Your Chinese Horoscope By Prasad [DP]

PREFACE

Astrology has been quite popular in the Asian subcontinent from ancient times India and China were in the forefront perpetuating this age-old tradition and practice Though astrology was prevalent in the West also, it vastly differed from that of the East. The main difference was with charting and mapping of the year. While the Westem system of calendar was based on charting the year according to the Sun, the Enster system was based on the Moon and the lunar cycle Thus, whereas in the West the New Year is constantly falling on January I annually in the Chinese system the beginning of the New Year is calculated according to the second new Moon following the winter solstice-is the New Year is not fixed but may fall sometime in between the middle of January

and February While the Westem astrological system uses the zodiac and the symbolism of the planets, the Chinese astrological system uses twelve animal signs as the symbol to represent the nature and character of individuals bom in different years Thus, in the Chinese astrology the hour of birth, the month of birth, the year of birth, the element, the Yin Yang polarity ete, are taken into account for a complete analysis of an individual character. In the strict sense, while analysing an individual, it is the year sign that underlines the fundamental description of the character, though this is subject to refinement by the element,