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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 12 Feb 2013 06:43 #97358

loise98 OFFLINE Posts: 2932 Thank you received: 267	Great picture, LottI! What fun!!
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 11 Feb 2013 22:45 #97352

lotti OFFLINE Posts: 1893 Thank you received: 309	Hello fellow dragon, lorchen! I've been enjoying life as a wood dragon for a long time! Happy new year to all!
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 11 Feb 2013 19:56 #97348

romira OFFLINE Posts: 269	very informative site...thanks Renata!
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 11 Feb 2013 18:30 #97345

Renata OFFLINE Posts: 2673 Thank you received: 260	For anyone interested in what Lorchen is referring to and if you want to read more about your year and relationships it might be fun to peruse http://www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Dragon.htm -- of course all twelve animals are at this URL (I just opened it at Dragon.
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 11 Feb 2013 17:37 #97344

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Ahhhh..... Rosemary is my little sister! I collect those Chinese animals in my little family. I'm a water dragon, my sons are a horse and a rooster, my granddaughter is a tiger, and grandchild number 2 (due in mid-August) will be a snake. My mother was a rat and my father was a rabbit.

When I spent some time in Hongkong and China (still married), I was asked everywhere what our signs are. Lots of nodding because apparently it's ok for a dragon mum to have horse and rooster kids, but when I said that my dh was a boar (pig

), there was always lots of shaking of heads and I was told: "Pig-man no good for dragon-woman!"..... They must have known something that I didn't at the time. Anybody knows a nice monkey or rat for me??

Happy Chinese New Year!

From the edge of Sherwood Forest, home of Robin Hood

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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 11 Feb 2013 13:51 #97343

Renata OFFLINE Posts: 2673 Thank you received: 260	Thank you! We had a really nice New Year's dinner at a local (brand new) Hong Kong style restaurant. Next week relatives start gathering at our house. New Year's, also known as Spring Festival lasts 15 days. The fifteenth day is known as Lantern Festival. This interval of time allows family and friends to travel, gather and celebrate together.
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 11 Feb 2013 08:45 #97323

Suewarby OFFLINE Posts: 95 Thank you received: 1	Thank You Renata Gong Hei Fat Choy and I hope the New Year brings you and yours all you hope and wish for.
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 17:00 #97307

eyeonquilts OFFLINE Posts: 292	Well, thank you, Renata! And I hope you have a wonderful year as well. I had no idea it was the year of the snake. I have to admit that I've never been fond of snakes but maybe this year I'll see them in a different light.
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 08:43 #97287

rehak OFFLINE Posts: 2783 Thank you received: 458	Happy New Year and best wishes to all! Nancy
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 07:12 #97285

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PosyP wrote:

Something I learnt a couple of years ago (when I also discovered that I was actually born in the year of the snake, rather than horse -birth date/new year sorting out) is that the chinese regard the snake as a little dragon, and something far nicer than we in the west, usually think of, when we think of snakes.

There are also differences whether you are a water snake, earth snake, fire snake, etcetera... but that is left to the astrologers because there are many factors involved in characterizing the kind of snake you are (please don't take that in the Western sense

). In any event, for those of you who were born this year and turn sixty, traditionally, you become a senior and you are given the biggest birthday party (usually a formal banquet) with all your family and friends to celebrate the occasion in the biggest way!

Thank you for all the good wishes!

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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 06:45 #97281

PosyP OFFLINE Posts: 4106 Thank you received: 361	Something I learnt a couple of years ago (when I also discovered that I was actually born in the year of the snake, rather than horse -birth date/new year sorting out) is that the chinese regard the snake as a little dragon, and something far nicer than we in the west, usually think of, when we think of snakes.
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 06:13 #97275

Reetzbobeetz OFFLINE Posts: 4193 Thank you received: 209	Kung hei fat choi Renata and anybody else who celebrates Chinese New Year.
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 03:50 #97272

Zarah OFFLINE Posts: 1526 Thank you received: 30	Happy New Year to you and everyone else celebrating this
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Re: 2013 Year of the Snake 10 Feb 2013 03:21 #97269

Marianne-is-sewing OFFLINE Posts: 503 Thank you received: 78	Thank you, Renata, for the good wishes. Happy New Year to everybody who celebrates the Lunar New Year! Marianne
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