What is a personal Chinese zodiac year?
When one’s Chinese zodiac matches the zodiac of the year, they will be in their personal Chinese zodiac year. For example, if one was born in the year of the Tiger, then 2022 (the year of Tiger) is their personal Chinese zodiac year. Chinese folklore says that people in their personal Chinese zodiac year can expect many obstacles.
What can your personal Chinese zodiac year bring?
People going through their personal Chinese zodiac year face conflicts, disasters, obstacles, and career setbacks. At worst, they may suffer health issues that put their lives in a critical situation. What should they do to prevent all this? To make sure we get through our personal Chinese zodiac year unscathed, we need Heaven’s help. With the buddhas and bodhisattvas’ auspicious blessings, we will be able to strengthen our physical and mental energy to brace ourselves for all obstacles to come.
Three Ways to Stay Safe Throughout your Personal
Chinese Zodiac Year
Personal Chinese zodiac years are usually associated with inauspiciousness and bad luck. How do we get through them safely and make sure things go our way? Let’s look at THREE suggestions from Grandmaster JinBodhi:
1. Be extremely careful
One must be more careful throughout their personal Chinese zodiac year, especially when making significant decisions involving money. There are three ways in which we can be more careful:
→ Do not be greedy; when you are not taking risks, you will not lose money.
→ Mind your language; speak kindly and not harshly to others and more opportunities will come your way.
→ Chant more; chanting allows you to connect with the buddhas and bodhisattvas to obtain their auspicious blessings.
2. Act and think kindness and compassion
During the Lunar New Year, the heavenly beings descend from Heaven to give their blessings of health, wealth, marriage, and academic grades to people who have done many good deeds and accumulated merits. This is a good reason to accumulate more merits by doing more good deeds.
3. Light offerings to the buddhas and bodhisattvas
According to the sutras, those who offer lights to the buddhas or bodhisattvas shall be blessed with immeasurable merits in return. During the Lunar New year season, offer lights for six to eight days and reap auspicious blessings for not only yourself, but also for your family and future generations.
Light Offerings for your Personal Chinese Zodiac Year
Light offerings during the Lunar New Year can be done by anyone, not just those in their personal Chinese zodiac year. Offering lights helps to gain blessings such as good health, wealth, marriage, and academic grades. You can offer the lights for yourself or on behalf of your friends and relatives.
1. Light offerings for yourself
Light offerings during the Lunar New Year can be done by anyone, not just those in their personal Chinese zodiac year. Offering lights helps to gain blessings such as good health, wealth, marriage, and academic grades. You can offer the lights for yourself or on behalf of your friends and relatives.
2. Light offerings on behalf of your parents and children
You can offer lights on behalf of your parents and children so that they receive blessings from the buddhas and bodhisattvas. You may wish for good health and longevity for your parents and your children. You may wish for your children to stay on the path of righteousness and have wisdom and concentration for their studies. By offering lights in front of the buddhas and bodhisattvas, your children can get the guidance from the Buddha light and therefore quickly develop their wisdom, spirituality, and ability to see through matters, reaching full maturity sooner.
3. Light offerings on behalf of your friends
You may also offer lights on behalf of your friends whether they are trying to get through their personal Chinese zodiac year or not. Or you may also do it on behalf of all sentient beings in this world and wish for them to receive auspiciousness, health, wisdom, peace, etc. Spread positive energy throughout the world and show your love to friends and relatives by offering lights.
Light offerings during significant holidays are extremely auspicious. We wish you auspicious blessings and protection from the buddhas and bodhisattvas through your sincerity and reverence.
Practice Kindness and Receive Blessings from the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
Whether you are trying to get through your personal Chinese zodiac year or not, you may want to set a goal to accomplish during this Lunar New Year, that is, be a kind person who practices kindness in thought, word, and action; and be a person who is tolerant and forgiving so that you and your future generations are auspiciously blessed. By practicing kindness, you will have a successful academic performance or successful career, and your family will be blessed with happiness and joy! We wish that the buddhas and deities protect and bless everyone with auspiciousness, peace and good health throughout the year of the Tiger!
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