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Annual cures vs permanent fixes.

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Most cures in a home are decided once and left alone. A small number get reset at the start of the solar year. This page is the rule that tells you which is which, and it assumes you have already met the visiting stars on the Flying Stars, BTB and timing page (the Li Chun, "start of spring", rotation lives there).

The decision rule is short. Most cures stay. Two corners are checked each year. That is it.

What stays year-round

Anything solving a structural feature of the home stays put. A mirror that softens a long hallway stays. A plant that marks the southeast sector stays. A heavy piece on a missing corner stays. These are Form-school moves, and the building does not change in February.

Anything solving an element imbalance in a room also stays. The Earth cure on the bedside that settles a bedroom for rest stays. The Wood bridge between stove and sink in the kitchen stays. The warm lamp in the living room stays. These were chosen by reading the room, and they hold until the room itself changes use. The room-by-room logic lives on the element cures, room by room page.

Run the six levers and you can see why these settle once. PLACEMENT is fixed by the room. PROPORTION is fixed by the room's size. VISIBILITY is fixed by where you sit, sleep, or cook. ROOM USE is fixed by what the room is for. None of these four levers care what year it is. The vocabulary for naming corners and sectors sits on the bagua page, and the room read itself sits on the read-any-room page.

What rotates each year

There is one layer that does change. Around 4 February each year, the visiting stars move in the Flying Stars system. Two corners are checked each year. The corner holding the year's 5 Yellow, and the corner holding the year's 2 Black. Each year they sit in a new palace, and the small metal object for the year moves with them.

The traditional move is modest. A small metal object placed in each of those two palaces for the year. The 5 Yellow corner in particular is the one to keep functionally calm: no major renovation, no loud building work, no heavy digging there while the year runs. The 2 Black corner takes the same metal cure for a lighter, mostly health-related caution. That is the whole annual layer for most homes.

Now run the six levers on this annual move. ELEMENT is metal, because 2 Black and 5 Yellow are both earth stars and metal drains earth via the productive cycle (earth produces metal, so metal weakens earth by drawing energy off rather than confronting it). PLACEMENT is the specific palace each star is sitting in that year. TIMING is the lever doing the real work here, which is why this is the one place an annual calendar matters. PROPORTION stays small, a single object, not a metal-heavy redecoration of the corner. VISIBILITY and ROOM USE still apply: the metal object sits where the household sees it, and it does not block how the room is actually used. Treat this as one quiet adjustment, not a season's project.

How to decide

Three questions, in order.

One. Is this fix solving a structural feature of the home, a missing corner, a long hallway, a sharp edge? Then it stays.

Two. Is this fix solving an element imbalance from the room read? Then it stays until the room's use changes.

Three. Is this fix solving an annual visiting-star position? Then it rotates each Li Chun.

That is the whole rule. Most cures in your home will answer yes to question one or question two, which is why most cures stay. The third question is what the annual layer is for, and it is smaller than most readers expect. The cure families that tend to carry these jobs are light, sound, water, living plants, colour, and the optional symbolic objects. They are mapped on the cure families page. The underlying idea, that a cure is a change with a purpose, sits on the opening page of this cluster.

Where readers track the annual rotation

The two annual corners move each year, so the easiest way to keep up is a year-by-year reference. Many readers track that with the 2026 Annual Feng Shui Planner, which simply names which palace holds 5 Yellow and 2 Black for the year. The rest of your home stays as it was.

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