Year of the Boar

This Sunday is the Lunar New Year, or what used to be commonly known as Chinese New Year. The New Year will be a year of the boar. I was born in 1971 under another year of the boar. Here's some info Gordon provided on the subject:

In China, the Boar ( 豬 ) is associated with fertility and virility. To bear children in the year of the pig is considered very fortunate, for they will be happy and honest.

You are born under the element of metal: Metal, or gold, is one of the five elements of Chinese alchemy. The archetypal metal is silver. Metal is associated with the west and autumn, the planet Venus and the colour white. It is believed to govern the lungs. It is associated with organization and stability.

Other qualities associated with metal are unyieldingness, persistence, strength and determination. The metal person is forceful and set in their ways as metal is very strong, but they are self-reliant and enjoy the good things in life. The element metal plays an important role in Chinese Astrology and feng shui, the Chinese form of geomancy.