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 |
1900
1912
1924
1936
1948
1960
1972
1984
1996
2008 2020 | 1901
1913
1925
1937
1949
1961
1973
1985
1997
2009 2021 | 1902
1914
1926
1938
1950
1962
1974
1986
1998
2010 2022 | 1903
1915
1927
1939
1951
1963
1975
1987
1999
2011 2023 | 1904
1916
1928
1940
1952
1964
1976
1988
2000
2012 2024 | 1905
1917
1929
1941
1953
1965
1977
1989
2001
2013 2025 | 1906
1918
1930
1942
1954
1966
1978
1990
2002
2014 2026 | 1907
1919
1931
1943
1955
1967
1979
1991
2003
2015 2027 | 1908
1920
1932
1944
1956
1968
1980
1992
2004
2016 2028 | 1909
1921
1933
1945
1957
1969
1981
1993
2005
2017 2029 | 1910
1922
1934
1946
1958
1970
1982
1994
2006
2018 2030 | 1911
1923
1935
1947
1959
1971
1983
1995
2007
2019 2031 |
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
