2022 money mistakes behind

I have always preferred sunrises to sunsets, the start of journeys to the end, and the prologue of a book to its epilogue.

I am in love with potential, with what lurks over the horizon, with opportunity yet to be spent, with fresh starts and swelling tree buds.

I love the New Year.

While every culture has its tying up of loose ends and cleansing rituals, the Japanese, already big fans of daily ritual cleaning, really go to town for New Year’s. The goal is to enter the year as you wish to live the entire year i.e., debt-free, with a clean house, not working, hanging out with friends and family, and eating lots of mochi.

All of this preparation meant a shit ton of work for the women.

It’s a lot of work to cook three days’ worth of auspicious food so as not to have to toil at New Year’s, not to mention scrubbing the house from top to bottom.