Lunar Launch

It’s Lunar a.k.a. Chinese New Year & the start of the 2019 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Pig.

If a polar vortex has you by the cold snap, there is nothing that will warm you up faster than a great celebration and with great timing, we arrive at the Lunar New Year. The perfect way to bring in the spring.

Yah, that’s right, I said SPRING.

Because even though it's more than -30° Celcius (-22° F) outside and the polar chill is gripping, the Lunar New Year celebrations are a fabulous way to warm up to the notion of spring.

Don't worry if you're coming by this blog post later than February 5th. You haven't missed out on the springtime fun. The Lunar New Year, is actually the start of a 15 day long Spring Festival that starts at the first new moon with Lunar/

Chinese New Year and ends on the first full moon with the somewhat infamous and certainly beautiful Lantern Festival. In many asian communities, it's yummy food, frivolity and family celebration for a whole two weeks.

As much as food, family and festivities all play prominent rolls in this long spring festival, Astrology also stakes it's claim. This first moon cycle of the year welcomes a brand new Zodiac sign to influence the celestial waves of the coming year. In 2019, Chinese Astrology welcomes the year of the Pig. An animal that historically was thought of as a sign of wealth and fortune.

So join me this year in celebrating the end of the coldest days, the coming of spring & all of the potential that a new and fortunate year of the pig might have to offer each and everyone of us.

Kung Hei Fat Choy

(Wishing you great happiness and prosperity)

Moe