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Breathe in the Energy of the Winter Water Full Moon

December 28th, 2012

Remember to do your Taoist full moon breathing tonight. It’s best to breathe in the the energy of the moon while standing barefoot on the ground.  But even in many normally warm places like southern California, it’s chilly and damp on a late December evening. If you are in a concrete city like New York [...]

Our Taoist Roots

December 12th, 2012

A reminder as we approach the last season of the year, the Water Element season … The roots of Mien Shiang are in Taoism, an ancient philosophy based on the premise that everything is in a constant state of change. The roots of Taoism are in Yin and Yang, the belief that everything within the [...]

The Tao of Einstein

December 1st, 2012

This morning I came across some of Albert Einstein‘s quotes and realized that in each quote he seemed to be speaking directly to or about a particular Five Element  personality type. What do you think? “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” Something for Metal perfectionists to consider. “Strive not to [...]

Five Element Halloween Costumes – Fun!

October 31st, 2012

We thought we would share some Halloween costumes that match each of the Five Element personality types of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Feel free to send us your Five Element influenced costumes!  

Be In Our New Taoist Face Reading Book!

October 29th, 2012

The writing of our new book Putting Your Best Face Forward is almost finished. What we want now are great photographs to show off your beautiful faces. We want to unite our Mien Shiang (Facial Diagnosis & Face Reading) and our Taoist Five Element online communities, and we thought having a contest would be a [...]

Taoist Metal Full Moon : Look Within for What’s Essential

October 29th, 2012

Tonight is the Hunter’s Moon. We are leaving the Earth season of abundance and gathering, and beginning the Metal season of paring away what is unnecessary. Think of the cool air of Metal and autumn, how clean and crisp it feels on our skin and how refreshed we feel when we breathe it in. It’s [...]

Vice Presidential Debates : Take (another) Look at the Candidates’ Faces : Biden : Romney

October 11th, 2012

Take another look at the candidates for Vice President, Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan in time for the debates tonight. That’s if you’re on the west coast. Those of you on the east coast and in between will have to come in with your cheat sheets late as I was unable to [...]

Candidates’ Face Reading Cheat Sheet for the Presidential Debates : Pres. Barack Obama & Gov. Mitt Romney

October 2nd, 2012

While you watch the Presidential Debate on TV Wednesday evening, take a look, again, at the face readings that we posted a couple weeks ago of President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.

Reading Vice President Joe Biden’s Face

September 24th, 2012

Today’s reading of Vice President Joe Biden completes our follow-up readings prompted by our contributing to Laurie Nadel’s Huffington Post article of a couple weeks ago, What the Candidates’ Faces Reveal. Once again, let me remind you that when you read someone’s face you do not know why they make the choices they make, what [...]

Reading Paul Ryan’s Face

September 18th, 2012

Last week we posted more complete face readings of President Obama and Governor Romney as a follow up to Laurie Nadel’s Huffington Post article What The Candidates’ Faces Reveal where she asked me to tell her some of what I saw in the faces of each of the primary presidential and vice presidential candidates. Today [...]