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Chinese astrology is fascinating because it's so different from the Western kind.

No matched pairs of Jupiter/Saturn and Mars/Venus with Mercury as a mediator. Instead, there's a kind of rock-paper-scissors circle of the five elements, where Water (Mercury) makes Wood (Jupiter) grow but puts out Fire (Mars).

There's gotta be some fun Theosophical papers about this.

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