Year of the Wood Goat

Goat-1-The-leapRoger Dean

Happy Chinese New Year of the Yin Green Wood Goat !

Chinese Lunar New Year accompanies the second new moon after winter solstice.  

Goat years are full of art, beauty, luxury and style.  Romance, abundance, creative gifts and artistic muses proliferate.  Painting, sculpture, music, singing, dance and literature are ideal pursuits.

Goat years emphasize tolerance, whimsy, dreams and drama.  Schedules are often interrupted by romantic daydreams, goats prefer to do their own thing in their own time.  Goats can also tend toward being pessimistic and overly sensitive, cranky and sulky.

Goat years enhance relationships and permanent bonds for sheep is emotional in nature.  Upsets may occur for this very reason, for sheep are sensitive.  Goat years deliver affection, kindness and consideration for they enjoy company and fellowship as well as entertaining. 

Yin wood goats tend toward worry and anxiety.  Note this and take steps toward meditation and stepping out into nature to soothe frayed nerves.  Dive into creativity and self-expression, keep your engine running clean, for sheep years are sensitive years.

Duty and obligation are strengthened, as is taking responsibility for yourself and those in your herd.  Consummate networkers, goats immerse and entwine well with others to the point of clinging.  They are at times manipulative, yet also loyal to a fault.

Goat years enhance adaptation and improvisation both at work and home.  Sheep nourish: the herd, the earth, their loved ones.  Strong Yin influence drives navel gazing, personal improvement and physical, mental, and spiritual attunement into high gear.  

Four Pillars of Destiny here.

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Quick draw for all to contemplate for Year of the Goat
Collective force:  Struggle and risk with both self and others.  Is it just and necessary?
If so, deploy all your strength, use iron discipline, strategic skill.  Perseverance and justice are necessary in order to maintain control.  Remain courageous and understanding – foster a sense of unity among your allies. Be patient and forthright.

Gung Hay Fat Choy !
Gneiss Moon Astrology

Year of the Neptune Dragon


January 23 2012 – February 9, 2013 
Year of the Water Dragon of the rain

Yang Dragons are protectors of the East.  They are associated with spring,  green/blue, the elements wood/water.  They control the rivers, rains and storms.  Naga (sanskrit for serpent-like creatures) protected Siddharta, Guatama (the Buddha) from wind and rain for seven days.

Visionary, outspoken Dragons (Chen) are blessed with vitality, health and enthusiasm.  Self-sufficient with a strong power of will, Dragon is a particularly lucky sign promising health, wealth and happiness.  Dragons are witty, restless, freedom-loving and secretly enjoy shocking others with their eccentric behavior.  Dragons are incredibly perceptive, imaginative, intuitive and drawn to the inexplicable.  Dragons are original, admired and loved but they often prefer to remain at a distance.  They are rational yet their actions are most often driven by instinct.  Dragons are flamboyant, unpredictable, assertive and crave the limelight.

Dragons are especially compatible with Monkeys, Rats and Snakes.
Famous Dragons: Salvador Dali, Charles Darwin, Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde

Water as an element is receptive, passive and reflective and flows around  obstacles.

Water (in frozen and liquid form) covers 75 % of the Earth’s surface.
The human body is 70 % water, blood 80%‚ brain 75%‚ liver 96% water.

Water conducts electricity which makes it the medium of bio-electricity in all living things. The Water Dragon known as the electric eel can produce up to 1,000 volts with a current up to one ampere.

Electrolytes become ions (click here for more on ions) in water and conduct electricity.
 Drink plenty of water – especially in Water Dragon years in order to maintain electrolyte balance within the body.

Water Dragons are shape-shifters, revered and worshipped in the east- they are protective, humane and benevolent benefactors.  Water turns Dragons protection towards matters of the heart and emotions of fellow human beings.  Water Dragons are naturally drawn to metaphysics and intuitive arts.  Water Dragons advocate justice, are humanitarians and are more willing to share than other Dragons.  Water Dragons are optimistic and see things objectively.  They know the ring of truth and are fluent communicators, open to new ideas and experiences.

Year of the Water Dragon and Neptune is going home to Pisces in February ? !
WoOo HoOo !
Sounds great to me !  (click here for Neptune info)

Happy Chinese New Year !!

namaste~
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