a friend of mine said, you're year of the pig... You'll never go starving. Either you're feeding yourself or someone is feeding you.. This could be true...

I'm a pisces/Pig...possibly naive..

The Rat year 2008 is not a good year for snakes: Rat is in the Water group. Snake and Horse are in the Fire group. Fire is afraid of Water. They said Horse will die after eating the waste of Rat. Weasel like Rat can fight and kill Snake.

The Pig unlike the other 11 signs is more compatible with most of the signs, the snake and pig can enjoy a friendship depending on the hour, ascendent, the four pillars and other aspects etc.

I find that many chinese astrologers focus on mundane fundamental astrology rather than esoteric astrology. I do appreciate Suzanne White's take on chinese astrology but for me it is still very fundamental even with her western/chinese double sign book. This site I find is authentic and presents a more in-depth analysis of chinese astrology chineseastrologyonline.com/2008.htm and also Raymond Lo who has written alot of books on Chinese Astrology, Feng Shui www.raymond-lo.com/.

Interesting though there are some pigs with snake in their astrology chart and some snakes with pig in their astrology chart.

Suzanne White presents the pig as naive but the chinese believe the pig cannot be fooled by any animal, thus it's reluctance to snakes, the pig often perceives the truth but does not want to think wrong of people, thus a pig knowing that a person is bad can either walk away from them or let them into their life.

The real thing that angers the pig, is that the pig will give a person a thousand chances after every wrong and some animals will take advantage of that, but like the bear, never push or corner a boar, the snake can be powerless to the wrath of the boar, the boar is the other side of the pig that is exposed when the pig is pushed to it's limits, and this also works in with the pig's western sign equivalent being scorpio and the snake's western sign being taurus, they are opposites, one key element of pig's anger is wrath which is the equivalent to the scorpio sting.

Unfortunately some western chinese astrologers have portrayed the pig as a docile naive creature who can die from it's anger (incidentally any sign can die from anger - dying from stress and/or anger is not sign associated!).

The pig can be still and let the snake coil it's self around it but the boar in a state of anger, is not still and allows no animal to come near it without killing it first. The chinese for 100 of years have been well aware that the boar is a dangerous animal if provoked.

I am just writing this so people do not become to comfortable with the pig being friendly, charitable, docile and naive because you may be shocked if you get the other side of them and both snake and pig have negative traits and one of snake's is fickleness which it cannot afford to display around an angry boar, even though the pig will be aware of this and treat the snakes's fickleness like other chinese animals's negative traits with a philosophical perspective that all these negative trait's are challenges of for us all including the pig itself, so the passiveness of the pig is not naivety it is caring and wisdom. Pigs are too humble to throw their depth of understanding in your face........the pig is emotionally sophisticated when balanced like the snake.

The pig in the earth rat year 2008 is fortunate in romance as long as it uses it's innate wisdom in situations and acts upon it's intuition, pigs can say a gentle 'no' and not let the boar go to war in relationships this year.

Signs born in a metal year have a much easier time in the earth rat year 2008, than any of the other elements, fire, water, wood and earth.
Metal pigs will have a better time this year than last year, some chinese astrologers have predicted.