Energy Tips For An Expansive Wood Dragon Year

take your vitamins and stay grounded, folks

me, hugging a humongous tree at Foster Botanical Gardens, Honolulu, HI

Concurrent with the Aquarius New Moon, and the Lunar New Year on the same day, February ushered in very expansive, dynamic, energy. Here’s what I’ve felt, energetically: An initial whoosh of expansion. I felt and observed, positive, freeing energies. Enthusiasm. A bit of over-enthusiasm! A desire to quickly expand will do that! Then, shortly after, I felt really tired, despite the energy practices I do. So tired that I had to take a day off. I spoke with a healer energetically similar to me; she did the same.

To me, this pointed out the need for balance in 2024. It also made me think of the Wood Dragon. First, let’s speak to dragon energy. The dragon is a mystical creature that is quite powerful, no? In terms of the hierarchy of creatures, it’s at the top of the food chain AND has supernatural gifts.  My stepdaughter told me she wanted to have a baby this year, for similar reasons.

The powerful dragon goes after what it wants…and gets it. The dragon, similar to the dragon’s head (north node) in astrology, hungers for more. In our modern world, I feel dragon’s mythology easily resonates with the modern values of ambition and power inherent to materialism and capitalism. Because we live in these human systems, there is an easily-stirred dragon inside each of us. Dragon year helps us to make things happen.

WOOD: In Chinese medicine, Wood belongs to the liver, that organ related to expansion and energy production. Think of a tree (wood); a tree grows in all directions -underneath, out, top. In terms of growth, trees grow! That’s the wood element. Combine wood + dragon= unstoppable expansion and power.

It all sounds very positive, and it felt that way initially, to me, but then very quickly I felt a counterbalance occurring in my energy body. I needed to ground. I needed to rest! I needed to deepen, relax and sink into all that was percolating. After all, what is the point of expanding into exciting new ventures without actually being deeply integrated, present, and grounded?

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In this year of Wood Dragon: Expansion is balanced by deepening, relaxing, grounding. On this Substack forum, I’ve seen people be quite fiery, and decisive, lately. Who we are and what we’re about, and what we most want to do next…All of these things are becoming clearer, and taking shape, right now, at a rapid speed. Astrologically, all planets are direct right now, as well.

But let’s not lose, or get lost in, our heads- risks for a Wood Dragon year. When dragon appears to me in a Spirit vision, she speaks to the power of feminine wisdom. In the higher vibration of dragon, I feel this creature holds our feminine wisdom (recall: wisdom is a feminine -not female- energetic).

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To feminine wisdom, add the dragon’s gorgeous plus-sized body. Dragon’s wisdom is EMBODIED WISDOM-after all, the dragon’s body is gyn-ormous!

(Pun intended.)

Doesn’t this suggest the importance of being in, staying in, your body?

Because “being too in my head” is a default for most of us humans, and because this is what happens with excess of wood element -it rises to the head- staying in the body by grounding, and rituals and practices that help us to get out of our heads and into our wisdom bodies are vital this year.

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Here are my tips for creating more harmony/balance in Wood Dragon Year:

-To reiterate, practice embodiment. This balances out the potential for being too-in-my-head. It will also allow you to connect to your feminine wisdom.

-Ground your energy. Generally, in your daily practices, all rituals and routines will be grounding for you. But you may also need to periodically/daily run energy through your body, and down into the Earth.

-Watch out for over-indulgence, with alcohol, sweet foods, or anything expansive/yin. Since this year features expansion, you may enjoy brushing up on which foods can counterbalance this tendency toward excess.

-As well, you may find it’s extremely easy to get “caught up” in: Things, ideas, trends, visions, and emotions -including anger, a liver emotion- truly, anything that holds a seductive, expansive, growth-oriented quality for you.

-Not to be overstated: Use your own body’s feedback to balance all of this. For instance, the body expands and releases/contracts perfectly. The inhale breath is expansive. The exhale breath releases, deepens, contracts. This natural harmony is already within the body. Breathwork may help you.

-With so much expansion, choose your commitments wisely. Time is moving quickly; much will compete for your attention and time, this year. One thing I consistently teach my intuitive students is how to listen inward for your Divine YES. Not everything will be right for you, but how will you KNOW what is? When you get embodied, and listen inward, it becomes “intuitively obvious”, so obvious, in fact, that your YES feels matter of fact: Well, why wouldn’t I do that?! *To see an example of this technique in action, check out this popular reel of mine: This technique takes practice but it goes like this.

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With the above in mind… proceed to expand your creative ideas, visions and yes, your super-natural gifts! Many of us are experiencing enhanced intuition. I have also been seeing a lot of creative babies being conceived just on Substack alone. Creativity goes hand-in-hand with spirituality; they are on the same energy vibration (this is why so many creatives/artists are also healers, and vice versa). This is the year to expand your artist and healer!

I hope this was helpful- for you.

If you enjoyed the tips, please leave a comment and/or share… this helps me!

P.S.- Ready to expand into your Intuition in 2024? I love helping you to expand your Intuitive Awareness, and together, explore how your intuition works uniquely - just for you. My Intuitive classes are a resource for you.