Chinese Astrology

How does your Chinese zodiac sign influence your life? How does your lunar date of birth affect your fortune? Find out the answers to these questions and more, in this easy-to-follow guide to the fascinating ancient art of Chinese astrology.

In this fully illustrated workbook, Dr. Karin Taylor Wu instructs you in the art of creating an individualized Chinese Four Pillar astrology chart. For the first time to the western audience, learn the traditional method of BaZi calculation without needing a Chinese calendar.

This westerner's guide to Chinese astrology (Ba Zi) explains the basis on which charts are drawn up, how they work, and how they provide the tools to understand ourselves and our relationships with others.

Representing a tradition more than 2,000 years old, the Chinese horoscope cycle lasts for a period of twelve years, with each year featuring a different symbolic animal.

Each of us is born with a unique combination of heavenly and earthly energies dictated by the stars overhead and the season on Earth at the moment you take your first breath. Known in Taoist astrology as the Four Pillars of Destiny, this birth chi can be calculated using the year, month, day, and time of your birth.

With your first breath of life, you take in the energy pattern radiated by the sun, moon, and stars at that moment in time and space. This internal energy pattern underlies your persona--your behavioral patterns, personality traits, and life’s path.

Chinese astrology holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Master Zhongxian Wu explains the significance of the number 12 in Chinese cosmology, and connects this with the twelve Chinese animal symbols Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Horse, Snake, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.