Tuesday, February 15, 2011

CHINESE NEW YEAR

On February 3, 2011, the Chinese New Year began. This is the year of the rabbit.
Rabbits are lucky. So if you are married to one, dating one, or know one, just pet your rabbit's foot and maybe some of their luck will rub off on you.
The rabbit is a symbol of the moon. So on a nights of the full moon, hop on out to your garden, and while you're nibbling on lettuce leaves, visualize moon dust falling on you and flowing through you. This is not to say all you bunnies out there are loony, but becoming so could be as easy as skinning a rabbit.
The Chinese do not see a man in the moon. They see the moon rabbit, standing near a rock, under a Cassia tree, holding the elixir of immortality in his hands.
The year of the rabbit happens every 12 years. The other animals of different years are the tiger, ox, rat, pig, dog, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey and rooster. I think I was born the year of the dragon, cause I've been draggin' ever since.
Have a good hare day.

BLACK BIRDS

Four and twenty black birds baked in a pie, four and thousands of black birds dropped from the sky.
When the first four thousand black birds fell in Arkansas on New Year's Eve, it was thought perhaps fireworks could have been the blame. since more have fallen in other states and other countries, they are searching for another cause.
I could have been the weather; perhaps lightning or a hail storm.
It could have been noxious fumes.
It could have been old age.
It could have been a sonic boom.
It could have been power lines; flying too low.
It could have been the apocalyse. Maybe so, the general symobolism of the black bird connects it to ever lasting life.
It could have been a disease hitting them; like West Mississippi disease or something.
Maybe there's a world wide black bird mafia that is wiping them out.
Peasants actually used to eat the European black bird. Maybe groceries have gotten so high that folks are trying them again.
The black birds have been symbolic of the struggle between good and evil. Maybe evil is winning.
The black bird has been seen in paintings as foreshadowing of death. Maybe this is a warning.
Here are many possibilities to choose from Make your own choice.
OR..... maybe it was just their time to go.