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According to one legend, there is a reason for the order of the animals in the cycle. A race was held to cross a great river, and the order of the animals in the cycle was based upon their order in finishing the race. In this story, the snake compensated for not being the best swimmer by hitching a hidden ride on the Horse's hoof. When the horse was about to cross the finish line, the snake jumped out, scaring the horse, and thus edging it out for sixth place. The same twelve animals are also used to symbolize the cycle of hours in the day, each being associated with a two-hour time period. The hour of the snake is 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., the time when the Sun warms up the Earth, and snakes are said to slither out of their holes. The month of the snake is the 4th month of the Chinese lunar calendar and it usually falls within the months of May through June depending on the Chinese to Gregorian calendar conversion. The reason the animal signs are referred to as zodiacal is that one's personality is said to be influenced by the animal signs ruling the time of birth, together with elemental aspects of the animal signs within the sexagenary cycle. Similarly, the year governed by a particular animal sign is supposed to be characterized by it, with the effects particularly strong for people who were born in any year governed by the same animal sign. In our western Christian religion, the snake is a symbol of the devil. Please read Genesis 3 in the Bible. By the way, I was born end of May

Happy Lunar New Year to all celebrating! 🧧🐉 As the Chinese market grows, Lunar New Year greetings are becoming more common across industries. But how can businesses craft messages that are both culturally respectful and resonate with a diverse audience? Here are some key insights: 🎯 Align with Your Brand – Craft a unique greeting that goes beyond generic designs. Aim to leave a lasting impression tailored to your business and audience. 🔍 Know the Culture – Collaborate with your team to gain cultural insights and avoid taboos related to wording, colors, and gift-giving traditions. ✨ Get Inspired – Lunar New Year symbolizes fresh beginnings and hope. How can the zodiac animal's traits align with your brand values to inspire your audience? 🌏 Be Inclusive & Sensitive – Lunar New Year is celebrated across cultures, beyond China. Be mindful of traditional vs. simplified Chinese, and understand the diverse celebrations in countries like Korea and Vietnam. Here is the 2025 Lunar New Year post I created lately. How is your brand celebrating the season? Let’s exchange ideas—drop your thoughts below!

Today is Lunar New Year’s Eve, a day of renewal, reflection and rejuvenation of family bonds. Tomorrow, we wave goodbye to the old year and usher in a new journey with the golden snake. Symbolising wisdom and transformation, the Snake has a profound place in Chinese culture, being one of its oldest sigils and appearing in Classic of Mountains and Seas on the banners of ancient tribal clans. Li Zehou writes in The Path of Beauty about how the Snake sigil has been combined with the unique features of other animals, representing the consolidation and creation of Chineseness in ancient China. Similarly, the Snake represents the capacity for strategic growth today. We wish you good health, happiness, well-being in the New Year, and having the wisdom of the snake.

#Mid_Autumn_Festival, also known as the #Moon_Festival, is the second most important traditional holiday in China, following the Lunar New Year. Celebrated on the Aug. 15 of the lunar calendar, this festival falls when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, symbolizing reunion and harmony. Families gather to share mooncakes, admire the full moon, and express good wishes for prosperity and happiness. The festival is also rich in mythology. One of the most famous legends tells of a jade rabbit that lives on the moon, diligently pounding herbs for the gods. Another popular story speaks of a giant osmanthus tree that grows on the moon, said to be continually chopped down but never fully felled. These mythical elements add a sense of wonder to the festival and are deeply rooted in Chinese culture. The Mid-Autumn Festival brings people together in celebration of unity and the beauty of the natural world. #China #Chinese_traditional_culture

Gong xi fa cai! May the year of the Snake bring abundance of happiness and success in your life! Heartened to see the global embrace of cultural festivities.

Lunar New Year also goes by the names Chinese New Year or Spring Festival for those with other Asian heritage. This week's new moon will signal the beginning of the Lunar New Year, with 2025 being the Year of the Snake. It takes over the Year of the Dragon in 2024 and precedes the Year of the Horse in 2026. Instead of counting years in infinite sequence, years have these names that are repeated every 60 years, corresponding to five repeats of the Chinese zodiac cycle of 12 animals. Those born in the Year of the Snake are said to be have keen insight and extraordinary intelligence. 🐍 Some of the most common celebrations during the Lunar New Year festival include parties, firecrackers, and the famous lion dance, familiar to Western audiences. Many enjoy feasts with a spread of symbolic dishes that bring good luck and fortune. You'll see a lot of the red colour, symbolizing good luck and prosperity in Chinese and other East Asian cultures. 🧧

Happy Lunar New Year to all in my network that celebrates this important and momentous festival. As we welcome the Year of the Snake, I wish you and your loved ones a year filled with prosperity, good health, wealth and abundance. And if you want to learn some fun facts about this festival, it is captured in the carousel below! I am curious to know: What is your favourite Lunar New Year tradition and how are you planning to celebrate this year? Got a question about Lunar New Year? Let me know in the comments down below! #LNY #newyear #prosperity #celebration #lunar #diversity

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~SONG OF THE SKY BISON~ Boozhoo! Hello! Biindigen miinawaa, welcome back in my Storytelling Lodge, where there is love and learning! Let's talk space music today. It is a popular misconception that there is no sound in space, which originates from the fact that space is a vacuum, and there is no medium in space for soundwaves to move through. A galaxy cluster, on the other hand, has copious amounts of gas that envelop the hundreds or even thousands of galaxies within it, providing a medium for the sound waves to travel. One of these clusters is the Mashkode Bizhiki, or Bison. NASA recently "discovered" that there is "mysterious, eerie-sounding music" coming from within the makade-waanikaan (black hole). This black hole sits at the center of the Mashkode Bizhiki. https://lnkd.in/gut3pZdk But it is no mystery at all. It is the Buffalo grandfathers sharing their songs with us. Mashkode-bizhiki is translated into English as the Bison. This is the constellation in the northern sky known as Perseus on the Western sky charts. In the winter, the Bison Star can be easily seen, but in the summer she is barely visible because she is on Earth, feeding and helping the Anishinaabeg – who, by the way, do not have a bison clan. How are the different star formations connected in our perception of the star world? Did our ancestors believe that there is a connection between, let's say, the bison and the sweat lodge on earth, and – as a consequence – the bison and the sweat lodge in the night sky? If so, how are they related to the Bagonegiizhik, that hole in the sky called "Pleiades" on Western star maps? To find out, let's first take a look at the the Madoodoowasiniig, or "Stones of the Sweat Lodge" – which, in our cosmology, are part of the Madoodiswan, the Sweat Lodge star formation called Corona Borealis on Western star maps. These stars can be viewed in a circular pattern with the door of the sweat lodge opening to the north/northeast. Madoodoowasiniig rise in the northeast sky in March, are directly overhead during the early evenings of June, and disappear on the horizon in September. The Madoodiswan (Corona Borealis) and Bagonegiizhig (Pleiades) constellations trade places in the sky after about 12 hours' time. But how then, you may wonder, are the Shaking Tent, the Hole in the Sky, and the Bison related? The answer lies in the ancient Anishinaabe belief that the seven stars of the Sweat Lodge constellation represent the seven poles used in the construction of the lodge that hosts our Shaking Tent ceremony. A long, long time ago, the medicine men and women of the Shaking Tent appointed the bison as their guardian. In the same context, the shaking tent acts as a spiritual doorway, similar to the spiritual doorway that is the Bagonegiizhig. This moon, the Perseid meteor shower is extremely active. The Perseid meteor shower, commonly known as the Perseids but called mashkode bizhiki jiingwanan in

Gong xi fa cai and Kung hei fat choi