This year’s Chinese Lunar New Year 2024 began February 10 and ends January 28, 2025. We’re living the energies and effects of Green Wood Dragon 2024 all the way until late January 2025. In this lunar year we’ll reap the fruits we’ve sown in the previous lunar 2023.
Green Wood Dragon 2024 probably won’t be an easy ride but consider it a self-expansive, even spiritual journey. With the right attitude, you can be resilient during this potentially turbulent year.
This Chinese New Year 2024 may be “ baptized with blood and conflict…” —Gahl Eden Sasson in The Astrology of 2024
We'll probably experience a number of natural calamities, ideological clashes and turbulent frequencies. But then we experience major events like these every year. There’s rarely a year that doesn’t bring us major challenges. And wrapped inside every challenge is the golden kernel of growth, new opportunities and expansion.
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While Green Wood Dragon 2024 may have its challenges, we have a great deal to look forward to also.
Many beneficial seeds which have already been sown in the previous year will begin to sprout this year.
Keep in mind this year that Dragon offers you its bold energy. Green Wood Dragon 2024 opens a window of opportunity to harness its bold energy and use it to your advantage.
Chinese astrology differentiates the aspects of the Lunar New Year Dragons by the five elements.
The element of Wood (one of the five elements in Wuxing Chinese philosophy)(1) symbolizes and embodies growth and development. Its color green agrees with the very positive sprouting of nature, new life and vital energy flow.
This year might bring us palpable intensity but Green Wood Dragon 2024 also brings hope and new life.
PHYTO5’s Wood element line of skincare will help you balance emotions you might feel with all the intensity of this year. Our 5-element skincare lines are quantum energetic. As a result, they do even more than balance skin conditions. They balance your vital energy and emotions. The Wood line helps balance anger and lack of confidence. Let these lines, especially Wood, help get you through Green Wood Dragon 2024.
Align yourself with the energy of Green Wood Dragon 2024 and you’ll enjoy enormous self-growth. You’ll experience the budding of many new revelations and grow as a person.
In Green Wood Dragon years so much will seem enormous—victory as well as misfortune. But the noble Wood element offers mercy and kindness to get us through with flying colors.
The element will also support us to gain more awareness and understanding of objective reality during 2024.
How the Chinese Zodiac Works
The Chinese New Year begins with the second New Moon after the Winter Solstice every year. For this reason, the lunar New Year always occurs late January to mid-February.
Twelve zodiacal signs make up the foundation of Chinese astrology. Dragon is the fifth of the twelve.
Each sign is associated with a different animal. And each animal demonstrates five different elemental aspects. Each aspect corresponds to one of the five elements of Wuxing philosphy(1) (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water).
The Chinese lunar calendar circles back to the same animal sign every twelve years. This circling back responds to the ruling cycles of the beneficial planet Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
Since there are five elemental phases, every 60 years, the same combination of animal and element returns.
1964 Offers Clues for Green Wood Dragon 2024
1964 outrageous coiffure; image generated at Midjourney by the author
This 60-year cycle mirrors the astrological cycle known as the second Saturn return. So to grasp the significance of the year, look back to Green Wood Dragon years 1964, 1904 and every 60 years back thereafter.
In 1964, the U. S. Congress authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate against attacks and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia (Vietnam)(1).
… more American servicemen were dying, and after three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, the president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964. But this did not stop the violence as it continued to increase in many American cities.
Lyndon Johnson was also returned to power after a landslide victory. This was also the year The Beatles took the world and America by storm… Beatle Mania went into overdrive as they released a series of number one hits including, 'I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and ‘All My Loving.’
Other British groups also found success including The Rolling Stones and The Animals… Together with the American talent of The Supremes and Bob Dylan, many say this was one of the greatest years for music in the last century.
Also one young loud talented boxer by the name of Cassius Clay won the Boxing World heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston.” — thepeoplehistory dot com slash 1964
The first race riots of the 60s in America took place in 1964.
“In 1964, two weeks after the landmark Civil Rights Act passed, outlawing racial discrimination, police in New York City shot and killed a black teen, sparking a six-day-long protest-turned-uprising in Harlem and other large African American communities around the city.” —Farrell Evans in The 1967 Riots: When Outrage Over Racial Injustice Boiled Over at the History Channel
Race riots broke out not only in Harlem but in Rochester, New York, Elizabeth, Paterson and Jersey City, New Jersey, Dixmoor and Chicago, Illinois, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize. And Nelson Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
South Central Alaska experienced the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 on Good Friday that year.
Ford Motor Co. produced its first prestigious Ford Mustang. It was an immediate massive success far surpassing sales predictions.
Potentials for This Year of the Green Wood Dragon 2024
Dragon is notably the only supernatural creature among the twelve zodiacal animals.
Symbol of authority and power, Dragon is depicted holding a magical pearl in its mouth. The pearl represents both Moon and Sun and the spiritual essence of the universe.
For these reasons and more, Dragon years are believed to be the most auspicious.
This Chinese New Year of the Green Wood Dragon 2024 is a yang/active/masculine energy year, Wood being a yang element. We’ll see much activity and bold movement.
Change will be the provocative theme for the year.
No matter your sign of the zodiac, you’ll feel the restlessness of Green Wood Dragon 2024. If you’re a tuned in person, you might make many changes in your life.
Many people will decide to move, get new jobs, or get married. Some people will do all of them!
This Green Wood Dragon 2024 won’t be exclusively tumultuous with obstacles at every turn.
You should find much more good luck and increasing health and strength on the rise in your life. All these are associated with the color green.
But the year brings with it an electric energy. And the atmosphere that electricity creates can elicit folly in peoples’ minds. So be cautious when considering making gambles and taking risks which come part and parcel with this year.
Don’t overvalue your abilities while undervaluing the abilities of others.
Dragon, as everyone can easily perceive, is mighty. The mythical creature will mightily usher in surprises for the year and upset the status quo.
Clues from the Wood Element for Green Wood Dragon 2024
Wood is a creative element and its color green symbolizes life, change, growth, and self-discovery.
The bold decree of realization, “I am!” is a natural product of the influences of the color, element and animal. But take care to be humble with the bold statement at the same time.
Green Wood Dragon 2024 will inspire us with its natural characteristics:
innovation
creativity
compassion
tolerance
harmony
beauty
boldness
steadfastness
idealism
organization and
competitiveness.
Green Wood Dragon 2024 will be good for relationships but only if you allow them to naturally develop.
If you already have a partner, the year should be interesting. The year’s energies will evoke a need to apply firmness and empathy at the same time with your partner.
Trees (the element of Wood) grow both upwards and downwards until they die. Trees and Wood embody the yang/masculine principle of expansion. Dragon itself is a masculine sign.
For this reason, Green Wood Dragon 2024 promises to be a year of great expansion and action.
"We are looking at an action-adventure packed year filled with thrilling sequences, spectular CGI and superhero feats.” —Gahl Eden Sasson in The Astrology of 2024
The Dragon In the World’s Cultures Gives Us Clues for Green Wood Dragon 2024
Dragons, echoes of the dinosaurs and memory buried deep in our DNA, have captivated the imaginations of many cultures.
In Japan and China, the Dragon is auspicious symbol of power, wisdom, and fortune. These cultures also believe Dragon so powerful it can control climate.
Much folklore speaks of dragons who stand for the conquest of fears and overcoming challenges. And they’re often portrayed as wise mentors.
European folklore portrays dragons in duality. They’re fire-breathing benevolent or malevolent creatures to take counsel from or defeat, respectively.
Attributes of the Green Wood Dragon 2024
The attributes of the Green Wood Dragon will definitely shine in 2024.
Dragon years typically align with Dragon’s legendary status.
We’ll probably be going through periods where we feel we’re teeming with energy. And we’ll find ourselves perhaps more curious, passionate, and adventurous.
But we might also go through bouts of pride, arrogance and excess. Keep humbleness in mind, make thoughtful decisions, and recognize you’re not infallible.
Watch out for these more erratic swing periods especially during the March-April and September-October eclipse periods.
This lunar year Green Wood Dragon 2024 begins and ends with a retrograde. Many people feel that launching new projects during a retrograde is ill advised. If you believe in retrograde energies affecting you, you might want to keep this in mind.
Consider working with jade and malachite gemstones to embody the essence of the Green Wood Dragon and live in harmony with this auspicious Chinese New Year of the Green Wood Dragon 2024.
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Endnotes:
Wuxing (pronounced woo-shing), usually translated as Five Phases, Five Agents or Five Elements, is a five-fold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including cosmic cycles, the interactions between internal organs, the succession of political regimes, and the properties of herbal medicines.
Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the U. S. Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin and the U. S. Congress authorizes war against North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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The Astrology of 2024: A Cosmic Navigator Guide to Piloting the Once and Future Year. N.p., Gahl Eden Sasson.
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