Chinese Zodiac-2009 Year of Ox

[china connection tours]

The Chinese Zodiac began in the 6th century and is still practiced today. According to Chinese belief, those people born in a certain year are strongly influenced by the characteristics of the corresponding animal. In the China zodiac, each successive year is named for one of 12 animals. These 12 year cycles are continuously repeated and combined with a sequence of the five elements (water, wood, fire, metal, earth) in a 60 year major cycle.

[VacationBuddy]

Indeed, in the Chinese calendar it is the Year of the Female Brown Earth Ox — sometimes called the cow or water buffalo. This year of the ox is the second year in this 12 year cycle of the Chinese zodiac.

The year of the Ox is associated with domestic trouble that seems to have no solution. The grounded, rational, earth influence of the Ox may bring good fortune to troubled economic times but only with a sustained, well planned effort. The Ox influence brings an aversion to risky credit and quick answers that are not well conceived. The Ox year brings success only through discipline and through hard work. The steady ox is quick to anger when confronted by what seems to be irrational opposition, but the use of reason works well and avoids a charge by the angry bull. There is much danger of war and unrest if diplomacy does not prevail.

This Ox is an earth sign and it is said that those born under the influence of the Ox make a very good match for rats, snakes and roosters, but can have some troubles with the horse, the sheep and the pig.
People who are ruled by the Ox tend to be patient and dependable, bright and rational to the extreme. Although they may seem quiet, when they speak they are eloquent and worth paying attention to.

VacationBuddy