Happy Chinese New Year! 2014 is the Year of the Wood Horse.
According to tradition, the Horse is bright, warmhearted, intelligent, and clever–but also impatient, hot-blooded, and rarely listens to good advice. I have a couple of friends born in a horse year, and I can attest to the description 🙂
Also according to tradition, you should be careful what activities you participate in on the first day of the new year. Apparently, whatever you choose to do signifies what will be in abundance for you during the year. I have plans to write, hit the gym, and go out to dinner with friends, which sounds like a good foundation for a great year.
My all-time favorite New Year tradition is the warning against cleaning your house since you might sweep away any good fortune that comes your way. When I told Mark I wouldn’t be doing any housework on Friday he asked, “This is something new?”
It’s such fun living with a smart ass.
To find out what Chinese animal sign you are, here’s a link. May good health, good luck, and much prosperity be yours in the Year of the Horse!
Oh, thank you, DV. I feel so much better about not cleaning. I’m wearing red for luck, eating a decent meal, editing, and writing. An excellent foundation, in my opinion, for a good year ahead!
Sounds perfect!
The only catch with the house-cleaning D.V. is that you are supposed to clean your house from top to bottom before the New Year to get rid of the old so you can welcome in the good fortune!
Somehow despite my best intentions…… Still, any excuse to take a day off from cleaning works for me!
Yeah, it didn’t quite work that way here, either 🙂