Any Dragon year is intense. It can be full of change and potential strife as we are challenged to release material things as well as concepts and even emotional baggage which no longer serve our ultimate potential as human beings. As we wind down this dragon year during the month of January, we can feel the shakedown if we are attuned to it. And as with all of life's cycles, we can flow along with the changes it facilitates or we can resist. Mythologically speaking, dragons are fire breathers.
Fire is an alchemical element and one which brings transformation.
It is lively and quick and leaves very little in its wake. Even in a more traditional sense, the Bible's last book of Revelations warns us that fire will come at about this time in history to cleanse and restructure the world as we know it. Though some might perceive this as a physical threat such as The Flood, I am one of those who feels it moving instead through our consciousness . We have evolved from a survival-driven species to one which largely takes home and hearth for granted and instead focuses on mental pursuits. Technology is the crowned achievement of such mind power.