Happy Chinese New Year - February 7th, 2008

The Chinese New Year is the second new moon after the winter solstice.

2008 is the Year of The Rat.  (Current year is Year 4705 by the Chinese calendar.)

Legend has it that in ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year.  Twelve came, and Buddha named a year after each one.  He announced that the people born in each animal’s year would have some of that animal’s personality.  Those born in rat years tend to be leaders, pioneers, and conquerors.  They are charming, passionate, charismatic, practical and hardworking.  Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, William Shakespeare, and Mozart were all born in the year of the rat.

Anyone who was born in the Year of the Rat is now either 1 or 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, 85 or 97 years old.

Find out your Chinese Horoscope by the date you were born in the Chinese Calendar !!