Dragon

Dreaming of a dragon depends greatly on the individual’s attitude towards such creatures. In British mythology, dragons were viewed as fearsome and dangerous beasts, while in Chinese tradition dragons were considered harbingers of good luck. Therefore, it is important that the dreamer recall the circumstances of the dream. If the dream was dark and ominous, the dragon probably symbolizes the “beast in you,” which could mean that your own weaknesses could well get the best of you. But if the dream was happy and optimistic, something wonderful is going to happen.

Source: Astrocenter, http://astrocenter.astrology.msn.com/msn/DreamDictionary.aspx

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Dragon, Dragons

• To dream of a dragon, denotes that you allow yourself to be governed by your passions, and that you are likely to place yourself in the power of your enemies through those outbursts of sardonic tendencies. You should be warned by this dream to cultivate self-control.
• [57] See Meaning of Dreams about Devil.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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Dream Interpretation Dragon

The dragon represents a person with ruthless attitude who will do anything to succeed. if you are killing a dragon, it means that you let go of this heartless and shrewd attitude. Winning a fight with a dragon means that you will master the powers of unconscious. Being injured during the fight means that you will be hurt by a powerful enemy. In men's dreams a dragon very often represents a domineering woman suppressing emotionally and spiritually. Defeating a dragon means that a man wants to dominate a woman.

Source: Dream-Land, http://www.dream-land.info

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Dragon Style: Form of dong gong.

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DRAGON SYMBOLISM

The dragon swallows up all souls that don't have Gnosis, to return them forthwith, via its tail, to begin a new struggle toward the Gnosis, which will save them from recurrence. In China the dragon is the Everything, the ruler of the East and of sunrise. It stands opposite to the Tiger, which is the West and death.

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The Dragon's Way: A ancient, natural, and magical system of self-healing based on TCM. It involves a series of powerful energy movements. The name The Dragon's Way is the newer designation for The Way.

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Dragon of Wisdom Commonly an adept, one of the wise; also popularly a skilled magician -- whether of the right or left path. Referring to the earliest stages of cosmogony, dragon is a term often used for the sun in its various cosmologic functions, also for the One or Logos. An important significance of the phrase is that the real initiator of humanity, or of the individual neophyte, is the person's own higher ego.

In Chinese Buddhism the term is used for the genii of the four quarters, called in China the Black Warrior, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Azure Dragon -- the Four Hidden Dragons of Wisdom. In her rendering of the Stanzas of Dzyan, Blavatsky uses Dragon of Wisdom as an equivalent of Oeaohoo the Younger -- the germ and overseer of all things to the end of the life cycle.

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DRAGON (lung, Chinese, rong, Vietnamese, ryu, Japanese, naga, Sanskrit) -

1. great beneficent being in Far East mythology which guards hidden treasures and heavenly mansions, presides over the weather and bestows rewards on deserving persons; traditionally represented with the horns of a deer, the head of a camel or horse, the eyes of a prawn or devil, the neck of a snake, the belly of a giant clam, the scales of a fish, the claws of an eagle, the feet of a tiger and the ears of a cow; symbol of Heaven, yang, energy, fortune, the Tao, virtue.

2. symbol of the defender of the Dharma in Buddhism.

3. one of an superhuman race of serpents in Hinduism.

4. dreadful beastie in Western mythology, which is forever carrying off maidens or laying waste the countryside, as in the tales of St. George, Perseus, Jason, Siegfried.

5. symbol of wisdom in the hermetic tradition and alchemy.

6. symbol of that which encloses and turns the psyche in on itself. (Joseph Campbell) (NAD)

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Dragon (from Greek drakon, serpent, the watchful)

Known to scholarship as a mythical monster, a huge lizard, winged, scaly, fire-breathing, doubtless originating in the memory of an actual prehistoric animal. Dragon is often synonymous with serpent.

The dragon and serpent, whether high or low, are types of various events in cosmic or world history, or of various terrestrial or human qualities, for either one can at different times signify spiritual immortality, wisdom, reimbodiment, or regeneration. In the triad of sun, moon, and serpent or cross, it denotes the manifested Logos, and hence is often said to be seven-headed. As such it is in conflict with the sun, and sometimes with the moon; but this conflict is merely the duality of contrary forces essential to cosmic stability.

The dragon itself is often dual, and it may be paired with the serpent, as with Agathodaimon and Kakodaimon, the good and evil serpents, seen in the caduceus. Again the dragon is two-poled as having a head and a tail, Rahu and Ketu in India, commonly described as being the moon's north and south nodes, the moon thus being a triple symbol in which a unity conflicts with a duality.

A universal myth is that of the sun god fighting the dragon and eventually worsting it, which represents the descent of spirit into matter and the eventual sublimation of matter by spirit in the ascending arc of evolution. There are Bel (and later Merodach) and the dragon Tiamat in Babylonia and with the Hebrews; Fafnir in Scandinavia; Chozzar with the Peratae Gnostics; among the Greeks Python conquered by Apollo and the two serpents killed by Hercules at his birth; the fight between Ahti and the evil serpent in the Kalevala; and many other such stories.

In the Christian Apocalypse the dragon plays a great part, but it has been often misinterpreted as evil just as Satan or the Devil has been imagined as the foe of divinity and humanity. Cosmologically, all dragons and serpents slain by their adversaries are the unregulated or chaotic cosmic principles bought to order by the spiritual sun gods or formative cosmic powers. The dragon is the demiurge, the establisher or former of our planet and of all that pertains to it -- neither good nor bad, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character.

The dragon symbol, then, is both cosmic and human in its applications: it may stand for powers of nature, which first overcome man, but which he must eventually overcome, as well as the monad atma-buddhi, which through the manasic principle seeks imbodiment, but needs the help of the still lower principles in order to effect a union with the principles of earth.

Cosmologically analogies are drawn between the north polar constellation Draco and one or the other of the great floods, and the word dragon is sometimes used to denote such a flood; for the position of this constellation relative to that of the earth's axis of rotation is intimately connected with cataclysms.

The dragon in its higher or superior sense means among other things divine wisdom, especially where the serpent is used for terrestrial wisdom; and adepts or initiates were frequently called dragons. The dragon may be the symbol of a cycle; and the sevenfold dragon may mean the seven minor cycles in a great cycle.

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18 Lohan Tiger/Dragon Qigong: Group of Chinese healing exercises designed to develop 'hidden' internal powers. It pacifies the soul.

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Dragon Seat:

Dragon Seat. The center of a Zonule

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Spring Dragon Qi Gong: Series of eight movements from a traditional Taoist regimen. Promoted by Nan Lu, O.M.D., M.S., L.Ac., Spring Dragon Qi Gong: (a) increases the flow of Qi through meridians associated with the respiratory system, (b) strengthens the immune system, and (c) opposes hay fever.

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Great Swimming Dragon ta'i chi form (Great Swimming Dragon): Subject of the videotape Healing Movements: The Great Swimming Dragon T'ai Chi Form (Rudra Press, 1996). It is an ancient form of Qigong.

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Eight Divisions of Gods and Dragons

Devas (gods), Nagas (Dragons) and others of eight divisions (classes): deva, nagas, yakas, ganharvas, asuras, gaudas, kinaras, mahoragas.

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ketu:

south node of the moon, dragon's tail

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rahu:

north node of the moon; dragon's head

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Basilisk. See DRAGON; SERPENT

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Drakon. See DRAGON

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Sveta (Sanskrit). A serpent-dragon; a son of Kashyapa.

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Fafnir (Scandianvian Norse). The Dragon of Wisdom.

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