Placing your Christmas tree and decorations in December 2025
Are you prepared for 2026 – The year of the Yang Fire Horse?
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During the build-up to Christmas, I like to decorate the inside and outside of my home and will be putting my decorations up earlier than normal this year as I like to think it spreads cheer to people walking by. This year will be another special one in our house, as our son will be coming up to three years old, and has been so excited with the build up to Christmas this year, making it extra special for us; we Also have our puppy who will be keen to pull all of the decorations from the bottom of the Christmas tree (something we recently discovered in puppy class, when they set out a tree to prepare for this)!
I always get the feeling that Christmas and New Year are just around the corner as soon as we launch the Chinese New Year Annual updates, and now that the annual updates are live on the site, it feels like I have another month to start preparing, when in reality, Christmas Day is exactly four weeks away from writing this article.
I’m always amazed at how shops waste no time loading their Christmas collections onto the shelves the moment Halloween is over. Every year, I seem to end up with more decorations for the house despite my annual promise that we won’t be getting any more decorations. Each year, the cycle continues when Christmas comes around again, and we go to the garden near our home to see what they’ve got on display. That said, I’ve become a lot better at staying organised compared to previous years, and Jess is already planning everything out in her head. It’s a reminder of how important it is to prepare early for significant events. With the Chinese New Year falling a bit later in 2026 (17th of February), it gives us a bit of time to relax before the next celebration.
This year, I’ve decided to get started on my Chinese New Year early and will be going through my home and office and getting a head start on cleaning before the 4th of February (solar), when I will be placing my 2026 Cures and Enhancers.
We have spent many months working on all of the updates, and after many late nights, it is a great feeling to click the publish button and get everything live. I really hope that you enjoy reading the articles as much as we did writing them.
It seems like we say this every year, but this really is our best-ever annual cures kit, which offers even greater discounts and now features our new Feng Shui software. For the past 27 years, we have put together a valuable Feng Shui kit that everyone should use to protect themselves from negative energy and enhance positive energy for an outstanding 2026. The 2026 cures and enhancers help to enhance and protect different aspects of your life for the occupants of your home and office, ensuring that the auspicious stars are activated and the inauspicious are weakened to avoid issues.
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2026 Chinese Animal predictions
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f you have a good understanding of the twelve animals, you may have heard of the curse of the Fire Horse, and while there is some truth to this, I suggest taking it with a pinch of salt, as there are many ways that we can all use the Fire Horse’s influence to our advantage during 2026. For all of the twelve animals, 2026 will certainly come with particular challenges for all of us, any nobody will be exempt from this. What will determine our year ahead is our choice to remain active and not become dormant in any areas of our lives.
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2026 Annual Flying Star analysis
The annual Flying stars will change on the 4th of February 2026, and the influence of these stars will mostly depend on the layout of your home. In 2026, we will have the annual 5 star in the south along with Tai Sui, which can cause a lot of issues when activated this year. In the north, we will have the Three Killings, and in the south, we will have Sui Po. This area will need to be kept calm throughout the year.
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Avoid the wrath of Tai Sui, Grand Duke in 2026
Every year, as Chinese New Year approaches, we face a long list of tasks to tackle throughout our home, office, workspace, shop, and garden. It can feel overwhelming at first glance, but once everything is done, you’ll often notice the energy shifting for the better surprisingly quickly. The location of the annual Flying stars is changing on 4th February 2026 around every building in the world and with regard to the annual afflictions this year, they will be concentrated in two compass sectors, making the north and south the most important areas of your home and business to keep settled throughout the year.
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World time converter for Chinese New Year 2026
Chinese New Year (according to the lunar calendar) starts on the 17th February 2026 and is hugely celebrated worldwide by the Chinese. The Chinese New Year heralds’ new beginnings and a fresh start for all. On a social level, Chinese New Year is very much a family event and is a time of reunion, forgiveness, sharing and thanksgiving with festivities.
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Red envelopes (Ang Pow, laisee, lai see, hung bao) all you need to know.
A red envelope, or ang pow, stirs up excitement, anticipation, and gratitude among children and unmarried adults throughout China and other Asian countries, especially during weddings, birthdays, and, most notably, Chinese New Year! Traditionally, receiving an ang pow means being gifted money from family members or close family friends—an eagerly awaited surprise for recipients of all ages. These envelopes are often adorned with vibrant red and gold, symbolising luck and prosperity, while also believed to ward off negative energies and protect against evil spirits.
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Protect yourself in 2026, Chinese Talismans, couplets & Kitchen God
Two longstanding charms used all over Asia in the workplace, shops, and homes all around the year are the Chinese New Year talisman couplets and the kitchen god plaque. In modern times, due to their good nature, people around the globe place the couplets and kitchen god on walls and the kitchen stove or cooker extractor fans. These couplets and kitchen god charms are usually printed or painted on red paper with black ink. Red is associated with luck around Chinese New Year and has another meaning which I will go into more detail below.
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Chinese New Year 2026. Everything you will ever need to know
Chinese New Year will begin with the new moon, and is based on the Lunar calendar. In 2026 this falls on the 17th February. Lunar Chinese New Year is a day of celebration, a chance for family and friends to gather worldwide to welcome in the new year. Grand traditional celebrations often include delicious food and drinks, vibrant colours from flowers and other decorations, fireworks, elaborate dragon processions and the giving of those lucky red Ang Pow’s.
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Christmas 2025
Christmas is my favourite time of year, especially now that my son is becoming more and more involved in the preparations and is appreciating the decorations and lights, but can these bright red, green, gold, and many other colours have an effect from a Feng Shui point of view? The simple answer is yes. It can have a massive impact if the decorations are placed in the right or wrong area.
The placement of Christmas trees and candles this year is written based on the Annual and Monthly Flying Stars for December to help you choose the best spot for your tree, lights, ornaments, and any other festive decorations you might put up. If you find that you can’t move the tree or decorations to an ideal location this year, please do not worry, as there are steps you can take to help balance the energies.
Sadly, we cannot provide good and bad areas for everyone’s home based on their floor plan, as it would require a lot of work to read the charts and floor plans and would fall in line with a home consultation, which can cost a lot of money. The cheaper and easier option if you want to know everything about your home or office with regards to Feng Shui is to take a look at the Academy of Feng Shui Software, which can read all of your charts and give you advice for your home with the fixed, annual and monthly Flying Stars and keep you prepared for 2026.
Please read below for a more detailed synopsis of the Feng Shui effects of tinsel, the Christmas tree, flashing lights and everything else that goes with the Christmas decorations…
But I only have the decorations up for a few weeks; surely the Feng Shui effect won’t be that serious?
We only have our Christmas decorations up around our home and office for a few weeks each year, but all those vibrant colours, shapes, flashing lights, and their impact on the Five Elements can have either a positive or negative influence on your space. Fortunately, any potential issues caused by the decorations can be minimised or entirely avoided by following the guidance provided below for Christmas 2025.
How do Christmas trees affect the home or office?
Real Christmas trees carry a wood element, although, as the tree has been cut down, the strength of this element is lessened, as the wood is no longer living. Christmas trees also tend to generate a lot of Yang energy due to their bright colours and flashing lights. Their shape, often triangular, is associated with the fire element, which can have either a positive or negative impact depending on its placement, as dictated by the productive and weakening cycles.
These days, Christmas trees come in all shapes, sizes, and materials—ranging from real trees to plastic ones with metal frames and even fabric alternatives. To help you make the most of your festive decorations, we’ve simplified the process of determining the best and worst places to position your Christmas tree for December 2025.
The best locations for a Christmas tree during December 2025 with regard to the annual and monthly flying stars would be in the east (best) and west. The average areas to place your tree this month are the southeast and southwest, although care will be needed in these areas.
If you have no option but to place your tree in one of the areas that aren’t recommended this year, you can still balance this area by using the recommended colours and elements to decorate the tree and area around it.
The compass sectors for where you should and shouldn’t place Christmas decorations will also apply to outdoor decorations, although the further away the decorations are from your home, the less impact they will have on the Flying Stars. For example, a giant red Santa Claus in the front garden, around 10 metres away, would have a significantly smaller effect than if it were placed right by the front door.
The areas to avoid ideally when placing your Christmas tree in December 2025, with regard to the annual and monthly flying stars, would be in the northeast, south and north of a room or building.
Please remember that there is always a solution if you cannot avoid placing Christmas decorations in a certain area of your home.
Why should you avoid placing Christmas trees in these areas?
A Christmas tree has strong energy regardless of whether it is real or artificial; the shape of the tree is associated with the fire element as it is triangle-shaped; its colour is associated with the wood element as it is traditionally green, although some people do use silver, gold and even pink trees nowadays. With the shape and lights of a Christmas tree, the recommendations are based on a traditional-looking Christmas tree bearing fire energy for December 2025.
Any flashing lights are classed as yang qi, and the fire energy from the tree will have a negative effect on the northeast, south and north and can cause problems during December 2025.
Think about the times you have heard of family arguments around Christmas time. This may seem like just a part of the stress during the build-up to Christmas and such a small effect, but sometimes the smallest things can be the catalyst to major disasters, so please take this information seriously.
Do candles have an effect on my home?
The large candles placed at the centre of the table on Christmas Day and the warm flicker of flames on the fireplace are some of the most cherished traditions of the festive season. However, it’s important to be mindful when positioning candles during Christmas, as their effects can be quite potent. Improper placement could lead to issues such as loss of wealth, accidents, relationship problems, and more. To help you make the most of this tradition, here are the areas to enhance, weaken, and avoid when placing candles during the Christmas period in December 2025.
North – Not a good area for candles in December 2025. If you have to have candles here, have a battery-powered LED candle, with a neutral blue coloured candle.
Northeast – Not a good area for candles in December 2025. If you have to have candles here, have a battery-powered LED candle, with a neutral metal coloured candle.
East – A fantastic area for candles in December 2025.
Southeast – An average area for candles in December 2025. If you place candles here, try to stick with battery-powered candles or if using real candles, make sure you have the annual star appeased or introduce metal here to balance the fire.
South – Not a good area for candles in December 2025. If you have to have candles here, have a battery-powered LED candle, with a neutral metal coloured candle.
Southwest – This is an average location for candles, as this will enhance the annual star, although this will have a negative impact on the monthly #7 star. If you have to use candles here, try to use battery candles.
West – A fantastic area for candles in December 2025.
Northwest – Avoid candles here during December 2025, as we have the monthly #5 here.
Centre – Not a good area for candles in December 2025. If you have to have candles here, have a battery-powered LED candle, with a neutral metal coloured candle.
If you have no choice but to place your Christmas tree and decorations in the bad areas listed above, just try to avoid too many fire colours, such as shades of reds and oranges.
Based on the recommendations above, I will put our Christmas tree in the west, as this is the most practical area for our home this year.
Will my head fall off if I put red tinsel up in the south or northeast in December 2025?
Putting Christmas decorations up in a particular area of your home that is not suited will not have a major effect on the Feng Shui of your home, although it is still a good idea to avoid placing decorations like Christmas trees with flashing lights or any other Christmas activity that creates movement, noise or vibration in the areas that I have above. If you wish to get more involved in researching the flying stars in your home, I would strongly recommend using the floor planner section of our Academy of Feng Shui software to find your personal best directions for your property.
What colours can I use in each area?
The main Colours used in Christmas decorations are silver, gold, red, orange, green, and white. Below, you will find a list of what colours you can use in each area of your home or office with regard to the annual and monthly Feng Shui flying stars.
Please note that the colours may slightly differ from the recommendations in the December 2025 Flying star article, as I have written this with the best colours to use, and also the colours that you can get away with when placing decorations. Some of the colours recommended below aren’t the best choices for the month, although I’ve selected the least harmful. Please try to appease the Flying stars for December, especially if the colours you are using aren’t recommended in the Flying star article for the month.
North – Blue, black, grey, green.
Northeast – White, silver, gold, copper, bronze.
East- Red, orange, burgundy, purple, pink, lilac, green (sparingly).
Southeast –Red, orange, burgundy, purple, pink, lilac, green (sparingly), white (sparingly), silver (sparingly), gold (sparingly), copper (sparingly), bronze (sparingly).
South – White, silver, gold, copper, bronze, blue (sparingly), black (sparingly), grey (sparingly).
Southwest – Red, orange, burgundy, purple, pink, lilac, green.
West – Red, orange, burgundy, purple, pink, lilac, white, silver, gold, copper, bronze.
Northwest – White, silver, gold, copper, bronze, brown, terracotta, beige, yellow.
Centre –White, silver, gold, copper, bronze, brown, terracotta, beige, yellow, blue.
Make the most of December 2025
In December 2025, the east, southeast and centre are very auspicious, and it is advised to place a lottery ticket in the east, southeast and centre as you will greatly increase your chances of winning. The lottery ticket below was created with our Feng Shui software with an individual’s own unique Min Gua lottery numbers taken from your birth date and just by placing it in the east, southeast and centre can increase the chances of a win tremendously.
Please remember, regardless of whether you are in the northern or southern hemisphere, this applies to trees, tinsel, candles, bright nativity displays, and anything that will activate the Qi in your opinion. The perfect solution to everything that I have written about above would be to make sure that you have prepared yourself for 2026, the year of the Yang Fire Horse. We have written a series of pages filled with valuable advice about how to prepare yourself for the Chinese New Year and all the 2026 Feng Shui Cures that you can place to make 2026 a much better year for you.
Please follow the links below if you want to learn more about Chinese New Year 2026.
From everyone at the Feng Shui Store, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous and healthy New Year!
Are you prepared for 2026 – The year of the Yang Fire Horse?
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