Suzanne White - The New Chinese Astrology

THENEW CHINESE ASTROLOGY

BYSUZANNE WHITE

HighPriestess of Chinese Astrology

Suzanne White

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHORS NOTE

THE GENERIC HE

Rather thanmake the difficult choice between the sexes each time I needed apronoun to refer to the behavior of an animal sign, I have opted touse the generic masculine pronoun throughout this book. Pleasedont be flummoxed when you read The Monkey's never certainif he wants his dinner at six or ateleven, or The Dog has an abrasive tongue and he doesn't hesitate to use it on his adversaries.

In the beginning,I struggled with the following kinds of constructions: If theTiger wants his/her life to be productive, he/she must learn to bedisciplined. The Tiger lives lustily and always seems to wanthis/her cake and eat it, too. A Tiger never wants to alter his/ herlifestyle to conform to a routine.

Exhaustingreading? Yes. And clumsy writing, too. Those interminable he/she and his/her references kept jumbling my syntax, cramping mystyle and, frankly, were driving this Tiger a little batty. So,except when I am specifically describing women, the genericmasculine pronoun is used throughout. Obviously, the textdoes not referexclusively to male animal sign behavior, nor is a sexist slurintended

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LET ME EXPLAIN

I have alwaysliked to begin my books with a little story about myself, about howI came to write this one and about who I am, indeed, to be assumingto write such a work. It may sound egomaniacal. It is. But heregoes, anyway.

Those of you whoalready know me are aware that I first heard of Chinese astrologywhen I was a twenty-five-year-old, skinny, self-pitying Americanfashion model living in Paris. There, through a hippie boyfriend, Imet a grand old wizard of Chinese character divination who advisedme to get out of modeling and into writing.

He did nottell me to get out of Paris, so I stayed there for a while andmarried. But ultimately I followed the old gentlemans advice andbecame a writer. First, I penned vapid, humorous articles aboutwomens problems in womens magazines. Then, aged thirty-three, Ibatted out my standard purge first novel all about me. It failed.But that did not discourage me. The old Chinese man had been right.I was far happier as a writer than as a fashion model. So I satdown and wrote a book about, of all things, Chinese astrology!Amazingly, Chinese Astrology, Plain and Simple. did not fail. Au contraire! It was (and still is) a huge successtranslations into all languages, enough money to eat for a fewyears and well ... it worked.

After that,I had two beautiful kids and started yet another big fat novel(this time about some fascinating people besides myself). Then,suddenly, before I could finish it, I got very busy being arecovering cancer patient. When I was well and strong again, Iwrote another book about astrology. This time I served asmatchmaker: I married the two types of astrology we all know best,Western and Chinese, into a system I call New Astrology . By then (1985) I had gained a reputationas an astrologer. I had even started reading charts, interpretingpeoples planetary configurations, adding in their Chineseastrological data. I was getting astonishing results. In theprocess I was finding out more and more about my favorite subject,Chinese astrology, and how it affects every part of a personslife. Not only was I still riveted by the accuracy of Chinesecharacter reading, but I was discovering how ones Chinese signaffects health patterns. I grew familiar with the five elements andhow they govern the different years in which we are born. I learnedabout how Tigers get on with Dragons, and Goats with Snakes. Ilearned how to use Chinese astrology to help people understandthemselves and their families, friends andacquaintances.

After fifteenyears of study and experience, of toiling over obscure Orientalnotions, of juggling thousands of variables and applying them toreal people, I had acquired so much new Chinese astrological wisdomthat I decided to write a companion book to my first. My originalbook is really a primer. It gives a sound basis for understandingthe skeleton of the Chinese astrological system. It is a readable,interesting and, in its own way, complete book. If you haventalready, I urge you to read it. But I wrote that book back in 1976.Today, I am a different woman. Not only have I gained newknowledge, but I have met colonies of colorful new people whosebehavior perfectly illustrates the influence of their Chineseanimal signs. How could I resist wanting to share the best of atrove of stories about some of my new friends: Kathryn, the geniusMonkey; Val, the arch conservative liberal Rooster; and Bill, theDog who barks overbearing customers right out of his tiny ruralbookshop. Most of all, I want to tell you as much as I can abouthow this mystical system of Chinese astrology works and how it canhelp you to see your way through life's complexities.

It has been saidthat I am possessed of an uncanny intuition. Although I am amathematical dunce, a loss as a logician, and can figure outabsolutely nothing through cause and effect, I have always feltthat if I follow my hunches, listen to my innermost voices, heedthe little muse that lives directly over my right shoulder andurges me to Hurry up! Go ahead! Do it! then I practically nevermake giant mistakes.

Why, then, do Iinsist on continuing to write books about Chinese astrology when Icould be writing books about hunches or muses or innermostvoices?

I have afriend in New York called Celeste. She is a professional astrologerand an impressive spook, not some abracadabra spirit worshipper weirdo. Celeste is herreal name, and her Italian Catholic parents certainly did notpredict that she would choose, at age thirty-five, to become anastrologer. Celeste is a Sagittarius and a Tiger. SagittarianTigers do not fool around.