 2007 is the Year of the Boar in Chinese Astrology. The Boar year starts on February 18th. "Mr. Boar has the potential to transform into a swan...a lovely white, graceful swan. But somehow, he doesn't know it. Mr. Boar has doubts...big doubts. He questions everything and wants to be shown. When his question are answered and his doubts quelled, he moves into a state of certainty, a place of hope that can ever be assailed. Mr. Boar is large and lugubrious. He moves slowly and with determiniation. He tends to root in the soil for legumes, and at times, can get mired in the bog. Mr. Boar's metabolism isn't very good, so he tends to be sluggish. The Boar ends to feel that he is ugly and can suffer tremendous humiliation and ridicule. the Boar needs to awaken to the beauty that is in his soul.
Boars in the wild have a natural bent towards suicide, and as an archetype, Mr. Boar shows us where our self destructive tendencies reside. He can either be bogged down in depression or the depression can make him fool-hardy, taking risks, seeing how close he can come to the brink without going over, and contemplating if going over isn't the better of the two options.
"Often Boars need a shock to their systems in order to get them moving. Then they can move from the negative into the positive and tranform their lives.
"Mr. Boar seeks to be included, and yet, to him, always seems to be on the outside looking in. He fears ridicule and will often take the safe way.
"There is an old proverb from medieval times about two knights who were being sent into battle. One feared death more than ridicule and so refused to go. The Other feared ridicule more than death, and so went out to meet his fate, not being able to face the townspeople if he didn't. So, too, the Boar fears ridicule and will go to great lengths to avoid it...yet, at other times, when all seems lost, he will take risks and be foolhardy, almost inviting the inevitable. No matter what year you were born, there is Boar energy somewhere in your chart: Ox - The Ox has to watch that he doesn't bring pessimistic people into his life to bring him down. He needs to see ways of throwing off the yoke and getting out of his rut. He doesn't need to be pulled down into the Boar's morass. Tiger - The Tiger has a Boar for a father or employer...or both. The Boar is a heavy influence and can be part of the reason for the Tiger's own depression. These two shouldn't spend a lot of time together unless they are committed to being full of light. One of them usually has to be the positive one for the twosome. Cat - The Cat tends to have a Boar as second mate, or as ministers and professors. the Cat really has to settle down when he marries a Boar, who isn't going to like the Cat coming and going as he sees fit. Dragon - The Dragon finds that his mate can become quite boorish when it comes to money. The mythical Dragon isn't going to be able to spend much joint income on frivolous things to lighten his heart. The Dragon has a big job to loosen the purse strings. Snake - The Snake has a Boar for a mate. If the Boar is full of hope, he'll help the Snake to transform. If not, she will find it hard to move beyond the heaviness of the relationship. Horse - The Horse can get pessimistic when she gets sick. She needs to hear positive feedback in order not to sink into a bog of pessimism. She does wonders with positive affirmations. The Horse has a Boar for a stepmother. Sheep - The Sheep is attracted to Boars. Together they can reach the heights of positive living...or they can feed each other's negative tendencies. The Sheep will have Boar-type children, who need to be constantly reminded the glass is half full. Monkey - The Monkey has a Boar for a mother. A religious faith is fquently important to her to have something to hold on to. She may have been self destructive and proveded an unsettling foundation for the Monkey. If the Boar mother wasn't living from the positive, she set self-defeating programs as part of his lineage that he must strive to overcome. Rooster - The Rooster experiences the Boar as a teacher or mentor. These are the ministers and teachers who can preach "hellfire and damnation" and see history from a doom-and-gloom perspective. Dog - The Dog can be sober about her finances and hide her money in a tin can buried in the yard. She'll know exactly where ever dime is, however, and you can count on her as the one person who will have money when other's don't. Boar - The Boar is the animal that reflects your personality. You need to concentrate on the positive all the time and purposefully put yourself with positive people so you don't get bogged down in depression. If you are at all "in the dumps", another Boar is the last person you want to be with. They could pull you down even further. You tend to be serious, and it's hard for you to see the lights side of life, unless you have dealt with those issues and have found your hope and cling to it like a life raft. Your mom's dad and dad's mom reflect the Boar energy in your life. Look to them as role models of how 'not to do it' it they are depressed. Rat - The Rat questions life and its spiritual aspects. He has a dour side that few see. The Rat shouldn't be too soliitary or introspective, as this can draw him into his dark side. The Rat can have a step father who is a Boar, or the mate's boss can be a Boar."
excerpted from my book, "Chinese Power Animals - Agents of Transformation", copyright 2000, all rights reserved.
In more traditional Chinese Astrology you are told not to marry someone of the opposite sign, which in this case, is The Snake. But when you overlap the Chinese chart over the western astrology chart, it becomes obvious, since the 7th house represents mate, and The Snake is the seventh animal from the Boar, and the Snake will be drawn to The Boar, and vice verse.....even if in Chinese terms, you shouldn't!!
So, Boar, don't write someone off who's a potential mate, just because they are a Snake,
or a Virgo (which is Snake energy). More often you marry the animal energy that's opposite that at the time of your birth, which is more reflective of your personally; but the Snake is part of the picture. A person may not be born in that year, but their, month, day or hour animal may be that energy or they can have a lot of planets in that area. After awhile you'll be able to recognize just who represents the energy and who doesn't. In the year ahead, you'll find that the area where your Boar energy is located, is where and whom you'll deal with this year. Sometimes I'll be going too fast on a short interpretation offered and will look at the Year, and say someone was born in the Year of the Dog, let's say, when they were born in early January. But, this isn't cut and dried. You aren't a Rooster on one day and a Dog the next. People born at that time are shapeshifting into the next sign. So by January the Rooster characteristics are giving way to the Dog; it would be like a Dog with a little look of the Rooster left. This applies to all birthdates at the beginning of the year before the next Chinese New Year takes place. copyright 2003-2004-2005-2006, Pamela Leigh Powers, all rights reserved.
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