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Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom, and this week I would like to talk to you about the Chinese Lunar New Year taking place on February 10th.

I, like so many other people, are so fascinated by Chinese astrology.

It's such a wonderful reminder that there are so many astrologies that are out there in the world. Of course we're used to the Western

astrology with its 12 signs of the zodiac, which are associated to 12 constellations. Those

signs are Ariz Taurus Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricor, and Aquarius, and finally Pisces, and that it begins the circle again.

So those are the characters of our Western zodiac,

of our Western astrology.

But there's a Chinese astrology.

There's a Mesoamerican astrology. There's an Indian astrology and these

are just the astrologies we know about. Every major civilization on the planet created some sort of form of astrology and that was in order to tell time.

Astrology is the world's first calendar but as interpreted as symbolized in all of these different cultures.

But when I say something like the major civilizations created their own astrologies,

what is kind of lacking from that remark is all of the astrologies that were created

by other civilizations, other societies, other astrologies that didn't survive either because they fell out of practice

there were proper records the civilization may have been wiped out or assimilated

by a larger civilization. So the astrologies that we know of,

Western astrology, Indian astrology, Chinese astrology, Mesoamerican astrology,

these are just the ones we know about.

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