Chinese Astrology

Chinese New Year 2010 falls on 14th of February, 2010. The Chinese New Year is celebrated as the symbol of spring's celebration. In fact, in China the Chinese New Year is still called the Spring festival. It is celebrated after the fall harvest and before the spring planting season. The date of the Chinese New Year is always changing and is dependant on the Chinese calendar. Emperor Huangdi in the year 2637 B.C.E invented the Chinese calendar.

Astrology has for years played a significant role in Chinese culture. The depiction on a circular chart of 12 different animals representing the 12-year cycle of the Chinese lunar calendar was built on the foundation of astronomy and Chinese astrology which has itself been in existence for over 5,000 years.

Chinese have a unique way of representing the New Year through animals. They have 12 different animals to represent each year of the 12 year -cycle and the order remains the same throughout with the year of the rat beginning the cycle and the year of the boar/ pig ending the same.

The 12 animals that appear on the Chinese Zodiac calendar include a rat, buffalo (ox), tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.




Raymond Lo, popularly known as "Fung Shui Lo", is a professional feng shui and destiny consultant, author and lecturer, who helps people create harmony with their environment, for greater relationships, health, wealth and success. Here is a sample of his view of the coming year.

The Year of the Tiger, 2010, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with metal sitting on top of wood. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter-relationship between the elements, metal is the destroyer of wood and so they are on the destructive cycle and have conflict relationship. .Unfortunately this means the year 2010 will not be peaceful with more international conflicts coming up. The yang metal element on top is weapon metal which symbolizes a sword. And this element always associate with the masculine military power. The Tiger underneath is actually matching with the fierce strength of the cold metal sword. The tiger is also a travelling star in Chinese metaphysics. As such, the best symbol for this year is a heavy armored fighting vehicle – a tank.

I anticipate this elemental relationship will bring a year of conflict and disharmony in inter-national relationships and it is a year for more clashes and fighting. The yang metal is also symbol of leadership, loyalty to friends, and sense of justice. Yang metal people will come to support when their friends are under attack. As such, this may cause more danger of a global conflict with countries taking side and making military alliances. The yang metal is also a destructive element as it symbolizes weapon., so it could cause more harm and damage from careless mistakes. As such, it is necessary for all world leaders to exercise restraint and play calm in face of disagreement and conflicts. We have already learnt many lessons from past history and hope not to commit the same mistake again.

The Chinese calendar year goes on 60-year cycle. This means that we have experienced the same year of yang metal over Tiger in 1950. This was a year when the world is competing in making atomic bombs. President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb in Jan. 1950. And the Soviet Union claimed to possess atomic bomb in March. And in June, the Korean war broke out and US troops joined in defense of South Korea with North Korean troops captured Seoul. Chinese army marched into Korea in November and launched a massive counter attack against South Korean and US forces…All these are bitter lessons from the past associate with the destructive yang metal. The tendency of loyalty and sense of justice leading to big powers coming to aid of friends and blew up small conflicts into big scale destruction.

The Chinese character for "Yang Metal" represents a metal weapon, a sword, a gun or cannon. It is associated with the quality of leadership, loyalty to friends, brotherhood, and Justice and destruction. Yang metal man has masculine charm and heroic outlook. Their strong sense of justice and helping the weak often bring them to politics, the military and legal career. As such, people born in a day of "Yang Metal" often shows an image of strength. They appear to be masculine, heroic and powerful. Some examples of famous people born on a "Yang Metal" day are Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Queen Elisabeth II, Pop Benedict VXI, Carlos Santana, Gianni Versace, Tiger Woods, Keith Richards, Rene Zellweger, Sheryl Crow, Margaret Thatcher, Hamid Krzai ... . The Yang metal element is often found in high tech business as well as medical industries. Many high flyers in high-tech computer business also born on a day of yang metal, some typical examples are Jerry Yang of Yahoo, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Steve Case of AOL.

The Tiger belongs to wood element and it is representing early spring when trees and plants are getting prosperous. The Tiger contains the seed of fire and is the month February which is consider as the birth month of fire element. As such, inside the Tiger there are very powerful hidden fire energy. History has showed that the Tiger is associate with atomic or nuclear energy. In the last year of Metal Tiger in 1950, both USA and USSR are racing to develop hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs. It is also a year full of accidents related to such nuclear weapons. On 12th Feb. 1950, it is Tiger day, Tiger month in Tiger year, Albert Einstein warned that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction. And on 13th Feb. The US Air force lost a bomber that carried an atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada. And again on 10th November, same year 1950, another US air force bomber jettisoned and detonated a nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada. And on 8th March, the Soviet Union proclaimed that she had her first atomic bomb. Also the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in 1986 a year of Tiger on a day of Yang Metal. So in a Metal Tiger year there is strong possibility that nuclear safety is a major issue and may even trigger nuclear accidents. Other natural disasters involving fire such as forest fire and volcanic eruptions are also very possible in 2010. The yang metal being a destructive element could bring sizable damages and casualties. The danger of nuclear weapons coming under control of North Korea, the Taliban and Iran becomes a major issue threatening world peace. This could bring new development in international relationship with more military alliances which could even escalate the chance of nuclear war.

The Tiger is actually complicated wood element and it contains wood, fire and earth. Firstly, it is not strong wood as the it is threatened by metal and exhausted by earth and fire. As wood element is symbol of trees and the environment, we can expect the metal attacking wood in 2010 will cause more accidents leading to more destruction of the environment. Natural disasters like forest fire will happen to cause damage to the atmosphere. Metal is also a symbol of breathing organ and lung. The conflict involving wood, fire and metal indicates worsening of air quality and more sickness related to breathing organ. The Tiger is also part of a serious configuration in animal astrology called "Three Fire Penalty". This configuration is formed when the 3 wood, fire, and metal animals Tiger, Snake and Monkey appear at the same time. Such penalty can cause serious misfortunes related to fire element. such as fire disaster, nuclear energy accidents, eruption of volcano, even inflammation, skin and breathing organ, intestine diseases.

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