Happy Iron Dragon Year & Tibetan Calendar

- Tsag.Tselo.Manjushri

We.wish.you.a.creative,.inspiring,.healthy.&.powerful
Male.Iron-Dragon.Year
IAS.&.Manjushri.Mandala

5th.of.February.2000.-.23rd.of.February.2001

The male iron-dragon year stands for starting new projects, reorganization of one's life, enforcing one's idealistic ambitions, fulfilling one's visions, using one's individualistic power in a wise but determined way, overcoming disturbances, enhancing self-confidence and being generous to others. It's an energetic year, giving rise to celebrations and grandiose projects. A year of surprises, when an opportunity can be grasped or lost. - And never forget how loving kindness could change the world!

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Rainbow.wishes.for.the
Female.Iron-Serpent.Year
23rd.of.February.2001.-.12th.of.February.2002

- On 23rd of February 2001 at New Moon (8:22 GMT) the female Tibetan Iron-Serpent Year will relieve the old male Iron-Dragon Year. The Iron-Serpent Year rules from 23rd of February 2001 to 11th of February 2202 (New Moon). Our first gift for this year shows the.Golden Nagaradja.(Lhudjal), king of all serpent beings, empowering you with his magical and wishfulfilling gem. The second gift shows some Naga-Goddesses, offering their precious magical jewels to all real wisdom searchers. Nagas (serpent beings) are mythological archetypes, inhabiting the the vast universal ocean and living also in the depths of your own mind. They are special protectors and teachers of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Envoked with respect they love to help with their magic and wisdom, but they can change their mood quickly if treated wrong. Serpents (nagas) are not just worshiped in Asia but also in many Western cultures (Celtic, Egypt, Greek). Even they can manifest in all elements they are often envoked in front of wells, rivers, lakes and some special holy trees. In India they are worshiped to grant fertility. Another great lucky charm for your site! - The female Iron-Serpent/Snake Year enforces deep thinking and re-thinking to increase your innate wisdom. It's a year of retreat and secret inner developments to change some of your skin's and learn quickly from experience. Stay apart from emotional decisions. Think wise and act accordingly.

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~.Tibetan Calendar System.~ Golden Nagaradja.1/2/3.~ Naga Goddesses 1/2/

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Tibetan.Astrology.combines elements of Chinese astrology with elements of Western (Vedic) astrology. For the calendar system modified Chinese methods are used. Unfortunately there is a variety of contradictory schools, traditions and even calendars. One of many reasons we prefer to work with Western astrology. What follows is just a rough and brief description of some basic concepts of the most common calendar system in use.
The Tibetan year has 12 lunar months (new moon to new moon) resp. 354 solar days. To stay in harmony with the solar year of 365 days a 13th lunar month is added about every 30 months. The New Year ('losar') starts mainly with new moon in aquarius (sometimes in pisces). The first month (first zodiac sign) is the month of the rat (tib. dschiwa/male/north), followed by the month of the ox (lan/female/northeast), tiger (tag/male/east), hare (yö/female/east), dragon (drug/male/southeast), snake (drü/female/south), horse (ta/male/south), sheep or ram (lug/female/southwest), monkey (dre/male/west), bird or rooster (dscha/female/west), dog (kyi/male/northwest), pig (pag/female/north). This sequence forms also the 12-years-cycle (jupiter-rhythm), starting always with the year of the rat, followed by the year of the ox etc. In addition there are the five elements: earth (tib. 'sa'/stabilization, strength/color yellow /signs: dragon, sheep, ox, dog), fire ('me'/transforming, fast-moving /color red/signs: snake, horse), iron or metal ('chag'/hardening, cutting, changeable, direct/color white /signs: monkey, bird), water ('chu'/smoothening, soft, placid/color black or blue /signs: pig, rat) and wood ('shing'/growing, long-lasting, changeable/color green /signs: tiger, hare). There are certain sympathies and aversions between those elements and lunar zodiac-signs as well as equivalents to planets, fixed stars, days, hours, body parts etc. In combination with the 12-year-rhythm of the lunar zodiac signs and a 2-year-rhythm of a female and male version of the 5 elements it comes to a 60-year-cycle or 'rabjung'. As mentioned above Tibetan astrology has many different tradtions and calendar systems. The one used below is the most popular one. Following this system we live in the 17th rabjung, which started in 1987. The first rabjung cycle goes back to the time when Buddhism and astrology were introduced to Tibet.
With the 5th of February 2000, 13:05 GMT, started the 14th year of the 17th rabjung of the male iron-dragon year 2127 after Buddha. The year and even century of Buddha's birth is completely unknown (could be also 2400 years ago), so 2127 is just a semi-precise statement.

Tibetan.Lunar.Calendar.1930.-.2010

Start/New Year	Time GMT	Name	cycle/year male/female	Start/New Year	Time GMT	Name	cycle/year male/female
29/1/1930	19:08	Iron-Horse	XVI/4/m	6/2/1970	07:14	Iron-Dog	XVI/44/m
17/2/1931	13:11	Iron-Sheep	XVI/5/f	26/1/1971	22:56	Iron-Pig	XVI/45/f
6/2/1932	14:45	Water-Monkey	XVI/6/m	15/2/1972	00:29	Water-Rat	XVI/46/m
25/1/1933	23:20	Water-Bird	XVI/7/f	3/2/1973	09:24	Water-Ox	XVI/47/f
14/2/1934	00:44	Wood-Dog	XVI/8/m	23/1/1974	11:03	Wood-Tiger	XVI/48/m
3/2/1935	16:28	Wood-Pig	XVI/9/f	11/2/1975	05:18	Wood-Hare	XVI/49/f
24/1/1936	07:18	Fire-Rat	XVI/10/m	31/1/1976	06:21	Fire-Dragon	XVI/50/m
11/2/1937	07:35	Fire-Ox	XVI/11/f	18/2/1977	03:38	Fire-Snake	XVI/51/f
31/1/1938	13:35	Earth-Tiger	XVI/12/m	7/2/1978	14:55	Earth-Horse	XVI/52/m
19/2/1939	08:29	Earth-Hare	XVI/13/f	26/2/1979	16:46	Earth-Sheep	XVI/53/f
8/2/1940	07:45	Iron-Dragon	XVI/14/m	16/2/1980	08:52	Iron-Monkey	XVI/54/m
27/1/1941	11:03	Iron-Snake	XVI/15/f	4/2/1981	22:15	Iron-Bird	XVI/55/f
15/2/1942	10:03	Water-Horse	XVI/16/m	23/2/1982	21:14	Water-Dog	XVI/56/m
4/2/1943	23:29	Water-Sheep	XVI/17/f	13/2/1983	00:33	Water-Pig	XVI/57/f
25/1/1944	15:25	Wood-Monkey	XVI/18/m	2/3/1984	18:32	Wood-Rat	XVI/58/m
12/2/1945	17:34	Wood-Bird	XVI/19/f	19/2/1985	18:44	Wood-Ox	XVI/59/f
2/2/1946	04:44	Fire-Dog	XVI/20/m	9/2/1986	00:56	Fire-Tiger	XVI/60/m
22/1/1947	08:35	Fire-Pig	XVI/21/f	28/2/1987	00:52	Fire-Hare	XVII/1/f
10/2/1948	03:02	Earth-Rat	XVI/22/m	17/2/1988	15:55	Earth-Dragon	XVII/2/m
29/1/1949	02:43	Earth-Ox	XVI/23/f	6/2/1989	07:38	Earth-Snake	XVII/3/f
15/2/1950	22:53	Iron-Tiger	XVI/24/m	25/2/1990	08:55	Iron-Horse	XVII/4/m
6/2/1951	07:54	Iron-Hare	XVI/25/f	14/2/1991	17:33	Iron-Sheep	XVII/5/f
26/1/1952	22:27	Water-Dragon	XVI/26/m	4/3/1992	13:23	Water-Monkey	XVII/6/m
14/2/1953	01:11	Water-Snake	XVI/27/f	21/2/1993	13:06	Water-Bird	XVII/7/f
3/2/1954	15:56	Wood-Horse	XVI/28/m	10/2/1994	14:31	Wood-Dog	XVII/8/m
24/1/1955	01:17	Wood-Sheep	XVI/29/f	1/3/1995	11:49	Wood-Pig	XVII/9/f
11/2/1956	21:38	Fire-Monkey	XVI/30/m	18/2/1996	23:31	Fire-Rat	XVII/10/m
30/1/1957	21:25	Fire-Bird	XVI/31/f	7/2/1997	15:07	Fire-Ox	XVII/11/f
18/2/1958	15:39	Earth-Dog	XVI/32/m	26/2/1998	17:27	Earth-Tiger	XVII/12/m
7/2/1959	19:23	Earth-Pig	XVI/33/f	16/2/1999	06:40	Earth-Hare	XVII/13/f
28/1/1960	06:16	Iron-Rat	XVI/34/m	5/2/2000	13:04	Iron-Dragon	XVII/14/m
15/2/1961	08:11	Iron-Ox	XVI/35/f	23/2/2001	08:22	Iron-Snake	XVII/15/f
5/2/1962	00:10	Water-Tiger	XVI/36/m	12/2/2002	07:42	Water-Horse	XVII/16/m
25/1/1963	13:42	Water-Hare	XVI/37/f	1/2/2003	10:49	Water-Sheep	XVII/17/f
13/2/1964	13:02	Wood-Dragon	XVI/38/m	21/1/2004	21:06	Wood-Monkey	XVII/18/m
1/2/1965	16:36	Wood-Snake	XVI/39/f	8/2/2005	22:39	Wood-Bird	XVII/19/f
20/2/1966	10:50	Fire-Horse	XVI/40/m	29/1/2006	14:16	Fire-Dog	XVII/20/m
9/2/1967	10:44	Fire-Sheep	XVI/41/f	17/2/2007	16:15	Fire-Pig	XVII/21/f
29/1/1968	16:30	Earth-Monkey	XVI/42/m	7/2/2008	03:46	Earth-Rat	XVII/22/m
16/2/1969	16:26	Earth-Bird	XVI/43/f	26/1/2009	07:56	Earth-Ox	XVII/23/f