Thursday, February 3, 2011

Chinese Year of the Rabbit and Egypt

Amber Dorrian (Wisdom Quarterly)
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Child touches rabbit-shaped souvenirs for sale during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown in Manila, Philippines (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters).

The Chinese New Year of the Rabbit
Elizabeth Flock (Washington Post)

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit! The fifteen-day spring festival celebration based on the lunisolar calendar kicks off today with the promise of dragon dances, firecrackers, and couplets hung in windows. The Chinese New Year Parade will take over D.C.'s Chinatown in all its red glory on Sunday.

Chinatown Prepares For The Chinese New Year Celebrations (Photo by Oli Scarff/Staff, Getty Images)The New Year is at hand. So is the opportunity to learn about an alternative astrological chart: Which animal sign are you? Compare that to the old Sun sign horoscopes.

(WQ) The world operates with many calendars. The best is the lunar calendar, which accords with the regular phases of the Moon. But the most popular is of course the common Gregorian solar calendar. It awkwardly denies its lunar origins and tries to reorient towards the Sun for the sake of Christian hegemony.

Sun signs -- all 13 of them, including Ophiuchus the snake holder between Scorpio and Sagittarius, like the number of "Moonths" in a year -- replaced the older Chinese system. The zodiac behind the Great Wall assigned signs according to birth year, in 12 year cycles, rather than birth months.

The more ancient Egyptian system of astrology, provided by extraterrestrial sky beings as were most systems around the world such as the even older Indian Vedic system, was overtaken by the Babylonian system that came from the Greeks during the Ptolemiac period. That earlier system might have foreseen the revolt against a foreign-supported tyrant:

(L-R) Gamal Mubarak (AP), anti-government protesters in Cairo (Reuters) Egypt attacks protesters (video)

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