Year of the Firebird

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

This is all akin to how Christians believe in pagan Chinese feng shui! And why do we talk about zodiac signs all the time? After all, all this is not ours. Our word is palace.

If a person has such a craving for pagan superstitions, then the Slavs would be just right to remember their own calendar. And according to the Slavic calendar, next year … attention … ZHAR-Birds. How much more poetic and romantic it is than the year of the horse! What does the latter promise us? Work hard like a horse and laugh at what we have done by working hard. And the Firebird?

Let me remind you of the content of a wonderful fairy tale …

The Firebird filled all the space around him with sunlight and warmed it up with its warmth and heat. It was later called the golden bird. After gold in the minds of many was paralleled with the word happiness. When Koschey the Immortal found out about the Firebird, he decided to kidnap her and bring her to his cold, dark castle so that she would work for him just rationally as a kind of super-heating pad. He turned into a hawk, grabbed the Firebird with his claws and carried it to his castle. The Firebird realized that in captivity she would die and would not be able to give light to people. And she guessed … She began to drop feathers on her native land so that they would continue to warm people and shine for them. And the bird died at Koshchei, but she was happy that she managed to leave her golden sun feathers to people.

Here is the key to a good mood next year for each of us: to warm others around with their warmth, to live for others, as the Firebird did. Even having fallen into the claws of Koschey, merchants and bankers.

I congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year, I want to wish everyone who understands me to meet this holiday, go to bed as quickly as possible, not stuff your brain with evil spirits - blue lights, say such nonsense as little as possible, such as: “Happy New Year, happy new happiness! " Think for yourself, what does “with new happiness” mean? If happiness was old, then why should it become new? It cannot be redrawn as in an atelier - to make old happiness plastic surgery. And if there was no happiness in the old year, then such a wish sounds doubly absurd. But, unfortunately, people carry this whole crap, as if they were all released from the same incubator: "health, happiness, long years."

And I wish each of you to have as much work as possible in the New Year. Nothing gives you more happiness than a job well done. And there is no greater loneliness in a person than the lack of creativity. And let each of you try to become for the world around you the feather of the Firebird!

Who wants to read the whole story of the Firebird, I suggest you one of the options, written by Susan Massy, an American writer in love with Russia. I received a book from her - "The Land of the Firebird. Beauty of Former Russia". Delighted with this book.

THE TALE OF THE FIRE BIRD

Mikhail Zadornov