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Aligning with the Universe: Full Moon Insights for January 2025

NASA predicts that the first Full Moon will reach peak illumination on January 13, 2025 and will last three days.

For several years, I have been interested in the movement of the stars and planets around us. In fact, from the moment we come into the light, the planets influence our lives, actions, thoughts, and daily decisions. Our successes or failures are only partly determined by us; the rest is the work of the planets.
If we learn to align with the Universe, we can change the course of our lives. Life flows easily, and obstacles become only detours, allowing us to find our way again without getting lost.

My way of being in tune with the Universe is by honouring the colours of the planets as they move daily. They give me all the energy I need and the guidance in the search for my well-being. If I am well, others around me are well too.

The Moon’s natural colours are white/grey/beige/brown, depending on how we see it, but this January the Moon becomes red/orange due to the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and a particular viewing angle. For the next three days, wearing one of the Moon’s natural colours will help us feel good about ourselves, but the colours that will make a real difference in making us feel even better and going with the flow of the universe are red and orange.

Red and orange are two hot colours for the winter season. Most people tend to wear dark clothes in the winter to be naturally in tune with the gloom, rain, grey skies and shorter days. However, a red pair of shoes with a pair of red gloves and a red hat over a brown or grey coat will brighten any winter day.

To push this idea even further, you can also eat red and orange food for the next three days and decorate your home with some red or orange accessories. Fresh red roses in all rooms will do if you are not into decorating habits. I move my decorative items around and keep the colours I need for my therapy closer to me. To change colours around according to the planets seems like a lot of fuss. I have invested in beauty for a life, it’s my philosophy.

A few years ago, I became a colour therapist and even though I have been in the design business for more than three decades, I feel there is still so much to learn in this field that can help me and others. Ciao,
Valentina
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Valentina Cirasola is an interior-fashion consultant, color therapist, author of 6 published books, a storyteller, and a longtime blogger. Her books are non-fictional practical ideas to apply in the home, fashion, cooking and travel.
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Spotlight: Sally Cronin

Sally Cronin

I met Sally Cronin in the blogosphere, simply by casually checking out bloggers and reading their stories. I liked what I was reading on Sally’s Smorgasbord Blog Magazine and I wanted to be part of her world. “There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t met yet” ~ William Butler Yeats said it, and I made it my philosophy.

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Sally Cronin’s Covers for 2018

In her words Sally says: “After a career in customer, facing roles in the hospitality, retail, advertising, and telecommunications industry, I wrote and published my first book in 1999 called Size Matters, about my weight loss journey, losing 150lbs in 18 months. This was followed by 11 further fiction and non-fiction books, including a number of short story collections. My aim was to create a watering hole on my blog to provide a wide number of topics to chat about…..This year in September 2019, Smorgasbord in its current format, celebrated its 6th anniversary. I cannot take all the credit for the blog as I have an amazing group of contributors who bring their expertise and talent to the weekly line-up.
As important as my own promotion is, I believe it’s important to support others within our community. I offer a number of FREE promotional opportunities on my blog, linked to my social media”

Latest book: Tales from the Irish Garden
Get social with Sally Cronin here: Amazon, Blog, Linkedin, Twitter, MeWe

I congratulate her on the 6th anniversary of the Smorgasbord Blog Magazine and the willingness to share her journey in losing weight, one of the hardest things to do for everyone embarking on this enterprise. Well done Sally.

Aquarius-Pixabay

As a sign of my gratitude for her participation in my book launch, Sally is receiving a color reading based on her zodiac sign. Sally, being an Aquarian, Jan. 20-Feb.18, is a very generous person and has a broad perspective on things that matter. Her element is Air and the ruling planets are Saturn and Uranus. Due to various gas surrounding these two planets, Saturn takes on a beautiful pale yellow with hints of orange and light brown; for the same reason and the addition of other molecules, the planet Uranus takes on a beautiful blue-green color. These are the major colors for Sally, with an immission of turquoise and violet.
Aquarians have an amiable, cheery disposition and abound in social charisma.

On her Smargasboard she featured one of my curious posts about the trick of wine and fennel. I gather she likes to eat in good company and engages in interesting conversations. I envision one of her table settings for “al fresco” dining, conceived with her native colors. Her table will be covered with a pale yellow tablecloth, on top of which I will place turquoise plates and drinking glasses with all her colors. Bronze flatware will be in perfect harmony with the air element of her sign and so are the funky colorful chairs framed with black wood. One of her stones is the black pearl, not a good thing. Instead, I want to give her something to make the “al fresco” dining a real fun experience: turquoise glow in the dark garden pebbles stones made by UNIME, that she can put in all her pots or scatter around a pathway.

Aquarius Dining Colors

I would do this for my home, in fact, I just ordered those glow in the dark pebbles. I hope she likes it.

My book launch will continue for a few days, please allow me a bit of shameless promotion for my new book release of ©RED – A Voyage Into Colors – Second Edition . It happened at the end of last month and a lot of fine authors or artists are helping to take the book on tour.

Red-A Voyage Into Colors-Second Edition

The book is all about colors, color emotions, color vibrations, color atmospheres, color compositions, color analysis and any which way one wants to use them: in design the interior rooms of any space, in fashion, in food, and/or in more mystical ways. Just remember, colors speak a message, your message…
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Valentina

Valentina Cirasola is an interior-fashion designer, author of 5 published books so far, a storyteller, and a blogger of many years. She has conceived a few new books of various subjects to which she is working simultaneously. Her books are non-fictional, practical ideas to apply in the home, fashion, cooking, and travel. She never gives up trying new things and doesn’t fear failure. A couple of years ago, Valentina became a TV producer/host. Valentina Design Universe is the label under which she produces her shows in the studio and online. The goal of her shows is to entertain, inspire and inform, while she is living her passion. Get a copy of her books on
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