Chinese Astrology - Art of Chinese Zodiac

People consider the Chinese astrology as a kind of art. The idea is to assist people obtain their objectives via self awareness and continuous advances of the mind and soul. The system is used to the health of a person, his career, likes and dislikes, compatibility with another person to determine attraction of happiness and more.

Chinese astrology is composed of a 12 year cycle which has 12 animals to represent every year, they are better termed as the Chinese Zodiacs. They are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (or goat), monkey, rooster, dog and pig, always arranged in this order. The perfect genesis of the twelve animal systems is still not known. But there is a story behind its origin, which was the Jade King is not doing anything and was bored. He didn't know what was happening on Earth, because he had servants satisfying his each wish.
He decided he wanted to see the animals that inhabit the earth, so he let his advisors to give him twelve animals. The adviser initially sent an request to the Rat, asking him to also get the cat, as the Rat was envious he avoided the cat from knowing the news. Later, the invitations to animals like ox,tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog were invited to participate in the next few days.
They queued in front of the king, and later on he discovered that they summed only eleven. Jade King sent his servant to get the Earth to the twelfth animal. The servant ran into a man carrying a Pig, and snatched it and sent it to the king.
The animals came before the king in no particular order. The Rat, being smaller than the remaining, jumped on the Ox's back and started to play the flute. This greatly impressed the king and he was happy. He gave the Rat first place. The second was the ox for the quality of true sportsmanship and the third was the tiger, as it was quite strong. The forth place was for the Rabbit, the Dragon took the fifth position, The sixth place was for Snake, the seventh for the Horse, the eighth one for the Goat, Monkey stood ninth, tenth was Rooster and eleventh was the Dog. By default, thanks to nature and close to the king, twelfth place went to the pig. After the ceremony concluded, the cat asked the king to reassess but he did not agree with the cat.

There are five elements in Chinese astrology. These elements were Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, always being given in that order as it is said to be a continuous course, that is Wood generates Fire; Fire generates Earth; Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, and Water generates Wood, and again it goes back to its start.

This force is termed as The Yin and The Yang. The Yin symbolizes the female and Yang symbolizes the male. An diverse explanation states that the Ying stands for the Evil and the Yang stands for the Good. When they reached correctly Ying and Yang produce collective harmony. The combination of Yin and Yang is the veiled power in the wake of the Chinese Horoscope system.

But the Chinese astrology doesn't believe a person's fortune is already given accurately at the moment he/she was born. What happens within these boundaries is influenced not only by own decision also by outer issues such as locality, financial situation and the like.