ABOUT CHINESE
ASTROLOGY: The
Chinese divide time differently from the way Western cultures
divide time. Most of us are accustomed to 100-year centuries,
but the Chinese divide time into blocks of 60 years. We divide
our centuries into ten decades. The Chinese divide their sixty-year
spans into "dozencades" or twelve-year periods.
In the West, we divide our year up twelve times by its suns. Each 30 day month
has its own astrological name. Every year our cycle begins anew. In the East,
each year within the twelve-year dozencade has its own animal name. At the end
of each twelve-year period the Chinese cycle begins anew.
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