Celebrating Chinese New Year: The Year of the Ox

[Guest guest]

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 Ox

 

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 Year of the Oxen (Ox) - begins on January. 26, 2009

 

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.

 

The Oxen

 

Oxen are born leaders, inspiring confidence in everyone they come

into contact with. However, they can be too demanding. Methodical and

good with their hands, they make fine surgeons and hairdressers.

People of this sign are usually very patient and inspire confidence

in others. However, they tend to be eccentric and are easy to anger.

They inspire confidence from all around them. They are conservative

methodical, and good with their hands. Guard against being

chauvinistic and always demanding there own way. Lucky Numbers: 1, 3,

5, 12, 15, 33, 35, 51 and 53.

 

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.

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

Therapies for healing

mind, body, spirit

[Guest guest]

you made a very good description of the chinese new year and

characteristic of the ox.