The patterns displayed the dragon, the phoenix, cranes and magpies, all auspicious animals representing nobility, luck, fortune and longevity. |
The phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt which reputedly burned every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from its ashes. |
Symbolically as the natural ruler of Scorpio, Pluto is the phoenix bird rising from the ashes of his own self destruction. |
She rises like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of her lunacy to become the first woman psychoanalyst in Switzerland. |
Cerri silently called for the phoenix who landed on a near by housetop in answer. |
We can learn to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, arising as part of a better world and a better life for one and all. |