Enter the Year of Dragon

Fortune-telling is a big business nowadays and if you’re at a bookstore you will see all sorts of magazines and books on astrology, horoscope, feng-shui, Tarot and so on. People regardless of race or religion seem to be very concern about predictions and their impacts on every scope of their lives.

In the past many years, I had read a lot of such books at the beginning of a lunar year just to have some insights into some information that is crucial to me over the next 12 months. I was particularly interested in the auspicious months that showing good sign for wealth so that I can try my luck on the lottery. Well, my experience taught me that those predictions from the feng-shui books were mostly far from accurate. There are 7 billion people in this world and how could it be only 12 Chinese zodiac or 12 horoscopes to predict the future of the astronomical number of the people.

Each of us is walking our own path and if you believe in horoscope, is the Scorpions like me who was born in Malaysia, sharing the same fate as those born in Africa, India, Indonesia, China, America or Europe? Geneticists will tell you that all of us are made of different set of genes and there will be no two individual that is sharing the identical DNA and how could 7 billion people be generally categorized into 12 zodiacs sharing the same fate?     

Life is unpredictable, every moment the clock is clicking, a completely new thing might just crop up and there is no way to predict it. Do you believe in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar that 2012 marks the end of the world? Well, we have to wait for another 12 months to see if it actually happens. Could there be more natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, wars occurring in the year of dragon? There are so many predictions by so many experts but whether these predictions are really going to happen or not only time will tell.  

One thing is for sure, there will be more Chinese couples getting married in 2012 in hoping to give birth to the dragon babies and such phenomenon are recurring every 12 years as Chinese no matter in the past or present, seem to like the dragon although this mystical creature could only be the fictional one. To me, that’s nothing wrong in reading into the predictions, the good one will make us happy and for the bad one, just take it lightly or take it as a precaution and doing things more carefully so as to avoid the bad one from happening.