LIGHT AS AIR: OUR INSPIRATIONS FOR 2021

Over at last, this horrible 2020!

And as every year, when one ends and one starts, I reflect on things past and welcome the challenges of the New Year with the confidence that good times will come. The heavy earth energy, which stands for preserving and protecting, is replaced by the energy of the air which stands for lightness, lightheartedness and movement. Figuratively speaking, you could say that our castles will be replaced by campers. For as observed, in and throughout 2020, the demand for mobile homes has been facing an unexpected increase. This energy will also manifest itself in our living environment: lightness, flexibility, unconventionality will be the keywords as of now!

Here is what the astrologer Monica Kissling says about the new start in January 2021: TIME FOR A NEW VISION
A New Year and hence, a new era: the planets Jupiter and Saturn opened the doors at the beginning of this “air period”, in the astrologically speaking visionary sign of Aquarius. The heaviness of the earth times may now give way to a lighter energy. Transposed to our homes, this means more “air” is needed, through and with objects that radiate lightness and brightness as well as with flexible elements that can be combined in ever so many ways. In addition, in January, the eccentric Uranus stimulates your keenness to experiment and makes you want to change things. An ideal month for brainstorming, so: start looking for new room and lighting concepts as of today.

In 2021, digitalization (a sign of air energy) will influence our homes even more. Apps will control lights, energy consumption and even fridge contents, possibly giving us more flexibility in everyday life. Furniture will become more mobile and thus more flexible, materials and colours will become lighter and easier to deal with. So: what is your vision for your home in 2021? More flexibility, for when guests can be invited again in order to celebrate get-togethers once more? More lightness and thus more mobility in your four walls? Or could you be considering… buying a mobile home and opt for unconventional travels?

BRING LIGHTNESS INTO YOUR HOME!

How and where to start?
All that seems to float, now feels light or implies ‘airiness’ and will be supportive for future quality time and lead you to more lightness. Dark colours will progressively be replaced by light air colours: sky blue grays, cloudy gray-white, horizon jade green, daybreak pinks, sky gray blue. Bring lightness into your surroundings with ‘light-as-air’ items: floating lights, flying armchairs, feather-light artwork. Go for flexible furniture and sofa landscapes to be as mobile as possible in everyday life and install the next app on your mobile phone in order to control the lights more comfortably whilst relaxing in your new swivel chair….

Link to the 2021 monthly lookout by Monica Kissling