The Chinese Zodiac
Discover more about yourself according to ancient Chinese tradition
Every individual’s personality has a centered “self” and many layers around it. Each layer has a different size, texture and aura, and when combined, it makes up who the person truly is. The Chinese Zodiac or Chinese Horoscope uses details of your birth to determine your basic personality traits, strengths, weaknesses, your compatibility with other people and even to forecast your future.
Chinese Horoscopes may not have any religious basis. However, if it’s based on 5,000 years worth of human observation, similar trends can be found. It is the culmination of 5,000 years of observation by the ancient Chinese scholars to culminate into the analysis of each sign. Some are very accurate. Observation is the best way to gather information.
It is always interesting and entertaining to read about yourself, your good points and your horoscoped weaknesses. I guess knowing more about yourself will help you to work on what you need to work on. It is nice to know who you can work, partner, and be friends with… also who you would find some conflict with perhaps. Of course getting along and not getting along ultimately relies on you. But it is interesting to see who you have ‘natural’ conflicts with if no efforts were made towards the relationship. It is also interesting to share with friends personality traits of people you would like to understand more about. It is always nice to have a some lead in order to find a beginning in our relations with others.
Tsem Rinpoche
Each year of the Chinese calendar is associated with one of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Enter your birth date and time to determine which Chinese Zodiac animal you are.
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig
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Besides knowing about the characteristics of your Chinese Zodiac sign, what about when it comes to the people around you? Which other Chinese Zodiac sign best suit yours, when it comes to relationships?
Relationship compatibility within the Chinese Zodiac mostly takes into account the general characteristics for each animal. However, every individual will place their own unique twist on the basic characteristics. That being said, it’s always fun to read about how well (or not well) you match with your partner
Here is a tool for you to test your compatibility with your partner by entering both your Chinese Zodiac sign and your partner’s sign. Have fun reading, and try it out with all your friends!
The E Division team , beng kooi, lew, cynthia, justin, jean ai, jean mei and wai meng have been working very hard on this new function. Especially Lew, Cynthia & Beng Kooi. I have been looking forward to this for weeks. It is going to be fun to see the compatibility of my birth signs with the rest and vice versa. Enjoy!!!
Wow!!! Already share with my Facebook friends…..thanks for the hard working team:-)take care guys:-)))))))
It’s a very useful information gathered for this particular blog, am sure many of us will definitely benefit from it. Thanks to you guys in E division team cheers
Freaking cool, now whenever I meet someone I can come to the blog to profile them top to toe East to West quite literally.
FB profiles, here we come, birth dates and western zodiacs, make for some interesting combinations in love and war… well less war huh!
Wow very cool. Astrology communities will love this and maybe get some dharma.
The horoscope reading is amazingly accurate. Fun! Been reading on my friends’ horoscope. Great guidelines to learn how to communicate effectively with my friends.
Effective communication is important because many problems are created from miscommunication. It’s part of practising dharma to put in the effort to understand another person.
This section is so much fun, interesting and so very well done!!
Biggest Thanks to all of you who worked on it!! You guys rock!!
wow this is amazing! kudos to the e div team for coming up with something like this that makes it easier for all of us to get more info about our zodiacs! A lot of hard work has been put into this so i do congratulate you guys for being able to come up with this
I love this section! It’s very informative and by reading other horoscopes, i get to know more about the people around me, the guidelines can help me on how to effectively work and communicate with my colleagues and friends. Thank you E-div and blog team for your hard work posting this up for us
Thank you very much to all those that did the blog on Zodiacs…It’s very interesting to learn so much on Rinpoche’s blog! Every blog is FUNTASTIC!
I checked out mine and found it very accurate. Now I know where my weaknesses are and will work hard to rectify them.
Thank you to Rinpoche and the hardworking blog them!!!
Thank you, our eDiv folks.. it is a very interesting calculator, finding out the characteristic by our birth date..
The e-division has been working tirelessly for this new function to come out. and they did it!!! Great work guys!
Now, i can spend hours reading up on myself and friends… hehe.. Thankyou guys for the hardwork.
Its fantastic how horoscopes can teach people to be better, kinder, less angry, more patient etc…. what a great tool to impart good human values on others!
The writers really worked super hard on this – researching, comparing notes, writing etc… without the content, would be nothing to talk about! They did it uncomplainingly, lead by Jean Mei, who worked overtime to pull the content together. The only thing we could not write original content for is the Daily Horoscopes… I do hope someday that there will be an astrologer among us who is able to do this pro bono!
Thank you so very much for this.
Hi, great job people. Be a good guideline for me. By the way, how can i lean more?
Thuchee chee lus for your information,i dint know anything about this and i am still confused,i was told by my family that i am a Dog and now its coming as Gemini Pig…hahahhahahaha…it was nice though….hope to share more information for you to the world for you and i would obliged to do that for you.Peace
hi guys
thanks for all this astrology information. this is a great site where you can get a free reading of where all the planets were at the time of your birth http://www.astro.com. Its really interesting.
sds
I love reading Chinese Zodiac out of curiosity and fun. Sometimes I find it accurate, sometimes not so. I find this information pretty accurate and take note of my weaknesses I have to work on. Thanks to the wonderful e-team for putting so much of hard work into this.
Thank you for this simple and easy “just click” app. Now I can be a fake feng shui/ astrologer and dispense zodiac advice. Hehehe (kidding!)
The Chinese Zodiac (生肖), is a system that relates each year to an animal and its reputed attributes, according to a 12-year mathematical cycle and is popular in several East Asian countries such as China, Korea and Japan.
Knowing the characteristic our Zodiac sign and others not just about knowing it for personal advice but it’s also to understand others and how we can get and work together to achieve harmony.
Thanks Rinpoche for this great sharing.
This is such an awesome section in the blog because like it or not, we love to read about our characters and other people’s. This is not superstitions…it is ancient science which has been around for ages and practised in many cultures. It is a guideline for us to gauge and learn about ourselves and others so we can get along better or better yet induced with Dharma… to help the other person better. Perhaps if we know that particular person’s qualms and quirks… we can better serve/benefit them
The blog team worked really really hard in researching and writing and creating this whole section up!!! Thank you selfless ppl. And thank you Rinpoche!
i share this site with my friend and we are fascinated with what it say and could not stop to try on the birthday of people whom we know..
Thank you for sharing the chinese Zodiac which we can learn and use it to improve our weak points.
Interesting Chinese zodiac sign to discover & learn! Every year before or during CNY, especially among Chinese would love to get their fate predicted reading their Chinese zodiac sign. Thank you E-division team for all the handwork on research and write up. I enjoy it a lot.
Very interesting site to visit again again and again.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.
Please take care
This is super fun and very accurate!!! Thanks To Ediv for creating this fantastic post
I am a Sheep “Mekkk mekkkk”.
Rinpoche’s blog has so many interesting reads. So many information are available just on this post. In the past I have read the characteristics of animal signs and find them fascinating. This post provides me with more information and knowledge.
What I like most about this horoscope is: it gives us a general idea about our natural tendencies but it also proposes efforts we can consciously make to overcome the “weakness” we may possess. This is very typical of Tsem Rinpoche where I learn that we have the power to make a change.
I remember that Karma Chart that Tsem Rinpoche created where Rinpoche showed us that the choices we make and the action we take can cause a change to our so called destiny. For example, we can engage in purification acts like consistent daily sadhana, puja etc. to purify our negative karma (black karma). This approach to viewing karma is very empowering because we do not just say: oh, it is my karma to be lazy…it is my karma to be a failure etc. If we view karma the way Tsem Rinpoche has taught us, we can say: yes, I must have very strong imprints of laziness due to habituation from past lives. However, if I practice moral discipline and develop the new habit of being hardworking, I can collect the merits to purify my negative karma and cause the creation of positive karma.
Thank you Rinpoche for always giving us the opportunity to learn and be better.
This is a very comprehensive writeup. Thank you to all involved in this effort. You must have done alot of research to be able to come up with all these information. Even navigation is easy.
Very often i refer back to this blog post after meeting someone new. It is akin to looking at the shape of the spout of a teapot and you will know how best to pour the tea without spilling it. When you know of a person’s strength and weaknesses, you will know how best to harness their strength while helping them improve their weaknesses.
Having said that, these facts are basic characteristics of people in general. Their personality and perspective changes after they receive dharma knowledge. So I would use these information wisely and not blindly.
This particular page on Chinese Zodiac definitely has improved signficantly as compared to my last visit. Now this page is very user friendly and whatever information that we need pertain to the Chinese Zodiac is just within a click of a button on the main page itself, be it the relationship 2 different chinese zodiac, or the relationship between the Chinese and Western Zodiac on the month that we were born.
Many thanks to the efforts from E-Division that make Chinese Zodiac fun to learn
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Rinpoche has indicated that though chinese horoscopes may not have any religious basis, but it is based on 5,000 years worth of human observation by ancient chinese scholars. The culmination into the analysis of eachsign for some can be very accurate, but Rinpoche did caution that the result of such prediction should not be taken as ‘fixed’ or permanent, as nothing is permanent. Each personality sign has mitigating factors and everything can be overriden with patience, kindness, understanding and good old fashion sincerity for others. Nevertheless, just take it with a pinch of salt for fun and easy reading and enjoy it as entertainment.
This is a very interesting site. I used to read the short horoscope daily from newspaper. Now, this is another way for me to read my horoscope online! Yes!
it s nice.
thanks rinpoche la…..
nice web 4 our chinese people…:D
Excellent, very insight information regarding Chinese Zodiac. And interesting to know about an “Earth Scorpion Dog”. One would realized the weaknesses “consciously” and do something to improved the quality of our life.
Thanks a millions for the effort.
please advice me more abpout my self..it’s all true what i am like while going through this…..
以前，以为相信风水命运，就能让知己顺顺利利的过好我的人生。但自从接触了佛法了以后，相信所有的事情的发生都是因为因果，所以认为只要种好因就会有好果。其实，我们也只是凡人，我们看到的不一定就是对的，因为我们还没有拥有足够的智慧去判断是与非，所以在此谢谢仁波切对于个个生肖做出了分析，让我们更加正确的了解自己的优缺点，看哪方面是需要加强或是改进，这样一来，我们就能成为更好的人了，谢谢仁波切。
wow. this is so interesting. after reading it, i find it very true about some basic personality.
I had a lot of fun playing with the compabaility calculator! I entered my friends and family’s zodiac signs to learn more about them and myself. hehe. The element section is veyr interesting too. Never knew that we know more about someone through the element signs. hehe
A big Thank you to the e-div team who made this page so fun and interactive!
And thank you Rinpoche!
I’m a Tiger and according to the chinese Horoscope:
“Tiger is the animal that represents authority. They are proud and will exert their leadership as they are born leaders. Forceful and aggressive, they are usually in the lead and it is difficult to deny them their rights. ”
This is so true! I am very aggressive. hehe. The whole page is so fun to play with. I can find out more about other chinese horoscopes with just a few clicks!
Thank you E-Div team!!
Thank you, Rinpoche!
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This is so nice and I can know more about my Chinese zodiac
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Also now I can knows that my zodiac rat protector is Chenrezig^^ hehe
This is so fun and I enjoy so much to read each of the Chinese zodiac.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.
Hey everybody.
Wonderfull work you did. Will there be a water snake year forecast for the different sign´s
Best wishes and prosperity for the yeear to come.
René, Denmark
Wow, this is amazing! I can’t believe that it really works. It showed me a few exact personality of mine. I wonder how does the Chinese learn all these correct facts about horoscope in the ancient times and why did they choose these 12 particular animals?
pa share sa f.b
the compatibility between my snake partner a very worst future understanding how could we prolonging a very good and excellent relationship?
This part of the blog is only available because of the hard work of H.E. Tsem Rinpoche and the E-Division Team. It is extremely fun to see how the Zodiac influences my personality. Although some of the points are inaccurate (Probably because I, myself, am quite an irregular person), most of the points are quite true to me.
There is so much hard work at play here and I must congratulate those involved as those involved in the creation of this section has created the causes to satisfy people’s thirst for information and superstition. I rejoice! A lot of merit is gained by this action.
wow this is so interesting and cool, i was very surprised that most of it is true and it is very very true about my lifestyle. i am a snake and i am proud of being me because it is good to be yourself and who says you have to be perfect, just be yourself.