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It would be right to say that people born in the year of the dragon have a natural charisma and are certainly gifted with power and luck. It is unlikely for them to escape unnoticed from a party or to take second place in a competition. The dragon person has an active mind and shows an unfeigned interest in the world around him/her. This person is also self-confident enough to know how to create a necessary impression. Because they are larger than life themselves, dragon people like to do everything on a grand scale. They are egotistical and ambitious, almost to the point of megalomania, and will stop at nothing to get what they want. A person born in this year wears the crown of destiny, and is capable of great achievements if he or she knows how to harness his or her tremendous energy, intelligence and talent. While these people enjoy being the center of attention, they also have a brave and charitable side to their personality. If a dragon's friend faces a problem or dilemma, he or she will be there to offer help, and when others leave the field of battle the dragon takes a step forward to solve the problem with authority and dignity. Dragons set a high standard of actions for themselves as well as for other people and are surprised when others cannot cope with a task; they are so carried away by the process that they fail to see other people's weaknesses. |
It would be right to say that people born in the year of the dragon have a natural charisma and are certainly gifted with power and luck. It is unlikely for them to escape unnoticed from a party or to take second place in a competition. The dragon person has an active mind and shows an unfeigned interest in the world around him/her. This person is also self-confident enough to know how to create a necessary impression. Because they are larger than life themselves, dragon people like to do everything on a grand scale. They are egotistical and ambitious, almost to the point of megalomania, and will stop at nothing to get what they want. A person born in this year wears the crown of destiny, and is capable of great achievements if he or she knows how to harness his or her tremendous energy, intelligence and talent. While these people enjoy being the center of attention, they also have a brave and charitable side to their personality. If a dragon's friend faces a problem or dilemma, he or she will be there to offer help, and when others leave the field of battle the dragon takes a step forward to solve the problem with authority and dignity. Dragons set a high standard of actions for themselves as well as for other people and are surprised when others cannot cope with a task; they are so carried away by the process that they fail to see other people's weaknesses. |
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Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Dragon can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. If jealously suspicious of rivals, they will not hesitate to use cunning, lies and trickery to discredit them. Self-centeredness, greed for flattery, boastfulness, and bombast, pomposity, snobbish superiority, and overbearing, and intolerant disdain of underlings; to whom they will nevertheless delegate the carrying out of minor details in their grandiose schemes, and from whom they are not above borrowing immoderately if an occasion necessitates it. Any of these can be characteristic of the Dragon. Add to them a passion for luxury, a lust for |
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Ideal jobs for dragons include managing director, salesperson, advertising executive, barrister, film producer, architect, astronaut, artist, film star, and war correspondent. |
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power, unlimited sexual lust, and emotional indulgence, and a character emerges that no one would want to know either in public life or private. But their pride may go before a fall, as uncontrolled impetuosity is likely to bring them low. Fortunately it is rare that a Dragon is so undisciplined as to give way thoroughly to this list of vices, and their tendencies to them are usually balanced by an innate wisdom. Those who are afflicted with them also have the intelligence it takes to consciously and actively overcome them. |
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== Traditional Dragon Attributes/Associations == |
== Traditional Dragon Attributes/Associations == |
Revision as of 23:22, 12 February 2007
The Dragon ( 龍 ) is the only mythical creature in the Chinese zodiac. In China, dragons are associated with strength, health, harmony, and good luck; they are placed above doors or on the tops of roofs to banish demons and evil spirits. Within Chinese cultures, more babies are born in Dragon years than in any other animal years.
Years and the Five Elements
Persons born within these date ranges can be said to have been born in the "year of the Dragon," while also bearing the following elemental sign:
- 16 February, 1904 - 3 February, 1905: Wood Dragon
- 3 February, 1916 - 22 January, 1917: Fire Dragon
- 23 January, 1928 - 9 February, 1929: Earth Dragon
- 8 February, 1940 - 26 January, 1941: Metal Dragon
- 27 January, 1952 - 13 February, 1953: Water Dragon
- 13 February, 1964 - 1 February, 1965: Wood Dragon
- 31 January, 1976 - 17 February, 1977: Fire Dragon
- 17 February, 1988 - 5 February, 1989: Earth Dragon
- 5 February, 2000 - 23 January, 2001: Metal Dragon
- 2012 - 2013: Water Dragon
- 2024 - 2025: Wood Dragon
Attributes
The Dragon is omnipotent. He is flamboyant, attractive and full of vitality and strength. In China, the Dragon is the sign of the Emperor of China or the male element Yang. The Dragon is the symbol of power and wealth.
It would be right to say that people born in the year of the dragon have a natural charisma and are certainly gifted with power and luck. It is unlikely for them to escape unnoticed from a party or to take second place in a competition. The dragon person has an active mind and shows an unfeigned interest in the world around him/her. This person is also self-confident enough to know how to create a necessary impression. Because they are larger than life themselves, dragon people like to do everything on a grand scale. They are egotistical and ambitious, almost to the point of megalomania, and will stop at nothing to get what they want. A person born in this year wears the crown of destiny, and is capable of great achievements if he or she knows how to harness his or her tremendous energy, intelligence and talent. While these people enjoy being the center of attention, they also have a brave and charitable side to their personality. If a dragon's friend faces a problem or dilemma, he or she will be there to offer help, and when others leave the field of battle the dragon takes a step forward to solve the problem with authority and dignity. Dragons set a high standard of actions for themselves as well as for other people and are surprised when others cannot cope with a task; they are so carried away by the process that they fail to see other people's weaknesses.
Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Dragon can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. If jealously suspicious of rivals, they will not hesitate to use cunning, lies and trickery to discredit them. Self-centeredness, greed for flattery, boastfulness, and bombast, pomposity, snobbish superiority, and overbearing, and intolerant disdain of underlings; to whom they will nevertheless delegate the carrying out of minor details in their grandiose schemes, and from whom they are not above borrowing immoderately if an occasion necessitates it. Any of these can be characteristic of the Dragon. Add to them a passion for luxury, a lust for power, unlimited sexual lust, and emotional indulgence, and a character emerges that no one would want to know either in public life or private. But their pride may go before a fall, as uncontrolled impetuosity is likely to bring them low. Fortunately it is rare that a Dragon is so undisciplined as to give way thoroughly to this list of vices, and their tendencies to them are usually balanced by an innate wisdom. Those who are afflicted with them also have the intelligence it takes to consciously and actively overcome them.
Traditional Dragon Attributes/Associations
Attribute | |
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Zodiac Location | 5th |
Ruling hours | 7am-9am |
Direction | East-southeast |
Season and month | Spring, April |
Gemstone | Amethyst |
Colors | Black, gold |
Roughly equivalent western sign | Aries |
Polarity | Yang |
Food | Wheat, poultry |
Positive Traits | Noble, dignified, honest, charismatic, vibrant, magnanimous, expansive, powerful |
Negative Traits | Ruthless, imperious, arrogant, dogmatic, pompous, despotic, intolerant, demanding |
Countries | China, United Kingdom, Iran, Denmark, Japan, Bulgaria |
Famous people born in the year of the dragon
- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the United States
- Alexa Vega, actress
- Alfred Rosenberg, Major Nazi official
- Alicia Silverstone, American actress
- Al Pacino, American actor
- Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian soccer player
- Andy Crane, UK television presenter
- Andy Serkis, actor
- Andy Warhol, pop artist
- Anna Popplewell, actress
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, martial artist
- Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, general in the Thirty Years' War
- Bruce Lee, martial artist and philosopher
- Cam'Ron, rapper
- Candace Cameron Bure, actress
- Charles Darwin, British Naturalist
- Che Guevera, Revolutionary
- Christopher Reeve, actor
- Chuck Norris, martial artist and actor
- Claude Elwood Shannon
- Deng Xiaoping, Leader of the People's Republic of China
- Dominic Monaghan, actor
- Emmanuelle Vaugier, actress
- Emily Browning, actress
- Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor
- Fedor Emelianenko, martial artist
- Francesco Totti, Italian soccer player
- Francisco Franco, Spanish fascist dictator
- Haley Joel Osment, actor
- Hermann Göring, Top Ranking Nazi official
- Hongwu Emperor, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- Ja Rule, rapper
- Jasmine Guy, actress and dancer
- Jim Jones (rapper), rapper
- Joey Jordison, Slipknot Drummer
- John Forbes Nash
- John Lennon, singer
- Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian president
- Julius Caesar, Roman dictator and emperor
- Jürgen Klinsmann, German soccer coach
- Keanu Reeves, actor
- Ken Shamrock, mixed martial arist, UFC hall of famer
- King Frederick William I
- Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore Third Prime Minister
- Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader
- Matt Dillon, actor
- Michael Ballack, German soccer player
- Napoleon III of France, French emperor and absolutist
- Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III
- Nikola Tesla , Serbian-American Inventor
- Orlando Bloom, actor
- Óscar Arias Sanchez, 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and President of Costa Rica.
- Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Patrick Vieira, French soccer player
- Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
- Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman
- Pelé, soccer player
- Philippe Pétain, French general, later Head of State of Vichy France
- Plácido Domingo, opera singer and conductor
- Rasputin, Russian mystic
- Reese Witherspoon, actress
- Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (nicknamed The Butcher of Prague, The Blond Beast and Der Henker (German for the hangman)
- Rich Clementi, mixed martial arts fighter
- Ringo Starr, singer
- Robert Zemeckis, Academy Award-winning film director
- Ronaldo, soccer player
- Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch football player
- Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen dictator.
- Shane Douglas, professional wrestler
- Stanley Kubrick, film director
- Stone Cold Steve Austin, a Professional wrestler turned actor
- Terry "Sabu" Brunk, professional wrestler
- Uday Hussein, Saddam Husseins eldest son
- Vladimir Putin, Russian President
- Wanderlei Silva, martial artist
- Woodrow Wilson, Former President of the United States
- Zoran Đinđić former prime minister of Serbia
- Željko Ražnatović, paramilitary leader