Wishing everyone to daobum into extraordinary adventures in 2017

[Taomeow]

[liminal_luke]

Thanks, you too -- I get the feeling it`s going to be that kind of year! 

Edited January 2, 2017 by liminal_luke

[Taomeow]

Me too...

[3bob]

in the end the Earth soul, her helpers and golden ones prevail

[RiverSnake]

 

[Golden Dragon Shining]

and to you and everyone

despite any disagreements



 

Edited January 2, 2017 by Sionnach

[Gerard]

Thanks, you too -- I get the feeling it`s going to be that kind of year!

 

Just be cautious. Fire Rooster is a tricky one. Always remember this is a picky animal, not as unpredictable as the Monkey though.

 

Here:

 

https://www.karmaweather.com/2017-year-of-the-fire-rooster/

 

Happy and solid practice to everyone!

Edited January 2, 2017 by Gerard

[LAOLONG]

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Edited January 24, 2017 by SHINTO

[Taomeow]

The Rooster is the only bird in the Chinese calendar, and at the time the calendar was created, he was not the domestic chicken we know today but a feathered dinosaur, closely related to the dragon -- spectacular, flashy, brilliant yang to the misty, dreamy Chinese dragon's yin.  He is credited with saving the earth in ancient times.  Here's how the legend goes:

 

At one point nine suns gathered together around the earth, and were scorching it with their heat and destroying all the vegetation, so people put their heads together and came up with a plan -- summon the most powerful archers and have them shoot the suns out of the sky.  One of them, forget his name (history retains it), succeeded at the task -- one by one he shot eight suns out of the sky.  No one was going to touch the ninth, since everybody knew that the earth does need a sun -- one sun.  But this ninth sun was so scared as eight of his buddies died in front of him that he hid in the deepest cave and swore to never come out ever again.  The earth was plunged into complete darkness.  

 

People pleaded with the sun, and made promises and begged and cried -- to no avail.  That's when the rooster showed up and said, let me try singing the sun out.  At the time, the rooster had a beautiful singing voice to match his startling appearance.  So he stood at the mouth of the cave and began singing.  

 

The sun was mesmerized by the song, and peeped out a little to see who the singer was.  The rooster stepped aside a bit, still singing, and the sun peeped out some more...  and a bit more...  and you know the rest of the story -- the sun finally got out completely and kept climbing higher and higher to take a better look at the singing rooster.  Since that day, and to this day, the sun always waits  for the rooster to sing the morning song before emerging from his hiding place for every new day to begin.   

 

This year's Rooster is yin, which means a hen.  A Yin Fire Hen, who, obviously, can lay eggs.  This means the year when foundations are laid down for many things that can and will hatch only later, they will stay hidden and dormant for a while -- and then...  surprise surprise...  Not the unpredictable, prank-like Monkey surprise though.  What is laid down is what will hatch.  Sit on an egg that contains a monster, a monster will hatch.  Sit on an egg that contains a miracle... 

[Geof Nanto]

The Rooster is the only bird in the Chinese calendar, and at the time the calendar was created, he was not the domestic chicken we know today but a feathered dinosaur, closely related to the dragon -- spectacular, flashy, brilliant yang to the misty, dreamy Chinese dragon's yin.  He is credited with saving the earth in ancient times.  

 

 

 An artist’s impression of the new short-armed and winged feathered dinosaur Zhenyuanlong suni found in China and from the early Cretaceous period (125m years ago). Photograph: Chuang Zhao

 

( https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/16/zhenyuanlong-suni-biggest-ever-winged-dinosaur-discovered-china )

[Aetherous]

May all Daobums lay the most positive and beneficial eggs!

[子泰]

Eggs with spiritual babies inside, hopefully!!

[zerostao]

it's gonna be the best 2017 ever

[Golden Dragon Shining]

The Year of the Rooster will begin on January 28, 2017.

 

Celebrations will begin on January 27, New Year's Eve, and typically last around two weeks, making this the longest holiday in the Chinese calendar.

 

This year the festivities are set to end on February 2.

 

[Golden Dragon Shining]

Soon for new banner

[Marblehead]

Soon for new banner

 

Will it change my life?

[Golden Dragon Shining]

It will

[silent thunder]

Deep love and abiding nourishing intentions from this Earth Rooster to all of you amazing Bums and those associated with your Bumness!

[Wells]

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Edited March 2, 2017 by Wells

[Golden Dragon Shining]

WHERE IS THE ROOSTER!!

Those monkeys are tiresome! says the Dragon!

Edited January 31, 2017 by Sionnach

[Golden Dragon Shining]

[Aetherous]

[Golden Dragon Shining]

about 3 minutes in all

Edited February 2, 2017 by Sionnach

[Andrei]

It should be a chicken because the year is Yin

 

[silent thunder]

hmm...

i sense that i could make a strong case that it's really the year of the EGG!

 

every year...