How is Chinese astrology calculated?

Answer 1

They use the Chinese lunar calendar..twelve animal signs, one for each year...you can find out what you are based on what year u were born..

Answer 2

In Qi Men Dun Jia, we calculate Birth Charts based on the Four Pillars or Ba Zi, which refer to the eight characters which make up the year, month, date and hour of a person's birth.

Chinese time is based on the Cycle of Sixty, a continuously revolving cycle composed of Heavenly Stems and Earth Branches. There are annual, monthly, daily and hourly cycles of these combinations, and time is dated back at least several thousand years.

In Qi Men Dun Jia, which is a highly advanced form of astrology used in the imperial palaces for the past two thousand years, we analyze the relationships of the Four Pillars as they occur in the Qi Men Dun Jia Birth Chart. On that basis, we are able to tell a good deal about a person's life, such as occupation, marriage, money, health and often even the disease from which they will die.

To my knowledge, Qi Men Dun Jia offers the most accurate and powerful means of analyzing astrological birth charts in Chinese metaphysics. It was known as one of the Three Styles in the imperial palace.

Answer 3

Many venerable "chinese masters" rely on the moon phases to get a month sign.

That's because the chinese year includes 12 moon cycles. A new moon starts the interval of any chinese month and ends the previous one.

Second, the earth's rotation period is used to get a sign. Example: from 11:01pm to 1am, it's the rat (i.e. gemini) sign. From past 1:01am to 3am, it's the buffalo sign.

This is absolutely reliable because the earth's spin is constant. The same portion of the earth is exposed to the same constellation at each day.

I still don't understand however where they got that year sign from. It's perhaps Lilith's position (the hypothetical "dark moon"...) relative to the earth's and the zodiacal constellations. A lot of chinese stuff is related to the moon(s).

Btw, the new moons aren't constant. You have to check for each new year... they differ from the "solar" months in that way.

The first moon sign in each year is the goat. It starts at the first new moon that happens after the winter solstice if i"m right. The Goat is also the first if you start to count from 1pm (that is, the "afternoon" of any day).

The first Year sign, again, is Goat if you start to count from year -1 to february of year 0.

If you want an example of how to get the three chinese signs of an individual I can give one here.

March 6th 1984, at 4:05pm for Toni gives:
1) Rat (read: gemini) year
2) Rooster (read: pisces) month
3) Monkey (read: aquarius) hour

Answer 4

12 Years for Chinese Sign 12 Months for Sun signs

Example Dragon 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012.

Answer 5

Your chart is taken from ur yr, mth, day and hr and interpreted as some chinese characters. This characters form the heavenly stems and earthly branches. Which in turn is the excat position of the earth at ur time of birth, which is subjected by the cosmic influences at the same time. A person's fortune is predictable based on the interaction of the 5 elements and its surrounding on even yearly basic. It is a whole school of learning and it is indeed not trash. This method is sophisticated and derived by XuZiPing from the Song dynastry.

Answer 6

Chinese Calculators and a lot of guess work.

Answer 7

five elements and 60 years basis, rat tiger sheep goat 12 animals kind then metal fire earth wooden and air water types it is interesting if u know how to interpret it

Answer 8

It is calculated using chopsticks.

Answer 9

by dojgn algebra

Answer 10

aries & virgo????? u could try! i think they could match together