When given the choice between blog topics for the week, flood or zodiac, going over my astrological-ness sounds like a lot more fun.
So Jan 26th began the fifteen day celebration of the Chinese New Year. Welcome to the year of the Fire Rooster. Babies born in this year will likely grow up to be resourceful and creative people.
The year of my birth, 1993, was also a rooster year, as was 2005. But recently I learned that are another two whole layers that make up the zodiac calendar that I had never heard of: element and yin/yang. '93 falls into the water element. That was easy enough to find. But finding out the yin or yang of your year (the final piece that creates a 60 YEAR CYCLE) is really hard to find!
After an exorbitant number of google searches trying to get my full reading, I landed on a wonderful site that you plug in your name and birth date and it gives you all three of your Chinese Zodiac and your Western Astrology sign information, Druidic info, and birth year information, too! *
Turns out I am as follows:
(things in italic parentheses are my opinions)
Rooster:
It is the first to rise in the morning (yup), often believed to have the power of divination. According to Greek mythology, the rooster can 'feel the future.' Because of this, we roosters are considered the gods' ambassadors. We like to think more and like to have a plan. But we are also creative problem solvers.
"The people under the Rooster sign are warm, generous, diligent, sociable and very capable speakers (yup, yup, yup, yup, and double yup!). They have quick wit and think fast. So sometimes they are impatient. When talking, they may stammer as their mouth couldn’t catch up with the brain. To change this, they need to think slowly. The men born in the year of the rooster usually pay great attention on his appearance. They dress well no matter in casual clothes or suit. The women also are beautifully dressed with a variety of colors. As they attach great importance to the attire, they look upon with disapproval to those who dress casually (not really…) and don’t like to communicate with them. Therefore, they usually leave an impression of coldness to others.” **
Water:
We tend to be very gentle, smart, and competent as well as frank and have good memory (no, I don’t).
Turns out there are two types of water: flowing and still. I fall much more into the flowing attribute with an active personality, an aggressive habit, restless and impatient and always busy. (That fits me to a T!) We are “tender, inactive, uncompetitive, alturistic, and always win others by virtue.” **
Yin:
Yin is the black area and means ‘overcast’ or ‘negative.’ It represents dark, cold, negativity, empty, even number, female, etc. (Even in my darkest moments, I don’t think this fits. There must be more info somewhere else.)
It is important to remember that each side has a seed of the other in it. One is not itself without the other.
Cool Facts:
- The Rooster is the only bird in the Chinese Zodiac.
- The Tibetan Zodiac replaces the rooster with a more generic term- bird- but still use the image of a rooster.
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