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The Chinese Astrology Signs are based on a Lunar year not a Solar Year. The Chinese Zodiac Signs are like the Western Horoscope Signs in that there are twelve of them.
Chinese Astrology Signs are based on the year that you were born rather than the day of your birth. Each of the twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs is represented by an exacting animal. The Chinese Zodiac Signs are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Lamb, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. The animal ruling the year of your birth exercises a profound influence on your life. It is thought that each Chinese Astrology Sign embodies its Animal's characteristics, as seen by Eastern eyes, in the people born that year. So a person will be cunning or persistent or whatever their sign is. Each Chinese Horoscope Sign comes in five flavors so to speak and they are:- Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth So instead of a sign lasting only 30 days or so, Chinese signs last a year and each is repeated once every 60 years.
When determining compatibility, people center on your animal sign. Your Chinese Horoscope is base on which year in the 60 year cycle you were born in.
Chinese Horoscopes Animal Years
Chinese horoscopes Zodiac animals are assigned by the year in Chinese astrology. But, you have to keep in mind that the animal signs are also assigned by month known as inner animals, and by the hours of the day called secret animals. The Chinese horoscopes animal years have an astrological system with a 12-year cycle. Animals represent each year in the cycle with certain uniqueness. These are the signs or symbols chosen by the Chinese for the given years. The word "zodiac" comes from the Latin "zodiacus", which formerly comes from the Greek "zoidiakos kuklos", meaning "circle of animals". This uses the root word "zoo" which is now used in English to mean Animal Park and also used in the word "zoology" meaning the study of animals.
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