Chinese Horoscope's Guide to Relationships

Informationen zum Autor Theodora Lau Klappentext Are you and your partner always quarreling, for no apparent reason? Could it be that one of you is a Dragon and the other a Dog? If you were looking for a creative person to work for you, would it help to know their birth year? Someone born in the Year of the Monkey would be a strong choice. Were you born in the Year of the Rooster? Maybe it's no surprise that your closest friends are a Horse and a Rabbit. The Chinese Horoscopes Guide to Relationships is a fascinating guide to the secrets of the astrological system that has been practiced in China for years. By identifying the people in your life--business associates, family members, teachers, friends, lovers, and spouses--through their respective signs, you will gain valuable insight into their personalities and aptitudes, their quirks and proclivities. More important, you will discover how your own sign and its traits affect how you get along with others born under different signs. At long last, you will have the astrological explanations as to why you can be so compatible with one person yet so completely at odds with someone else. Theodora Lau was born in Shanghai and lived with her husband and two children in Hong Kong before moving to California, where she is presently settled. She is the author of The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes, now in its third edition.Most people in the West today are familiar with the twelve animal signs of Chinese astrology, each governing a lunar year and bringing to it, and to the people born in that year, its own individual personality.  What is not so widely known is that these animal names were a later addition, dating from the time of the Lord Buddha who, according to legend, assigned a year to each of the twelve animals who came to bid him farewell on his departure from Earth. In ancient Chinese astrological lore, however, which is now 4,692 years old, the study of horoscopes were based primarily on the theory of the Twelve Earth Branches governed by the twelve-year lunar cycle.  Before each year had been given an animal name, these were identified by their earth branches only.  In this book I have used the proper branch terms as well as the animal names to identify and classify twelve basic character types, and because the study of human interaction lies at the core of Chinese horoscopes, I have shown the twelve branches in their associated groupings on the Relationship Tree, as a simple way of illustrating how the different personalities relate to and react against one another.  Interaction between the earth branches or lunar animal signs is comprehensively explained in everyday terms and examples.  By learning how to identify yourself with the correct earth branch you will automatically remember the ranking order and the branch number, which is hard to do when using only the animal names. For example, if I were to say simply that you are a Dragon, you would not know immediately that the Dragon is actually another name for the fifth earth branch, called Chen.   In Chinese astrology and numerology, the position and order of each branch play a significant role and in the Chinese almanac and historical treatise of astrology lunar signs are referred to by their earth branches, not by their colorful mythical animal names.  After reading this book you will know that the fifth earth branch (the Dragon) is most compatible with the first (the Rat) and the ninth (the Monkey) branches and that these three form the First Triangle of Affinity.  Furthermore, the fifth branch is in conflict with the eleventh branch (the Dog) which is located opposite it in the Circle of Conflict.  In this circle, an odd number is ranged against another odd number directly facing it, while an even-numbered branch will likewise find the most difficulty with another even-numbered branch, 180 degrees away. Special sets of characteris...

Product details

• Authors: Theodora Lau
• Publisher: Main Street Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.1997
• EAN: 9780385486408
• ISBN: 978-0-385-48640-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Subject: Guides > Spirituality > Astrology, the cosmos