The Chinese calendar, commonly known as the Farmers’ Calendar, or the Hsia Calendar, is a fascinatingly accurate system, which not only records the passage of time, but is also a tool for fortune-telling. The famous traditional fortune-telling system – The Four Pillars of Destiny – is exactly referring to reading a person’s destiny from his birth data as presented in the Hsia calendar format. The unique feature of such calendar is that all information about time – year, month, day and hour are presented in terms of the five basic elements – metal, water, wood, fire and earth, which are believed to be the basic components of everything in the Universe. The relationship between the five elements accurately helps one predict what is to come by way of one’s fortunes and thus, one can by using this knowledge, multiply the good luck or minimize the bad luck in one’s life.
The Year of the Ox, 2009, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with earth sitting on top of earth. So is the same element on top of each other. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter-relationship between the elements, earth and earth are like brothers and sisters and so they do not have birth nor destructive relationship with each other.. They can be friends and they can be competitors. Therefore, earth sitting on earth does not give sign of conflict. The Earth on top is Yin earth which symbolizes a garden, and garden gives sense of harmony and peace and relaxation. The Ox underneath is actually matching with the picture of a peaceful field with ox eating grass. As such, I anticipate this elemental relationship will bring a year of more harmony and peace in inter-national relationships and it is a year for healing and cure and relaxation from the turbulent time the world has experienced since 2001. It is a time for rebuilding and reconstructions from the damage brought by war and natural disasters, and the financial tsunami of 2008, and also a time to seek peace settlement and to narrow the differences between different culture, religious believes and begin to care for one another, and make some achievement in solving the global warming issue. It is a year of pure earth element and the theme for this year should be caring for our planet earth.
The Chinese calendar year goes on 60-year cycle. This means that we have experienced the same year of yin earth on the Ox in 1949. This was a year when the world order is basically settled down with the birth of Peoples Republic of China, and the creation of NATO. It is the years countries were healing from the devastation of the Second World War and years when the more peaceful and stable environment induce the birth of many baby boomers. It is still time of confrontation between USSR and the west with USSR testing their first atomic bomb in August 1949. However, it is still a year of no major conflicts between nations and a year of construction and rebuilding after the turbulence of the second world war...
The Chinese character for “Yin Earth” represents a field or a garden.. It is associated with the quality of moderate, peaceful, intellectual, charming and charitable kind of person. People born in a day of “Yin Earth” is often moderate and harmonious and slim.. Some examples of famous earth people born on a “Yin Earth” day are Barak Obama , Uma Thurman, Celine Dion, George Michael, Tchaikovsky, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jet Li, Larry King, and Donald Trump, and famous scientist who contributed tremendously to human civilization such as Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud....
It is also interesting to note that Yin earth Ox has appeared in some significant dates in American history, as the Declaration of Independence on 4th July, 1776, and the Pearl Harbor attack on 7th December, 1941 are both Yin earth Ox day. So could 2009 be a year of significance to USA under new President bringing a lot of changes? It so happens that the new U.S. President Barak Obama is also a yin earth person, and his birth elements bear similarity with Abraham Lincoln, who is also a yin earth person.. Naturally he will be the focus of the world in 2009, the yin earth year. It is interesting to note that Geroge W. Bush is a yin metal person and he also became president in 2001 – a yin metal year that started 8 years of turbulence. Let us hope Barak Obama will bring out the peaceful and healing quality of yin earth for the benefit of the world.
The Ox belongs to the earth element and it is the second of the 12 animal signs. So it represents the construction and building phase after a new beginning of a 12 years cycle. As such, the Rat year can bring a new beginning with the appearance of new international relationships and social order and new leadership, such as in USA, Russia, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, South Africa and Pakistan….the Ox will be the year when the new leaders will commence reconstruction and consolidation of their position and power. This could bring new development in international relationship and improvement in the economy and sure more attention will be pay to the earth aspects, housing, rebuilding, agriculture and caring for the earth. These themes related to the earth element will be the focus of most new leaders in 2009.
The Ox is actually complicated earth element. Firstly, it is not strong earth as Ox earth is winter earth without support of fire. And inside the Ox earth, the hidden elements are water, earth and metal. The water and metal is exhausting the earth. As such, we cannot consider the earth in 2009 is strong earth. And there is still instability which will bring earth disasters. In August 1949, a 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in Ecuador killed 6000 people and destroyed 50 towns. The Ox is also part of a serious configuration in animal astrology called “ Three Earth Penalty”. This configuration is formed when the 3 earth animals Ox, Dog and Goat appear at the same time. Such penalty can cause serious misfortunes related to earth element. Such as collapse of buildings, earthquake, landslide . In the immediately previous year of Ox in 1997, there is serious earthquake in Iran killing 2400 people
The Ox, Dog and Goat penalty often refer to hidden dangers related to the earth elements. Besides earth disasters, it can also bring tragedies such as falling from buildings or accidents in an earth environment, such as skiing, or injury in a mountain etc. In 1997, the previous year of the Ox, Lady Diana died in car crash inside a tunnel which is very much enclosed in an earth environment. And in the same year, Gianni Versac was shot dead in front of his own house and he died on the pavement. This is also an earth environment. And in both occasions there also appeared the three penalty of Ox, Dog and Goat together in their birthday elements..
In 2008, as I correctly predicted, was not a good year for airline business, besides many plane crashes and other incidents, there are also closing down of troubled airlines ( Oasis, Alitalia ) , troubles in airports ( Opening of new terminal 5 in Heathrow airport in London) and maintenance problem of American Airline in early 2008, troubles in the air (Qantas).. The idea is that airline business is in the category of fire element, so when fire element is absent in 2008 it will also weaken the airline business hence causing accidents and problems. This will continue in 2009 as this year of Ox also has no fire elements. . As such, we will continue to see trouble in the airline business and more airline related accidents.
In 2008, we have seen the absence of fire element brought cooler weather and even snow storms. 2009 the year of Ox also has no fire element and so we can expect the cooling weather could continue with danger of severe snow storm and freezing weather again..
The Earth element is also associate with homosexuality. It so happens many famous homosexuals is born on the day of earth – this includes Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Tchaikovsky, George Michael, Boy George, Andy Warhol, Tracy Chapman, K.D. Lang. Rosie O’Donnell etc. As such, there could be more issues in this aspect in 2009. It is not really clear how earth element is linked with homosexuality. Perhaps earth is an element of more neutral nature, compare against the other four, water and fire, wood and metal.
The clash between the Ox and Goat is a serious clash between earth and earth elements. This will often bring earth disasters such as earthquake, collapse of buildings, landslide etc.. Therefore people born in years of Goat have to be particularly careful in 2009. As it is earth clashes the danger could be associate with mountains, roads and buildings disasters such as traffic accidents on the road, industrial accidents in construction sites, or injuries when hiking in mountain area. Therefore, for people born in the year of Goat, it is recommended that they carry the pendant of a Rat which will help to attract away the Ox, so as to minimize the negative influence of the clash. Anyhow, people who are born in the year of Goat will experience a more turbulent year with more movements and traveling, changes. It is suitable to engage in such movements, such as moving house or moving offices. Traveling is also good but one should avoid going straight towards the North east direction as it is the direction of the Grand Duke in 2009. For people born in the year of the Goat, if possible, it is also good to minimize activities involving earth sports, such sports are skiing, golf, climbing mountain, car racing etc.
The Ox also forms a three penalty relationship with the Goat and the Dog. Such penalty is hidden danger and may cause disharmony, worries and irritations, or hidden sickness. Therefore people born in the year of the Goat or Dog is also recommended to carry the pendant of the Rat to minimize such penalty influence in the year of the Ox..
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The Year of the Ox, 2009, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with earth sitting on top of earth. So is the same element on top of each other. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter-relationship between the elements, earth and earth are like brothers and sisters and so they do not have birth nor destructive relationship with each other.. They can be friends and they can be competitors. Therefore, earth sitting on earth does not give sign of conflict. The Earth on top is Yin earth which symbolizes a garden, and garden gives sense of harmony and peace and relaxation. The Ox underneath is actually matching with the picture of a peaceful field with ox eating grass. As such, I anticipate this elemental relationship will bring a year of more harmony and peace in inter-national relationships and it is a year for healing and cure and relaxation from the turbulent time the world has experienced since 2001. It is a time for rebuilding and reconstructions from the damage brought by war and natural disasters, and the financial tsunami of 2008, and also a time to seek peace settlement and to narrow the differences between different culture, religious believes and begin to care for one another, and make some achievement in solving the global warming issue. It is a year of pure earth element and the theme for this year should be caring for our planet earth.
The Chinese calendar year goes on 60-year cycle. This means that we have experienced the same year of yin earth on the Ox in 1949. This was a year when the world order is basically settled down with the birth of Peoples Republic of China, and the creation of NATO. It is the years countries were healing from the devastation of the Second World War and years when the more peaceful and stable environment induce the birth of many baby boomers. It is still time of confrontation between USSR and the west with USSR testing their first atomic bomb in August 1949. However, it is still a year of no major conflicts between nations and a year of construction and rebuilding after the turbulence of the second world war...
The Chinese character for “Yin Earth” represents a field or a garden.. It is associated with the quality of moderate, peaceful, intellectual, charming and charitable kind of person. People born in a day of “Yin Earth” is often moderate and harmonious and slim.. Some examples of famous earth people born on a “Yin Earth” day are Barak Obama , Uma Thurman, Celine Dion, George Michael, Tchaikovsky, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jet Li, Larry King, and Donald Trump, and famous scientist who contributed tremendously to human civilization such as Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud....
It is also interesting to note that Yin earth Ox has appeared in some significant dates in American history, as the Declaration of Independence on 4th July, 1776, and the Pearl Harbor attack on 7th December, 1941 are both Yin earth Ox day. So could 2009 be a year of significance to USA under new President bringing a lot of changes? It so happens that the new U.S. President Barak Obama is also a yin earth person, and his birth elements bear similarity with Abraham Lincoln, who is also a yin earth person.. Naturally he will be the focus of the world in 2009, the yin earth year. It is interesting to note that Geroge W. Bush is a yin metal person and he also became president in 2001 – a yin metal year that started 8 years of turbulence. Let us hope Barak Obama will bring out the peaceful and healing quality of yin earth for the benefit of the world.
The Ox belongs to the earth element and it is the second of the 12 animal signs. So it represents the construction and building phase after a new beginning of a 12 years cycle. As such, the Rat year can bring a new beginning with the appearance of new international relationships and social order and new leadership, such as in USA, Russia, Taiwan, Japan, Israel, South Africa and Pakistan….the Ox will be the year when the new leaders will commence reconstruction and consolidation of their position and power. This could bring new development in international relationship and improvement in the economy and sure more attention will be pay to the earth aspects, housing, rebuilding, agriculture and caring for the earth. These themes related to the earth element will be the focus of most new leaders in 2009.
The Ox is actually complicated earth element. Firstly, it is not strong earth as Ox earth is winter earth without support of fire. And inside the Ox earth, the hidden elements are water, earth and metal. The water and metal is exhausting the earth. As such, we cannot consider the earth in 2009 is strong earth. And there is still instability which will bring earth disasters. In August 1949, a 6.75 Richter scale earthquake in Ecuador killed 6000 people and destroyed 50 towns. The Ox is also part of a serious configuration in animal astrology called “ Three Earth Penalty”. This configuration is formed when the 3 earth animals Ox, Dog and Goat appear at the same time. Such penalty can cause serious misfortunes related to earth element. Such as collapse of buildings, earthquake, landslide . In the immediately previous year of Ox in 1997, there is serious earthquake in Iran killing 2400 people
The Ox, Dog and Goat penalty often refer to hidden dangers related to the earth elements. Besides earth disasters, it can also bring tragedies such as falling from buildings or accidents in an earth environment, such as skiing, or injury in a mountain etc. In 1997, the previous year of the Ox, Lady Diana died in car crash inside a tunnel which is very much enclosed in an earth environment. And in the same year, Gianni Versac was shot dead in front of his own house and he died on the pavement. This is also an earth environment. And in both occasions there also appeared the three penalty of Ox, Dog and Goat together in their birthday elements..
In 2008, as I correctly predicted, was not a good year for airline business, besides many plane crashes and other incidents, there are also closing down of troubled airlines ( Oasis, Alitalia ) , troubles in airports ( Opening of new terminal 5 in Heathrow airport in London) and maintenance problem of American Airline in early 2008, troubles in the air (Qantas).. The idea is that airline business is in the category of fire element, so when fire element is absent in 2008 it will also weaken the airline business hence causing accidents and problems. This will continue in 2009 as this year of Ox also has no fire elements. . As such, we will continue to see trouble in the airline business and more airline related accidents.
In 2008, we have seen the absence of fire element brought cooler weather and even snow storms. 2009 the year of Ox also has no fire element and so we can expect the cooling weather could continue with danger of severe snow storm and freezing weather again..
The Earth element is also associate with homosexuality. It so happens many famous homosexuals is born on the day of earth – this includes Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Tchaikovsky, George Michael, Boy George, Andy Warhol, Tracy Chapman, K.D. Lang. Rosie O’Donnell etc. As such, there could be more issues in this aspect in 2009. It is not really clear how earth element is linked with homosexuality. Perhaps earth is an element of more neutral nature, compare against the other four, water and fire, wood and metal.
The clash between the Ox and Goat is a serious clash between earth and earth elements. This will often bring earth disasters such as earthquake, collapse of buildings, landslide etc.. Therefore people born in years of Goat have to be particularly careful in 2009. As it is earth clashes the danger could be associate with mountains, roads and buildings disasters such as traffic accidents on the road, industrial accidents in construction sites, or injuries when hiking in mountain area. Therefore, for people born in the year of Goat, it is recommended that they carry the pendant of a Rat which will help to attract away the Ox, so as to minimize the negative influence of the clash. Anyhow, people who are born in the year of Goat will experience a more turbulent year with more movements and traveling, changes. It is suitable to engage in such movements, such as moving house or moving offices. Traveling is also good but one should avoid going straight towards the North east direction as it is the direction of the Grand Duke in 2009. For people born in the year of the Goat, if possible, it is also good to minimize activities involving earth sports, such sports are skiing, golf, climbing mountain, car racing etc.
The Ox also forms a three penalty relationship with the Goat and the Dog. Such penalty is hidden danger and may cause disharmony, worries and irritations, or hidden sickness. Therefore people born in the year of the Goat or Dog is also recommended to carry the pendant of the Rat to minimize such penalty influence in the year of the Ox..
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