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The Five Affinities(?) - Beyond the Chinese Zodiacs


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[align=center]Well, I just had my mother tell me more about the Chinese zodiacs, and she explained the five affinities(?) to me.

 

I have no idea if they're called affinities, but whatever.

 

Basically, it talks about growth, and the opposite of it (not decay, that's science).

 

It goes in a circle:

 

Water > Wood > Fire > Ground > Gold > Repeat

 

That is growth. Water feeds wood, wood causes fire, fires burn stuff till it becomes plain ground, and I have no idea how ground becomes gold, but I guess you dig it up. And even more so, I have no idea how gold becomes water. I guess you buy it.

 

Then we have the opposite, which is more important. The stuff that frowns upon the other. Which affects everything in the Chinese zodiac system.

 

Water > Fire > Gold > Wood > Ground > Repeat

 

Water stops fire, fire melts gold I guess, gold buys out the wood, wood covers the ground, and ground can have landslides onto water. I dunno.

 

Some sh*t like that. Anyways, with this in place, we can figure out which zodiacs screw over which other ones, and which zodiacs help and work with others.

 

Here's a current list of the zodiacs and their affinities(?) in alphabetical order:

 

Bull - Water

Chicken - Gold

Dog - Ground

Dragon - Ground

Goat - Ground

Horse - Fire

Monkey - Gold

Mouse - Fire(?)

Pig - Water

Rabbit - Wood

Snake - Fire

Tiger - Water

 

Yeah, my mother forgot which one the mouse was, so if you know, tell me and I'll edit it. She thinks it's fire, though.

 

Now, finding your zodiac, you can figure out which other zodiac people you can't work with, and which ones you'll work well with.

 

Tell me what you find out about yourself ^^.

 

And for those of you who are totally interested about me, I'm a monkey, and my affinity's(?) gold. I help water and gold people, and I go ebil on wood people >=3. Which isn't much.[/align]

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Like I said, mouse/rat was the only one my mother isn't quite too sure about, because of all these years. She's guessing it's fire, though.

 

And I know that gold isn't metal. But the English people consider the word to be that.

 

Chinese people would know the difference.

 

Heck, even I don't know why people think that gold is metal.

 

I'd prefer it stay gold.

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Here's the page I got when I calculated my zodiac.

 

http://www.chinesezodiac.com/rooster.php

 

My elemental sign is:

 

Water Rooster

 

Water has a calming effect on this Rooster. Water Roosters don’t feel the need to rise above the crowd and their communication skills are more refined. Forever energetic and extremely detail-oriented, these Roosters can benefit from staying more focused on the end result rather than the minute details.

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Here's the page I got when I calculated my zodiac.

 

http://www.chinesezodiac.com/rooster.php

 

My elemental sign is:

 

Water Rooster

 

Water has a calming effect on this Rooster. Water Roosters don’t feel the need to rise above the crowd and their communication skills are more refined. Forever energetic and extremely detail-oriented' date=' these Roosters can benefit from staying more focused on the end result rather than the minute details.

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Side: I thought this was about something like...

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=51136&type=card

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I verified with my mother' date=' and she says that the rooster is the same as the chicken, and it is 100% gold. Not water.

 

The person who made the website was probably thinking about something else, or has it wrong.

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That relieves me so much. :3

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