Re: semiOT: the Monkey Year (wasRe: Religion and Holidays)

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:21:56PM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> I am myself a Water Dragon (even born on the hour of the Dragon :)) ).
Cool!  My brother-in-law is a dragon (fire dragon; he's but a babe in
arms, relatively speaking), and has been known to wax cocky about his
oh-so-cool sign compared with me (the earth monkey) and his sister the
water rat.

> Funny, considering that according to Western Astrology I'm an Aries, a fire
> sign, with ascendant Taurus, an Earth sign ;)
Well, you're just all over the map, aren't you?

> (but the description of
> Water Dragons I've read strangely fits very well my character :)
See, that's where Chinese astrology gets even more unbelievable than
the Western variety.  There's no way everybody in my high school class,
for instance, had the same personality traits; a year is just not fine-grained
enough. :)

You might also want to see what you work out to in Indian astrology.
It's similar to what is done in the West, but with the actual astronomical
positions of the constellations, rather then signposts based on where the
constellations used to be when the art was founded.

> (although I thought the opposite of the Dragon was the Tiger. Am
> I missing something?).
The opposite of the Dragon is definitely the Dog; the 12-year
sequence is Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey,
Chicken, Dog, Boar, and the opposites are halfway around, or 6 years
apart.  So the opposite of the Tiger is the Monkey.

-Mark

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