Celebrating Chinese New Year: The Year of the Boar/Pig

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Good Morning!

 

This is the beginning of the new lunar calendar. In celebration of

the Chinese New Year, I will be discussing the many wonderful

contributions the Asian cultures have given the world in relation to

alternative medicine.

 

Celebrating Chinese New Year: The Year of the Boar/Pig

 

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new

year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new

year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night

with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

 

Prior to New Year's Day, Chinese families decorate their living rooms

with vases of pretty blossoms, platters of oranges and tangerines and

a candy tray with eight varieties of dried sweet fruit. On walls and

doors are poetic couplets, happy wishes written on red paper. These

messages sound better than the typical fortune cookie messages.

 

The lunar calendar has a sixty year cycle. In Chinese Astrology, the

five basic elements of Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth, which make

up all matter, are combined with the twelve animal signs of Rat, Ox,

Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Lamb, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and

Pig to form the sixty year cycle. One's Chinese horoscope is based on

which lunar year in this sixty year cycle one was born.

 

 

Pig/Boar (also called a Pig) aware honest and tolerant and make good

friends, but tend to expect the same from everyone else, and more

often than not they end up disappointed. Those born in pig years tend

to have excellent manners, make and keep friends, work very hard, and

appreciate luxury. They are very loving and make loyal partners. They

thrive in the arts as entertainers. Usually very gallant. When they

do something, they do it with all their heart. They have tremendous

fortitude and great honesty. They do not have many friends, but the

ones they have are for life. They are a splendid companion, an

intellectual with a very strong need to set difficult goals and carry

them out. They are sincere, tolerant, and honest but by expecting the

same from others, they are incredibly naive. The quest for material

goods could be their downfall. Lucky Numbers: 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 18,

34, 41 and 48.

 

 

Learn more about your Chinese horoscope and determine which animal

you were born under:

 

http://www.peacefulmind.com/feng_shui.htm

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac.

Peacefulmind.com

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