What the Year of the Rabbit means for you - The tiger’s been tamed — and in its place, a rabbit roars.
Thursday night Chinese people around the world celebrated New Year saying goodbye to the ferocious Year of the Tiger, a tumultuous period of financial turmoil, heartbreaking natural disasters and political upheaval to embrace a kinder and gentler era.
“It’s the year of the rabbit,” enthuses Richmond Hill’s Paul Ng, who bills himself as an international feng shui master.
Ng practices the ancient art of predicting the future by analyzing a complicated mixture of Chinese zodiac signs as well as symbols associated with elements such as water, wood and metal. To be precise we are entering the Year of the Metal Rabbit, explains Ng.
The peony symbolizes celebration and prosperity in Chinese culture which especially serving this New Year.
Unlike the treacherous tiger, the rabbit is wascally, as Elmer Fudd might say. Rabbits are skittish and quick on their feet. They represent both fertility and good fortune.
Rabbit people are a breed apart from the other 11 zodiac creatures. People born in the Year of the Rabbit (1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987 and 1999) are considered articulate and ambitious. They are people who love people, explains Ng. Despite the conventional belief that rabbits represent luck, Ng advises everyone to keep their day jobs this year — avoid the stock market and risky careers in sales.
Ng, the 64-year-old (65 in lunar years) zodiac expert and world philosopher says a new day is dawning — that big changes are imminent though it may not be apparent overnight. The world must tough out one more year of natural disasters, he says. Last year was an extreme. And throughout 2011, political turmoil and environmental catastrophies will continue — but it will taper off, he says.
“This year won’t be as exciting as last,” he says. “It won’t be a year of extremes.”
Lions are dangerous. Rabbits are, “moody and sentimental,” says Ng.
“There will be plenty of romance this year,” Ng says adding, Prince William and Kate Middleton chose well getting hitched this spring. It will also be a good year for the fashion industry, says Ng, as rabbit people are generally considered quite stylish — among other things.
Though love is in the air and people will be dressing better, the “rabbit” effect will do little to diminish the devastation he predicts will continue for the next year. This Year of the Rabbit represents the tail end of a larger, eight-year cycle, he says.
Florida and the eastern seaboard of the U.S. will be hit hard by hurricanes this year. Fires will devastate California as well as northern B.C. and northwest Alberta. Northeastern Canada will be pummelled with heavy rain and snow.
The big international story, says Ng, will occur in debt-burdened Japan as the country’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the country’s fifth leader since 2006 will step down or be forced into a snap election — one he’s predicted to lose.
Furthermore, there will be more mining accidents this year, says Ng.
In Canada an election will be called and the conservatives will prevail. As well, Canada will have diplomatic disputes or “arguments” as Ng calls them with Russia, over the ownership of natural resources in the North Pole. Fiscal deficits will grow at all levels of government. Interest rates remain low. Prime will fluctuate between 2 to 4 per cent. The Canadian dollar will hover between 80 and 90 cents. And the Toronto Stock Exchange will dance between 12,000 and 14,000 points.
Good news for homeowners: Toronto’s real estate market will experience a record breaking year.
Bad news for East Enders. Scarborough will experience an upsurge in crime, including robberies and muggings.
And it all ends Jan. 22, 2012 — as the nervous rabbit retreats to make way for the Year of the Dragon. ( thestar.com )
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