Monday, January 23, 2012

Byzantium & the New Year of the Water Dragon

Sailing to Byzantium in the new lunar New Year of the Water Dragon!  Happy New Year of the Water Dragon and many happy returns of the day, visitors, friends and family out there. 

It's going to be an exciting year and a year of prosperity and blessings according to the Chinese lunar zodiac, we are in for it so let the good times roll.

I know. I know.  Christians identify the dragon with the you know who but, the Dragon is the dynamic force of the creative and combines elements of all the other animals in the Chinese zodiac.  I found this out just this morning and had been unaware however; I know that this dynamic symbol of the force of creativity is highly held as the greatest sign particularly to bear (male) children.  It is a bit of anathema if it's a girl born in the year of the Dragon.  :(( 

This year, the Water Dragon also occurs in a 5 Universal Year and according to numerology the 5 year also has a special, creative and masculine arc to it.  I think we can expect very exciting changes in the film industry, breakthroughs in other creative oriented platforms in technology and a strong surge of continued development and prosperity particularly in Asia, China, India, Africa, Brazil and other quickly developing economies of the world but, one need not be a rocket scientist or an astrology analyst to realize that to be the case!

America is undergoing such difficulty, I am not sure what I think the upside of the Year of the Dragon and a 5 Universal Year will hold for us but, I am optimistic.  I was born in a 5 Universal Year so, I am particularly hopeful that this year will be one in which I can introduce myself and my particular brand of artistry to the general public as well as to collectors, curators and others and that, my creative work (there's that word again) will be well received. 

With so many other aspects of astrological interest at play now, I am fortified in my opinion that this is a wonderful although difficult time for so many Americans.  There are a number of interesting trends (Venus will cross the face of the sun later, in the springtime or early summer, which is a rare transit for the planet.  I believe it is auspicious and something to look forward to.  You will probably hear of this when it happens on the news media channels). 

We are in the 2012 year after all and it has with it a lot of expectations of doomsday and other cataclysms.  I have found that from any number of perspectives:  Religious, spiritual, helio-geological, Aztec calendar, psychic (Edgar Cayce predictions) etc. that, the overview does not look calm for the 2012-20-14 year time period. 

We may get the business but the business in a not nice way if the power grid crashes as some authorities are suggesting it may (Dr. Michio Kaku) and that remains to be seen or not seen if we luck out. 

Come what may, Americans, Chinese, wherever you may reside and land or group you may come from, we all need to continue our efforts for peace (an end to wars), brotherhood, love of family, neighbor and animals alike.  

If we can continue and step up our efforts in the all of the above whatever comes our way will be met with grace, love and brotherhood.  When you think of it, these are the essentials that will get us through any hardship on the global, national or personal level.   

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