January 2026 Flying Star Forecast: Close the Old Year Before Li Chun

January 2026 Flying Star Chart

Traditional Luo Shu orientation: South is at the top, North is at the bottom.

AAnnualMMonthlyPPeriod

• Southeast
  Tai Sui
  1A · 一白8M · 八白(8)P · 八白
• South
  6A · 六白4M · 四绿(4)P · 四绿
• Southwest
  8A · 八白6M · 六白(6)P · 六白
• East
  San Sha
  9A · 九紫7M · 七赤(7)P · 七赤
• Center
  2A · 二黑9M · 九紫(9)P · 九紫
• West
  4A · 四绿2M · 二黑(2)P · 二黑
• Northeast
  5A · 五黄3M · 三碧(3)P · 三碧
• North
  7A · 七赤5M · 五黄(5)P · 五黄
• Northwest
  Sui Po
  3A · 三碧1M · 一白(1)P · 一白

Annual disturbance directions for 2025

• Tai Sui (Grand Duke) — 巳 / SE3: 142.5°–157.5°
• Sui Po (Year Breaker) — 亥 / NW3: 322.5°–337.5°
• San Sha (Three Killings) — 甲–卯–乙 / E1–E3: 67.5°–112.5°

These mark cautions for optional drilling, demolition, digging, renovation, and sustained noise. Necessary safety work takes priority.

What matters

January is a closing month, not a reset. Li Chun has not arrived, so the chart still runs on the 2025 annual stars beneath the current monthly layer, making this a poor time to treat the new calendar year as a full fresh start and a good time to close the old one cleanly. The South is the clearest sector for study and formal applications, the Southwest for budgets, operations, and property administration, and the Southeast for patient planning or asset review. The North, Center, and Northeast want more quiet and fewer avoidable disturbances.

The chart rewards finishing, documenting, and preparing rather than over-expanding. Complete applications and paperwork in the South, make practical decisions in the Southwest, and stabilize existing work in the Southeast. In sectors associated with rest and wellbeing, focus on maintenance, rest, and measured communication. Treat any traditional health symbolism as a reminder of ordinary care, never as a medical forecast.

• Wealth and business: Southwest for budgets, operations, and property administration; Southeast for reviewing savings or stabilizing a project.
• Career and noble help: South for credentials, technical writing, and formal applications.
• Relationships and communication: Northwest for brainstorming, research, and outlining the quarter, with final approval held somewhere calmer.
• Study and creativity: South for focused preparation and editing against a standard; West as a calm reading space.
• Health and wellbeing: Center and West favor lighter workloads, rest, and sustainable routines; the Northeast stays settled.
• Home and property: Keep optional drilling, demolition, and noise away from the North, East, Southeast, and Northwest. This month still runs on the 2025 chart: Tai Sui (太岁, the Grand Duke) marks a single 15° mountain in the Southeast, Sui Po (岁破, the Year Breaker) a single 15° mountain in the Northwest, and San Sha (三煞, the Three Killings) the full 45° East sector. Necessary safety work still takes priority.

Southeast — Mixed · Wealth & Business

Period 8 · Annual 1 · Monthly 8

• Best for: Reviewing savings, stabilizing an existing project, and setting a realistic work plan.
• Main risks: Forcing movement before the plan is solid and treating consolidation as expansion.

Consolidation, not launch, is the Southeast's (巽) January work. Period 8 White (八白左辅) and Monthly 8 White repeat the retreating asset star, so this is a place to review savings, stabilize an ongoing project, or agree on what should remain stable rather than pushing for immediate change. Both 8s control Annual 1 White's (一白贪狼) Water, and that Water also drains into the Wood palace, so the year's communication and adaptability are easily dissipated instead of converted into steady progress. Introduce change in manageable stages rather than all at once.

The sector also holds Tai Sui for the still-active 2025 year, so leave optional drilling, demolition, and noise out of it.

South — Favorable · Study & Career

Period 4 · Annual 6 · Monthly 4

• Best for: Study, credentials, technical writing, rules, and formal applications.
• Main risks: Endless polishing and standards hardening into pressure.

If a formal application or a piece of technical writing needs finishing, the South (离) is where to put it. Period 4 Green (四绿文曲) and Monthly 4 Green surround Annual 6 White (六白武曲) in a doubled 4–6 Academic–Authority Pairing (文昌见官), so learning, writing, and formal work are strongly supported: the doubled 4 supplies ideas while 6 asks for standards and a decision. A middle daughter who studies or files paperwork here can bring her own drafts to be tightened against that standard; the pairing supports finishing them, not reopening them.

The pairing is not effortless. Annual 6's Metal controls both 4s, so standards bear down on the writing, and the Fire palace restrains 6 itself, so authority is exercised under pressure rather than from a comfortable position. Stop once the requirements are met instead of endlessly polishing.

Southwest — Favorable · Career & Business

Period 6 · Annual 8 · Monthly 6

• Best for: Budgets, operations, property administration, and turning plans into assigned work.
• Main risks: Mistaking a strong management desk for license to speculate.

Run the budget and the operations from the Southwest (坤), not the speculative pitch. Period 6 White and Monthly 6 White meet Annual 8 White in a doubled 6–8 Same-Palace Pairing (六八同宫), and the Earth palace generates both Metals while matching the 8, so management, assets, administration, and stable execution all have real support here. If the mother or primary caregiver runs household budgets and schedules from this room, it is the right place to assign the work and keep the accounts in order.

Star 8 is retreating in Period 9, so favor sound management over speculative ambition. Use the sector to assign work, set budgets, and manage property; a get-rich-quick move does not fit.

East — Mixed · Business & Security

Period 7 · Annual 9 · Monthly 7

• Best for: A tightly rehearsed presentation and checking claims before they go public.
• Main risks: Heated words or sales pressure, public disagreements, and careless disclosure.

The East (震) carries the chart's loudest pairing this month. Annual 9 Purple (九紫右弼) and both 7 Reds (七赤破军) form the doubled 7–9 Path-Piercing Pairing (七九穿途), and Annual 9's Fire controls 7's Metal, so visibility and persuasion can turn into arguments, unwanted exposure, or financial loss once discussion moves into public view. The Wood palace generates 9's Fire, which keeps the public-facing energy active, but 9's control of 7 means careless wording can become what people remember.

Limit activity in the East to tightly rehearsed presentations, slow down promises, and protect confidential information. The sector also carries San Sha on the active 2025 chart, so keep optional drilling, demolition, and sustained noise away from it.

Center — Caution · Health & Wellbeing

Period 9 · Annual 2 · Monthly 9

• Best for: Clear circulation, sustainable routines, and completing maintenance quietly.
• Main risks: Fatigue, overheating, and treating a full reset as if the caution were cancelled.

Every path in the Luo Shu grid crosses the Center (中宫), and this month that pivot asks for a lighter workload. Annual 2 Black (二黑病符, the Illness Star) sits in the same element as the Earth palace, reinforcing the rest-and-maintenance theme at the chart's core. Both 9 Purples generate 2's Earth, so the timely star feeds the caution rather than cancelling it. Do not assume that the current 9 cancels the year's health-and-fatigue warning.

Keep shared circulation clear, reduce overheating and unnecessary commotion, and make sustainable routines visible. Seek ordinary professional care when needed; feng shui is not treatment.

West — Mixed · Study & Wellbeing

Period 2 · Annual 4 · Monthly 2

• Best for: Calm reading, gentle creative work, and a recovery space.
• Main risks: Spending long hours in a room that rewards rest and neglecting comfort.

A calm reading corner is possible in the West (兑), provided it stays a reading corner. Annual 4 Green brings reading, conversation, and gentle creativity, and its Wood works against both 2s' Earth, easing the heaviness slightly; the Metal palace restrains that Wood in turn, keeping the tone quiet rather than urgent. Period 2 Black and Monthly 2 Black repeat the Illness Star, which favors rest and maintenance over demanding output.

Check comfort and ergonomics, and do not turn it into a long-hours station merely because the atmosphere feels quiet.

Northeast — Caution · Relationships & Conflict

Period 3 · Annual 5 · Monthly 3

• Best for: Written criteria and short, time-boxed decisions when one cannot be avoided.
• Main risks: Fast opinions and disruption reinforcing each other, while improvised fixes create more work.

Keep the Northeast (艮) settled: this is the month's most reinforced caution. Annual 5 Yellow (五黄廉贞), the year's strongest caution star, sits in the same element as the Earth palace, so it is reinforced rather than moderated; Period 3 Jade (三碧禄存) and Monthly 3 Jade control it without erasing it. The doubled 3 also makes fast opinions and arguments more likely, so a small problem can easily become a fight. If the youngest son's desk or bed sits here, keep his consequential conversations out of the room and let written criteria carry whatever decision cannot be avoided.

When a decision must still be made there, use written criteria and separate urgent safety action from optional changes. Avoid improvised repairs that create more work.

North — Caution · Business & Security

Period 5 · Annual 7 · Monthly 5

• Best for: Checking valuables and access, and handling essential repairs safely.
• Main risks: Elective noisy work, emotionally charged bargaining, and loss or exposure.

The North (坎) asks for the most restraint this month. Period 5 Yellow and Monthly 5 Yellow repeat the chart's hardest sha qi star, and both generate Annual 7 Red's Metal, sharpening 7's themes of speech, commerce, and loss. Do not treat the sector as lucky because it looks like a power zone; it rewards quiet, not activation. A middle son who sleeps or works here should keep his valuables and access sorted in the room and take any bargaining conversation elsewhere.

Avoid elective noisy work and emotionally charged bargaining here. Keep valuables and access controls organized, and complete required plumbing, electrical, or safety repairs carefully rather than delaying them for symbolic reasons.

Northwest — Mixed · Study & Creativity

Period 1 · Annual 3 · Monthly 1

• Best for: Brainstorming, research, and outlining the next quarter.
• Main risks: Debate turning competitive and decisions made in the heat of a quick conversation.

Generate ideas in the Northwest (乾); hold the final decision elsewhere. Period 1 White and Monthly 1 White generate Annual 3 Jade's Wood, and the Metal palace supports both 1s, so brainstorming, research, and outlining the next quarter find a natural home here. The 3 also makes debate more competitive, and the Metal palace controls its Wood, so the energy stays sharp but bounded. Collect options in the Northwest, then take final approval somewhere calmer, away from the heat of a quick conversation.

The sector also holds Sui Po on the active 2025 chart, so hold off on optional drilling, demolition, and noise here.