Happy Year of the Wood Dragon! I hear this is an auspicious year for making bold moves, creating new beginnings, and starting on new adventures of all sorts—from love to business, from inner awakenings to even world peace. At least it has that potential as the dragon travels between dimensions of the heart and soul, the mind and spirit. It can fly to great heights and still come to earth.
What we do with that energy is up to us. The dragon is a symbol of strength and courage and so it imparts the fire and confidence to do what we want to do. But it is a Wood Dragon year. The Chinese element Wood is associated with Spring, the time of renewal, new growth and change. Coming into being—as seeds that sprout from the earth, unfurl their leaves and reach towards the sky. New wood, so to speak, the stuff of stems and trunks of trees. It’s about the impulse to bring something into being, to create something new.
Should you want to bring this energy into your life with the help of a flower essence teacher, the one that comes to mind for me is Rock Fringe. Rock Fringe is not a large plant, it lives low to the ground, but it is exuberant in its expression with brilliant pink heart-shaped petals and its seeming ability to spring from the edges of rocks in mountainous regions of California and other western states. As a flower essence it can bring a joyous sense of renewal and the enthusiasm to take on new challenges, even in what might seem like a bleak and rocky time of life.
The heart shapes pointed inward into the heart of the flower can be seen as symbolic of being true to yourself and the needs of your heart which is good guidance for a dragon year. Dragons can be a bit wild and impulsive but the Wood Dragon wants to build a strong foundation. Knowing your heart and the good that can bring to the world—that you can bring to the world—can harness the energy of the dragon for good.