I believe it’s the year of the Dragon.
Jane is a Dragon.
I’m a Horse, myself.
In the first comment—a link to the chart. 😉
Happy Chinese New Year
by CJ | Jan 24, 2012 | Journal | 21 comments
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http://www.janbrett.com/newsnotes/zodiac_years.htm
Gung Hay Fat Choi! (But I’m not sure of the spelling…) It is, of course, a BIG DEAL around Toronto and Vancouver. And I live about a mile (1.6km) from Toronto’s downtown Chinatown – we have at least three.
I’m glad you found a chart that calls my year the boar – it’s so much more dignified than the pig, I think. Fiercer, at least 🙂
Close enough for jazz on the spelling – you get a bonus point for even trying, and there are enough phonetic variants around you can waffle.
Yep, year of the Dragon. Last year was mine, Year of the Bunny Rabbit, and it was a stinker; happy to see it leave. If there was a rabbit involved, I suspect it was the Trickster God, Bugs. Where was all the good mana that’s supposed to accrue to those whose year it is?
Happy Chinese New Year! — I’m from the year of the horse. Yeehaw! Maybe I should wear my cowboy hat.
Pig, Monkey, and Horse were the three heroes of the Journey to the West—one of my favorite tales. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
I love the anime Saiyuki, in which Horse (a mostly silent character in the novel) is transmogrified into the little dragon who transmogrifies into the Jeep. Sha Wujing (the river monk) and Zhu Baije (Pig) are Hakkai the scholar and Sha Gojyo the water spirit in the anime; and Sun Wukong (monkey) is San Goku, a teenager with an immense appetite. The chain-smoking, pistol-packing monk is a little different from Xuanzang, the somewhat feckless young adventurer.
I don’t know if I’m a dragon or a snake as I was born on January 9 which is usually before the New Year arrives in the Chinese calendar. I would prefer to be a dragon.
Well, if it’s Jane’s year, she’s due some good stuff!
Shakatany, if you were born on the cusp of the Chinese New Year, then it’s whatever sign is nearing its end.
1952 – Jane and Joe were born 3 months, 12 days apart, Joe being the older. Both are dragons, so it’s amazing how well we get along, online, email, or face-to-face.
Born in the year of the goat/sheep, myself! Goats, pigs/boars and rabbits/cats are the best triad of matches for my year, but horses are good too, because a horse can just let the fluffy babblings of a goat roll like water off their backs, I’ve read! *lol*
And since my sweetie is a horse, I can speak from experience, when I say, indeed they can. 🙂
Interesting… I just noticed all of my sign’s triad have alternate animals; and the animals are actually not much alike!
I mean, a goat or a sheep??? I’m a goat. NO one would ever mistake me for a sheep, were I to be an actual animal!
Not a lot of similarities between rabbits and cats either! Boars and pigs.. well, more similar, but still notably different in the way they deal with the world.
Rat, oxen, tiger, cat/rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat/sheep, monkey, dog, rooster, pig/boar. See, none of the others have an alternate animal. *pout*
I mean, if it was just that people didn’t like being associated with a certain animal, then all of the different signs would have alternatives… not sure what else you might use for a dragon, but hey, I’m sure they’d find something.
So maybe the animals of my triad are more likely to adapt to different environments. If it’s harsh, they show up like the softer nicer version, but if they are allowed to be more themselves, they show up in the tougher more self willed version? Just a thought!
And dragons! I know about them! They don’t bother taking names when they kick butt! *lol* They often find goats make a better dinner than friend. Hahaha!
Yay then I’m a dragon! Thanx for clearing that up.
But don’t mention it to the cats.
The dragon is supposed to bring prosperity. I hope it extends to our country.
I’m Snake (but disclaim any knowledge of Parseltongue) — and this may not surprise folks who’ve actually met me. Multiply this by being Gemini sun-sign, and those who find significance in such may find significance in it 😉
Reading up, the other two of my trine are Ox and Rooster.
Our two pet bunnies have voted that it simply should be Year of the Rabbit II (although I think they too would agree that it should be a better year than last year!).
CJ, Barnes&Noble.com have the top listed book under your name a Wikipedia-derived repackaging of freely available on the web documents (according to the one review posted on it). Hey, and they are charging $59 dollars for it. (Gee, maybe you could make your fame and fortune simply copying bits from this blog and doing a pay on demand binding!)
More seriously, I’m not quite certain how you and we, under your direction, would like to respond to this. It’s not quite the same as direct copyright infringement of your actual writings, but morally still both slimey and despicable.
I get so tired of these people: they’re based overseas, they re-name their company every time they’re served with papers (3x so far), and honestly, readers should just lambaste B&N and Amazon with complaints about them.
I can tell you that if all your readers made a consistent effort of complaints about this company, without vitriol against B&N or A, you’d probably see some results, but it would need to be a consistent campaign by us, your readers. And by consistent, I mean that every time the company changes names, we deluge B&N and A with letters decrying the works of these miscreants.
Not just the year of the Dragon, the year of the Water Dragon. Beyond that I don’t know much and would have to research the significance of the various element/zodiac symbolisms in Chinese/East Asian lore.
As for Saiyuki my favorite adaptation is the early episodes of Dragonball (not DBZ that continuation is very different). The early episodes were heavily edited for US TV broadcast so you have to get the DVD sets to see what they cut out.
The earliest anime I recall seeing was Osaku Tezuka’s Saiyuki when it was released in theaters in the early 1960s as Alakazam the Great.
As for the name shifting company the idea of fans sending missives to the vendors sounds like a good one to me.
What about the year of the budgerigar? Not as impressive as a dragon but a lot more fun to live with 🙂
I was born in the year of the ox, on the cusp of Taurus and Gemini with my mug in Gemini and my whump in Taurus. (whence my adoption of the burrowing owl as a totemic beastie – a bird that lives underground).
And it seems that I am a Black Dragon. (Definitely have to reread that MacAvoy book.)