Spring: Dragon Raises its Head
By Phoenix the Elder – I am a purist and creative at heart and I have never been a follower of festivals of getting drunk or high that western religions tend to do. Today on Mardi Gras, I celebrate and honor the Dragon Raises its Head Festival. The Chinese Dragon Heads Raising Day falls on […]
Dragons, Drakonia and Draco
By Phoenix the Elder – Like all evolutions, the Dragons who had power still do and they still roam the earth, but one must be an advanced dreamer to really experience them. The female dragons are gentle and powerful in their nature and very different from male dragons. They are a collective animism soul and […]
Vernacular Fiction and Celestial Script: A Daoist Manual for the Use of Water Margin
Introduction: Bugang is the “pacing the Stars of the Big Dipper” which combines two Chinese words, bu meaning to step; tread; or pace (off)” and gang 罡 which means the “Big Dipper ( stars in the handle of the Big Dipper”). The variant bugang 步綱 “pacing the guideline”, uses a different gang word 綱 “headrope […]
Water and Science
By Phoenix the Elder – Water 101 – Dr. Masaru Emoto in late 1990s wrote a book from his experiments of attaching different messages (words) and taped these words to the bottles filled with with water samples to see what crystals formed. He tested under a microscope how the crystals would appear negative or positive depending […]
Water Dragons
I finally finished my Water Dragon from a piece of driftwood that I found at the lake near Elder Mountain. Generally its a good place to find small driftwood pieces. ~Phoenix