Today, the eve of the new year, will be abuzz with festivity, with parades, dragon and lion dances and fireworks displays to bring the Year of the Rabbit to a close and usher in the much anticipated Year of the Dragon.

The Year of the Dragon is believed to bring the Four Blessings of the East - wealth, virtue, harmony and longevity. The year is expected to be dynamic and vibrant, with opportunities abounding. Under the influence of the element of Water, this will be a yang year, flowing rather than stagnant. But it will not necessarily mean positive developments all around, as all that energy may just as easily lead to major crashes for those who do not augur well with the elements.

Those born in the Year of the Dragon are said to be imbued with its characteristics: vibrant, dynamic, bountiful, specially gifted. Dragons are said to be blessed with the positive energies of the sky and the earth this year. Thus there is a mad rush among couples to have a dragon baby; they have until Feb. 9, 2013 to do so in the hope that their precious bundle of joy may turn out to be the 21st century’s Placido Domingo, Sigmund Freud, Martin Luther King, Christian Dior or John Lennon.

The Water Dragon is said to be friendly, easy going, intelligent, quick-witted and eager to grab opportunities that come along.

Happy New Year
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Happy Dragon

Yay for dragons! They are bringers of good luck!

Looks like my first child might be a dragon baby after all ^_^ (How cool is that?)

Edit - Feb 9th is my best friends birthday :P

I am a Dragon as well. Good traits: Magnanimous, stately, vigorous, strong, self-assured, proud, noble, direct, dignified, eccentric, intellectual, fiery, passionate, decisive, pioneering, artistic, generous, loyal. Bad traits: be tactless, arrogant, imperious, tyrannical, demanding, intolerant, dogmatic, violent, impetuous, brash.

I'm a rat

good traits as well, still a rat

Once a Rat, always a Rat

<----- born again dragon.

must be your year Mo!!!

So far not much different than last year but I'm hoping.

Well, the year is young and so are we!

That's what I told myself last January.

Rat – 鼠 (子) (Yang, 1st Trine, Fixed Element Water): Forthright, tenacious, intense, meticulous, charismatic, sensitive, intellectual, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, artistic, and shrewd. Can be manipulative, vindictive, self-destructive, envious, mendacious, venal, obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless, intolerant, and scheming.


I laugh at how positive the words are. Out of nowhere the negative words show up lol.

YAY!!!

Under the influence of water. That's me! I think I was born in the year of the Sheep. But my sun sign is cancer and I'm as watery as it gets. I almost always have a candle burning when I'm home to help balance me out.

Watery here too Ruth ... Pisces and Sheep

Oh wow...I didn't know that. Interesting.

Thank you! Happy year of the Dragon to all of you too!