Chinese Astrology Signs & Compatibility

If you were born in the years 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, or 2000 you were born in the Chinese Year of the Dragon and that Sign rules your personality and attractions. Dragon people are dramatic, fiery, and always have an entourage of excited followers. They are incredibly charismatic and tend to be proud and opinionated. They live on a grand scale and have high ideals that they apply ruthlessly to themselves and others. Dragon people do not lose arguments. They will intimidate whoever disagrees with them until the dissenter backs down or just gives up and goes away.

Dragons make extremely loyal friends but the flip side of that is that if you get on their wrong side, they will take the grudge to the death and never let up on you. Dragons are passionate in love but are always the aggressors, the ones breaking hearts, not vice versa. Dragons need to be believed in to do their best. They can be fantastic motivators but tend to jump into situations a bit rashly at times. To keep the attention of a dragon you must truly believe in him or her devoutly, and you will be rewarded with their affection, but if you are easily hurt, better to pass on the relationship. They cannot hold their feelings in, whether positive or negative, and they cannot keep a secret. If they lose their fan club, they wither.

Dragons are most compatible with Rats, Snakes, Monkeys, and Roosters.

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Chinese astrology is based on a twelve year cycle which in turn in part of a 60 year cycle. Each of the twelve years corresponds to a symbolic animal with specific personality traits and tendencies, and each twelve year cluster corresponds to a Chinese element that modifies the personality traits of the animals. Five x twelve = sixty years.

This 12 and 60 year cyclic calendar was originally based on the Chinese agricultural calendar and is very different from the western calendar and is also very different from western astrology. The five elements: water, earth, fire, metal, and wood, do not correspond so much to physical states of matter but rather to subtle forms of change. In addition to all this, each year is also modified by a yin or a yang direction. Most westerners think of yin as feminine and yang as masculine, but again this not really the Chinese meaning of those terms. Both yin and yang refer to specific subtle qualities that may or may not be related to gender.

Chinese Calendar Astrology can be very challenging for westerners to understand because its understanding of time, matter, elements, and change are rooted in a culture that is unfamiliar. Even so, taking the time to understand an ancient tradition that is new to the west can result in insights we could never obtain using our own systems and tools. For the determined student, it is totally worth the effort.

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