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Chinese Horoscopes Much More Than An Animal
By Colette York
These days, when it comes to Chinese horoscopes most
people know which of the 12 Chinese animals they are, based
on the year they were born. However, nothing in life is ever
that simple.
If all there was to it was 12 animals that would mean there
wouldn¡¯t be much variation between the characteristics of
people, just 12 types, or possibly 24 if you consider male and
female.
Well I can tell you there is FAR more to a Chinese horoscope
than knowing which of the 12 animals you are.
The first thing to remember is that Chinese horoscopes are
based on the Lunar calendar not the solar one, that is why
Chinese New Year falls anywhere between the middle of
January and the middle of February.
So you see if your birthday is during this period you may not
be the dog you thought you were, you may be a pig instead!
But, with 12 animals in the list each twelfth year the animal is
repeated as they cycle through ¨C doesn¡¯t seem so
complicated? Well unfortunately the Chinese calendar works
on a 60 year cycle not a 12 year one. This means that each
animal occurs 5 times in the 60 year cycle (12 x 5 = 60) and
each one is unique so there are actually 5 types of each animal.
So if you are a Rat, you could be a Rat on the roof, or a Rat in
the field, or a Rat in the Warehouse, or a Rat on the beam or
finally a Rat on the mountain.
Then there are the 12 Palaces, Ming, Brothers and Sisters,
Marital, Man and Woman, Wealth, Sickness, Moving,
Servants, Officials, Property, Fortune and Virtue and finally the
Parents Palace. Each Palace influences a different aspect of
your life.
There are 5 elements, Wood, Metal, Water, Fire and Earth
and 37 Stars and they all come together to produce a unique
chart just for you.
The key to it all is your 8 character horoscope determined
from your year, month, hour and time of birth, 2 characters for
each, ¨C in Lunar years of course.
In fact your very own personalised Chinese horoscope has so
many possible variations that there are millions and millions of
combinations
So you see with all these parts that make up a full Chinese
horoscope it is not enough just to know that you are a Pig or a
Dog or a Cock.
About the Author
Colette York is the originator and builder of http://www.your-chinese-horoscope.com A place for personalized Chinese horoscopes.
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