The Chinese Year of the Wood Dragon began 4 February 2024 and the actual Lunar New Year, New Moon will be 9 February 2024 in USA time zones. The Chinese animal year begins each Western year about 4 February - it does not begin at the Chinese New Year. So, if you were born before 4 February in any year your Chinese animal year is the sign before. Those born 4 or 5 February should consult
https://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2024.htm
There’s a lot of great stuff at this website including a Chinese take on your year upcoming. . Scroll down.
Snakes and Dragons are looking at 2 fantastic years as Snake Year follows Dragon Year and they are in mutual resonance with #1 compatibility. Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s opposite. Dogs include Donald Trump,
My fraternity brother wrote the screenplay for the movie Animal House. The main characters were all Snakes and Dragons – Classes of 1962 and 1963, born in 1940 and 1941. They were definitely bonded as most Snake Dragon combos are.
THE ADVANTAGES AND THE PROBLEMS OF DRAGONS ARE MENTAL.
Dragons are considered the geniuses (genii) of the Oriental Zodiac. Dragon’s prodigious brains always come up with the right answer – AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM. Their “right” answers block them from a higher right, as it were.
My 1964 Dragon Japanese girlfriend was a genius. In many respects she had the finest brain I have ever encountered with overarching rational, creative and INTUITIVE powers. A few years ago, she was transiting mental institutions due to alcohol abuse.
The protagonist of “Animal House”, Otter, was a 1940 Dragon. He achieved the highest grades in the history of UCLA Law School after leaving Dartmouth College. Went on the be a terrifically successful attorney in the SF Bay area, got remarried, had a winery (possible symbol of a problem), took customer funds from an escrow account, ended up being disbarred, and died of a heart attack driving himself to the hospital as he was presumably estranged from other help.
The 12 Oriental signs, as commonly displayed in paper place mats in Chinese restaurants;
Rat | Cow | Tiger | Rabbit | Dragon | Snake | Horse | Sheep | Monkey | Chicken | Dog | Pig |
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Two Dragon Year cycles ago, 2000, was unbelievable for me! I
spent the Millennium [remember that?] New Year in India on the banks of the
Ganges for a month and then traveled to the Andaman Islands for a month then
meandered up to Nepal in March. I ended up hooking up with a nice Japanese girl
in Kathmandu. We did a fantastic Himalayan trek together in the Mt. Everest
region hiking up to a small Sherpa village near the Tibetan border with a
lovely monastery. We were together for several months, parting in Bangkok at
the airport at the end of May. She flew on to Japan, I to California.
She is a 1964 Dragon. Clearly, she had an impactful year. To
shorten the story a lot, by the end of Dragon Year she was forced by her
father, a WW 2 Japanese Army veteran, to marry a nice young Japanese man, mostly
to keep her away from me. Me. Who showed up unannounced at her summer place in
the mountains of Northern Japan in July 2000.
The bottom line is those born in the Year of the Dragon will
have a whirlwind of ….. let me just use Plato’s term - you will be
“attacked by Fortune.” Those born in Years compatible with Dragon will
have great years also. These are the signs whose compatibility is 1 or 2 below
– Rat, Snake, Monkey, Rooster.
Notable dragons in my life:
Kay, Anne, Marisa,
Others include; David Petraeus,
Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s
opposite. Think Donald Trump, GW Bush,
Although I’m not seeing it now, I predict a lot of travel
for myself based on Dragon Years past.
Chinese Horoscope Compatibility