Archive for January 22nd, 2004
Uncommon Adornments

Designers of Celtic jewelry, Celtic knotwork and mythical creatures.

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Classic Celtics include Celtic knotwork designs such as the Celtic Round, Square, Dragon, Four, Oval, and more.

Crown Jewels incorporate semi-precious stones into the designs such as Amber, Amethyst, Aqua Aura, Mother of Pearl, Tiger Eye, and many more.

Real and mythical creatures are featured such as dragons, faeries, dolphins, and unicorns.

And the best yet…all of our jewelry is nickel and lead free!

Chinese New Year

http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com/2004.htm

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The Chinese New Year day is on January 22nd, 2004. Because this is a new moon day, it is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system. The new moon time is at 05:05 on 22-Jan-04 in China time zone. However, the new moon time is at 13:05 of 21-Jan-04 in the US Pacific Standard Time and also at 10:05 of 21-Jan-04 in the US Eastern Standard Time, so the Chinese New Year day is on January 21st, 2004 for USA time zones.

In China, the first day of the Green Monkey Year is February 4th, 2004 in the Fortune-Telling Calendar system, because February 4th, 2004 is the first day of Tiger month and the Tiger month is the first month of a year in Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar system.

In the Chinese Fortune-Telling calendar, the first day of the first month, Tiger month, is called “Start of Spring”, which is when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. In the China time zone, the time of Start of Spring is at 02-04 19:56. So the first day of the Green Monkey year 2004 is on 04-Feb-03. For USA, the time of Start of Spring is on 02-03 at 03:56 PST, therefore the first day of 2004 Chinese astrology calendar in USA is same to China time zone. If a baby was born on or after the Start of Spring, then she or he is a Green Monkey in the family.

The Year 2004 (Green Monkey) is the 4701st Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4701st year on February 4th, 2004. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Green Monkey is the 21st Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4700 = (60 *78) + 21, therefore this Green Monkey Year is the 4701st Chinese Year.

Some web sites say the year 2004 is the 4702nd Chinese year. If you cannot find the explanation, here is a possible answer for you. The Yellow King’s inauguration was held in the spring of 2697 B.C. But the calendar of Yellow King used the winter solstice day as the first day of the year. So the first winter solstice was on around December 23rd, 2698 B.C. Today’s January 1st means nothing to Yellow King. If we count that extra eight days in 2698 B.C. for a year, then year 2004 is the 4702nd Chinese year.

Forecast using the theory of Five Elements

2002 and 2003 were the years mixing Fire and Water, which are hostile each other. Past two years weren’t peaceful for many areas in the world. World economics kept struggling for recovery. Many people worried about loosing their jobs. Basically, 2002 and 2003 are the cycle of Fire. Fire is the supporting element of Earth, any business something to do with to Fire or Earth had better luck during these years. For example, real estate (Earth) related business had a pretty good money luck in the past three years. The 2004 is the beginning of Metal cycle. Now it’s the turn for the Metal business. Metal stands for gold, jewelry or money. Therefore the financial business will boom in these coming two years. You can see the mother nature is very fair. Everyone takes turn to share the luck.

The major elements in the Green Monkey are Wood and Metal. According to the Five Element Relationship, we know there is a conflict between Wood and Metal. So the disputes and arguments are there for many people in 2004. Fortunately, there are some Water inside the Monkey. Water is the key to make Wood and Metal get along peacefully. The reason is from Five Element relationships. Metal supports Water. Water supports Wood. A Water person is a good friend of a Metal and a Wood person. So Metal people and Wood people have the chance to shake hands. Water stands for wisdom in Chinese astrology. That means it always has a solution for the disagreement from Wood and Metal using your wisdom(Water) in 2004.

The prediction for people’s luck on this web site is using the Five Elements, not the yearly animal sign you were born. So you need to know your Lucky Element first to follow the following explanation.

If your lucky element is Wood, then your luck is good in the beginning of the year. For example, your business or relationship with people will go well in the first half of 2004, the second half of 2004 will slow down the progress by some kind of disagreement. If your lucky element is Metal, then you will have bad start and struggle with your work or with people relationships, but the result will turn out well in the end of year. Basically, many people have 50% luck in 2004. To know if you have complete good luck, you need to study the Green Monkey relationship with your birth chart using the Stem and Branch relationships, which is not always easy.

The bottom of this page has predictions of your luck in the year of Green Monkey using your Lucky Element and Major 10-year cycles.