The 15 day long Chinese Lunar New Year festivities will draw to a close, with the Annual Lantern Festival - Yuanxiao Festival - heralding the first Full Moon of the Chinese New Year, in the Year of the Horse.
Read moreCULTURAL CUSTOMS :: 3rd LUNAR DAY
Have you had your fortune divined this year? Well today is the third lunar day and it’s the traditional day to consult the heavens. But what does a dog, a mouse, a red mouth, a wedding and staying in have to do with the third lunar day of the Spring Festival? Perplexed? I’ve always been intrigued with the symbolism of the colour Red, so in 2021 I pontificated what happens when Valentine’s Day and the third lunar day of the month coincided; also known as ‘Red Scarlet day’!
Read moreDragon and Lion Dances
Every year I try catch a DRAGON / LION DANCE (舞狮 wǔ shī) to mark the Lunar New Year. Spectacularly loud and boasting vivid colours, they are definitely an invigorating sight. It’s maybe a familiar sight to Western eyes but it draws a frown, followed by the covering of ears. But the deafening sound, is a necessary part of the tradition.
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Read moreLongtaitou Festival - Dragon raising its head
Azure Dragon (the mural of the Goguryeo Tomb) 1915 Source/Photographer 朝鮮古蹟図譜. Credit via wiki commons
1 March 2025, is second lunar day of the second lunar month in the Chinese Calendar. It marks an extra significant Longtaitou Festival; a traditional Lunar festival that honours the ‘Dragon raising its head’.
Read more2024 FENG SHUI FORECAST — PART 2
Deatil of “Yellow Silk Dragon Robe.” N.p., n.d. Print via Cheater Beatty Libray
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2024 The Year of the Yang Wood Dragon 甲⾠
PART TWO — If there’s one country where Dragons (and arguably Ages) culturally permeates all aspects of society, it’s China. Be it symbolic of Emperors, dragon dances to foods or Feng Shui’s bias for auspicious hidden dragon sites. While the term ‘New Age’ was coined by Alice Bailey, (Fountainhead author and dragon native), in Feng Shui it indicates an extended elemental shift — from Earth, to Fire.
Read more2024 ASTROLOGY PREDICTIONS — PART 1
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The opening act of a New Age takes the stage. This year promises a ride on the ‘Go big or go home’ rollercoaster. Dragon is the catalyst that propels a new 20-year elemental shift, toward Re-enlightenment.
Beyond the annual changing of guardians — from Rabbit to Celestial Reptilian — there’s also a bigger cosmic state of change afoot. Yang Wood Dragons’ always signal a New Age; which in turn end sexagenary eras. The third and final era of a wider 180-year Great Cycle needs unpacking, as we enter a new elemental interface.
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