My writing has begun; and it is clear that 2012 is going to be explosive. The Sun’s solar activity and its discharges are at their peak; spewing fire like religious conservatives and Republican candidates in America. The peak of solar flares, which occur every 12 years, are congruent with the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac. The dragon is the only non-existent creature in the Chinese system of astrology, symbolically representing the destruction of facades. The Dragon, often the protector of the heart, or the feminine, ensures that the rapacious fires of masculinity’s tendencies toward war and aggression are quelled. It is only then that people can symbolically rescue their own ‘love’, the metaphorical Princess, as s/he seeks to find the means to overcome the ‘castle’ walls built inside to protect oneself from the hateful intensity of people themselves. I am now standing outside of my own castle walls; looking back, inward, rather than out. I have come to realize that I must slay the Dragon in order to rescue my own heart from the ideological dogmatism of religious conservatism that destroyed any notion of love I may have once had. It is now time to move past patriarchy, hierarchy, rampant militarism, war, violence, hate, and fear taught to us by men in religious costumes who only seek to control the Princess inside of each one of us. If America has any more walls to tear down; the walls we’ve built inside during the age of terrorism and fear must go first. I exclaim; tear down these walls of religious hate and intolerance; stop the conservative assault on humanity; and look toward the Sun. It is not to be confused with man or the Son, it is a star, unlike humanity it shines brightly each and every day. We must tame these fires, learn to ride the dragon, and ask the Sun for atonement before the fires scorch the Mother, the Earth, the black Madonna repressed by the Whore of Babylon, Catholicism. For it is only the Sun that provides its energy so that none of us have to expend all of our own to uphold the illusions of grandeur concocted by religious men who have only sought to control, like a Dragon, the pathways to our own hearts. Religion is poison; it is the Dragon all of us must overcome in order to achieve peace on Earth. We must find the warmth and sanctity of the dancing energies the Sun sacrifices cyclically in order to quell the rapacious fires inside of ourselves. On that note; here is a song from Devotchka’s “A Mad and Faithful Telling” , which speaks to me as fires burn wildly inside of myself.