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Topic: Welcome Year of the Snake
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juniperb Moderator Posts: 5996 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 09, 2013 03:16 PM
Chinese give Year of the Snake a raucous, colorful welcome BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese welcomed the arrival of the Year of the Snake with raucous celebrations on Saturday, setting off a cacophony of firecrackers in the streets and sending fireworks blazing into the sky to bring good fortune. Celebrations will carry on into the early hours of Sunday, officially the first day of the Lunar New Year. Residents of Beijing braved freezing temperatures to let off brightly colored fireworks, with clouds of smoke in the air, red wrappings from firecrackers covering streets and explosions rattling windows. A plea by the government to set off fewer fireworks to help deal with Beijing's notorious air pollution seemed to fall on deaf ears. "Every year we set off fireworks and this year will be no different," said Lao Guo, 45, a convenience store worker. "People won't not set them off because of pollution. It's the custom." Firecrackers are believed to scare off evil spirits and entice the god of wealth to people's doorsteps once New Year's Day arrives.
http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-snake-raucous-colorful-welcome-131312654.html ------------------ We need to listen to our own song, and share it with others, but not force it on them. Our songs are different. They should be in harmony with each other. ~ Mattie Stepanek IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 3713 From: Registered: Jul 2011
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posted February 09, 2013 04:19 PM
^ No pollution! IP: Logged |
mockingbird Knowflake Posts: 1107 From: Registered: Dec 2011
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posted February 09, 2013 06:09 PM
Yay!Snakes and monkeys aren't supposed to get along, but pish-posh ------------------ If I've included this sig, it's because I'm posting from a mobile device. Please excuse all outrageous typos and confusing auto-corrects. IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5996 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 10, 2013 08:26 AM
Horoscope and Numerology Elements of the Snake: Earthly Branch of Birth Year: si Wu Xing (The Five Elements): huo (fire) Yin Yang: yin Auspicious Directions: northeast, southwest and south Lucky Colors: red, light yellow, black; Avoid: white, golden, brown Lucky Numbers: 2, 8, 9; Avoid: 1, 6, 7 Lucky Flowers: orchid, cactus Zodiac Sign Compatibility - Best match: ox, rooster; Avoid: tiger, pig IP: Logged |
YoursTrulyAlways Knowflake Posts: 4768 From: Registered: Oct 2011
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posted February 10, 2013 07:04 PM
I wonder how many members are Chinese.As far as I am concerned, the Year of the Snake is terrible, at least for me. The last Snake year was 9/11/2001. The previous one was the Tian An Men uprising and massacre. Add to that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Great Depression Stock Market collapse of 1929. I don't like snakes. To me, they are evil. It is a bad year for me and I'm hunkering down for caution and safety. IP: Logged |
peregrine Knowflake Posts: 906 From: Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution Registered: Apr 2012
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posted February 10, 2013 07:39 PM
quote: Originally posted by YoursTrulyAlways: I wonder how many members are Chinese.As far as I am concerned, the Year of the Snake is terrible, at least for me. The last Snake year was 9/11/2001. The previous one was the Tian An Men uprising and massacre. Add to that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Great Depression Stock Market collapse of 1929. I don't like snakes. To me, they are evil. It is a bad year for me and I'm hunkering down for caution and safety.
check it against your day animal sign. i am a day ox. IP: Logged |
YoursTrulyAlways Knowflake Posts: 4768 From: Registered: Oct 2011
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posted February 10, 2013 08:14 PM
quote: Originally posted by peregrine: check it against your day animal sign. i am a day ox.
I'm actually a Day Yin Snake. Of no comfort. I nearly lost my life the last time. IP: Logged |
peregrine Knowflake Posts: 906 From: Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution Registered: Apr 2012
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posted February 10, 2013 08:54 PM
12 years ago? 9/11... i see... last time it was the year of the rat... recession... i didn't feel it not coz i was immune but coz i was already in my own financial recession from the uranus-uranus hard transit in your early 20's. uranus is in my h2. IP: Logged |
unhappyapathy Knowflake Posts: 33 From: Los Angeles, CA, US Registered: Feb 2013
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posted February 10, 2013 09:29 PM
quote: Originally posted by YoursTrulyAlways: I wonder how many members are Chinese.As far as I am concerned, the Year of the Snake is terrible, at least for me. The last Snake year was 9/11/2001. The previous one was the Tian An Men uprising and massacre. Add to that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Great Depression Stock Market collapse of 1929. I don't like snakes. To me, they are evil. It is a bad year for me and I'm hunkering down for caution and safety.
Yeah, I noticed that. Plenty of unfortunate events occurred in Snake years. Not to mention Imelda Marcos was born in one. Coincidentally, her husband was also a Snake. http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/012500.html IP: Logged |
YoursTrulyAlways Knowflake Posts: 4768 From: Registered: Oct 2011
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posted February 10, 2013 09:53 PM
Among the predicted disasters by traditional Chinese experts include a large American stockmarket crash, an American/European economic disaster and an escalation of conflict between China and Japan, bordering on war.IP: Logged |
turquoiseturtle Knowflake Posts: 43 From: USA Registered: May 2012
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posted February 12, 2013 12:20 AM
That last one doesn't sound good, YoursTruly. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.. I am a snake and my partner is a tiger and we are extremely compatible. Well, here's to 2013 and hoping it's a good year! I heard this year shouldn't be so bad since the snake of this year is supposed to be a morning dew variety. This is from an ABC news article: Hong Kong feng shui master Raymond Lo is trying to put a positive spin on the year. He points out that according to astrological tables, this year's variety is the relatively mild "morning dew" type of common water snake, less venomous than recent predecessors. "It's more moderate, humble and patient," Lo said of the 2013 snake. He added that he is bullish on the year's prospects for the world as a whole, and sees good opportunities for economic growth. Still, Lo said, people should probably take precautions against the snake's traditionally destructive power, perhaps by wearing monkey pendants around their necks. That goes double for anyone born in a year of the snake, he said, like incoming Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Xi's 1953 birth coincided with the final convulsions of the Korean War. "The monkey is the only animal that really knows how to handle the snake," Lo said. Tsai is also largely upbeat on the new Chinese year. He believes much-needed liquidity will be injected into struggling world economies, and that babies born over the next 12 months will be both self-motivated and agile. On the down side, he warned, there could also be massive flooding and tsunamis. The New Year's season is implacably festive, and people have been out in force in cities across the region in recent days, stocking up on provisions and traditional new year symbols. In Taipei, revelers were particularly enamored of snake-shaped paper lanterns supplied by the municipal government, as well as coins imprinted with snake logos and snake-like toys thought to bring good luck. At the Temple of White Snakes in suburban Taoyuan county, director Lo Chin-shih presided over a glass-encased display of dozens of slithering snakes, replete with flashing pink tongues and slowly molting skin, a symbol of change, renewal and hope for a better future. Lo said this snake year will be a time of steady progress, in contrast to the more turbulent nature of the outgoing dragon year. "Unlike dragons that make abrupt, attention-getting moves, snakes take slow and steady steps," he said, making it clear he considers the hiss of the Year of the Snake worse than its bite. IP: Logged |
YoursTrulyAlways Knowflake Posts: 4768 From: Registered: Oct 2011
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posted February 12, 2013 11:18 AM
North Korea is already behaving like morons at the start of the New Year.IP: Logged |
unhappyapathy Knowflake Posts: 33 From: Los Angeles, CA, US Registered: Feb 2013
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posted February 12, 2013 10:17 PM
quote: Originally posted by YoursTrulyAlways: North Korea is already behaving like morons at the start of the New Year.
LMAO. OT, but Google Maps finally revealed the evil gulags to the world a few weeks back. IP: Logged |
unhappyapathy Knowflake Posts: 33 From: Los Angeles, CA, US Registered: Feb 2013
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posted February 12, 2013 10:18 PM
quote: Originally posted by turquoiseturtle: I am a snake and my partner is a tiger and we are extremely compatible.
We're supposed to be very compatible too. My aunt and cousin are both Snakes. It's a "peaceful" relationship and a "love combination with omens favorable". The only drawback is that they're kinda lazy. HA! IP: Logged |
katatonic Knowflake Posts: 9438 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 13, 2013 01:08 PM
snakes do not do so well in the snake year. this is a water snake, much calmer than the others...usually!i am ox, and so far it has usually been a personally good year despite the definite turmoil that often comes down. maybe because the ox loves an occasion to rise to? and is better able than most to keep its head in the middle of a storm... IP: Logged |
juniperb Moderator Posts: 5996 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 13, 2013 03:03 PM
I`m a Dragon so we`ll see what the year of the Snake brings me....------------------ We need to listen to our own song, and share it with others, but not force it on them. Our songs are different. They should be in harmony with each other. ~ Mattie Stepanek IP: Logged |