Happy New Year of the Black Dragon.

OK, here are some of my ideas ... but first a previous note: I do not know much about feng shui or Chinese astrology, so those who want to have more accurate and professional information, talk with Vania Yotova (http://www.medicinachina.cl/fengshui.html, http://www.classic -fengshui.cl/index_02.php? ir = astrology), ...

I just want to share my thoughts ... so here they go ...

The dragon is a mythological creature. Is the only one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals that is not a real biological being. It is powerful and admired in China, is the symbol of the emperor, of authority, wisdom, power and wealth. The dragon is further characterized as a symbol of longevity.

The year of the Dragon offers great opportunities to develop different aspects of our lives: business, health, love and introspection. But these things do not come for free, the dragon asks us to make the effort, to make decisions, we have to work hard to achieve the reward.

It is said that no one can see both head and tail of the dragon at the same time, so this animal is considered unpredictable and very difficult to control. A Year of the Dragon will have these features and require greater care in taking forward out projects, be prepared and be flexible to strive changes. But we can also use the cunning of the dragon in our favor, not too soon revealing all our plans, using strategy and wisdom in timely dosages to meet our projects, not hurrying up, no lightheadedness, with patience and hard work, we can realize our projects. Remember also that the dragon is a protector being.

The dragon is primary an earth animal, but also contains water and wood. He combines pragmatism and reflection, intuition, logical thinking, essential vitality, creativity and energy. His nature is Yang, is activity, is doing, is acting out. This is not a year to dream, it is a year to act decisively, to use our vitality and creativity... but we must be grounded, rock solid, practical, useful driven thinking.

This is the year of the black dragon or water dragon. This dragon is a vital, essential, intuitive, carnal, and elementary being. This will be a year of great vitality; will be a year of onset, the source for many things to be developed in future years. One year for birth or be re-born from the deepest and most essential.

A year of water, water nourishes wood dragon. This is a year that can reveal the most creative part of the dragon, the development of innovations and new ideas, a year of great news and also an exciting year. But be careful, because when ideas fail to materialize then it comes frustration and depression, anger and helplessness ... it's a year when we may require all our capacity for tolerance and calm.

Work hard. Go ahead. Do.

Additionally, the 2012 water year will be yang in nature, the yang water invites us to action, procreation, sex activity, it is a year to make decisions, a year for daring, romance, almost a year of vital and essential "phallic" push that becomes an unstoppable force, a call for physical contact, the re-cognition of the other.

The year 1952 was the last black dragon in Chile and was the first time in history for women to vote for a presidential election, and Carlos Ibañez was elected president by democratic vote to start his second term, with the symbol of the broom to sweep away the corruption of traditional parties . He won the election by attacking the discredited politics ... Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina also assumed his second term ... while in Cuba, Fulgencio Batista leads a coup that will change the history of the island, and Elizabeth II is crowned queen in the UK, initiating a long-lived reign as the dragon longevity symbol, while Argentina Evita Peron will die.

In 1952 was signed the Declaration of Santiago between Chile and Peru ... which we will review in 2012. In a year of water our nations will return to discuss the territorial sea.

1952 was a year that incubated major changes and innovations: the polio vaccine to eradicate this sickness from the world, the journey of Che Guevara that will begin his legend, the invention of the bar code system that changed the retail, the US detonates the hydrogen bomb, the most destructive bomb invented by man, and this year was created the first video game in history (OXO)

So be prepared for a great 2012.

Hugo Cisternas S.