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2023 Chinese Zodiac Predictions - Water Rabbit [Master Tsai]

2023 Chinese Zodiac Rabbit New Year and Meaning

2023 is the year of the Water Rabbit. The 2023 Chinese New Year Day is on Sunday, January 22, 2023. That is the 4720th Chinese year. The first day of the Chinese astrological year is also the first day of Tiger Month. The first day of the Water Rabbit is February 4, 2023. If a baby was born before February 4, then the baby's Chinese Zodiac sign is the Tiger, not the Rabbit. February 5, 2023, is the Chinese Lantern Festival.

Before reading 2023 Chinese Zodiac Predictions, you have to know what your Chinese animal sign in Chinese astrology is. Your Chinese zodiac sign is not determined by Chinese New Year's Day. The Chinese New Year is based on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The Chinese Zodiac uses the Chinese Stem-Branch calendar, which is a solar calendar. To find your correct Chinese zodiac sign using your birthday, please visit our Verify Your Chinese Zodiac Sign page.

2023 is the Yin-Water Rabbit year. Yin-Water is connected to rain, cold water, ponds, or brooks. According to the Chinese Five Elements, the color of Water is associated with black. Therefore, 2023 is also called the Year of the Black Rabbit. The zodiac sign of 2023 is rabbits in the rain or rabbits playing around the pond. Rabbits are herbivores and they like to eat tender plants like grass, flowers, leaves, or weeds. Therefore, the Rabbit is associated with the Yin-Wood. Rain can wash the tender plant. But heavy rain could damage the flowers and leaves. Grass and vines don't like the season of winter. That means Rabbit doesn't like the cold water.

According to the characteristics of the Wood Element, Rabbit is kind, steady, compassionate, and gentle. Rabbits flee away swiftly when feeling unsafe. Rabbit's personalities are cautious, nimble, shy, alert, and conservative. Grasses, weeds, and vines can spread over the land quickly. Rabbits have amazing fertility and can reproduce the next generation very quickly. Rabbits are gregarious. The characteristics of a Rabbit are creative, adaptable, changeable, friendly, popular, emotional, and harmonious.

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The Revelation of the Water Rabbit

March is Rabbit Month, the middle of spring. The Yin-Water of 2023 is the rain of the spring, which can clean and beautify the Yin-Wood of Rabbit. Spring flowers bring scent and color to the garden. People pay attention to them. 2022 was the Year of the Water Tiger, a good year to start a new plan, career, or business. If you are working on a project, you should prepare some things to show people your progress in 2023. When you talk, people listen. The Yin-Wood's widespread is connected to your performance, popularity, talent, achievement, and reputation.

Water is the mother element of Wood. Therefore, the major energy of the Five Elements is Wood in 2023. Yin-Wood grows well in the spring. But it might wither, dry up, and die in the winter. Therefore, if you plan to do something in 2023, then you should implement it as soon as possible. The energy of Wood will weaken in the cold winter.

The Water Rabbit is a sign of Yin-Water on the top of the Yin-Wood of the Rabbit. In most cases, Wood can float on top of the water. That implies Wood doesn't like the protection from parents. If Yin-Water is the heavy rain, then the Yin-Wood could float away with the rainwater. That's a sign of leaving your hometown.

The Yin-Wood of the Rabbit is grass. The Yang-Wood of the Tiger is a tall tree. A hurricane could root out a tall tree. A tall tree could be chopped to make furniture. But the grass can survive on the ground.

A Faster Approach to Success

The Yin-Wood of the Rabbit is grass, vine, or small plants. They can not grow too tall. However, vines can climb on trees or walls to reach the top. That implies Rabbit needs someone's help to become an outstanding leader. The Tiger contains the Yang-Wood, which is a tall tree. The Dog and Dragon contain Yang-Earth, which is a tall wall. Therefore, The Rabbit needs a Tiger, Dog, or Dragon for speedy success.

13 Chinese Lunar Months in 2023

In 2023, there will be 13 Chinese Lunar Months.. The total of the lunar days is 384. The Chinese New Year Day is January 22, 2023, and the Chinese New Year Day of the Dragon is February 10, 2024. This is because 2023 has two lunar second months. The second lunar month starts on February 20, 2023, and the leap second lunar month starts on March 22, 2023. The total number of days in the second lunar month is 59.

An average lunar month lasts 29.53 days. The total of 12 lunar months is 354.36 days. The solar year is about 365.25 days a year. It's about 10.89 days' difference in a year. Therefore, the Chinese Lunar Calendar will add an extra lunar month about every three years. It's a little bit complicated. If you want to know the explanation, please read The Theory of the Chinese Lunar Calendar.

The thirteen lunar months of 2023 will impact the usage of the Chinese Baby Gender Predictor for women planning to have a desired baby gender before pregnancy. This is because the table of the Chinese Baby Gender Prediction Chart has only 12 lunar months. Since the confusion of the baby gender chart, we have a Revised Chinese Baby Gender Calendar to help people choose the next baby gender. The Chinese astrology calendar and Chinese zodiac signs are derived from the solar calendar. Therefore, there is no impact from the extra lunar month.

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Chinese Horoscope is a Yin Yang Five Element theory, not only the relationships of the zodiac animal signs. If you know your birth time, then you can have your complete Chinese astrology birth chart, your Lucky Element, and the Rise & Fall Life Chart. The Lucky Element is the secret code to help people to live luckier, wealthier, healthier, happier, and longer. If you don't know your Lucky Element today, then you return from the treasure mountain empty-handed.

The professional Chinese fortunetellers use an even more detailed 10-God Chinese Zodiac Birth Chart. It's easier to know what and when will happen and what the result will be.

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By Master Allen Tsai on November 08, 2022

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