Chinese Astrology - The Dragon

Like Western astrology (which originated in Babylon), Chinese astrology seeks to describe human characters, behaviours, connections and relationships by looking into the skies. Also such as Western astrology, the heavens are broken up into twelve sections. The Chinese zodiac consists of twelve creatures which correspond to specific character traits. All these animals is supposed to hold importance for those individuals born in that year, rotating onto a 12-year cycle.


According to a Chinese legend, the variety of the creatures was determined by Buddha. Once on a time, each of the animals were encouraged to Buddha's New Year's celebration and just these twelve creatures showed up. The Chinese calendar finds New Year's to another date than the Western (Julian) calendar widely utilized in the USA, together with all the Chinese New Year happening in mid-January into mid-February determined by the cycles of the moon. Buddha gave every creature in attendance in his New Year's celebration dominion over its year, in rotating cycles, bestowing the traits of the animal to those born from the creature's year. Individuals born in the"Year of the Dragon" are likely to be lively, inventive, and powerful leaders if sometimes greedy and demanding.

In another favorite legend, a race has been held to ascertain the sequence of the animals. The Jade Emperor (Heavenly Grandfather) was quite curious why a powerful, flying monster like the dragon didn't finish . The warrior responded that, while flying across the ground, he needed to cease to create rain for the people and the animals of this ground and was consequently detained.

Of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, just one is regarded as"fanciful" or"mythical," the dragon. It's curious that among those animals ought to be so distinct from all of the others. Some people point to the strange exclusion and state this is proof that dragons formerly existed and were part of the world when people ancient observers were seeking to describe the world in what was to evolve to Chinese astrology.

The final"Year of the Dragon" coincided (imperfectly) using the calendar year 2000; the following one will probably be in 2012.
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