What's Your Sign?

[helwen]

If you want to really know what your sign is, go here: Your Sign. This site will walk you through your sign, lucky elements, etc.

I'm a water rabbit, myself. And the color for water in the Chinese system is black...

That makes me....


The Black Rabbit of Inlay! Bwahahaha!!

[EDIT: For more detailed info, go here: http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/LE.htm . NOTE: the clock hours are on European/Military time, so if you were born after noon, go further down the hours to get to the correct time]

Comments

[wynyfryd-ns.livejournal.com]

Ok, less than amused here... I am a Brown Cow. I kid you not.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. And knowing that one of the alternative references for the cow is ox probably won't help...

But, the cow has many virtues in the Chinese system, if that helps any...

If you page down on the Chinese New Year page, you'll get to a section on Lucky Elements. There's a link there to a page for finding your lucky element. This asks for your birth date, including time zone and hour and minute. This will give you more info on your individual sign, including the animal and element for the day you were born.

For instance, I'm born in the year of the Rabbit, but my day sign is Dragon. Now there's an interesting mix....

Oh, and the page with the luck results leads to some other pages that might be interesting to look at.

[wynyfryd-ns.livejournal.com]

LOL

My month sign was a Black Dragon... that is much better

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

I'm a brown earth monkey.
am I supposed to start flinging mud?

[helwen.livejournal.com]

LOL Only if it creates enough mischief, I think. Monkeys are clever and creative :)

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Me too!

OOK!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Good grief! I seem to have a lot of earth friends (and relatives - L is an earth dog, as is one of my brothers).

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

Another Earth Monkey. I noticed the thingy said "Male" in a number of spots. I suspect it means Yang.

If not, then my day and month are both "Male Wood", which doesn't sound quite right. Granted, Yang Wood doesn't sound much better...

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yup, Male=Yang. Everyone can have male and female aspects of course... I usually just leave out the sex when I'm talking about those things... so much simpler :)

[amykb.livejournal.com]

I'm a green monkey, whatever that means...

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Green is the color for wood :)

Hm, maybe I'll have to find an easier to read site, for folks to look at the general descriptions for their critters...

Monkeys are clever and creative!

[flidaisairmid.livejournal.com]

You are Brown Chicken, born in the year of Brown Dog. The first character in DAY represents you. We can say you are a Earth Chicken, too.

I have always liked chickens !

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you're born in the same year as fitzw, which I thought you might be, but on a different day/month.

[flidaisairmid.livejournal.com]

Yep, in 58 - or as my nieces like to say back in the stone ages

[oakmouse]

The Black Rabbit of Inlay! Bwahahaha!!

*splorf*


Iron rat, here.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Ooooo, what kind of iron? Stainless Steel perhaps? (Or have you heard of the character James DeGriz?)

[oakmouse]

*g* Heard of Slippery Jim but not read any of the stories.

I've always thought of my iron as cast iron. Don't know why.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

:) Me neither, but a friend of mine used to use the name for a number of his characters in our old RPG days. Actually, he probably still plays, but I haven't had the time in years.

Cast iron has more character, imho. And better for cooking over an open fire too, I think... more adaptable in some ways?

[oakmouse]

Adaptable and strong, also improves with age *g*, but if you hit it the wrong way it can be brittle.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Ah, true (on the brittle bit)... in which case, back to the smith for repair and/or reforging? I think some folks I know have already gone through that process...

[oakmouse]

Exactly. BTDT twice, keep the t-shirts in the back of a drawer cos I'd really rather not wear 'em.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yes, you were one of the folks I was thinking of...

One physical near-miss for me... my car accident in '92 was an either/or thing.... only doing everything exactly right to minimize the damage kept it from being fatal. Felt very blessed not to have been in anything as serious as you or S have dealt with. One other incident before that. Don't want to repeat either, thanks.

Here's hoping all our challenges in the near future are not quite so challenging...

[oakmouse]

Indeed, one can hope! *knocks wood*

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

White Dog born in the year of the Black Rabbit. That's me. :-) Black and white have always gone together for me. What do they signify here? There was a dagger or sword or something on the Day picture.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you're a rabbit like me, just born on a different day.

I'm no expert, but I believe that attributes from your day/time of day within the year affect the more general attributes of the year you were born in.

As far as astrology goes, all the elements for the different aspects combine to tell what your lucky element is (for me it's earth/soil), and they give suggestions on how to bring more of that element into your life, to create balance. Also, you can use it to see what months are better for doing certain activities, etc. This comes from the observation of the characteristics of the different animals and how they interact. For instance, when I was reading the year horoscope for Dog for this coming year (L's an Earth Dog), the overall forecast was pretty positive, but it recommended against going full tilt at whatever projects during the first month of the new year. The first month is governed by the Tiger, and apparently tiger and dog don't get along that well.

I don't think I'll ever get terribly good at understanding the Chinese calendar because it's so complicated, but basically, there are 12 animals that succeed each other year after year. But within that year each animal governs a month as well, and within that there's each of them governs two hours in a row of each 24-hour period.

And then of course there's the lunar phases -- 4 other animals, not the zodiac ones -- governing the 28-day cycle. Complicated!

The sword was next to the dog? If yes, it's probably just a symbol to tell you it's metal. White = metal.

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

Blimey! There is a lot more to it than I realised. Perhaps I will explore it a little more deeply when I can find the time. I am very into animals as divination and so forth, so all those ones in different combos in the calendar would be very interesting to try and interpret.