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While the major players in the Chinese Zodiac are the 12 animals, it is the different combinations of animals, yin and yang, birth date and time, and the elements that help establish a person's inner and outer self.
This combination is also what helps resolve a person's personality traits, compatibility, and his good fortune. To fully understand the Chinese Zodiac, it is important to understand the relationship between all the elements, something most people don't get from the typical Chinese Zodiac Calendar explanation.
Chinese Zodiac Calendars 2011
The Chinese zodiac astrological calendar 2011 is lunisolar in nature and follows a 60-year cycle. Within this cycle, there are two separate sub-cycles, which interrelate with one another. The first sub-cycle comprises of the ten heavenly stems, specifically the Five Elements in their Yin and Yang forms. These elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. The second sub-cycle comprise of the twelve zodiac animal signs, also known as the worldly Branches.
These signs are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram (sheep or goat), monkey, rooster, dog, and pig (boar). The combination of five elements with twelve animals leads to the creation of the 60-year cycle. The beginning of the cycle occurs with the Wood Rat, while the culmination takes place with the Water Pig. The zodiac animal cycle of twelve is divisible by two and because of this, every zodiac animal sign can occur only in one of the two forms, yin or yang.
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