Chinese New Year 2011

Chinese New Year 4709, or 2011 in the Western calendar, is the Year of the Metal Rabbit! Like the houses of the zodiac in Western astrology, the animals of Chinese astrology are thought by many to dictate personality traits or even have influence on world events in any year they rule. Here are some predictions for the New Year coming:

“The year of the Rabbit is likely to be a relatively calmer one than 2010 both on the world scene, as well as on a personal level. Shrewd and creative new business partnerships will also form to the benefit of all.
Rabbits who thrive on delicate business dealings are best suited to navigating the year ahead. Those compatible with the Rabbit — the Sheep, Dog and Pig in particular — will also find 2011′s circumstances inspiring them to greater personal happiness and professional success. Others will suffer, by degree, depending on how flexible they are to the world mood. Those who have cultivated careful negotiation skills (or, perhaps more importantly, can sniff-out and swiftly dodge dangerous situations!), may attain similar good luck enjoyed by rabbits and those compatible with them in 2011.”

This is just some excerpt I found on the Internet, I don’t have any prediction skills as such . There are so many predictions made every year, and I always wonder where these predictions come from! I believe that most of them are fake and simply made up. There is actually a particular way of making accurate predictions, but there are very, very few people who can do so. Also, from what I can recall, each person has his own fate/future for each new year. It is not simply that if I am born in the Tiger Year, my fate will be such and such. If it were like that, then it would mean that millions of people born in the same Tiger year as me would have the same fate! I always found that quite amusing to read these “predictions” in the magazines or newspapers. Indeed, predicting one’s future for a particular new year is more complicated than that and it requires many skills. If you want to know what the new year has in store for you, you could go to the nearby Chinese temple, but then you never know if the person there knows how to really calculate and determine what your future has in store for you. There is a special book from which you can read your future, but then, it is written in lots of metaphors and poem-like text that only the skilled ones can decipher it. My advice(which my mom always says) is to be a good person and also to always remember this famous quote: “You reap what you sow!”.