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Chinese astrology, in plain English
Chinese astrology reads the date, time and place you were born, and turns it into a picture of how you are built — what comes easily, what you keep fighting, and when. These pages explain it without the jargon, and they are honest about the places where free readings get it wrong.
About you
The animal everyone knows comes from the year you were born, and about eighty million people share it with you. The part a real reading is built on comes from the day. There are sixty of those, and this is all of them.
Getting it right
Free calculators only count what they print on the screen. A lot of what shapes you sits underneath it — which is how people get told a whole side of themselves is missing, then get advice for fixing something that was never broken.
Getting it right
They are reading the same calendar. What they disagree about is the time you were actually born — because the clock in the room was a government decision, and the reading runs on where the sun was.
Comparisons
Same system, same calendar, different words for it. The one real difference is what Korea's clock does to the hour you were born, and it catches nearly everyone.
About you
One birthday in sixty produces the same trait over and over — people who are warm and easy to like, and who hold themselves to a line nobody else set. Here is where that comes from.
What is coming
The Chinese new year everyone celebrates in 2027 is 6 February. The one a reading uses is the 4th. Born in between, and your chart quietly disagrees with every almanac and every relative.
Read your own chart while you read these
Every term on these pages appears in your own chart. Building it is free and takes a birth date, a time and a place.