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NEXT CHINESE NEW YEAR WILL FEATURE THE WOOD DRAGON

 Yesterday, two lions blessed 15 Craigside.

Tuesday is for nostalgia, and today I revert to my posting of 23January2012, commemorating the Year of the Dragon.  For the Western world, this was year 2012 of the Gregorian Calendar.  For China, this was year 4710 or 4709 or 4649, depending on the source.  To quote from this posting:

This is the year of the dragon, which is the most favorable, luckiest and revered zodiac sign.  Dragons are confident, generous, colorful, gifted and operate on a grand scale.  Hmm...no wonder I am a dragon.  Both weddings and births will spike this year in the Orient.  We dragons, though, can be conceited, tactless, and solitary. 

The significance of 2012 was that this was the year of the Water Dragon, which comes about only every 60 years.  Surely propitious for the Blue Revolution.  I was thinking back further, and 1952 was during my 6th and 7th grades when the previous Water Dragon reigned, and my life then was okay.  However, I learned a few days ago that these animals of that Chinese New Year signaled the beginning of your BAD luck year:

One should be wary of being quick to celebrate when it is one of “your” years - according to Chinese astrology, the year you are born is supposed to be the unluckiest for you, so people born in previous Rabbit years may face bad luck in 2023.

Thus, if you believe in these things, what you should be doing in your zodiac year is to minimize damage.  So what are you supposed to do during this bad luck year?  Read my blog posting of 20January2023 on how to best survive.  
Regarding my previous Water Dragon year in 2012, I actually had a good year.  For example, I enjoyed an excellent global journey and gave a talk on the Blue Revolution in San Francisco that went very well.  Also around that time I reported on finding the scientific name of the Gold Tree, which led to tree plantings for Pearl in various locations on the Big Island and Oahu.  Blue Revolution Hawaii began to form, with leading local citizens.

More on dragons.  While kids know these details, what about you?

Okay, so by now you must know that there are 12 zodiac animals, so your year comes by every 12 years, right?  Well, maybe not, for there are five elements in the mix:  wood, fire, earth, metal and water.  Thus, your true bad luck year comes every 5 times 12, or 60 years.  I won't be alive for the next Water Dragon Year, 2072, unless I live to the age of 132.  Thus, I won't be around to see if  that year is terrible for the Blue Revolution.  For someone who doesn't believe there can be a Heaven and amusingly tout Water Dragons, why do I even bother posting something so irrelevant?  There are people in this world interested in such things.

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