Year of the Dog - Woof Hey!

And that was that, the end of the Year of the Cock, a year in which you may have achieved much by way of many little steps or even great bounds but better still if you planted seeds to be found as treasures in this year ahead.

This coming one will feel like a year of searching but is really a year of finding. Yet there is much more to this. This is a unique year in that it is one of extreme positivity. What you seek you shall find BUT only if it is worth finding. If what you seek is deemed by the hound not to be worth the digging then you will discover that it was the digging itself you benefited from.

Natural yet positive force will lead, happy to trot out in front pretending to know the way yet often glancing back for confirmation that this really is the path you want. Pursue your dreams at the pace the dog chooses for you this year, if slow then enjoy the view, if fast then enjoy the wind and thrill. Yet always be content. The discovery will come - though you may not recognise it at first sniff. Even if you meander in a great circle you will return much richer than when you set out.

Happy Year of the Dog

Clear Skies

29th March Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Niger - be in one of there!

Year of the Rooster - Cock-a-doodle-do

The monkey was one hell of a beast, distractions aplenty. I found myself scuttling all over the world in a whirlwind of change with that simian clinging to my back.

But that was then and this is now.

Herald in a new age. Announce it proudly to the globe. Whether they like it or not all must be woken. It may be the chicken-coop but for this newest dawn the only place to be is on top of your world. Crow, but beware, don’t let it get to your head or someone else may chop it off. Its, as ever, a question of timing. Sing your song early and then spend the rest of your time feathering the nest and nurturing the hearth-fire. Moments of mad glory in an otherwise stable and foundation-laying year (no fear there’s always fun to be had). Self-satisfying rather than self-centred. Stay out of trouble. Ensure to lay many treasures this year in anticipation of the next, a better year for hatching plots.

Happy year of the Rooster.

Clear Skies

Pupation Time

A Gibbon and Her Lettuce

The Gibbon of Providence

Year of the Monkey

The naughty little monkey that leaps and bounds in front of us is sending the spirited message that he is not to be messed with. This is a time of great pride as well as dreams and aspirations.

How we deal with pride this year is likely to be the largest single determiner that will dictate to what degree any personal fulfilment is achieved. There is no doubt that this year will be an emotional one in which all aspects of your character will be brought into question - it is the kind of year that was not seen in the 20th Century. Highs and lows, peaks and troughs - all of these can be evened out with an equanimous attitude. A relaxed focus to action performance will consistently add to successful completion and increased productivity.

Success in any form can only be achieved by making the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.

Consider your motivation this year to be experimental within the general confines of society. This is not a year to break the mould but rather to cultivate it in a petri-dish. A thing begun this year or last will bloom next year and bear the most wondrous fruit. Instinct must drive the intellect in these pastures new.

The positive outlook to take is that EVERYTHING is still possible.


On a personal note, this last Goat Year was a real climber for me though at no point was I aware I was climbing.

Bee-hivoural Pathetiologists