2008 Chinese New Year -
The Year of The Rat2008 Year of Rat begins on 2/04/2008
Chinese New Year Day is on 2/07/2008
Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year day is on February 7th, 2008. This day is a new moon day, it is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system.
The Year 2008 (Brown Rat) is the 4705th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4705th year on February 4th, 2008. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Brown Rat is the 25th Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4705 = (60 *78) + 25, therefore this Brown Rat Year is the 4705th Chinese Year.
The First Day of Brown Rat Astrology Year
In China's time zone, the first day of the Brow Rat
Year is February 4th, 2008, because February 4th, 2008 is the first day of Tiger month and the Tiger month is the first month of the year in Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar system.
In the Chinese Fortune-Telling calendar, the first day of the first month, Tiger month, is called "Start of Spring", which is when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. In the China's time zone, the time of the Start of Spring is at Feb-04 19:00. So the first day of the Brown Rat year 2008 is on 04-Feb-08.
People born in late January or early February may be confused about their birth year Chinese astrology animal signs. This is because it is a common misconception that the astrology animal signs begin on the Chinese New Year day. Actually, Astrology animal signs are base on the Start of Spring, the first day of astrology year. For example, if a baby was born on Feb-05 2008 before the Chinese New Year Day, then its animal sign is the Rat because the birthday is after the Start of Spring. If you are still confused about your animal sign, we have an Animal Sign page for people to verify their Chinese birth year animal signs.
2008 Love and Marriage
Rat is very easy to breed and it can reach sexual maturity at 5 weeks of age. Rats do not recognize incest. So the rat reproduction speed is very fast. In Chinese astrology, Rat is a Lust Star, which has a noble term - Romantic Star. Rat is the Romantic Star only for people born in year of Rabbit, Sheep or Pig. If Rabbit, Sheep and Pig people look for the love, they have more chance to meet the opposite sex. If they are already in love, they have chance to talk about the marriage in 2008.
Years of Rabbit are 1927, 1939, 1951 1963, 1975 and 1987.
Years of Sheep are 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979 and 1991.
Years of Pig are 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971 and 1983.For the chance of a marriage, we need to find any Spouse Star or Attraction Relationship coming from the current Brown Rat cycle. But you need to find your Day Master (The Upper row of the Day column) in the your Chinese birth chart.
If You Are A Man
2008 is Male Earth Rat year. The Earth is the Spouse Star for a man born on the Day of Male Wood
or Female Wood
. Male Earth
and Female Water
have the attraction relationship. Therefore Female Water
and Wood
If You Are A Woman
The Earth is the Spouse Star for a woman born on the Day of Water
and
If the marriage doesn't happen in 2008 for above-mentioned people still have very good chance and relationship with their boy or girl friends.
2008 Your Luck
2008 is Brown Rat
If Your Lucky Element is Water
2007 is a Fire Pig year. 2008 is a Brown Rat year. Pig and Rat are in the Water group. 2007 is the first year of the Water cycle. 2008 is the second year of the Water cycle. Water of 2008 is stronger than the Water in 2007. If Water is your lucky element, then your luck come in 2008. If you think you were lucky in 2007, the your luck will be continue good or even better in 2008.
If your Birth Chart and your Current Major Cycle contain Dragon and Monkey, then 2008 will be an extremely good year for you. This is because Rat, Dragon and Monkey
together have the Mutual Attraction Relationship and generate very powerful Water energy. The luck will be even better, if your birth chart or current major cycle have Male Water
in there.
If Your Lucky Element is Earth
Your luck will come around four season changes. If your Birth Chart or your Current Major Cycle contain Cow, then 2008 will be an very special year to you. This is because Rat and Cow
together have the Attraction Relationship into Earth. The energy of Water disappears and the Earth
2008 Forecast
To forecast our luck in the coming years, we first have to know what elements and animals are in our Birth Chart from Find Your Lucky Element page.
2008 is the year of Male Brown Rat. Brown is equivalent to Earth in Five Element theory. The major element in Rat is Water. Earth and Water are opposite elements. Earth and Water have a conflicting and fighting relationship; and therefore it is hard for them to coexist. In most of cases, if your Lucky Element is Earth, then the Water is an unlucky element. If the Lucky Element is Water, then Earth is the unlucky element. If Earth or Water is equivalent to your Money Star, then your money luck in 2008 should be "money comes, then money goes" or "money goes, then comes". If Earth or Water is the Career Star, then career opportunity either come early or come late in 2008. If Earth or Water represent health, then your heath will be either good or bad, however it will be the opposite at the end of the year. In short, you will win some but lose some.
The easiest way to find out your luck is from Free Daily Chinese Horoscope.
Chinese New Year Days
China Time Zone US PST Time Zone February 7, 2008
January 26, 2009
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