Elements Animals Feng Shui Calendar

At first glance, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the elements, animals, feng shui calendar, and how they all work together. There's no need to be intimidated, though, and understanding the calendar will take you one step closer to knowing even more about yourself. In addition, it can offer you predictions as to how your year will go in general.

There are a few concepts to keep in mind when you're looking at this type of calendar:

• This calendar is based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
• All components are dependent upon birth dates, though each year's animal and element work together to have an overall effect on the personalities of those born under a given sign.
• Each year will have an animal and an element. You are assigned the animal and element of your birth year. You could be a Water Horse or a Metal Dog, for example. Both animal and element have typical characteristics to go along with them; the way those characteristics combine adds dimension to your personality. This is how the Chinese calendar and astrology are linked, and why there is no one out there exactly like you.
• Animal-element combinations only repeat every sixty years. The sixty-year cycle is made up of yin and yang properties—each animal is set as either yin or yang. Years that end in even numbers are considered yang and those ending with odd numbers are yin. Elements can be yin or yang. So for example, 2008 is a Yang Earth Rat year and 2009 is a Yin Earth Ox year.
• The feng shui aspect of the calendar tells you your best days for love, financial success, health, and more during any year.

The Chinese calendar is based on the lunisolar year. It is still used for traditional Chinese holidays and Chinese astrology. Because the lunar and solar years don't match up perfectly and the Chinese New Year migrates between the middle of January and the end of February, those born in those months should consult the Chinese calendar to find their birth year.

In addition to your birth month and year, the feng shui calendar also takes into account the day and time you were born. Visit LoveToKnow's Chinese Astrology Characteristics for a time chart.

Each year is assigned an animal and an element. Within each year, you can find the general overview for each animal. Therefore, if it's the Year of the Rat (2008) and you're a Tiger, you will find that your overview for 2008 is different than that of someone who is a Dog.

Further analysis of the whole year for each sign can also be found at the Chinese.Astrology.com site.

The elements and animals work together to add different dimensions to your personality and your life's outlook.

There are five elements involved in this calendar, and each year is assigned one element. Additionally, each element is considered yin or yang depending on the year:

• Metal (yang if the year ends in 0, yin if it ends in 1)
• Water (yang if the year ends in 2, yin if it ends in 3)
• Wood (yang if the year ends in 4, yin if the year ends in 5)
• Fire (yang if the year ends in 6, yin if it ends in 7)
• Earth (yang if the year ends in 8, yin if it ends in 9)

There are twelve animals in the feng shui calendar, each one representing one year in a twelve-year cycle. Each year has a designated animal as well as an element.

• Rat
• Ox/Bull
• Tiger
• Hare/Rabbit
• Dragon
• Snake
• Horse
• Ram/Sheep
• Monkey
• Rooster
• Dog
• Boar/Pig

To find your Chinese sign, simply locate your birthday on one of the many charts available. On this Sexagenary Cycle chart, scroll to the last chart on the page to find birth dates from 1924 to 2043.

To learn more about the characteristics of your Chinese sign, visit LoveToKnow's Chinese Astrological Signs article.

Elements, animals, feng shui calendars, and more can all combine to tell you more about yourself based on your birth date. They overlap in such a way that makes the resulting information more about you than some other methods. Since there are so many combinations (8,640 when you take into account and secret animals), you can be sure that your reading based on elements and animals within the feng shui calendar will be tailor made for you.

You can find your Chinese animal sign or your element by visiting Chinese.Astrology.com and entering in your birth date. You will receive an overview of the typical characteristics of your sign.

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