Chinese Horoscope: Find your Chinese Astrology Sign

Everybody is interested in knowing what is going to happen in his or her in the near future. Whether he will be successful in exams, whether he will get married to his love, whether his business will work, what about the marriage life ahead and other lot many questions have always attracted people towards their horoscope. Every morning we get up and look for the horoscope page to know that day’s fortune. Horoscope and various other astrological products have always allured the mankind.

Chinese horoscope is one such type of horoscope which is based on traditional astrology theories and calendars. Chinese horoscope is associated with different principles of Chinese philosophy like yin yang theory, five element theory, wu xing teachings, 12 earthy branches, lunisolar calendar etc. The Chinese form of geomancy, Feng shui, believes that balance between yin and yang and five elements determine the person’s happiness and prosperity. These five elements have particular energy (qi) in a particular direction. Any imbalances in them invite negative energy towards a person thus interrupting in his smooth life.

Chinese horoscope is basically calculated according to the wu xing teachings. This says that five major planets Venus, Jupiter, mercury, mars and Saturn are associated with five elements metal, wood, water, fire and earth respectively. An individual’s fortune is determined with the position of these planets along with position of sun and moon. Persons’ time and place of birth also holds an important position.

Luni solar calendar is a calendar of 60 year cycle. Here two cycles interact with each other. One is the cycle of five elements named as wood, fire, earth, water, and metal. These five elements are present in their yin yang forms. The other one is of 12 animal signs starting from rat with ending on boar. These two cycles in combination forms 60 pairs or 60 years. They always start from yang wood rat and ends with yin metal boar. As animal signs are divisible by 2 so each zodiac sign can occur in either the yin form or yang form. You can find your Chinese astrology sign among this only. Start of every new zodiac is considered as start of new Chinese year. This comes around the end of January or February.

In China a person’s traits are determined by not asking his/her age but by asking to which animal he belongs to. Chinese zodiac is divided in 12 year cycle and each year is represented by an animal. Each animal has different characteristics, traits and behavior according to which person’s physical and mental attributes are decided. This also helps in knowing about the success and happiness in your life throughout.

The 12 animal signs are in the following order:

• Rat
• Ox
• Tiger
• Rabbit
• Dragon
• Snake
• Horse
• Ram
• Monkey
• Rooster
• Dog
• Pig (boar in Japan) 

The concept behind these 12 animals is that once Buddha called all the animals for celebrating New Year’s Eve. But only 12 animals were successful in reaching there. Moreover Ox was fast and was supposed to reach there for first but rat sat on ox’s back and jumped just before the destination. Therefore it came first and ox was second.

Chinese horoscope is not used for fortune predictions as such but is very reliable in telling bout person’s character, talents and biases. You can also try your Chinese fate by knowing your Chinese year and animal. Don’t get tensed if it displays something horrible, negative or terrible. Just take this for fun and enjoy what’s there in your luck.