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根据生肖打造属于您的私人空间

Personalize Your Space According

to Your Animal Sign

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Personalize your according to Your Animal Sign 根据生肖打造属于您的私人空间

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According to legend, twelve animals came to bid farewell to Amitabha Buddha when he ascended to Heaven. These animals in order of their arrival were the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger, the Rabbit, The Dragon, the Snake, the Horse, the Sheep, the Monkey, the Rooster, the Dog and the Boar. To commemorate their presence at his ascension to heaven, Lord Buddha assigned one year to each of the animals. Thus when Chinese meet, merely disclosing their animal year is sufficient for a fellow Chinese to know his/her age. The sixty year cycle comes about by combining the twelve animals with the five elements - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.

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hinese astrology is based on the Lunar Calendar. One cycle of the Lunar Calendar is 60 years - made up of the twelve animal signs and five element types of each animal sign. Thus 12 x 5 = 60 years.

SECRET FRIENDS

Ox, Snake, Rooster

Ox, Rat

Dragon, Rooster

Tiger, Horse, Dog

Tiger, Boar

Snake, Monkey

Rabbit, Sheep, Boar

Rabbit, Dog

Horse, Sheep

Monkey, Dragon, Rat



The twelve animals also correspond to different compass direction. Each of the animals has its own direction. The direction for each animal sign is shown in the image here.

Group of Allies

Animals

Characteristic

Competitors

Rat, Dragon, Monkey

Intellectuals

Ox, Snake, Rooster



Focused, Determined, Strong

Enthusiasts

Dog, Tiger, Horse



Loyal, Honest, Active

Diplomats

Boar, Sheep, Rabbit



Artistic, Emotional, Sensitive

Ambitious, Dynamic, Action

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nce you know your own animal sign direction, you can enhance your direction to bring you good fortune luck. For example, if you are born in the year of the Rat, then your home sector is North. Thus, take a compass and check the North sector of your house. Make sure the North of your house is not located in the kitchen, toilet or storeroom as these will make your luck turn bad. If your North sector is in the living room, enhance it with a water feature. Make sure the area is clean and neat. You can also place a bright light there to activate it. Alternatively, you can place your allies and secret friend of your animal sign in your animal sign location. Based on the twelve animal signs, each animal sign has it own allies and secret friend. Your two allies and your secret friend are the additional three animal signs besides your own animal sign that can bring you good luck. By placing them together in your animal sign direction, they can bring you the luck of helpful people to see you through any bouts of bad luck. Even better, when you are going through a positive phase in life, you will have many friends to help you fulfill your dreams! Each of the twelve animals also has certain characteristics and attributes that at the first level of astrological analysis are said to enjoy good and bad years during the twelve year cycle, depending on their intrinsic relationship with each other.

Thus, if they are in conflict with each other, then they each experience unlucky periods during the years ruled by the sign that is in conflict with them. Similarly, animal sign enjoy relatively peaceful and fruitful times during the years that belong to signs with which they are compatible. The twelve animal signs of the zodiac also comprise six pairs of animal signs known as Soulmate Pairings, with one being a yin sign and the other a yang sign. Each pair is described as living together in a zodiac house. The proximity to each other creates a powerful bonding on a cosmic level, so that two people belonging to animal signs that make up a zodiac house will have instant rapport. This pair works well both for business as well as romantic unions. How good the rapport will depend on the synergy created for each of the six houses and the talent that gets unleashed when a pairing takes place. Each of the houses are also affected by time changes.

ZODIAC ENEMIES Rat

Horse

Ox

Sheep

Tiger

Monkey

Rabbit

Rooster

Dragon

Dog

Snake

Boar

PAIRING OF SECRET FRIENDS Rat & Ox

Tiger & Boar

Dragon & Rooster

Rabbit & Dog

Snake & Monkey

Horse & Sheep

The following is the table of the six pairings of Zodiac Soulmates. ANIMAL

YANG/YIN

ZODIAC HOUSE CREATED

TARGET UNLEASHED

Rat Ox

Yang Yin

House of Creativity & Cleverness

The Rat initiates The Ox completes

Tiger Rabbit

Yang Yin

House of Growth & Development

The Tiger employs force The Rabbit uses diplomacy

Dragon Snake

Yang Yin

House of Magic & Spirituality

The Dragon creates magic The Snake creates mystery

Horse Sheep

Yang Yin

House of Passion & Sexuality

The Horse embodies male energy The Sheep is the female energy

Monkey Rooster

Yang Yin

House of Career & Commerce

The Monkey creates strategy The Rooster gets things moving

Dog Boar

Yang Yin

House of Domesticity

The Dog Works to provide The Boar enjoys what is created

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Multiple Choice Questions: 1) Name the allies & secret friend of the Sheep. a. Rabbit, Boar, Rat b. Boar, Tiger, Rabbit c. Tiger, Rat, Boar 2) What are the characteristics of the “Intellectuals” group of allies? a. Focused, Determined, Strong b. Ambitious, Dynamic, Action-Oriented c. Loyal, Honest, Active 3) How can you activate your allies and secret friend? a. Place their images in your allies’ directions b. Place their images in your secret friend’s direction c. Place their images in your own animal sign direction 4) Which Zodiac House Combination of Soulmates do the Dog and Boar belong to? a. House of Career & Development b. House of Passion & sexuality c. House of Domesticity 5) How many pairs of friends are there in the Chinese Zodiac? a. 12 pairs b. 6 pairs c. 2 pairs

Exercise: 1) Find your allies and secret friend. 2) Check the allies and secret friends of your family members.

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ANSWERS: Question 1: b Question 2: a Question 3: c Question 4: c Question 5: b

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