The 12 Chinese Animals

Create Harmony in your Daily Life through Ancient Chinese Wisdom

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The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Not just your year of birth, but also the month, day, and hour have significance in true Chinese astrology. Master Zhongxian Wu explains how to find your power animal symbols, and how to learn from their wisdom. By fully understanding what each animal signifies, and how they relate to the core hexagrams of the Yijing, he shows that they can help you to find inner peace and live in harmony with family, friends, the wider community, and with nature. Using the wisdom of the 12 animal symbols as a guide, you will learn how to better understand your personality, and make choices that profoundly influence your health, relationships, career, and finances, allowing you to live up to your greatest potential.

Making the wisdom of the 12 Chinese animals accessible to the Western reader for the first time in its relationship to the Yijing, this book will be an illuminating read for anyone interested in better understanding themselves or their life patterns, Chinese astrology, and the Yijing.

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Introduction: The Wisdom of 12

1. Numerological Meanings of 12
2. Chinese Astrology and 12 Animal Symbols
3. Eight Trigrams, 12 Tidal Hexagrams, and the Cycle of Nature

The Beginning: Finding Your Animals

The Animals

1. Rat and Fu (Rebirth)
2. Ox and Lin (Deliver)
3. Tiger and Tai (Balance)
4. Rabbit and DaZhuang (Prosper)
5. Dragon and Guai (Transform)
6. Snake and Qian (Strengthen)
7. Horse and Gou (Copulate)
8. Goat and Dun (Retreat)
9. Monkey and Pi (Break)
10. Rooster and Guan (Observe)
11. Dog and Bo (Peel)
12. Pig and Kun (Flow)

Afterword: Living in Harmony