The Year of Wood Dragon, a Live Forecast by CT Holman

Key Takeaways

okay great thank you so much for that great introduction happy New Year everyone welcome thank you so much for joining us I want to thank the TCM Academy for hosting this Dragon celebration my name is CT Holman I practice in Oregon it's on the West Coast of United States and I'm very honored to be here to carry on the tradition of my teacher lilan Pearl Bridges um I am very grateful to be able to carry the flame of doing the forecast for each year and I'll speak more about lyan in just a moment um I also want to thank my teacher Master Jong Shen Wu who's taught me a lot about astrology which I'll be sharing a lot of information from his teachings and his books and his wife's books and uh I do have my drum here be doing a little bit of drumming too to get in the groove of the year and like guy said uh the dragon isn't here yet but the energy is already starting to um take effect and so the dragon is born born on February 4th and then the celebrations begin on February 10th and um but I want to give you all a jump on what's coming and to start to feel that energy because we have a very powerful year in store and I have lots of stories to tell about the dragon what type of stories are dragons famous for long Tales okay so let's get started and first a disclaimer this is uh informational purposes only this is not to substitute medical diagnosis or treatment and like I said I'm carrying on Lillian's lineage of doing this uh forecast each year and I was very very honored by her Institute they asked me to do this I also want to thank my teacher Master Jun Shen Wu I've studied with him for 14 years and um he teaches me many things shamanic chiong um about the five elements um divination calligraphy and astrology and and these are some of the books that I used to formulate the forecast that um I'll be sharing today and that's written down um on lilian's website it's also on my website it'll soon be on the TCM Academy website um so anyways these are some of the books that Master woo um and his wife uh wrote and I use these for the prediction and so let's launch into the prediction shall we so we have the dragon now each year is made up of either Yin or yangong an element and then an animal so this year is the Y wood dragon or we can say the Y Green Dragon what types of dragons are green the ones who haven't ripened yet okay so dragon energetics dragon is about the center Direction it's about Earth so it's between Seasons it's going from the transition from spring into summer and so it represents the Earth element but it also has some wood energy with it too because it is in the wood Triad meaning that it shares the same area as the tiger and the rabbit which are wood animals so we have that energy but it represents the month of April and it's about magical transformation in nature big changes this is Mystical energy very powerful um the dragons tend to be healthy they also tend to be very emotional and I'll talk more about that because we are going to see more emotions Rising this year and there's many things that we can do to help keep ourselves centered and grounded because we do have that grounded energy of the Dragon we can really utilize that to keep our emotions from taking over there's some food choices I'll talk about more in a moment so the Earthly branch of this year 2024 is the dragon or Chen and it represents the organ of stomach and the weather pattern is tyong or cold water and the hourly um energetic is the stomach Channel so if you look at the um at the 12 animals and you make that into a clock each you know two hours represents a different segment of that um of those animal times and so we have the dragon represents 5 to seven that's the stomach Channel it just happens to be a coincidence that the organ and channel are the same okay so we have a lot of Earth Energy coming up we have nurturing energy um this welcoming so we want to remember to welcome ourselves this year this is a big transformation that we're going to be going through internally with each one of us and we want to welcome and accept ourselves and we can utilize that energy from the dragon to do that we're going to see a lot more Gatherings more um more trust more receiving this is the kind of energy that the dragon is bringing so we want to land on this energy versus going into paranoia or anger or aggression or fear we can really receive that welcoming acceptance energy from the dragon now there's also wood this year because it's a wood Dragon year so the wood represents change Thunder shifting moving forward lots of action lots of momentum this is about pioneering it's about creating something new or exploring something new this is about the dragon really transforming within you and you're going to be bringing out new things about yourself this year and so as you that you're going to feel internal changes and it's about really tuning into that and feeling those emotions and so one thing that I recommend I learned this from a counselor years ago is we're going to have a lot of emotions coming up this year and instead of saying oh I'm feeling anxious or oh I'm feeling angry and I'm going to run and get on my cell phone or call my friend or go do something instead don't even worry about what the emotion is and don't try to run from it just sit with it and feel where is it in your body I'm feeling my emotion maybe in my solar plexus it the color is red and it's vibrating and it's heavy um or whatever it is you start to qualify that and sit with that emotion and breathe and you'll start to feel your palms and your souls tingling that is that emotion releasing so we can utilize the energy of the Dragon this powerful transformation to transform those old emotions and patterns within our body because anger can certainly come up and we might also have immunity issues this year Year too um because the wood energy has a lot to do with the immune system so the more you can do to help keep your energy flowing the healthier you'll be this is also a year of Ethics so wood also represents ethics and we're going to see um some justice and that kind of thing happened this year so yangong so we have a yangong wood Dragon so there's yangong energetics again more of this forward momentum action daytime Sunshine so you're hearing a lot of movement a lot a lot of power a lot of forward momentum because we have yangong we have wood and we have the dragon so all these energetics are very powerful and um it's very important that we look at um the combination of Earth and wood here so in a healthy Forest we have healthy soil that's providing nutritious energy for the trees to grow in and they Thrive now if we do too much wood energy if we grow the forest too quickly and too strongly then we can actually get depleted Earth Energy it can't support the trees and the trees will fall over so we don't want to go too strong we don't want to come um uh go about things in a really powerful way that depletes our energy we want to manage that so like I said we're grounding through this year because there's going to be so much forward momentum that we can get caught up in that we want to stay grounded stay rooted um because another thing about this year with this being an Earth year there can be a lot of overthinking there can be worry and that can deplete the Earth Energy and so it doesn't have that nutritional foundation for the trees to be in and the trees will fall over so again it's really finding that balance of forward action and staying grounded and receiving energy so the dragon they're very creative they're romantic um it's a very powerful force they can penetrate Rock So dragons are said to live in the Rock and then they can uh come up through the water and emerge and soar into the air they don't have wings but they're able to soar and there's a really great chiong that Master Buu teaches uh where we literally soar around the room as dragons and it's very powerful um now the thing about dragons is that they can get overwhelmed we talked about that Earth Energy overthinking over processing and they can give up on tasks that they don't want to deal with so we can be encountering a lot of um I guess we're going to be encountering a lot of responsibility this year a lot of tending to our own inner environments and that can be overwhelming at times especially if we're feeling all this emotional energy that we might want to give up and say oh forget it I don't want to deal with that but we want to try to really work with this transformational energy that is a foot this year now dragons can be critical or unhappy this really represents this is the most I think this is one of the most important things of this year is the dragon represents the transition from teenager to young adult so we're going from that Springtime energy which is like the youth the teenager into the summertime which is going to be more the mature adult time so the dragon represents that transition so just as you remember as being a teenager there's a lot of emotion there's a lot of Chang there a lot of different hats are putting on and trying on different things and trying to be uh you know try to find your way try to find your path the dragon energy will really help you that with that this year I know you aren't teenagers now but we all have that youth within us and it is about uh really growing up so to speak and making those transitions so I want to talk about a couple things about dragons and there's different types of dragons there's Earth dragons these are dragons that um you see these clouds that kind of hug the mountains and The Ridges those are called Earth dragons then the clouds that hover right over the water those are called water dragons and then the um the clouds that are up in the sky these are sky dragons why did they build the Dragon School in the clouds it was a high school okay so with the young wood Dragon year or the green dragon there's many things that we want to look at in terms of pointers so one thing that's really important is we have Rising yangong energy the dragon wants to rise up and we have all that surging energy we we can utilize that to clear out old negative belief systems because that's something that we're going to be wanting to uh release this year we want to cultivate cultivate patience there is a lot of this forward momentum but things don't happen instantly there's this slow building energy over the year so we want to cultivate our patience and not be too hard on ourselves we're going to undergo a lot of transformation but it's not going to happen instantly um there's going to be a lot of community and there's going to be a a focus on sustainability this year because the dragon represents the Earth and we want to be able to be sustainable so I'm hoping we're going to see a lot of changes with that in the environment again we want to ground ourselves and we want to weigh out decisions one thing about the dragon because it has a little bit of that wood energy and this is a wood Dragon Year wood represents the ability to look at all the possibilities and then make the accurate choice at the right time and that's something that we can really land on with this wood energy we're going to be called upon to make some changes we're going to be called upon to make decisions and we're going to want to really breathe take our time and look at all the possibilities that are there before we choose because it is really important for us to be um processing in a way that's not overwhelming or not um overthinking but we do want to take our time to really make those decisions because the thing about the dragon is it can be a little bit waffling it can decide on something and then change its mind and then oh change his mind to this there can be a lot of changeability this year and a lot of sea changes you know we have a certain direction we're going oh we're going to go this direction we're going to go this direction so we're going to be called upon to really navigate our internal environment our external environment of where are we going we're transitioning from a young adult or sorry if a teenager to a young adult adult and so in that time we might change our mind so make sure you're staying grounded we don't want wood to overact on Earth this is where do emotionality can really play a part so the more grounded we are the more we're nurturing our Earth element the better the wood will be able to interact with um another energetic Master woo mentioned with the dragon the hexagram for this year for the dragon really represents a body of water that's overflowing it's like a dam that's full to bursting it requires that drainage so we have all this powerful energy coming forward and we want to see how we're going to direct that this is a great year to cleanse our body to prepare for this metamorphosis of going from teenager to young adult and so like I mentioned with those emotions we're trying to help clear things out and keep things moving and not get stuck in Old patterns and that's a big part of this year again the transition Life Energy is growing really fast so there is all that momentum and we want to stay grounded as we do that okay so for weather patterns the weather for this year is represented as taong or cold water so um in contrast to this 2023 year um this year coming up is going to have a lot more rain a lot more the potential flooding snow ice storms freezing rain all these kind of things so um when I look at the weather pattern I predicted for last year I was lucky because I said it would be a pretty mild year and certainly where I live in the northwest of the United States it's been very mild in fact today it's sunny it's probably going to be in the 50s uh Fahrenheit which is amazing for January in Oregon so uh we've had a very mild year and there's been mild weather throughout the globe however this next year we're going to see a change in that and we're also going to see more earthquakes uh last year year there were more earthquakes under the under the ocean this year we're going to see more earthquakes on land so um something just to be aware of all right so uh looking at the health for this year wood can overact on Earth we want to make sure we keep regular exercise to keep our wood element moving and flowing we also want to choose what we digest um this is an important aspect this is something lilan talked a lot about we'd look at you we look at the face we look at the nose bridge look at the corners of the mouth look at the lips to understand how someone's digestion is working and one thing that Lan would talk about is it's not just the food that you're eating and the food that you're eating by the way it doesn't need to be the best food ever all it's all organic I have the best water imaginable that's great yes we want you to eat you know meat that's um ethically harvested however you also want to eat what makes you feel good it's not just like having these rich rigid meals that are just providing your nutrition you want to feel a lift in energy and that Chi building and Chi kind of bubbling up um L would do this thing that would be like when you eat food I can't do it l did it so great um but is also besides food it's what you're digesting in your environment what's you know what are you watching what movies are you watching you watch a lot of horror movies lots of fear is going to be put into your body you watch a lot of um romantic movies that can take you out of being grounded you have to stay in your energy and so watch what you're taking in you know all the news watching news news news that can be pretty intense so and what you read so this is really something that you want to be mindful of this year again cultivate presence and play we want to have fun so what type of competition do the best Dancing Dragons compete in a talent show okay so looking back at the the yin waterer rabbit um I had predicted about the weather I also predicted there'd be a lot more um legal uh I guess legislation uh for water and for trees for the forests and fortunately last year there were some legislation that went there some legislation that went through um in California they stopped Nestle from bottling the water that was going into Lake Arrowhead there's also a Clean Water Act that happened to protect water for um uh for the different uh Native folks in the United States and then there was a forest act to stop the um purchase of illegally harvested wood um you know from different forests throughout the uh world and then also some um local legislation for United States on the forest so we did see some of that which is great and hope to see more in this year now we have to remember when the dragon is born in February it's just a little baby dragon and so it has to take time to mature over the years or over the year and so um you know the first part of the year and we're looking at Spring February March and April the dragon is just starting to get its footing it's a it's a baby it's going to be a kid and then a teenager and then in the summertime when we're looking at um May June and July the dragon is more mature so if you're trying to start something new you don't want to start it in February necessarily you might start the beginnings the thoughts of it your your plan but when you go to take action it'd be better to do it more in either mid to late April or into May June and July so say you want to start a new business or start a new um I don't know whatever it is you're going to have it slowly go over the years so take your time it doesn't need to be instant um so looking at the foods we do want to eat more green veggies this is going to help support the liver soybeans excuse me and black beans uh the beans are going to help to support the the Earth Energy we can have more sour remember sour is the flavor of the wood element and sour helps to soften the wood energy so when there's that aggression that tension that anger if we have more sour Foods it does help to relax the muscles relax the body you can even do two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and water that's what I do here every morning um uh you can also just put it on veggies as well and fish is also recommended this year and for those of who are adventurous I recommend doing um making soup broth out of Bones and liver and I do that uh usually about every month maybe every 45 days and I make this huge pot of uh soup with root vegetables and again root vegetables be great with this because the root vegetables are going to help support the Earth and then I have this huge pot of uh soup that I make with different organs and root vegetables I strain it off and I have that liquid and I put it into one cup containers freeze it and then every morning I have that for breakfast it's excellent now for business um we're looking at uh creativity so the thing about dragons is they're very creative and they really honor the professions of designers Constructors painters musicians Engineers advertising these will all thrive in the upcoming year and um we're going to see a lot of remodeling new construction I didn't put this in the written uh forecast and I was thinking about this and remembering this is an Earth year and so in Earth people are more in their homes they're they're they're shifting they're changing their homes they're redecorating this is something that can happen this year you might build a new home and because it's a wood year that's about construction as well it's wood it's Wood Products so people building homes um but anything related to Wood will Thrive so it could be exercise the exercise industry will be really great this year um you might find uh you know people who are leaders Pioneers adventurers Adventure companies they will do really great this year because they're going out into nature and they're having that mystical transformation in nature so we'll see a lot of that as well we also see a lot of um Community efforts and these being highlighted and that's something we want to be really uh mindful of with business but also in social settings that Community is important and we want to bring that compassion because anger uh is not a is not a constructive emotion right it's going to be more destructive so we can utilize uh compassion to transform the anger now anger can also be a motivator you know it can motivate you to change but you want to watch that and you know anger is not bad no emotion is bad it's just that wind that passes through and moves on it doesn't get stuck and so again this is you using that energy of the Dragon to transform those emotions so we can be better in a better person in our community we can really strive to be the best we can and that's something that we'll be working on and you'll see us with business as well you'll see this in your in your own um uh business that you'll be asked to collaborate and this is very interesting because like guy had mentioned that um I believe he mentioned this that Rebecca Aon and I will be doing a talk on pediatrics at the end of this month and that's a collaboration effort and um there's a lot of different collaborations that will happen this year and you might be surprised at um who asks you to collaborate like in fact I'll be doing I forgot about this I'll be doing a talk uh with this friend of mine who works at a pottery studio and the the talk is going to be about connecting with the clay and essentially she'll be teaching people about being being on the wheel and holding the clay and connecting with that Earth of the clay which is perfect for the dragoner um and then there's going to be a woman there to talk about yoga and posture and how you hold your body to ground and then I'll be doing drumming so this is a really interesting collaboration in a Pottery Studio I'll be talking about the Chinese energetic shamanic uh energies as I'm doing drumming to help people ground and root they'll be touching clay which is very earthy and rooted and they'll be working on their posture and sit and seated so um there each posture will strengthen a different element so to strengthen the Earth element you're going to want to sit so at any rate you're going to see these interesting collaborations coming forward and things that you might certainly weren't expecting um but go with it you know it resonates in your in your spirit in your soul and you feel it go for it okay so in terms of Rel relationships we're going to have more passion this year we had passion last year because and the year before because we had two wood animals and wood is about passion a lot of people think that um the fire element is about passion fire element is more about flirting it's about fun it's about Joy but wood is really the element of passion and um carrying something forward so if you meet someone um it's really taking that energy and moving forward with it so we're going to see a lot of that but we're also going to see a lot of people waffling changing their minds a lot so you want to be very clear if you're in a relationship you want to be very clear about the direction of it if you're not in a relationship there's a good chance you're going to meet someone this year be very diligent and um take your time and really get to know that person to really understand their energetics and then you'll have a better uh ability to make a clear decision you know if you just jump right into something that's not recommended this year this is an Earth year Earth is about slow steady Rhythm and so again going back to the health aspect it's about having a rhythm in your life um there's a lot of people who like who thrive on chaos this is not the year for you this is a year of routine this is a year of you regular meal times regular waking times regular sleeping times regular exercise the dragons really Thrive by getting about 30 minutes of exercise every day because it's a dragon year I think it'd be good for all of us to get exercise every day we should anyways but especially this year because if we're keeping ourselves moving then we're moving out the old patterns and we're also moving out any tension or um angst that can come up now each person is going to be different and you know when we do face reading we look at the eyebrows and we look at how thick are the eyebrows the thicker the eyebrows the more cardio you need if you're your eyebrows are thin then you're going to want to do more yoga stretching this type you know gentle walking this type of exercise if you look at my eyebrows here my eyebrows are medium to strong so you can maybe judge by that but if you look at lilian's book she has many examples of eyebrows in there as well and then um uh I believe there's some lectures on TCM Academy from Lilian there's some lectures that I've done on TM Academy about face reading but you can look at your eyebrows decide how much exercise you should do but we want to stay moving at the same time we want to stay grounded because if we're able to breathe and get into our energy so just for a moment I want us all just to breathe into our lower Donan and just feel that breath going in and out really grounding and connecting one thing that I have found very helpful is as we're doing this let's do a Chong little posture here just for a moment it's something that Master woo taught me and um you're sitting in your chair you're sitting upright you're not leaning back on the chair you're sitting a little forward so you're upright and your spine is straight your head is upright we're making if you if you would like to we're making what's called a taii mudra and you're putting for women you're putting your right hand on your lower abdomen and then putting your left hand on top for minut it's the opposite and so a right below our belly button that's where our hands are and so you're sitting in your chair your feet are planted firmly on the FL floor the toes are pointed forward but the toes are holding the ground they're clutching the ground this is a posture I learned from Master Jong Shan Wu and um your eyelids are relaxed it's called closing the curtain so you can just barely make out the tip of your nose your mouth is closed your teeth are gently touching your tongue is touching your upper tooth rdge you're breathing in that Universal light energy with all the pores of your skin and your lungs and as you breathe out imagine releasing letting all the old energy go now imagine breathing in that Universal light energy with your lungs and all the pores of your skin this time as you breathe out imagine the energy condensing in your lower abdomen seeing that red Golden Ball going brighter and stronger with each out breath so you're just gently breathing slow smooth deep and even connecting within listening within so this is the posture I learned from Master Jang Shan Wu one thing that I add to this and so this is something I've added this is not something Master wo taught me um but I learned this from someone um in the past where you imagine a cable going down from your spine going down deep deep deep deep into the Earth and then wrapping around a gigantic Boulder a big rock deep in the ground and then it's wrapping around and you're tethering yourself to the Earth and you're connecting to the Earth and you're feeling yourself being rooted centered grounded make sure to lift your perineum and open up the point on the top of your head that allows the universal light energy to pour into your body just a couple more breaths and then we can close and seal the energy that we've just generated by making the sound hung like I hung the picture on the wall but you're keeping your mouth closed your teeth gently touching tongue touching up her tooth rdge so it sounds like H and you're going to want to feel that sound resonate in your lower abdomen so we can try that together so taking a breath in two more times we can release mudra thank you so the idea is is to stay grounded when you're um in your relationship ship or going into a new relationship you want to utilize compassionate speech we want to be mindful with how we speak to each other um the dragon does provide this inherent stability presence and acceptance remember that that Earth Energy it's going to give you the stability being present also feeling welcomed feeling accepted and so that's something we really want to work on this year for ourselves is accepting ourselves and really accepting who we are as individuals you know we were I was talking with with guy before we started and he said he wished he was a dragon cuz he wanted to be really like you know fancy and really fly around as a dragon figure out what you have inside what do you want what is true to you and really go for it okay so um looking at the future here um this year is a wood Earth year again very active year moving forward next year is going to be the snake year it's going to be a wood snake snake is inherently fire so we have wooden fire we have a very active year next year and then into 2026 we have a young fire horse year that's the most fiery year we can have um this could either be a very explosive wild crazy year or it could be a year of great insights and idea creativity so I'm hoping for that the latter I'm hoping for the more creative insightful uh this type of year playful year um but what I'm trying to get at is we have had a lot of action years we had the tiger then we had the rabbit now we have the dragon then we're going to have snake by the way um what uh why did the snake uh think they were a dragon it was a his steak okay my kids do not like that joke I hope you guys can bear with me on that so the bottom line is so we have this energy building it's all this forward momentum all the way up to 2026 so we have a lot of uh growth and with that Ford momentum it can become more aggressive or it can become more creative and productive what we're seeing happen is a lot of polarization we saw that beginning in the year of the rat with covid and and it just kind of continued what I've been praying for and what I've been encouraging is for rest of work together to be able to see the gray areas to be able to see other people's perspective to put yourself in other people's shoes to really embody that compassionate Community working together energy this will help us arrive in 2026 in a more creative playful way versus arriving at 2026 in a fighting way so we I again encouraging uh the the working together and really trying to collaborate we have the energy available this year to do that it's an Earth year we have Community that's highlighted so if we can really go with that if we can accept ourselves if we can AC accept our neighbors love thy neighbor we want to be able to work together so that's what I'm really hoping for um as we're going up into 2026 okay so uh in terms of individual animals um the charm for this year is a rooster rooster is the secret friend of the dragon and so the animals that could see some challenges this year are rabbits dogs and Dragons who aren't turning 60 this year you know if you're turning 60 in in in your year your dragon year that's a very powerful lucky year but if you're a dragon and you're not turning 60 this year you're going to want to carry a rooster charm now there is an auspicious Triad of animals um this year it's Dragon monkey and rat so monkey and rat have extra luck this year and again dragons who are turning 60 also have extra luck now to determine what animal you are you have to look at your bodza so when you're born you are you have a certain year certain month a certain day a certain hour and so those are four different animals that you're dealing with so when you're uh your year animal that represents who you are um when you're a child so this is up until you're about 20 you're your year animal but then when you turn 20 and you go from about 20 to 60 when you're in your adult years this is going to be a your day animal and then once you turn 60 and above you become your hour animal so we have to look at this so let say this woman Jane Doe this is her chart so she is a young Earth tiger she's a y fire dragon she's a Yin wood rooster and a Yin metal snake so when she's a kid she's really embodying the tiger energy but then when she becomes an adult she becomes a rooster which would be um interesting for her this year because it's kind of like an extra charm so she has some extra luck this year but if she was say 65 she would be a snake so you have to figure out what animal you are based on your age now the month is an influencer this just influences through your life so you have to figure this out now um there are apps out there I don't have an app that I recommend if you really want to do a boder reading I don't do that Master woo does that and you can go to his website uh Master Jong Shen wo it's um Chinese wisdom traditions and you can uh connect with him and ask him about doing a vza because we have a lot of energy this year and it's nice to figure out what animal you are um in my prediction in the written prediction I go through each one of the animals and have um energetics that I mention about that so you can look at those and read those I don't want to get too much into individual animals in the Q&A today but um that's something that I did um clearly delineate in the prediction so you can look at that okay so I thought we'd do a little bit of drumming and I wanted to do the Earth drum beat because the dragon represents the Earth the center Direction and uh why are dragons such good musicians they know their scales okay so I'm a drummer a lot of people would consider me not a musician but uh I'm going to be doing the drumming for you for those of you who can read music this is the Rhythm for the Earth drum beat what I find very interesting with this beat is it's really made up of two parts I learned this beat from my teacher Toby Christensen and this beat is um something that him and his teacher meloda s came up with based on the traditional rhythms of mad's uh nation and um I found it uh very helpful in terms of working with Chinese medicine and East Asian medicine and connecting with the Earth and and connecting with the spleen the stomach the pancreas and so the Earth drum beat is it's very interesting uh the first part of it is like a heartbeat so that's the earthbeat um or that's the heartbeat of Mother Earth and then we connect with Mother Earth by walking on the earth and rooting ourselves so we have the heartbeat and then all steps [Music] so that is how the Earth drum beat is made up now in this one I'd like you all to sit if you wouldn't mind and doing that same seated posture that we just talked about where you're seated in your chair your back is straight your head is upright your feet are planted firmly on the floor toes pointed forward toes clutching the ground lifting your parum opening up the point on the top of the head do 20 allowing that Universal energy to pour into your body make the taii mudra remember for women it's right hand on your lower abdomen with the left hand on top as your thumbs are linked like this men it's the opposite and you're um seated in your chair your eyelids are relaxed you can barely make out the tip of your nose the tip of the nose represents the heart in lelan Pearl's face reading Lan Pearl bridges' face reading lineage and when we do this posture we are trying to connect with our heart we're trying to go within we're listening within so as you make out the tip of your nose you can connect with your heart your mouth is closed your teeth are gently touching your tongue is touching your upper tooth rdge you're breathing in that Universal light energy with your lungs and all the pores of your skin as you breathe out imagine releasing letting all the old energy go now imagine breathing in that Universal light energy with your lungs and all the pores of your skin and then as you breathe out imagine the energy condensing in your lower abdomen seeing that red Golden Ball glowing brighter and stronger with each out breath so doing your gentle slow smooth deep even breathing and then I'm going to start doing the Earth drum be as I do it I would like you to connect with the earth I want you to think about that welcoming energy accepting yourself just doing a body scan right now even just scanning your body and seeing where you might feel any areas of tension any areas where you feel lighter and more free and just connect with those areas and then as I do the drum beat imagine the drum beat helping you to shift any areas of tension to shift those and let those go and so again you're doing your gentle breathing you're identifying where are you feeling those areas of tension and what does it feel like is it vibration is it heavy is it light is it Airy is it dense is what color is it what shape is it where is it and as you do that do your breathing gently and you'll start to feel your hands and palm your palms and your soles of your feet tingling and that's energy releasing let that energy go to Mother Earth let Mother Earth transform that okay so now we're going to start the Earth drum beam [Music] the [Music] the [Music] the [Music] the keep doing your breathing stay with that energy I'm going to do a closing with the Earth um for the Earth beat and we're going to close this to get you nice and rooted and grounded [Music] Within [Music] okay so now you can just gently open your eyes you can kind of wiggle your fingers WI your legs kind of shake the energy a bit I hope you all could feel that shifting within and connecting with your inner environment and that's a big part of what we're doing this year as we connect with our community with uh family and really accept ourselves and accept others so um that is the earth drum beat if you want to hear the drum beat more you can go to my website redwoods spring.com and under the tab of free media um you'll scroll down and you'll see the Earth drum beat recorded and you can listen to that and this is something I want to have as an offering so for this year if you do feel you know a little bit overwhelmed or feeling the strong emotional surges or just feeling um like you aren't able to get a direction or centered you can listen to that drum beat or just in general just listen to it I have a lot of people who listen to the um various Elemental beats while they're making food or um when they're exercising or in the clinic whatever but I want you to be able to have that available to you so you can use that okay so um little bit about me like uh guy said in the beginning if you want to read the prediction go to Redwood spring.com um I also do virtual face readings I have a virtual mentorship program I have online classes and um I do have this lecture coming up with Rebecca I'm very honored to work with Rebecca she is um one of the world's leading experts on Pediatrics and uh we're going to be talking about identifying the elemental makeup and kids and uh recommendations that you can give to the parents to help the um the children thrive in their Elemental makeup and so we'll be talking about that that will be on January 27th um and you can register for that on the TCM Academy website and so now uh it looks like um we will go for some questions and uh sounds like we might have some questions in here guy yeah yeah we have and you already made a promotion for this upcoming lecture so thank you very much I'm totally excited about it I have to say it I think combines like you said Rebecca is is a pediatric expert one of the leading uh nowadays and you are one of the leading experts on face reading so I think this combination is really beneficial and what I learned from Rebecca or through Rebecca and and other teachers is that the better we understand children the better we understand adults so I think this combination which you will be offering together um might really help anybody so I really recommend everybody to join us um I have a first question you said you have a medium siiz uh eyebrows what do you think are mine should I do a lot of running a lot of yoga yours are pretty medium let me see a little closer there yeah um yeah guy yours are pretty medium you can do some cardio you can do your running and your uh I don't know a triathon but you can definitely do a little more cardio that's open for you yeah good good because that's a much better attraction for me than yoga so I'm more likely to be running in the woods yeah and you have what's called father's blessing you have this really nice space between your eyebrows so that um is uh you're were really given that ability to feel like you could be out in the world and do your thing so that was a very uh great blessing from your from your dad or from whatever male was in your life yeah now I also got a private reading that's cool thank you City so yeah we have quite a lot of questions um actually I was surprised that few of them are asking about the exogram of this year um if you like to say anything about it I don't though well you know I'm not going to pretend to be an expert in hexagrams I'm really not um I have that's one of my weaker areas um I'm really working on divination but it's of all the different aspects it's one of my um less strongs so I'm just going by what Master woo said I don't want to go too much into the detail of the hexagram just because I don't know much about it and I don't want to pretend like I'm some expert but hexagram is basically um these six lines they can either be a solid line or a broken line line and they're what we use in the eing to understand different energetics so the Ancients um starting with fushi who is was the Shaman King he came up with the bwa which are the trigrams these are three lines so they can to be a solid or broken three lines and they represent these different energetics in nature and from the bwa that's how the eing was uh created and they put the two um uh guas on top of each other so it became a hexagram and um there's 64 hexagrams and those represent 64 different energetics that we can experience as individuals or in nature or just the energy of life and so the hexagram for the dragon is this energy of water that's full to bursting like it's a dam that's ready to overflow and you have to drain it and so that's the energy of the year so each animal has a hexagram It's associated with and we can look at that to get more understanding of the symbolism of the Year cool I really like the answer and I think we should always keep honesty with within what we are doing um and I have these other questions uh first I have to say there were a lot of happy people in the crowd uh turning 60 being a dragon this year so many people were celebrating uh in the chat I might send it to you later um there's a question from the southern hemisphere uh asking if does the dragon arrive in maturity in the southern hemisphere where the seasons are reversed how do you approach this yeah it's very interesting so it is flipped um of course in the Southern Hemisphere and so you all are going into uh Springtime right now or sorry into into uh fall and so it is reversed but it's still the energy even though I hear what the qu I think I understand the question is saying is that you know for starting and fall that represents more like the senior years and the later years of life and so it is it's inverted in that sense but the dragon is still being born right now so whether it's Autumn or spring it's still that energy of newness so even though it is the Autumn time for those in the southern hemisphere it's still the beginnings of the year so it's that same idea that it would really be the winter time is when you would do more of like take action and move forward because the dragon's a little bit older at that time so I believe that was the question I believe so too and I think it's always interesting to to think about it it's good you address you can address it because we had so many people from uh down there today um so here's another related question I was born in 1964 which would make me a dragon but you also said that at this age my animal is determined by the months or day so I'm not a dragon oh here it again should they it's a complex question yeah um to figure out what animal you are um if you're born in 64 so uh let's see so if you're yeah so uh I believe you're turning 60 this year so you should be uh um you know very good luck for you so you're animal so you're turning 60 so you're Dragon um from your year but we have to know what hour you were born and then we could determine what animal you are now that you're going into at 60 and so um we'd have to look at that so say for example you were born at um 1: in the afternoon or let's say you were born at 12:50 in the afternoon um that would make you a horse and so you're going into horse energy but you still have that Dragon good luck since you're you know turning 60 so really this is where we're getting into more the individual animals and um I don't want to do too much of that because that's something that's going to be so specific for each person um and you can certainly go and uh get a reading with Master woo to find out what animal you are but again like I said when you're a kid um you are your year animal Once you turn around 20 then you become your day animal Once you turn 60 you become your hour animal and that month animal animal is just an influencer IT influences your whole chart so for example my month is monkey and so I have monkey as an influencer um as you can see I like to move around and all this kind of stuff and I can't be kind of monkey like uh but I monkey has good luck energy this year so I'm hoping that good luck energy can help me because I'm my day animal is dog so I'm a dog right now and dog has challenges this year so I'm hoping that monkey influencing energy will offset those challenges and I can really be uh flowing well this year I like the monkey uh energy you bring with the jokes I have to say I was thinking to collect all the small jokes and put them together as short video I really enjoy this part of the lecture I wanted to let you know um I think we will take one more last question maybe because I think it's good for all of us this question and then we can summarize for today it's a since it's a wood ragon would it be good to set realistic goals for this year or should we not focus on this realistic question uh goals for this year what is is the dragon maybe it's it's too big the dragon I think you mentioned something before about the the wood balancing the the dragon in a way the a is maybe you can what should I set myself for this year maybe if I understand the question correctly yeah I think I understand what the question is do you want to be more realistic or be more um kind of just reaching and over the top I think you could do either one um what is really important this year is being realistic with yourself and grounding and staying within your energy so what can happen is there can be kind of this mystical Fantastical romantic energy that you can start to tune into and that will take you away from being grounded so what you're going to want to find the balance with is I think you can go for more uh um I don't know just uh taking a chance and going for something that's you know a big shift you can do that because the dragon is about transformation and about that mystical energy shifting I mean think of what that energy is like when you were a teenager going to a young adult how much power and you really were doing some pretty different things so I think it's okay to uh you know go for something that might be over the top or something big but stay grounded and making sure you're doing your breathing you know one thing I mentioned in the in the written forecast was doing things like Forest bathing and um you know doing that connection with the Earth where you walk on the earth Barefoot or you know like I mentioned that thing with the cable going down into the Earth this will help you to stay rooted because you're going to be faced with lots of opportunities lots of choices lots of change and again use the wood energy that we're have this year to be really good with your strategy and so to look at all the options you might have some really wildly creative interesting something you've never done before options that could be very viable and they could be very good for you but look at all the options stay grounded root yourself listen to the Earth drum beat breathe do your um all the techniques you can you can even wear yellow and brown those are colors that will help to ground you that's more of a fun thing and then you can see is that option something that will work for you tune in to your inner environment and really listen to what your heart is saying what is your higher self telling you and maybe that something that seems over the top is actually a really good thing for this year so it's really it's not about having to be very um conservative and to be uh you know really too cautious but you want to make sure you're staying grounded in your decision making and maybe it will be something that's really over the top and something wild um and creative because remember the dragons are very creative too and they have that energy but remember that the dragon can feel overwhelmed at times and want to give up on tasks so make sure whatever task you're choosing is something that you feel is within your reach within within your ability because you don't want to exhaust yourself and then exhaust the Earth and then the tree is going to fall over so it's finding that balance but it is a creative year and it is a year that is asking us to uh go outside our comfort zones release old belief systems and to really step into a new way of being and I know we can all do it and I'm I I believe in you guy I believe and everyone who's here we can make this happen and really uh enjoy the Bounty that is uh being presented thank you city thank you thank thank you very much it was really beautiful to have you here again it was a inspiring hour uh I'm going to head out to read now the forecast uh for those of you who missed it again I say there are other things mentioned in the written forecast on City website soon on the TCM Academy website um check out other cities classes if you interested and join us in the end of the month for his class with Rebecca city thank you so much I wish this will be here for all of us to connect to be inspired from each other I really heard what you say love th neighbor so let us all connect to the people around us let our medicine and emotions vibrate to our communities for a beautiful 2024 beautiful Dragon Year sounds awesome yes very much yeah thank you guys thank you for hosting thank you to Patricia too thank you to TCM Academy I hope to see you all at the end of the month with Rebecca and wishing you all a wonderful year thank you again guy and here we go see the year thank you everyone byebye [Music] bye-bye