Year of the Dragon 2024

Summary: Those born in the Year of the Dragon will have a whirlwind ….. let me just use Plato’s term - you will be “attacked by Fortune.” Those born in Years compatible with Dragon will have great years also. These are the signs whose compatibility is 1 or 2 below – Rat, Snake, Monkey, Rooster.
Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s opposite. 

The Chinese Year of the Wood Dragon began 4 February 2024 and the actual Lunar New Year, New Moon will be 9 February 2024 in USA time zones. The Chinese animal year begins each Western year about 4 February - it does not begin at the Chinese New Year. So, if you were born before 4 February in any year your Chinese animal year is the sign before. Those born 4 or 5 February should consult

https://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2024.htm

There’s a lot of great stuff at this website including a Chinese take on your year upcoming. Scroll down.
Snakes and Dragons are looking at 2 fantastic years as Snake Year follows Dragon Year and they are in mutual resonance with #1 compatibility. Vladimir Putin is a Dragon. Don't place any bets against him for the next 2 years!!!!!! Notice the Tucker Carlson interview took place just days after the start of Dragon Year.

Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s opposite. 

My fraternity brother wrote the screenplay for the movie Animal House. The main characters were all Snakes and Dragons – Classes of 1962 and 1963, born in 1940 and 1941. They were definitely bonded as most Snake Dragon combos are. THE ADVANTAGES AND THE PROBLEMS OF DRAGONS ARE MENTAL. Dragons are considered the geniuses (genii) of the Oriental Zodiac. Dragon’s prodigious brains always come up with the right answer – AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM. Their “right” answers block them from a higher right, as it were.
My 1964 Dragon Japanese girlfriend was a genius. In many respects she had the finest brain I have ever encountered with overarching rational, creative and INTUITIVE powers. A few years ago, she was transiting mental institutions due to alcohol abuse. The protagonist of “Animal House”, Otter, was a 1940 Dragon. He achieved the highest grades in the history of UCLA Law School after leaving Dartmouth College. Went on the be a terrifically successful attorney in the SF Bay area, got remarried, had a winery (possible symbol of a problem), took customer funds from an escrow account, ended up being disbarred, and died of a heart attack while driving himself to the hospital as he was presumably estranged from other help. 

The Chinese animal names at the column heading below link to interpretations of your year ahead from a Chinese perspective. 

Rat	Cow	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Sheep	Monkey	Chicken	Dog	Pig
1900 1912 1924 1936 1948 1960 1972 1984 1996 2008 2020	1901 1913 1925 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 2009 2021	1902 1914 1926 1938 1950 1962 1974 1986 1998 2010 2022	1903 1915 1927 1939 1951 1963 1975 1987 1999 2011 2023	1904 1916 1928 1940 1952 1964 1976 1988 2000 2012 2024	1905 1917 1929 1941 1953 1965 1977 1989 2001 2013 2025	1906 1918 1930 1942 1954 1966 1978 1990 2002 2014 2026	1907 1919 1931 1943 1955 1967 1979 1991 2003 2015 2027	1908 1920 1932 1944 1956 1968 1980 1992 2004 2016 2028	1909 1921 1933 1945 1957 1969 1981 1993 2005 2017 2029	1910 1922 1934 1946 1958 1970 1982 1994 2006 2018 2030	1911 1923 1935 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 2007 2019 2031

Two Dragon Year cycles ago, 2000, was unbelievable for me! I spent the Millennium [remember that?] New Year in India on the banks of the Ganges for a month and then traveled to the Andaman Islands for a month then meandered up to Nepal in March. I ended up hooking up with a nice Japanese girl in Kathmandu. We did a fantastic Himalayan trek together in the Mt. Everest region hiking up to a small Sherpa village near the Tibetan border with a lovely monastery. We were together for several months, parting in Bangkok at the airport at the end of May. She flew on to Japan, I to California.
She is a 1964 Dragon. Clearly, she had an impactful year. To shorten the story a lot, by the end of Dragon Year she was forced by her father, a WW 2 Japanese Army veteran, to marry a nice young Japanese man, mostly to keep her away from me. Me. Who showed up unannounced at her summer place in the mountains of Northern Japan in July 2000.
The bottom line is those born in the Year of the Dragon will have a whirlwind of ….. let me just use Plato’s term - you will be “attacked by Fortune.” Note, Plato does not specify 'good fortune' or 'bad fortune'. Those born in Years compatible with Dragon will have great years also. These are the signs whose compatibility is 1 or 2 in the compatibility matrix below – Rat, Snake, Monkey, Rooster.
Notable dragons in my life: Kay, Anne, Marisa, Kayleigh, Margaux, 
Others include; Vladimir Putin, David Petraeus, Nancy Pelosi, Boris Johnson 
Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s opposite. Think Donald Trump, GW Bush, 

Although I’m not seeing it now, I predict a lot of travel for myself based on Dragon Years past. 

Chinese Horoscope Compatibility 

Rat	1
Ox	1	3
Tiger	4	6	5
Rabbit	5	2	3	3
Dragon	1	5	5	3	2
Snake	3	1	6	2	1	5
Horse	6	5	1	4	3	4	2
Goat	5	5	3	1	5	3	2	2
Monkey	1	3	5	3	1	3	5	3	1
Rooster	4	1	4	6	2	1	3	4	5	5
Dog	3	4	1	2	6	3	2	5	3	5	2
Pig	2	3	2	2	3	6	3	2	2	3	1	2
	Rat	Ox	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Goat	Monkey	Rooster	Dog	Pig

Compatibility legend

1 - excellent     2 - successful     3 – good     4 – fair     5 – awkward     6 – clash

A few words on compatibility with a special note on Tigers! We can construct a rough ‘affability quotient’ for the signs by summing the compatibilities of each of the 12 signs with each of the other. Thus,

Rat – 36

Ox – 39

Tiger – 45

Rabbit – 37

Dragon – 37

Snake – 38

Horse – 40

Goat – 40

Monkey – 35

Rooster – 43

Dog – 38

Pig - 31

Tigers are, by quite a bit, the most fractious—unruly and independent—followed by Roosters. Pigs are by far the most affable. Using the compatibility table, it is possible to make rough estimates on how your year will go. When it is your year it is invariably transforming and expansive - sometimes too much so. When it is the opposite of your year, that is, 6 years away, it can be restrictive and inharmonious.

My own "field research" on compatibility. Looking at the compatibility chart, Tiger is supposedly my #1 compatibility as I am a Horse. I HAVE NEVER gotten along with any Tiger for longer than a few months, and usually, weeks. Tigers are just TOO self centered and egotistical. 

My parents were Rats and Ox - rated 6 and 5 on the compatibility with me. It was a Battle Royale with me throughout my extended childhood. Their idea of a great Saturday was to do gardening around the house. Me? At age 10 or 12 would walk 4 miles to downtown Chappaqua, NY, the suburb we lived in, take the train to Grand Central station, wander over to Times Square, 42nd St., meander about, and entrain back "home" (for $1.17, one way).

"What did you do today?", they would ask.

"Oh, I went downtown", I would reply. 

They finally sent me away to boarding school, to everyone's relief. 

Consult the compatibility chart in detail to see how you'll do with another personality OR when your year comes up. Note, for example, that Tiger has a 5 compatibility with Tiger. THEREFORE, when it's Tiger Year, and you're a Tiger, you will have challenges. Thus, Tiger Years for tigers will be BOTH impactful and challenging, all at the same time. This is not what happens to most of the other signs in their year. For example, Dragon-Dragon is a #2 compatibility. Monkey, Snake, and Rat Year are actually more good luck for Dragons than Dragon Year. 

Remember, it is your responsibility in life to create as many impactful memories for yourself as possible. If this is your year or a #1 compatibility year, GO FOR IT. Go to India, sell the house and take 2 years off sailing, ....

Netanyahu - Ox

Chuck Schumer - Tiger

How Oriental Astrology works: Oriental astrology is essentially “good luck” astrology in that it tracks the planet Jupiter, considered to be one’s Greater Fortune. Jupiter takes 12 years to transit the zodiac of 12 signs. Therefore, in whatever year you were born, every 12 years when your Oriental zodiac animal year returns, the planet Jupiter will be in the same sign it was when you were born. Jupiter is called Guru in Hindu astrology and is considered your spiritual teacher.

Thus, roughly speaking, ALL Rabbits [Cat] have Jupiter in Aries; Dragons, Jupiter in Taurus; Snakes, Jupiter in Gemini; Horse, Jupiter in Cancer; Sheep [Goat], Jupiter in Leo; Monkey, Jupiter in Virgo; Rooster, Jupiter in Libra; Dog, Jupiter in Scorpio; Pig, Jupiter in Sagittarius; Rat, Jupiter in Capricorn; Cow [Ox], Jupiter in Aquarius; Tiger, Jupiter in Pisces.

AND because when Jupiter returns to the place it was when you were born that causes an expansion of the “good luck” in your horoscope. Some signs have more innate “good luck” than others, so the Oriental animal year is more important to some signs than others. Because Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, Horses probably experience more increased good luck during Horse year than other signs do in theirs. And I note in passing that from wealth studies of university contributions it has been determined that the wealthiest cohort in America has been the class of 1964, those born in the Horse Year 1942.

Incidentally, I have never seen this derivation of Oriental astrology anywhere – I arrived at it myself.

2022 - Year of the Black-Water Tiger

 

Abstract:

The USA is a monkey and will have a tough year in this Year of the Tiger as it Tiger’s opposite. See, for example, my prediction of nothing less than the collapse of the USA in 2022 - https://astrolos.blogspot.com/2018/10/astrological-energies-around-collapse.html . 

Notable Water Tigers include Tom Cruise, Ralph Fiennes, Michele Yeoh, Jody Foster, Demi Moore, the Village of Sedona AZ, Albert Namatjira, Mayra Martinez. Sue, MunYee and Chris. All can expect to be "attacked by Fortune", to use Plato's phrase to describe an effulgence of 'good luck'.

Horses and Dogs can expect to prosper well in Tiger's embrace of good Fortune; Snakes, Ox, Dragons and Monkeys, as mentioned, NOT SO MUCH!

Note that Tigers may not fare so well in Tiger Years. See in the compatibility table Tiger-Tiger ranks 5, very incompatible. The best way to ascertain what might go down in this Tiger Year is to recall what happened in Tiger Years past: 2010, 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962...

Timing: Chinese New Year – Year of the Black-Water Tiger begins at the New Moon The exact new moon time is at 9:46 p.m. PST, 31 Jan 2020.

The Chinese animal year begins each Western year about 4 February - it does not begin at the Chinese New Year. Those born 3, 4 or 5 February should consult http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/Chineseastrology.htm to correctly ascertain their Chinese animal sign. I use 4 February to determine the Oriental animal years.

 

Chinese Horoscope Compatibility

Rat	1
Ox	1	3
Tiger	4	6	5
Rabbit	5	2	3	3
Dragon	1	5	5	3	2
Snake	3	1	6	2	1	5
Horse	6	5	1	4	3	4	2
Goat	5	5	3	1	5	3	2	2
Monkey	1	3	5	3	1	3	5	3	1
Rooster	4	1	4	6	2	1	3	4	5	5
Dog	3	4	1	2	6	3	2	5	3	5	2
Pig	2	3	2	2	3	6	3	2	2	3	1	2
	Rat	Ox	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Goat	Monkey	Rooster	Dog	Pig

Compatibility legend

1 excellent     2 successful     3 – good     4 – fair     5 – awkward     6 – clash

We can construct a rough ‘affability quotient’ for the signs by summing the compatibilities of each of the 12 signs with each of the other. Thus,

Rat – 36

Ox – 39

Tiger – 45

Rabbit – 37

Dragon – 37

Snake – 38

Horse – 40

Goat – 40

Monkey – 35

Rooster – 43

Dog – 38

Pig - 31

 

Tigers are, by quite a bit, the most fractious—unruly and independent—followed by Roosters. Pigs are by far the most affable. Using the compatibility table, it is possible to make rough estimates on how your year will go. When it is your year it is invariably transforming and expansive - sometimes too much so. When it is the opposite of your year, that is, 6 years away, it can be restrictive and inharmonious.

The first day of the animal year is different from the Chinese New Year Day. The animal year starts on the first day of the Tiger month. Tiger month begins from the day when Sun enters ecliptic 315-degree position, which is around February 4 Gregorian calendar. That means the animal month is solar month, not lunar month. For an even more thorough discussion of the animal and Chinese New Year see http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/clc/LunarCalendar.htm

Oriental Predictions:

The 12 Oriental signs, as commonly displayed on paper place mats in Chinese restaurants;

Rat	Cow	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Sheep	Monkey	Chicken	Dog	Pig
1900 1912 1924 1936 1948 1960 1972 1984 1996 2008 2020	1901 1913 1925 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 2009 2021	1902 1914 1926 1938 1950 1962 1974 1986 1998 2010 2022	1903 1915 1927 1939 1951 1963 1975 1987 1999 2011 2023	1904 1916 1928 1940 1952 1964 1976 1988 2000 2012 2024	1905 1917 1929 1941 1953 1965 1977 1989 2001 2013 2025	1906 1918 1930 1942 1954 1966 1978 1990 2002 2014 2026	1907 1919 1931 1943 1955 1967 1979 1991 2003 2015 2027	1908 1920 1932 1944 1956 1968 1980 1992 2004 2016 2028	1909 1921 1933 1945 1957 1969 1981 1993 2005 2017 2029	1910 1922 1934 1946 1958 1970 1982 1994 2006 2018 2030	1911 1923 1935 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 2007 2019 2031

Click on the links above each sign for an Oriental, as opposed to a Carlos, prediction of your year ahead. Or go to http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2022/default.htm for the overall discussion of Tiger Year.

 

How Oriental Astrology works: Oriental astrology is essentially “good luck” astrology in that it tracks the planet Jupiter, considered to be one’s Greater Fortune. Jupiter takes 12 years to transit the zodiac of 12 signs. Therefore, in whatever year you were born, every 12 years when your Oriental zodiac animal year returns, the planet Jupiter will be in the same sign it was when you were born. Jupiter is called Guru in Hindu astrology and is considered your spiritual teacher.

Thus, roughly speaking, ALL Rabbits [Cat] have Jupiter in Aries; Dragons, Jupiter in Taurus; Snakes, Jupiter in Gemini; Horse, Jupiter in Cancer; Sheep [Goat], Jupiter in Leo; Monkey, Jupiter in Virgo; Rooster, Jupiter in Libra; Dog, Jupiter in Scorpio; Pig, Jupiter in Sagittarius; Rat, Jupiter in Capricorn; Cow [Ox], Jupiter in Aquarius; Tiger, Jupiter in Pisces.

AND because when Jupiter returns to the place it was when you were born that causes an expansion of the “good luck” in your horoscope. Some signs have more innate “good luck” than others, so the Oriental animal year is more important to some signs than others. Because Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, Horses probably experience more increased good luck during Horse year than other signs do in theirs. And I note in passing that from wealth studies of university contributions it has been determined that the wealthiest cohort in America has been the class of 1964, those born in the Horse Year 1942.

Incidentally, I have never seen this derivation of Oriental astrology anywhere – I arrived at it myself.

 

A Few Predictions:

For entertainment purposes only! LOL