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The ancient Chinese system of analyzing your character and predicting your future is presented with beautiful photographs and illustrations. In addition to valuable advice on compatibility, career, marriage, and leisure activities, the five different types of personality applicable to each sign are fully described.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1994
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April 8, 2018
This one was given to me by someone who really goes in for these horoscopes. I do not really go in for them, but cannot blame the book or author for being the book that it promises to be.
The illustrations are solid, the information plentiful and I think accurate from this frame of reference. And, I have to admit, much of it applied to me in better-than-average horoscope way.
The illustrations are solid, the information plentiful and I think accurate from this frame of reference. And, I have to admit, much of it applied to me in better-than-average horoscope way.
March 31, 2021
It was about the year 2004, when my little baby cat, Spirit, was born; that my bookshelves received an influx of material. My precious childhood kitty had ascended to Heaven the prior year. Needing comfort burst into a huge collection of educational resources. Baby Spirit himself, has just ascended from stomach cancer, this year 2021. In an attempt to save his life, I dipped into my unread shelf of animal books, with a wealth of education for alternative healing and other mystical realities. Spirit enjoyed me reading him the soothing tomes aloud while he was here and they are comforting me, now that he has left Earth.
I guess I knew at the back of my mind, that a few cultures contribute different horoscopes. I sense that Indian astrology is the most commonly used, familiar for naming astrological birth signs by star constellations. However, anyone who has eaten at a Chinese restaurant has received some immersion in the animal birth signs they use. Their culture is millennia old too. I am sure I bought this small 1994 hardcover at a store before the internet’s invention. Kwok Man-Ho expectedly published a series of twelve. This is my animal: “Chinese Horoscopes Library: Rat”. Fortunately, I respect animals as living beings universally and do not mind my designation.
What I do not know about Chinese astrology did fit into this book. I enjoyed this little pocket resource more than I expected I would, which is obvious in having taken a good twenty-five years to read it. I did not know that our animals have four types, based on our precise birthdays. Mine is not a rat with an easy life but females are given a more positive twist than males. I do not read horoscopes. Matching my traits and experiences is for fun.
I guess I knew at the back of my mind, that a few cultures contribute different horoscopes. I sense that Indian astrology is the most commonly used, familiar for naming astrological birth signs by star constellations. However, anyone who has eaten at a Chinese restaurant has received some immersion in the animal birth signs they use. Their culture is millennia old too. I am sure I bought this small 1994 hardcover at a store before the internet’s invention. Kwok Man-Ho expectedly published a series of twelve. This is my animal: “Chinese Horoscopes Library: Rat”. Fortunately, I respect animals as living beings universally and do not mind my designation.
What I do not know about Chinese astrology did fit into this book. I enjoyed this little pocket resource more than I expected I would, which is obvious in having taken a good twenty-five years to read it. I did not know that our animals have four types, based on our precise birthdays. Mine is not a rat with an easy life but females are given a more positive twist than males. I do not read horoscopes. Matching my traits and experiences is for fun.
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June 12, 2009Rat (Chinese Horoscope Library) by Kwok Man-ho (1994)
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