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Lunar New Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 is the lunar new year of the Wood Dragon. The lunar new year of the Wood Dragon begins this year, 2024, on Saturday at the new moon (February 10) and ends at the full moon Lantern Festival (Saturday, February 24).
Wood indicates calmness, loyalty, and reliability and Dragons are endowed with leadership abilities and revolutionary ideas. The dragon is an auspicious, mysterious and extraordinary creature of talent and excellence, symbolizing power, nobility, honor, good fortune, blessings and success. A Dragon year is an opportune year, containing both change and challenge (which the dragon always overcomes).
Wood Dragon is a year of intelligence, courage, enthusiasm and confidence. Unafraid of challenges, often taking risks, dragons break away from tradition, paving the way for a new creative future. In Chinese culture, the dragons are powerful and majestic. They are spirited leaders. Ancient China emperors often regarded themselves as the Dragon, the Son of Heaven.
In Chinese element theory, each sign is associated with one of five elements: Gold (Metal), Wood, Water, Fire, or Earth. Thus five types of Dragons, each with different characteristics. A person’s characteristics are decided by their birth year’s zodiac animal sign and element. The Wood Dragon is like a Scorpio or Pisces – they are introverted and it takes a long time to create trust in relationships. Wood Dragons are more diligent, dedicated and careful in life than the other dragons, their enthusiasm is often cloaked and hidden.
Auspicious are gold, yellow, red and deep lavender. In the garden and around the door of the home, it’s good to plant bleeding heart flowers (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) and dragon flowers (snap dragons – Antirrhinum).
Dragons especially love the Chinese signs of rat, monkey and rooster. Dragons are journalists, teachers, architects, engineers. Famous Dragon people – Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809), Earth Dragon; Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940), Gold Dragon; John Lennon (October 9, 1940) Gold Dragon; Vladimir Putin (October 7, 1952), Water Dragon.
Dragon Years – 2024, 2012, 2000, 1988, 1976, 1964, 1952. The Dragon is the fifth animal sign in the Chinese zodiacal cycle. It’s fun to draw dragons. Children’s drawings are best. We too can draw like a child. We also begin to gather our lanterns for the Lantern Festival.
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