Hare today, gone tomorrow? No, much more likely it’ll be hare today, wherever you want tomorrow. Time-limited for a year. It’s an open field of ripening hay, lettuce and carrots lining the pathways to the future and yet some evil is afoot, as some anti-rabbit gods are sharpening their plows-hares. With minimal care they can be cur-tail-ed, so you can be as mad as a March hare for much of the year without forming bad habits, rabbit.

Water Rabbit:
04 Feb 2022 – 03 Feb 2023
04 Feb 1963 – 04 Feb 1964
Metal Rabbit:
04 Feb 2011 – 03 Feb 2012
04 Feb 1951 – 04 Feb 1952
Earth Rabbit:
04 Feb 1999 – 03 Feb 2000
05 Feb 1939 – 04 Feb 1940
Fire Rabbit:
04 Feb 1987 – 03 Feb 1988
05 Feb 1927 – 04 Feb 1928
Wood Rabbit:
04 Feb 1975 – 04 Feb 1976
05 Feb 1915 – 04 Feb 1916

Fortune direction:

North-West

Augmenting your fortune:

Eight Trigram Vases

Lucky number:

Lucky colour:

  Red

  Health

Unwanted lurgies lie dormant in the grasses, as you pass through the year you’ll not want them to cotton-on to your tail. Who wants to be the hare in someone else’s stew? How to avoid them, a sense of humour might help with making sure you remain, as ever, a little fit bunny. Either the buck stops with you, or you are the buck, whatever the case, don’t tempt fate by leaning too hard on the bal-coney.

  Wealth

A 1980s mogul was famous for observing that he saw no reason to spend so much of his own money when he always found other peoples’ lying around. Speaking of lying around, this is not the year to channel flopsy. If you want to be the money bunny, and are aiming for mega-bucks, you’ll need to borrow some help from your partner the rooster who can lend you the Triple Terrace Star at mate’s rates. If you buck-le down you’ll pay it back and then some.

  Love

Lettuce pray, or is it prey? In the game of love the question all rabbits must face this year is, well, just how many hares do you want in your bed? If you’re searching for your honey bunny this year, it looks like the grass might be a little greener in another warren, where they may see you as the great swash-buck-ler. Doe-s it bode well? Yes, abode is good, and also b-bode and c-bode, the year should build to a fine crescen-doe of love.

  Career

Fine as the weather looks out on the calm seas of professional advancement, there is still a chance your plans could be torpe-doe-d. The Heavenly Dog Star seems to have you in his cross-hares as he plots unplanned surprises. These are the unknown unknowns and you may find yourself springing out of a celebratory cake with Donald Rumsfeld. Is that how you want to spend the year? If you see a chance then grabit rabbit.

Guiding hexagram from the Yi-Jing (Book of Changes)

Judgement:
Duration. Success. No blame. Perseverance furthers. It furthers one to have somewhere to go.
Image:
Thunder and wind: the image of Duration. Thus the superior man stands firm and does not change his direction.
The Forest of Changes:
Repeatedly firing tasselled arrows at a falcon, one doesn’t know whether they have hit the mark. If one doubts the divination, how could it remain hidden? One must sacrifice a quartz-eating seabird and then the spirits of detailed clarity will respond: it is beneficial to stay put.
Verdict:
We’ve always been slightly perplexed by the irruption of quartz-eating seabirds into divinatory texts. It’s also puzzling to consider what might ensue were one to shoot a tasselled arrow at a falcon, yet accidentally strike a quartz-eating seabird. Hold your head high and bluff the doubters, they’ll fall by the wayside.

Feng Shui Index 2025 report

Year of the Wood Snake

Sorcerer: Dr James Greenbaum
Sorcerer's apprentice: Susan Zhang
Wand bearer: Forest Chan
Director/Editor: Yukti Vidyarthi
Translation editor: Melanie Ng
Design/Art: Lizzie Lau; Anna Lai; Elva Lau; Patrina Leung; Jon Berkeley
Web development: Paul Ngan; Timothy Wang
Video production: Alexandra Lee; Luna Deng
Thanks to: Sandy Chen Dowling; Ellen Lo
Producer: Liz Patterson

Launched in 1992 as a Chinese New Year card, the CLSA Feng Shui Index is a light-hearted outlook for the Hong Kong market and a well-loved firm tradition. Please note that this guide is not a research report.