Chinese Zodiac Astrology

Lao Tzu, Taoist God & a great philosopher of ancient China , truly said "He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise".

So, we all should know about our inner being. And for knowing our inner being we all need to enhance our interest towards an amazing subject Chinese Zodiac Astrology.

You can know about your behavior, character, personality, lifestyle, emotional makeup, and much more about our inner being with the valuable help of Chinese Zodiac Astrology. A system of predicting one's fate and destiny based on one's birthday, birth season, and birth hours called Zi Wei Dou is still used today in Chinese Zodiac Astrology. Using Chinese Astrology, a person's fortune can be determined by analyzing the position of major planets Sun, Moon, and Comets at the time of person's birth.

With the fundamentals of Traditional Astrology, Chinese Zodiac Astrology gives a gleam about one's horoscope. In Chinese Astrology, 12 animals are keys for analyzing horoscopes. These animals are read in this order -Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Money, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. All animals represent a cycle of calendar year. For instance, year 2012 is represented by animal Dragon, and thus this year is named as �Dragon Year'. By reading Chinese Zodiac Astrology and knowing your animal year you may apparently discover about your career, family relations, money status, social image, and future life.

It is conceived that the system of the twelve-year cycle of animal signs were built from observations of the orbit of Jupiter. Following the orbit of Jupiter around the sun, Chinese astronomers divided the celestial circle into 12 sections, and rounded it to 12 years.

Myths behind selecting animal signs in Chinese Zodiac Astrology

According to Chinese Astrology the order of the twelve signs was explored by Buddha. Buddha invited all of the animals in the kingdom together for a meeting, but only 12 animals attended. The first animal to get there was the garrulous Rat and thus was placed 1. The next was the Ox and was placed 2, and finally pig was placed in number 12. Buddha gave each animal a year of its own, gifting the nature and characteristics of each to those born in that animal's year. And, thus this way Chinese people believe that the years represented by the animals affect the characters of people. Like Vedic and Western Astrology there are also twelve zodiac signs attached to Chinese Zodiac Astrology but are represented with animal year. For example, your zodiac sign is Aries and you were born in year 1988, in Chinese zodiac astrology you will be known as Aries Dragon, and will posses qualities shown by Dragons.

However, Chinese calendar year differs to western calendar year. In Chinese calendar year, New Year begins in late of January or early of February month, not begins on 1st of January like western calendar.

Your year of birth is your animal year, so find here which animal year is for you:-

Read here what characteristics you own with your animal year...
Rat
People born in Rat's year are talkative, ambitions, imaginative, attractive, and kind person. However they are also short-temper. But they own good intelligence and smart to catch good opportunities quickly. They possess deep feelings of love.

Ox
People born in the year of Ox are punctilious, serious, enduring, and confident. They are born leaders. They are traditional and logical. They like enjoying their private life or they dislike interference of others, Oxen are brawny or physically powerful, obedient and trustworthy.

Tiger
People born in year of the Tiger are honest, generous, emotional, sensitive and passionate lovers. They believe in competitions. They always love to take big challenges.

Rabbit
People born in year of Rabbit are friendly they always like making large number of friends. They are well-groomed, helpful, stylish and jovial. However they always want security in life, especially from partner. Sometimes they are also conservative, and become too sentimental.

Dragon
In Chinese astrology dragon is very much special and quite revered. Dragon symbolizes a magnificent creature which is attractive, full of vitality and strength. In china Dragon is symbol of emperor and also the symbol of power and wealth and therefore according to the Chinese astrology the person born under dragon's year is considered as the doer which signifies that they do work and achieve power by getting things done.

Snake
People born in year of Snake are philosophical, wise and charming. . They are pleasant and romantic. They also think deeply any matter. However, they want graceful partners; they are deeply jealous and possessive when involved in relationship, and at some extent they are not trustworthy.

Horse
People born year of Horse are physically active, intelligent, and friendly. They are very independent. But they are also pretty selfish. They like taking challenges.

Sheep
People born under year of Sheep are artistic, thoughtful, and sophisticated. They have good potential for finding best solutions for their problems. They have good tolerance stamina. They are quite thrifty, as they know how to save money. They can adapt or adjust themselves any critical condition like poverty.

Monkey
People born under the year of monkey are spirited, smart, courageous, active and competitive. They like doing new things. They have sharp or good memory. They are always quick to respond people. They easily win trust of others, however they are impatient.

Rooster
People born under rooster's year are showy, honest and responsible. They have a unique sense of color. They are highly principled. They show persuasive power. They have good communication skill.

Dog
People born under They are reliable, brave, skillful, elegant and affectionate. They know how to keep secrets. They are good leaders. They do not change their words if do commitments.

Pig
People born under the Pig's year are meticulous. They are strong-minded, loyal to their friends and mate. They never compromise when they feel that are right. They are always rigid in their thoughts.

So reading your Chinese zodiac astrology you will simply know your inner being like what are your qualities, talent, behavior and other things associated to your life. Or you can even judge other people near you by knowing their year of birth or finding their animal year.