Year of the Dragon:
I was at the beach this morning, and I was thinking of my best friend. It is her birthday today. It is also my Godson’s birthday, He is 16, and she is not aging at all. She just gets more beautiful assertive and grace-filled every year.
I was thinking about who I was at 16, and who I hope to be at her age, and the space in between.
I was thinking about the changes of the season, the early spring flowers and the waning year of the Rabbit (my sign) and the incoming year of the Dragon this Saturday Feb 10 2024.
And then I remembered about the Vision Amplified course conclusion yesterday and the Fear of Change was discussed by my participants.
Let’s say year of the Rabbit ( 2023) is the beach.
We visited, we enjoyed it, We brought in a full water bottle and some extra clothes for the weather
We drank the water, but we found some beach glass and a heart rock
When we ascend the trail to leave the beach, we have some choices-
We can leave the collection,
We can finish all our water,
We could discard our extra clothing (without littering)
AS we ascend the stairs we could be thinking
Oh no, I love the beach. I want to stay here forever, this is what I have known and loved and it is beautiful and familiar.
Or we could be thinking
This staircase is the gateway to a brand new adventure and I cannot wait to see what is on the other side.
In the case of this beach and this particular morning- the beach has significant sluffing- the land is literally falling into the beach. Also the tide was coming up-bringing all the bugs and cold water.
If you stayed on the beach your only shelter would be under a landmass that is precariously close to falling into the beach and swallowing up the shoreline.
How do you want to approach change?
Be forced by large waves and a descending forest to escape with your life intact?
Carry the burdens heavily feeling weighted down?
Or bound gratefully up the stairs taking or leaving your excess weight as either gifts you are proud to carry or leaving them and feeling free and light.
Change is inevitable.
Consider an old forest. The large older trees become dominant. Their roots are deep and their branches bring shelter and close out the sun and rain from the forest floor.
This might sound great to some-but what about the sapling?
Can it get enough water? Enough sun?
Sometimes a forest fire, the creative destruction of starting new, is needed for the younger and newer life to get the nutrients they need to flourish. Sometimes the older trees just need a bit of thinning out to allow some light and water to reach the forest floor.
Older ecosystems rot unless there is change, evolution is necessary to remain in a healthy symbiosis.
Questions for Self Reflection
Do you need to leave some burdens behind in order to embrace year of the dragon?
Have you any ideas that are need an update, might be considered “rotten”?
Are there things about the stage, age, year or cycle you are completing that you can be grateful for ?
Remember-change is inevitable, but we are constant.
Our souls and our spirits are striving to be known. We are always evolving but always ourselves. We can nurture and grow the things about us that we do not want to change. As we embody more and more fully our selves through self love and nurturing practices, the change is more of an unfolding with all that wasn’t true falling away and only what is most essential and true remaining.
This is why I love Feng Shui so much, the art and science supports the preparation to embrace the natural change of the upcoming New Year, that our souls can dance with the energies of the year itself rather than feel overwhelmed by the external.
Gong xǐ fā cái pronounced (Kung Hei Fat Choi)
Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous New Year!
Vision Amplified : A combination of Feng Shui and Vision Board-Book- Movie Creation Program will run again in Fall of 2024.