Saturday 9 February 2013



HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR

Snake people are very shrewd  and often achieve success through their wits.  They are wise and intense with a tendency towards physical beauty. Snake people are  discreet, restrained and refined.  They never  come across as pushy, and instead get their  way through subtle manipulation.  Cautious and intelligent, they possess analytical minds, but often also have a well-developed gut instinct.  There's an air of elegance and magnetism about Snakes that make them very attractive to the opposite sex.  They are quite aware of their appeal, and thus can be rather vain and high tempered.  Snakes enjoy flirting, but when it comes to their partners they are often possessive.  The intrinsic element of this sign is  fire, and its direction is south-southeast

BASIC CHINESE ZODIAC (1)
Basic Chinese Animal Astrology
The foundation of the Chinese Zodiac, also called Chinese Animal Astrology, was from the 12 "Earthly Branches" represented by the 12 animal symbols (The Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Boar), the five elements (metal, water, wood, fire, and earth) and the Yin-Yang theory.  
The total cycle takes sixty years (created by multiplying the twelve animals and five elements) to complete -- to return to a year with the same animal sign and same element.  The cycle of 60 counting system begins with Wood Rat and ends with Metal Boar. 
As most people know, the Chinese Lunar cycle is not based on 12 linear months, as in the Western calendar, but on a 12-year repeating  cycle.  Each astrological animal symbol represents not a month, but a year.  And again, unlike the Western calendar that is based upon the movements of the Sun, the Chinese astrological calendar has its deep and ancient roots in the movements of the Moon.
There are many myths and legends about how the 12 animals representing the 12 years in a lunar cycle came into being.  One of the most popular is that the Lord Buddha called all the animals to come to him before departing this earth.  Only 12 animals came, and as a reward he named a lunar year after each according to the order in which it arrived.  The Rat was the first to get there, crossing the final river on the back of the Ox and jumping down in front.  Following them were the Tiger, Rabbit (Hare), Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep (Goat, Ram), Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar (Pig).
The Chinese believe that at their New Year, everyone becomes a year older.  They also  believe that the year of a person's birth is the primary factor in determining that person's personality traits, physical and mental attributes and degree of success and happiness throughout his/her lifetime.
The compatibility of the animal signs in the Chinese system of  astrology are similar to the favorable and unfavorable aspects in the western astrology.  Each animal sign is 30 degrees apart and in clockwise direction. 
0 Degree  (Same sign) -  Intensity, can be favorable or unfavorable
30 Degrees -  Growth, can be uncomfortable
90 Degrees (Square)  -  Challenges (Example: Rat and Rabbit)
120 Degrees -  Comfortable (Example: Rat and Dragon)
150 Degrees -  Adjustments
180 Degrees  (Opposite)  - Confrontation (Example: Rat and Horse)  
Here you will learn the basic Chinese Astrology.  The advance Chinese Astrology goes much deeper than just the 12 animal signs, much as the Western Astrology does with the basic 12 Sun signs versus an individual's specific chart.  In advance Chinese Astrology, one will learn Pa-Chee (or 8 Characters) -- Four Pillars of Destiny which consists of the Year of Birth, the Month of Birth, the Day of Birth, and the Hour of Birth.
I hope you will enjoy widening your field of study to the basic Chinese Animal Astrology because it is another way of clarifying one's spiritual path.  Understanding the signs will give you a deeper understanding of yourself, your family members and your friends.

The Twelve Animal Signs 
1.  Rat (Water, North),  2. Ox (Earth, North-Northeast),  3. Tiger (Wood,  East-Northeast),  4. Rabbit (Wood, East),  5. Dragon (Earth, East-Southeast),  6. Snake (Fire, South-Southeast),  7. Horse (Fire, South),  8.  Sheep (Earth, South-Southwest),  9. Monkey (Metal, West-Southwest),  10. Rooster (Metal, West),  11. Dog (Earth, West-Northwest),  12. Boar (Water, North-Northwest). 




 

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