The new year, 2024, begins with personal resolutions that probably won’t be kept, an occult light show in Seattle (featuring UFOs, symbols of time, & a collapsing tower), a natural disaster (earthquake) in Japan, and the first of 365 days of the dragon. Esoterically, the dragon wraps himself around the tower, the quintessential expression of materiality and time, from which the human must become aware and transcend, i.e., slay the primeval serpent and collect the alchemical reward. Dragons come in many forms, often representing aspects of the four elements and man, and as such are correlated with the mythological Titans born of Uranus and Gaea. As such, these ‘titans’ are really monstrous natural disasters like earthquakes - such as the one that killed dozens in Japan on the first day of the new year. From the Greek comes ‘derkein’, which means ‘seeing’, a characteristic of both the wise dragon and Eye of Providence - the Third Eye situated in the bodily temple wherein the treasure is guarded by the animal self adversary. Ouroboros is also endless time, a Saturnic countdown to the collapse of the world tower. Ouroboros is also the ‘ring of fire’, that fiery dragon in the sky signifying the crowing of a king with the crown of thorns, light, and fire. Could this relate to King Charles, or the geopolitlical tensions between Ukraine (St. Michael), Russia (beast), China (dragon), and the US (eagle)? Regulus is also bright int he sky as part of Leo the Lion. If 2024 is anything, besides providing hope for something better, then it is the time of ‘ruin in all aspects’, and the collapse of the ‘house of life’ when evil prevails. We must thereof embrace Katholikos Ophis, the ability to ‘see through all things’, if we are to survive.