On Feb. 16, as the new noon begins a new month on the lunar calendar, the Chinese and many Asian people will celebrate the beginning of a new year.
For the Chinese, the movements of the moon across the sky also define their zodiac. Thus, instead of the dividing the sky into 12 sections based on the sun’s path through the constellations, the lunar zodiac divides the sky into 28 sections based on the movements of the moon against the stars. And, like its solar cousin, the…
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