Unlike Brazil, the Chinese New Year 2023 starts on February 3rd, close to midnight. This is due to the Chinese oriental calendar, which follows the movement patterns of the Sun and Moon.

It is important to remember that by the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year begins on February 3rd This is the calendar used as reference in Feng Shui and Ba Zi Chinese Astrology. According to the lunar calendar, Chinese New Year 2023 starts on January 22, which is when the popular Chinese New Year celebrations take place.

According to Chinese Oriental Astrology, in 2023 a new planetary energy will enter, demarcated by the characteristics of the sign of the Rabbit.

In this way, the Water element is added to the sign, with its Yin polarity, preponderant in its constitution.

And what does it all mean? That is what we will tell you in this text about Chinese New Year 2023. Enjoy your reading!

Yin Water Rabbit: Chinese New Year 2023

In this new year 2023, the energies of the Water Rabbit sign Yin come into play. The main characteristics that delimit this sign are:

• Diplomacy;
• Sensitivity;
• Indulgence;
• Creativity to deal with situations

Realize that all these characteristics are favorable to avoid unnecessary disputes and friction.

In the book Chinese Horoscopes Manual The influence of the Rabbit tends to spoil those who enjoy exaggerated comfort, thus undermining their efficiency and sense of duty," she says.

Then, these trends can also be reflected in the Chinese New Year 2023, committing a major slowdown from the year of the Tiger 2022. Therefore, the rules and ordinances will be more relaxed and the scenery, calmer.

This favors a pause to catch your breath and stimulate the perception of the new energetic moment.

In this way, the alignment between the external influences with our internal personal energy requires smoother, more attentive movements to take better advantage of this different dynamic.

The regency of the Water element

Under the rulership of the Water element with its Yin polarity, in Chinese New Year 2023, we will have communication as the focal point - as happened in 2022.

However, the difference is that the communicative relationships will be more directed toward the intimate aspects. Communication will be intrapersonal and more reflective of oneself.

This way, the meditative and self-knowledge processes will be more stimulated and activated in a natural and fluid way. This form reminds us of the movement of Water itself in its healthy aspect, with its wisdom to get around obstacles and adversities without hitting them head-on.

The attention is that this healthy balance of the Water movement, most of the time, reverberates around us. But if not, there is a tendency for the emotional aspects related to depression and isolation to happen more in this period.

The beginning of the Chinese New Year 2023

As we said in the opening of this text, the difference in date for determining the beginning of the new year is because the Chinese Eastern calendar is different from the Western calendar. Called the Gregorian calendar, it is not based on any astronomical or seasonal markers.

The Chinese Eastern calendar, on the other hand, considers the natural cycles and follows the movement patterns of the Sun and Moon.

Solar Calendar

It considers the translation movement of the Earth and its spin around the Sun. Its starting date has little variation, always happening on February 3rd, 4th, or 5th.

This calendar is used in Chinese Astrology called Ba Zi, a reference of analysis and predictions made in a study of the constitution of personal energy in a Chart.

In addition, it is also used for Feng Shui, an environmental harmonization technique employed by experts and researchers in this art, which can also be used to improve your financial results.

Lunar Calendar

The lunar calendar refers to the phases of the moon and looks for the New Moon closest to spring to start a new year, so its starting date is more flexible and varies between January 21 to February 21 (remembering that, being in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in China occurs between March and June).

The traditional Chinese New Year festivities use this reference. However, Chinese Astrology, known as Zi Wei and rich in metaphysical patterns, considers this calendar for its calculations and analyses also performed in Maps and studies.

Predictions for each sign in Chinese New Year 2023

If you don't know which one is yours, find out here according to your date of birth.

Mouse

Due to the intense presence of the Water element in your energy constitution, in 2023 the attention is for the emotional processes to be well cared for and structured, taking place in the most balanced way possible.

This is because the Water energy can trigger major slippages in this aspect, causing events with emotional intensity and causing both an excess of emotional pattern and a lack of it.

Care to be taken: Communication will be favored in this period, so take the opportunity to use it in a healthy way and in line with your feelings and emotions.

Ox (or Buffalo)

In the Chinese New Year 2023, unexpected events are bound to occur for you. The fluidity of the Water will bring a condition of movement in your terrain, which has always been more concrete and demarcated.

Care to be taken: The year will demand a power of resilience in handling situations, so take the opportunity to exercise the adaptation of a new format in the more structural areas of your life.

Tiger

Take advantage of the less intense and softer dynamics of the sign of the Rabbit to take a break from the almost natural rush of your daily life. It will be a period to recharge your energies, as long as you manage to pay attention to yourself and prioritize your choices.

Care to be taken: The Water energy will have the function of energetic nourishment for you, facilitating this process.

Rabbit

As this is the year of the Rabbit, all the characteristics already analyzed for the year will be more intensified for this native, reverberating more aspects that his energy brings. Everything will be identified in an easier and more accessible way for you, since the energies that will circulate will be similar to your own. This includes your daily life, your emotions, and even your inner values.

Care to be taken: Be careful that overconfidence does not facilitate stagnation and a stoppage of energy, because the dynamic will have a quieter mode. So use your innate creativity not to get complacent.

Dragon

The sign of the Dragon has characteristics that give it more extravagant movements, even if they are based on movements of stability. Thus, the transformation that the Water element offers will bring a period of possible changes for this native, who will undertake in a condition of renewal in many ways.

Care to be taken: Don't be radical in your actions and choices. Use your witty and restless nature to dive into this journey full of transformations that the year of the Water Rabbit will bring you in 2023.

Snake

Natives of this sign possess a lot of intelligence and wit to conduct life's occurrences. Therefore, in the Chinese New Year 2023, use the energy of the Fire element, which belongs to your personal energy constitution, and pay attention to insights from meditations.

Care to be taken: So take the opportunity to develop this innate ability, and establish an efficient internal communication to face challenges and doubts that may occur along the way.

Horse

It is possible that the characteristics of the Rabbit sign of Chinese New Year 2023 will balance some challenging aspects of the Horse sign, such as impulsiveness and aggressiveness. Try to reflect more before acting, as this condition may be facilitated.

Care to be taken: The Yin Water, preponderant in this year of the Rabbit, will favor a more introspective movement in your energy constitution. Allow more time to give your answers, so your actions will be more beneficial.

Bitch

The occurrences for the Goat native will be more focused on the internal emotional aspects related to their action and expression. This is because the intense characteristic that the sign brings is precisely the emotional presence in their events.

So, seek harmony between reason and emotion in your communication and in your choices. The idea is that action evolves with the same balance, without causing somatization in your body.

Care to be taken: However don't let false expectations bring you unnecessary annoyances. This can be the starting point for a disharmony in your emotional processes.

Monkey

For this sign, the Chinese New Year 2023, with the demand of the Water element, may unleash a greater sense of fatigue than in other years - something similar to 2022. However, if you know how to use fluidity and without rigidity, this feeling can be greatly minimized.

The movements that bring emotional stability to you this year are those based on trust, which emanate security and tranquility.

Care to be taken: Therefore, use your power of strategy to minimize unnecessary loss of energy, prioritizing your needs.

Rooster

The sign of the Rabbit can bring more gentleness and docility to your way of acting and relating to people, while the Water element can facilitate communication and make your way of commanding and controlling things more flexible.

Be careful not to be radical in your command and leadership relationships. This can bring imbalance in the way you conduct the realization of your goals, because there is a tendency to be too controlling.

Care to be taken: use your innate capacity for organization to direct this commanding energy with your daily personal tasks, but without the rigidity and demands that you can impose on yourself.

Puppy

In Chinese New Year 2023, the Pup native may feel that they are skating in unfamiliar territory by the excess of the Water element. Try not to fixate on one spot of ground and miss the chance to experience other places that can bring enormous satisfaction when enjoyed.

Care to be taken: Get out of your comfort zone and stability. Enjoy the flexible and fluid movements that the Water element can offer. Go with confidence, but open yourself to new experimentations, with the softness and calmness that the Rabbit offers.

Wild Boar (or Pork)

Recognizing external conditions as they are can help this native to better deal with challenging situations. Try to identify the movement that the Water element brings and see things as they are, not as you wish they were.

You will have more physical and emotional balance in this period when things are more transparent.

Care to be taken: Also work on your expression and adjust it so that you can communicate what you want and need in a more authentic and efficient way.

Get to know the basics of Eastern Chinese Astrology

Chinese Astrology focuses on signs named after 12 animals. The energy of each of these animals represents each year. After 12 years, the cycle repeats. The Chinese signs are:

• Mouse;
• Ox (or Buffalo);
• Tiger;
• Rabbit;
• Dragon;
• Serpent;
• Horse;
• Goat (or Ram);
• Monkey;
• Rooster;
• Puppy;
• Wild Boar (or Pork)

Western Astrology is probably more familiar to you. It uses monthly signs based on the 12 divisions of the zodiac:

• Aries
• Taurus
• Twins
• Cancer
• Lion
• Virgo
• Libra
• Scorpio
• Sagittarius
• Capricorn
• Aquarium
• Fish

Every astrological study has its archetypes for its interpretation and look at the world. In this aspect, Chinese Astrology considers the Five Elements, known from Traditional Chinese Medicine and constituents of all universal creation:

• Wood
• Fire
• Earth
• Metal
• Water

In addition, the combinations between them influence each sign. There are also the Yin and Yang polarities, adding more information in the interpretation of each sign and its energy constitution.

Understand More

Yin and Yang is a concept that comes from Taoism, a Chinese philosophical religion, and reflects the duality of things existing in the universe. In this case, two forces that are considered opposites, but that actually complement each other in their manifestation.

We can give the example of day as the Yang energy principle, vibrant and illuminated, and night as the Yin energy principle, introspective and dark. Yang is still characterized as an energy of activity and creation, while Yin is characterized as an energy of passivity and conservation.

This astrology analysis can be done for dates and times as well as for personal energetic constitution. Thus it is possible to make a study of Maps both of a desired period and of a person.

Besides predictions, it is possible to analyze personality tendencies, as well as to know the best way to conduct life events, keeping in balance and in tune with your internal energy. Emotional aspects are also described, evolving to the spiritual realm.