Fire Ox: Wood Season

The new year is the time when everything old becomes young again, when a new cycle of creation and destruction opens before us and everything that has gone before gets pressed down into our subconscious and we face the world with new eyes, a light heart and an empty mind.

The first days of the new year are always essential to an understanding of the course that year will take. Issues destined to hold centre stage find their first expression in these first days and weeks. Likewise, the same may be said of the first days of a new season for the quality of that season. Opening days should reveal much at every level. This is the womb matrix of the new year. From the singularity of the birth moment of the year stream threads and tentacles of novelty and innovation. Here we may see the year in miniature.

This Season will be a bad time all around. Wood over Fire is corrupt and provokes much violence. Wood desires to create something new, but through oppression of its competitors. Promising alternatives will be obliterated out of sheer spite and malice. Wilful and egotistical leaders will run roughshod over the weak and "power politics" will carry the day. Expect violence aimed at coercion and intimidation when rivals try to force each other to knuckle under. It will begin with mere words and sabre-rattling, but intensify into deeds after the middle of March.

The skies above will figure into this somehow: airborne pollution or contamination, flying objects or celestial phenomena. Volcanic events are likely. Weather will feature damaging winds and gales. Spring rains in the northern hemisphere will do more harm than good by eroding more than they nourish. This is a continuation of last year's weather patterns.

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