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Chinese Horoscope Fortune
Chinese believe there are several factors can affect one's destiny and
life, they are:
1) Fate
2) Destiny
3) Feng Shui
4) Doing worthy deed
5) Study
The value of fourth and fifth factors are shared by most of cultural
systems over the world. From the first to third factors, Chinese have
their unique perspectives and these perspectives have being affecting
the Chinese for thousand years. In certain degrees, most Chinese are
influenced by fatalism. However, the Chinese are not negative
fatalists. We believe, although we cannot alter the congenital fate(Ba
Zi, Birth Date), we can promote or improve our destiny through
Astrology(Feng Shui, Fortune Telling) approach.
Chinese astrology is related to the Chinese calendar, particularly its
12-year cycle of animals (Chinese Zodiac Sign), and the
fortune-telling aspects according to movement of heavenly bodies
across the Chinese constellations in the sky and individual Ba Zi.
These interact each other to affect the individual destiny from time
to time.
The two main branches of Chinese Fortune Telling are:
The Zi Wei Dou Shu, which builds and studies a chart containing dozens
of energies.
The Ba Zi, or The Four Pillars of the Destiny, which studies the
polarity Yin/Yang and the elements of the Year, Month, Day and Hour of
Birth.
Besides, the Naming Study is another kind of Chinese Astrology. To
Chinese, the name is never a simply code. A good name assigned to a
person according to his Ba Zi can promote his good destiny as well as
offset his bad luck. On a bad inconsistent to one's Ba Zi can
deteriorate one's bad luck and counteract his good luck. If someone is
being encompassed by unlucky stuffs, he may try to look into his name
is conflicting to his Ba Zi, if so he can look for a Feng Shui
Master's opinion for alteration his name.
The ancient Chinese astronomers called the five major planets by the
names of the Five Elements. Venus is Metal (gold); Jupiter is Wood;
Mercury is Water; Mars is Fire; Saturn is Earth. The position of the
five planets, the sun, the moon and comets in the sky and the Chinese
zodiac sign at the time a person was born determine the destiny of a
person's life according to the Chinese astrology. A laborious system
of computing one's fate and destiny based on one birthday and birth
hours (known as Zi Wei Dou Shu) is still used regularly in modern day
Chinese astrology. The twenty-eight Chinese constellations are quite
different from the eighty-eight Western constellations. For example,
the big dipper is known as dou; the belt of Orion is known as shen, or
the "Happiness, Fortune, Longevity" trio of demigods. The seven
northern constellations are referred to as xúanw?, Xuan Wu is also
known as the spirit of the northern sky or the spirit of Water in
Taoism belief.
In addition to astrological readings of the heavenly bodies, the stars
in the sky form the basis of many fairy tales. For example, the Summer
Triangle is the trio of the cowherd (Altair), the spinster maid fairy
(Vega) and the "tai bai" fairy (Deneb). The two forbidden lovers were
separated by the silvery river (the Milky Way). Each year on the
seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar, the birds
form a bridge across the Milky Way. The cowherd carries their two sons
(the two stars on each side of Altair) across the bridge to reunite
with their fairy mother. The tai bai fairy acts as the chaperone of
these two immortal lovers. See Qi Xi for more versions of this story.
Chinese Zodiac
The twelve zodiac animal signs are, in order, the mouse, ox (buffalo),
tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (or goat), monkey, rooster,
dog, and pig. There are many legends to explain the beginning of the
zodiac (see Origins of the Chinese Zodiac). One of the most popular
reads, in summarized form, as follows:
The rat was given the task to invite the animals to report to the Jade
Emperor to be selected for the zodiac signs. The cat was a good friend
of the rat, but the rat forgot to invite him. So the cat vowed to be
the rat's natural enemy for ages to come.
Another popular legend has it that a race was used to decide the
animals to report to the Jade Emperor:
All the animals lined up on the bank of a river and were given the
task of getting to the opposite shore. Their order in the calendar
would be set by the order in which the animals managed to reach the
other side. The cat wondered how he would get across if he was afraid
of water. At the same time, the ox wondered how he would cross with
his poor eyesight. The calculating rat suggested that he and the cat
jump onto the ox's back and guide him across. The ox was steady and
hard-working so that he did not notice a commotion on his back. In the
meanwhile, the rat snuck up behind the unsuspecting cat and shoved him
into the water. Just as the ox came ashore, the rat jumped off and
finished the race first. The lazy pig came to the far shore in twelfth
place. And so the rat got the first year named after him, the ox got
the second year, and the pig ended up as the last year in the cycle.
The cat finished too late (thirteenth) to win any place in the
calendar, and vowed to be the enemy of the rat forevermore.
Some versions of the tale say that the cattle nominated a water
buffalo to represent them because he was more proficient at water. The
trade was acceptable because both animals are members of the family of
bovid.
Another expands the race; the route ran through a forest, over ranges
of plains and grasslands, and along a stream, before finally crossing
a lake to the destination town.
Yet another variation tells of two different races. The first involved
all the animals, in two divisions to avoid the fast animals dominating
the top, and the top six in each division would "make the cut" for a
second round, which would then determine the order of placement of the
animals in the zodiac. This format is rather like the one that the
National Football League uses to determine its playoff teams (six from
each conference).
There is also a cycle of the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal
(Gold), Water) on top of the cycle of animals. A person's year sign
can be a gold dragon, a wood rooster etc. In ancient match-making
practice in China, couples were brought together according to their
compatible signs. For example, it is believed that dog and dog don't
get along, but dog and pig do; a water dog supports a wood pig but
dominates a fire pig in their relationship because water benefits
wood, but controls fire according to the Chinese five elements'
interaction.
The elements are also associated with colors, the traditional
correspondence being green to Wood, red to Fire, brown to Earth, white
to Metal, and black to Water. Some websites denote the years by the
color and zodiac sign (as opposed to animal sign and element).
The elements are combined with the binary Yin Yang cycle, which
enlarges the element cycle to a cycle of ten. Even years are yang, odd
years are yin. Since the zodiac animal cycle of 12 is divisible by
two, every zodiac can only occur in either yin or yang: the dragon is
always yang, the snake is always yin, etc. This combination creates a
60-year cycle, starting with Wood Rat and ending with Water Pig. The
current cycle began in the year 1984.
Since the (traditional) Chinese zodiac follows the Chinese calendar,
the switch over date for the zodiac signs is the Chinese New Year, not
January 1 as in the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, a person that was
born in January or early February may have the sign of the previous
year. For example, 1990 was the year of the horse, but anyone born
from January 1 to January 25, 1990 was born in the year of the snake
(the sign of the previous year), because the 1990 year of the horse
began on January 26, 1990.
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