By David Lam
The Dog chases away the previous master of the domain, the Rooster, as today marks the beginning of the Chinese lunar Year of the Dog, 4704. Chinese astrologers predict that the upcoming year will be a complicated ebb and flow of yin and yang, a time of great healing potential but also a period of dire consequences if warning signs of trouble are not handled with intelligence and attention to digging up the root of the problem.
The Chinese calendar, also known as the Farmer’s Calendar, contains everything you need to know about time and the impact of events upon human endeavours. What happens during the year, month, day and hour are determined by the confluence of five basic elements –metal, water, wood, fire and earth — which Chinese astrologers believed to be the basic components of everything in the Universe.
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