I’m apparently Red Snake born in the year of the Black Horse, and my element is fire, my ancestral element is water, and my lucky element is wood, green my lucky color, East is my lucky direction, and Rabbit or Tiger is my fortunate match.
Jane is Black Rabbit born in the year of the Black Dragon and her element is water, her ancestral element is water, and her lucky element is fire. South is her lucky direction, red her lucky color, and Horse and Snake are her fortunate match.
We seem to fit together in a weird way.
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/chineseastrology.htm
Huh… interesting extension of the basic info! My element is basically ‘dirt’. Ok.. they call it soil, I’ve heard it called Earth. That does imply a goundedness I don’t believe I have, though. 🙂
But I knew I was a wood sheep.. I’ve never seen the colors before, nor the actual breakdown of the hours/days/months/years, although I knew they did that, just as the western astrology does. So, I’m a black sheep (month) and a green sheep year. Guess I’m kinda mossy! Comes of living out here in the puget sound area, I guess! *lol*
I did already know that the element missing from my chart is water, so that’s what they’ve called my ‘lucky’ element. I guess mossy mud is good for me!
But I’m also a brown pig… accounts for why my element is soil probably! I probably wallow a bit!
And according to that ‘rise and fall’ chart, I should just stay in bed for the entire 10 years of my 50’s! Luckily it isn’t true, because I’ve had a pretty good time thru them thus far, other than fighting off health issues. 🙂
Nice catch, CJ! Thank you for sharing it!
Although they are not Chinese Dragons here are two of my favorite dragon stories:
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R.Tolkien (in print)
The Dragon Tamers in The Book Of Dragons by E. Nesbit (On Gutenberg)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I got “Soil (kids) 85, and “Water” (job) 160. I work for the US Navy, and my 21 year old daughter is a geology major. Fun stuff !
So I’m a White Pig born in the Brown Cow year (How now?). Interesting that my lucky hours are between 9 pm and 1 am., cos I’m definitely a night owl. I’m not supposed to be compatible with dragons or horses. I think I won’t believe in that part.
We luvs you, WOL! We find you perfectly compatible.
Fun, but confusing. I thought I was a water rabbit: water is associated with the colour black, rabbit is associated with wood and the colour green. Now it seems I’m a white metal sheep born in a black tiger year, sort of my own opposite?
The advice I find is quite contradictory: as a water rabbit I should avoid wet places (good luck to that, living below sealevel in a rainy country); but as a metal sheep I should avoid dry places. In other things the two seem fairly compatible, both part of the fourth trine and similar in nature.
I tried to find out what it meant and read a few bits of sites about Chinese astrology, and found that a person gets even more animals, all assigned by birthday: the outer one based on the year, the inner one on the month, and a secret one on the hour of birth. As all these animals seem to be associated with colours and elements as well you could end up being associated with half the possibilities on the chart.
I wonder what CJ’s linked site bases the decision on, of what kind of animal you are, as not one of my three animals, looked at separately, is a sheep or a goat. It’s not influenced by the time: at first I thought the hour of birth was based on GMT/UTC; when I found out it was probably based on Peking time and changed my input by -7 hours, the result stayed the same.
They’ve assigned me to a different year than any of the other sites I’ve seen. My birthday is several days off from the year-change on all the other sites, so I guess there’s a lot of uncertainty (fudging allowed!) for anyone anywhere near a change-over who prefers one sign to the other.
I think I’ll stay a rabbit, I don’t really feel like a tiger – the sheep is a nice and comfortable animal as well, but I don’t understand what it’s based on, and goats though friendly always seem rather argumentative and head-butting animals to me (they have to be, to be strong and good defenders of the flock), which I don’t like as my image (though some people might see me that way…). Though I’ll never be elegant like a rabbit is supposed to be, some of it fits me surprisingly well.
A nice distraction from a nasty cold!
And Congratulations on reaching 70% on the new book! I just noticed it, but you’ve really jumped ahead!
interesting! Thanks, Hanneke!
Brown sheep in year of the Black Dragon. (who has been using that sheep to clean themselves?) My element is soil, so maybe that explains why the sheep is brown…….
Well, I am a Brown Horse born in the year of the Black Rabbit (of Inle?!?) My big score is supposed to be in the area of children; I have none, but since I am a children’s librarian, I guess that counts as a really big ohana 😀 My element is earth, and I supposedly need more wood, East and green in my life. They must have seen the state of my yard. Agree with Hanneke about being associated with half the possibilities in the chart, depending on which Chinese astrology system you use.
I am Red Horse, born in the year of Green Sheep. I am equivalent to Fire, and my lucky element is Water. My close associates are Pigs and Rats. Unfortunately neither my husband (rooster)nor my children (rabbit and snake)are. Maybe I’m in the wrong life?
Green Rabbit born in White Tiger: I am wood, and my lucky element is fire.
I thought I’d posted a response when CJ first provided the link, but it’s AWOL. Trying again, I’m Green Monkey of Green Dragon year, wood is my element. Euro and Chinese traditions agree that I am heavy on fire signs/elements, and the Chinese feel I’d need to incorporate more water to balance out (and be lucky). A Euro-oriented sort of test sort of supports this; years ago, a friend did a thing with a shuffled playing deck that had all but one Ace removed, cut the deck, I had to determine “by feel” which half the Ace was in. If you’re right, repeat. The remaining Ace was of clubs, element of wood. I narrowed the deck down to FOUR CARDS before I got nervous and choked. Haven’t repeated the experiment, but the odds against it happening even once are (to coin a phrase) astronomical…
Spooky. 😉
I am a White Monkey, born in the year of the Red Sheep, and my element is apparently metal. I will say, my elements are definitely nowhere close to being balanced. My highest is Fire, at 238. Lowest (and hence “lucky” element) is Wood, at 3! But apparently the next 20 years are supposed to be pretty lucky for me. I do find it amusing that my lucky time is 3 am to 7 am, which I generally spend doing such important things as, oh, sleeping?
My lucky time is also the wee hours, during which time I count myself very fortunate to be sleeping if I can shift the cat over and resist Shu’s imploring me (by climbing on the fragiles and shelves) to get up and feed him—
Shu has certainly found an effective tactic to get what he wants, hasn’t he?
Shu and Sei both impress me as no fools, they.
A certain pair here have been exploring since I did a little around the house today. The human’s activities are a source of great curious intrigues for the two felines. They are so different, and fuss a little between them, but they also make a clever, friendly team when they find it suits ’em.
It seems I’ll have to look up a thing or two to discover all the Chinese astrological particulars for m’self. Could be curious indeed.