a roaring new year

Kung Hei Fat Choy 2022! Happy Year of the Black Yang Water Tiger which runs from February 1 to 21 January 2023. Bringing to a close the previous Year of the White Yin Metal Ox. 

The Rat on the Crossbeam month ended on 2 January 2019, when the Ox on the Road month took place through February 1, the eve of the Chinese New Year. This begins the Tiger Crossing the Forest month and year.

The Chinese Lunar New Year always begins on the second new moon after the winter solstice. For 2022 this coincides with the Aquarius New Moon which occurs on 1 February 2022 at 12:46 a.m. EST. 

2022 is the Year of the Black Yang Water Tiger

abuse & trauma

Born and raised in a banana republic like the Philippines exposes one to intergenerational trauma from multiple layers of unresolved and often unacknowledged abuse. 

Imbedded in our DNA for countless generations of ancestors and perpetuators of a colonized land peopled by all manner of beings - local, pioneer, settler, trader, opportunist, colonial, and colonizer. 

Philippine history timelines

Asian, European, American - all these aliens fought their wars on our land and fought each other to gain a piece of our paradise. Leaving us with nowhere to run or hide all these years. 

Raping, pillaging, destroying and stealing whatever they could, in any way conceivable - most of it with malicious and violent intent. 

required reading

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike―either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts.