The 12 Chinese Animals: Create Harmony In Your Daily Life Through Ancient Chinese Wisdom

How many times have you gone to a Chinese restaurant and figured out what animal from the Chinese zodiac represented you? You also probably read the description of those of that animal's characteristics and nodded in agreement or shook your head thinking, "that's not me." But have you ever wanted to know more about the Chinese zodiac and the twelve animals? Have you ever wondered how these twelve animals came to represent different years? Well, wonder no longer. "The 12 Chinese Animals: Create Harmony In Your Daily Life Through Ancient Chinese Wisdom" by Master Zhongxian Wu presents what can be a complex Eastern topic in a very easy to understand and accessible manner for the Western reader.

The first part of the book explains the wisdom behind the twelve animals. The numerological meanings are explained, and a short primer on Chinese zodiac or Chinese astrology is presented in a few pages. There are also short explanations of the eight trigrams, twelve tidal hexagrams, and the cycle of nature. This obviously isn't as in depth as you could go, but for most people, these simple explanations will suffice to gain a better understanding.

The next section instructs on how to find your Chinese animal symbol. The little charts on menus are incomplete, and this section provides a more accurate and complete way to determine your Chinese zodiac symbol, but it is still done so in a easy to understand manner. The section covers yearly, monthly, and hourly animal symbols.

Next come chapters on each of the twelve animals and related tidal hexagram: Rat and Fu (Rebirth), Ox and Lin (Deliver), Tiger and Tai (Balance), Rabbit and DaZhuang (Prosper), Dragon and Guai (Transform), Snake and Quan (Strengthen), Horse and Gou (Copulate), Goat and Dun (Retreat), Monkey and Pi (Break), Rooster and Guan (Observe), Dog and Bo (Peel), and Pig and Kun (Flow). Each of these chapters have a general description, a page with a picture and poem or saying, and general features for that animal such as personality, health, relationships, career, finance, color, and food. So if you like reading this short descriptions on menus, you will like this additional information.

The book concludes with a short afterword on living in harmony. Overall, this is a good little book for anyone who wants to know more about this topic. It's clear and easy to read, and provides the basics regarding Chinese astrology and zodiac. It contains attractive photographs and wisdom to meditate on if you desire to pursue that path.

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Feng Shui 2007 - The Chinese Zodiac Animal Symbols To Harmony Living-Hidden Secret in The Birth Year

In Chinese Feng Shui, it is said that your birth year will determine your character. The secrets to understand a persons' natural inherited character, from the day he/she is born, is to understand which unique Chinese Zodiac animal symbol he/she belongs to. That is to say which animal year, out of the 12 animal symbols, is he/she born with? The 12 animals in Chinese feng shui are namely, the year of the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, chicken, dog and last, the pig or boar in sequenced.

Often, in our daily life, remarks we encounter like, "why is he so stubborn?" or "How can I get through your thick skull!" is not uncommon. On the other hand, remarks like, "I can't believe him, he never runs out of ideals.", or," what is she thinking about? Can't she make up her mind?" All these remarks above are common. Have you ever wonder why there are such remarks?

Chinese feng shui can explain why a persons' behavior is linked to his/her birth year by looking at which animal series that he/she is born with. Over here we are not judging any particular animal symbols. That is to say, there are no rights or wrongs in a person who choose to live the life style he/she desire or the way he/she thinks (moral civilized thinking) that fits his own path of ideals. What we are tying to established is that different people will respond themselves to different ways, to create a balance towards his/her surrounding, and the decision that he/she decided to take can be determine by his/her birth animal symbol year in Chinese feng shui.

Understanding the animal symbols of what it stands for will help us to know more about our character and others character as well. Just imagine, if we can understand his/her likes and dislike because we are able to read his/her feng shui symbols, don't you think the results will be less conflict and less misunderstanding? We can achieve the meeting of the minds among ourselves.

Just think, if we can understand what others are thinking, to a certain extend, we can influence others or being influence by others. In other words, understanding the Chinese animal zodiac symbols could help to improve our lacking points and further improve our good points not only for ourselves but others also. Knowing the significant of the birth year in Chinese feng shui can help the parents to understand their children's character and thus guide them in a way that they can improve.

When certain Chinese zodiac animals meet, naturally they will get along very fast and very well. On the contrary, when certain zodiac animals meet, a lot of disagreements occurred and sometimes even frights happen. In business, if we meet certain compatible zodiac animals we can flourish together faster. If we meet certain incompatible animal series, flights and disagreements will occur. Those who understand Chinese feng shui and understand zodiac animals in feng shui can realized that such occurrence actually give a good chance to understand lacking points in ourselves and lacking points in others for us to see a better inside of each others heart better. A wonder ancient science, don't you think so?

Usually a very simple thumb of rules, just for simple understanding but not the whole truth, is, we can use the clock method. For example, place yourself in the 12 O'clock position and mark down your birth year with your Chinese zodiac animal symbol. Than place on 1 o'clock position the following year and zodiac animal symbol and continues till 11 o'clock. For example, I am born in the year 1988. Than I will place the year 1988 on the 12 O'clock position and 1989 on 1 O'clock position and 1990 on 2 O'clock position and so on.

On the six o'clock position, that is, 6 years of your born year, either before or after, you will find that you are attract to this person easily. However, you will also find out later that you will dislike this person as easily as you like him/her in the beginning. You will also realize that, sometime it takes great effort to communicate with this person to get things done when both of you do not share the same common goals. But if you do, it is easily done. Quarrels are common because both share completely different views. Each will envy one another views because that is the one thing you would not do but secretly in you own hearth, you dream of trying it out yourself sometimes.

When you meet a person in 4 O'clock and 8 O'clock year position, you will find them to be very easy going and thus is able to get along with them very well. Not surprising to find that most of lovely couple is 4 years or 8 years apart in Chinese feng shui animal zodiac year. I have personally test out in my groups of friends who are especially lovely couple.

You will also find that when it comes to a person on the 3 O'clock year position, you are easily influence and later regret your decision. Therefore, it is good not to give a confirmation answer at the very moment but give yourself sometimes to think about and disgust before answering. The person in 9 O'clock position will be also influences you but less than the person in 3 O'clock. And therefore, regrets are less.

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A simple understand of the born year in Chinese feng shui could help you understand not only yourself but others as well. The Chinese feng shui on animal zodiac symbols have unbelievable results in influencing our daily life. Believe it or not, the Chinese have been using it for centuries until now.

Lee is an IT professional, a freelance author and an affiliate marketer of; Raymond Woo Feng Shui Secrets of ?How to Apply Feng Shui to 26 areas of?? through his blog site at : http://feng-shui-2007.blogspot.com

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