Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Monkey. 

Millions of people all over the world celebrate the Chinese New Year in style, with Monday (8 February) marking the start of the year of the monkey.

The Chinese Lunar New Year – also known as the Spring Festival, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day. The Chinese Calendar is a solilunar calendar. It integrates as well the revolution of the Earth around the Sun as the movement of the Moon around the Earth.

A month begins at the day of the new moon (invisible Moon) and ends at the day before the next new moon. The full moon is either on 15 or 16 of the month. A Chinese year can have 12 or 13 lunar months, that correspond to the number of new moons between two successive winter solstices. The year is appelé leap year if there are 13 months in the year.

New Year's Day is celebrated with people lighting incense, setting off fireworks and praying for the upcoming year to bring them happiness and good luck.

Regardless of what western zodiac sign you belong to, this Chinese New Year affects us all. This year of the Fire Monkey means there is hope for success wherever there is constructive, intelligent enterprise. Even if we face unsatisfactory circumstances, we can turn these around with hard work and positive thought.

It means that, even if we hear disturbing or disappointing stories in the news, we can still trust that most humans on this Earth are kind, fair people who only want a better, brighter future.

Ultimately, sincerity and generosity will always prevail over sullen stupidity or sharp selfishness.

This overall chart actually show that wars (big ones) are coming. Which has been indicated as well in the last Blood Moon of the Tetrad in September 2015. Nothing is "written in stone" so it's my own hope that one of our leaders with some common-sense steps forward and circumvents the madness.

Take it for what it's worth... But for me, I see this as a needed step to bring us to "Better Days". What may appear to be lost can be restored. Though the world will do what it will do, but each of us has the power to affect our own outcomes by the choices, decisions and actions we choose to take.

We can be negative, or we can choose to shine brightly and stay in the groove. That is what I choose to do. And the more that do, the easier it is to keep ourselves strong and on track!!