The Chinese Astrology Handbook

Craze introduces the 12 signs of the Chinese horoscope, explaining how the year in which you were born i nfluences your personality, your ambitions and your relation ships. '

Do you know which of the twelve animal signs you are? Or how the "animal that hides in your heart" influences your outlook on life? What happens in your chart when your Eastern moon sign meets your Western sun sign? The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes answers these questions and more. For forty years, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes has remained the classic book on the topic, artfully combining the Eastern lunar calendar with Western, solar-based astrology. You'll discover how the five elements, four seasons, and the ascendant sign based on the hour of your birth can affect your personality. Read about the 144 relationship combinations to better understand the compatibility of the twelve lunar signs. This revised edition will delight seasoned astrologers and interested novices alike.

Now in its ninth edition, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the Chinese lunar zodiac, skillfully combining the Eastern lunar calendar with Western astrology. Discover which of the twelve animal signs you are and the effects of the other influences you were born under, from the five elements, the four seasons, to the ascendant signs of the hour of your birth. Introducing the origins and personalities of each sign each chapter explains in detail how your sign will interact with other signs to guide you through relationships and life. How can you and your partner's personalities be explained, and discover what the future holds for you. With extensive new material, including how your horoscope can reveal the right wedding date for you, the compatibility between the 144 possible marriage combinations, and much more, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes is the definitive book on Chinese astrology.

Written by a leading authority on the history and practice of Chinese astrology, this comprehensive new entry in the continuing Bible series brings together all the basics on this ancient form of divination. Filled with color photographs and beautiful illustrations, it covers everything from the 12 animals of the zodiac to calculating your sign to creating a detailed analysis of your chart based on the exact time of your birth. There’s also advice on developing your horoscope further, as well as using Chinese astrology in conjunction with Eastern medicine and feng shui.

The system of Chinese horoscopes has been in use for thousands of years, and there was a time when no Chinese person would contemplate changing their job or getting married without consulting their astrologer. We may no longer run our lives this way, but there is much that we can learn about ourselves from this ancient Eastern astrological system. The Chinese horoscope is made up of 12 animal signs but while most people know which sign they are, the system is more complex than that.You also need to know which of the five elements you are: fire, earth, water, metal or wood, and whether you are yin or yang. This accessible book guides you through finding your own particular sign and how it influences your personality, family, love life and future choices.

Showing how a person's sign is affected by the five elements--metal, water, wood, fire, and earth--and by the particular sign that rules the time of one's birth, the book defines personality characteristics and explores compatibility and conflict for 144 possible marriage combinations.

This guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world's oldest systems of divination. The ancient Chinese people developed a sophisticated science of astrology that continues to have profound influence in China today. Rooted in the fundamentals of Taoism, it evolved into a system vastly different from Western astrology. Rather than determining personality by the time of the year in which you are born, in Taoist astrology it is the year itself that determines your character. The years form a twelve-year cycle of signs, each named after an animal. Additionally, your personality depends on which of the five traditional Taoist elements you are born under--water, wood, fire, earth, or metal. This makes for a cycle of sixty unique signs. Taoist Astrology includes information for each sign's personality, compatibility, child-parent relations, and rising and falling fortunes during the twelve-year cycle. Discussions of yin and yang, Confucianism and Buddhism, Taoist alchemy, and the connection between Taoist astrology and Western astrology give you all the background you need for understanding one of the oldest systems of divination known to humanity. Taoist Astrology differs from other books on the subject by grounding its concepts in the ancient traditions from which it originated.