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What passport you got? British, Canadian, American, Australian or New zealander and your'e made. Any other, tricky.... but not impossible. What's your native language? You might be able to teach that. Even if your English accent is a lil bit off they won't know unless another foreigner tells them. They will only look at the passport, you can get away with the rest. Certificates make life a bit easier, but honestly, it's so in demand they will over look it and give a little bit of special money to make sure the visa goes through. Might be a bit more difficult for you with a wife and kid though.... that's 3 visas as opposed to one. Passport is king. Trust me on that. The rest is, as the Chinese say 'negotiable'(their favorite word.... be careful, their damn good at it)

I read this thread yesterday and went to the link that Pietro posted, but I had no feelings one way or another. And any banning was way before my time. But having read the samples on this thread I gotta say he's funny and informative.... real funny. That gets my vote 'fo sure mo fo

If memory serves me correctly(and it often doesn't) 42 is the meaning of life from 'life, the universe and everything' Douglas Adams(Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy)as generated by the universal super computer. Actually it may be 62, I've mixed this one up before.

Lol, that's kind of funny, you know 'Chuang Shang de Gong Fu' simply means 'Bed on skills' or in grammatically correct English 'On the bed skills'. This phrase is used as a joke in China, I myself have used this phrase as a joke with some Chinese girls, it always gets a laugh!!! If you used this phrase in China you will get a laugh, that's for sure, but they will simply think your mean Daojiao(Taoism)or some other derivative. I have no idea if it's real or not but that phrase is absolutely used as a joke. 'Ni yao kan wo de chaung shang de gong fu ma?' : 'Would you like to see my bedroom skills?' Maybe you can laugh the girl into bed with that line.

Capital.... I think your question is one that can/should be answered on a more mundane level. Yes, there are branches of astrology that will tell you 'this is a good time to do this or that', but in my opinion it's very simple: do what you want, when you want! I don't deal with progressive astrology, that's not to say there aren't influences, it's just to say why oh why would you give your own decision making over to it. I don't. Capital, just ask yourself a simple question: what do you WANT to do? One does not preclude the other man. If you fancy a year of travel before college, then go for it, you can still attend college without much detriment after in my view, or if you wanna attend college straight away, do so, you can take a gap year later. Only YOU know what's best for you. No one else. Don't give your power away to anything/anyone. This link will be much more useful to you than any astrology!!!! http://www.couchsurfing.org/

Ya, the cancerian thing, clannish. Outer hard shell protecting the inner part. I will say Capital that if you do choose to work in the psychiatric field you would be most successful, Jupiter is in the 12th house, the house that rules nut houses ..haha, I'm being silly with my words, psychiatric hospitals. Jupiter rules luck and wealth(amongst other things), also it is the traditional ruler of pisces(before the discovery of neptune)and pisces is 12th house similar, and also, as it happens your midheaven, the midheaven in my opinion relates to career path, and it is also in pisces. Many things kind of link up to that. Also Pluto has an angle to jupiter in the 12th, pluto is the 'ruler' of mental breakdown and aspects Jupiter in the 12th(mental institutions), whereas the actual ongoing state of being er.... 'crazy' is more closely related to neptune/pisces. The angle was a positive one which led me to believe it's not you who will experience a breakdown. There are quite a few other things related to it, but to be frank there comes a point where I find it rather difficult to articulate it as one cohesive explanation due to this effecting that and another angle effecting another...... and so on. I should say Capital if you're studying engineering or whatever else and not psychiatry don't just suddenly chuck it in cos I've said this, I'm no career advisor nor am I a professional astrologer, and neither do I know you better than you know yourself and your own needs. A chart is just an indication of strengths and possibilities. In my experience anyway.

They'd be called 'Vajralis' as a collective consciousness then wouldn't they. I quite like that name. I'm not sure either of them would though. edit: I've just noticed that Ralis is SILAR backwards.... ..... it's irrefutable evidence that Ralis is in fact from the tv show hero's and is stealing everyones 'superpowers' on this site..... Actually I'm not so sure if Silar is with an 'a' or an 'e' now, but lets roll with it anyway.

Capital... Let me start of with the ascendant, the ascendant is kind of the mask you show people, generally it would be a persons first impression of you. Some astrologers relate this to an actual effect on the personality, I only think it acts as kind of a filter for all the other energies/characteristics within the chart. After knowing someone for sometime the ascendant kind of disappears and its filtering effect is greatly reduced as one grows older. In any case yours is in Cancer, traditionally astrologers would have told you that you have a kind of round face, like the moon!(a full one mind you), and possibly your cheeks(the ones on ya face)may be a bit chubby. If your female, a Cancerian ascendant would mean you have a nice rack(traditionally speaking of course).... that's the general interpretation anyway. I wont go into how it's supposed to effect the personality, because honestly I don't think it does too much, save for when you meet new people. In cancers case when you meet knew people from outside of the usual group you are perhaps more wary than friendly, waiting for a bit of time until you work out what they are really like. The moon and the sun are just about sextile(depending on which form of astrology you follow), within 4 degrees of the 30 degrees sextile influence, which is good enough for me. They are in Taurus and Aries respectively, both what would be considered very 'honest' signs, therefore I would say you should be, for the most part, very honest, not out of a sense of morality necessarily, but more out of a 'can't be bothered to lie about it' sense, also Mercury is in Aries which futher leads to that conclusion. Taurus is your moon sign, which represents your inner personality, steady. stable, sensual and so on, so emotionally you seek stability within an emotional relationship; the moon used to the actual personality read out astrologers used to give before the advent of 'horoscopes' in newspapers, but due to the fact that the moon changes every 2 and a half days they realized it was impractical to print the moon position charts everyday and so the sun sign kind of became the be all and end all, but it wasn't traditionally so. The sun sign actually represents what you are becoming in this life, aiming for I suppose would be more correct. In any case, I digress, The sextile influence of your moon and sun sign is supposed to give you a nice balance between your emotional nature and your personality(sun). I would say though that Taurus being a fixed sign and Aries being a rather headstrong sign may well lead you to being rather stubborn and self opinionated at times, but not unpleasant, unless your p*ssed off, then verbally you may well be(argument for arguments sake may also be part of you). The sun is in the 10th house, which is the house of social status/career, therefore this would mean you are very ambitious, not a bit, but very, this is also added to by the strength of the Arien nature on the 10th house. You expect seriously great achievements from this life. The 10th house also relates to restriction though(Saturn ruler), the ruler of the tenth house(Saturn)is in its home sign of Capricorn in the 7th house, meaning what ever you achieve will involve a lot of hard work and most success will come later in life rather than earlier, you may even find a partner will be very important to you in realizing your ambitions. Partner could be business and/or romantic. Venus, Mars in Aquarius, you're attracted to nutters..... sorry, weird and/or unusual people, but your romantic relationships may be marked with a certain amount of coolness, this however is kind of balanced with the Arien and Taureun aspects. Having said that Saturn in the 7th in Capricorn would imply that in a serious relationship you would choose someone down to earth, and as ambitious as you are. These two planets in aquarius would also lead to a somewhat humanitarian aspect to your character. Ah, I just noticed also they are both in the wonderful 8th house..... you be sex mad...and potentially real good at it too. However Aquarius, is also the sign of the 'perverse' so...be careful no mice! I would also suggest that it is highly likely you wish to use your interest/understanding of the esoteric for humanitarian purposes(esoteric/occult 8th house -Aquarius/Humanitarian). I'm looking at some of the angles Capital but frankly if I get started explaining them I'm gonna be here all night. But I do wanna ask you a question, more for my own understanding than anything else, and I may be way off here, but I'm just kind of practicing a bit.... Do you or have you ever had the ambition or inclination to be a doctor, more particularly a surgeon or psychiatrist? I'm NOT saying you should by the way, I'm just reading a few different things and putting them together and I'm wondering if I'm right or wrong. Creation.... the chart is gone, and I only briefly looked at it. You can pm the link to me if you like.

This role play is shit Better to have banged a nurse Where's my stethascope

oh guys, ur proving most distracting to me, I'm supposed to be working to hit a deadline but frankly this is much more interesting and keeps dragging me back. Astro.com is nice cos it does an interpretation of some of the aspects and houses and in relation to each other which some of the other ones don't, but it's not complete. Yes, mercury should be there(is there I should say). Go to this one instead creation and generate a chart for me, thats all I need to see: http://alabe.com/freechart/ Give me a day or so cos really I'm busy, I'll come back and find the thread. And creation..... everyone thinks they are complicated and made up of opposites. It's called thinking too much Anyway, I'll check it out in a day or so.

Your ascendant and the house positions and midheaven are maybes, and therefore cannot really be applied unless by luck that fits your birth time. So they cannot and should not be interpreted. The Leo part and especially mars in Leo would mean you have a hot temper, and should by rights be very self expressive, possibly being very interested in creativity in one form or another, however, you could find that interpretation in any dime store astrology book on Leo. Actually having mars and the sun in Leo would often mean you actually having difficulty not expressing yourself(this is a polite way of saying you have difficulty shutting up, trust me, I've know a few with this position). However you do have Venus in Virgo which may offset it to some degree as Virgo is a somewhat shy sign. Venus in Virgo should supposedly mean you're picky where choosing a partner is concerned, at least a long term serious one, and it's unlikely you would be satisfied with any for long and they would more than likely get p*ssed off with you as your highly likely to criticize them, seeking perfection in a mate(virgo/criticism/perfection)..... this may be offset with the mercury position, but you have not stated what that is so I cannot say. Venus is in an earth sign and also related to the arts so the Leo creativity should have found some kind of 'physical' outlet by now, especially as mars(the planet of action)is also positioned in Leo(creativity). Your moon position is not necessarily certain either as the moon changes position every 2 and a half days, and you didn't put the degrees the moon was positioned in Cancer. So it may be Gemini or Leo also.

I don't mean to contradict your teacher Yoda, but with respect, there is a sun in what you call the yin dimension, if by yin dimension you mean the inner counterpart of this one. There couldn't not be as everything outer has an inner double so to speak. I have seen/felt it on my travels as ridiculous as that may sound. I should point out that it is somewhat different to our physical sun in that it is a body/intelligence of energy that provides light/love/warmth to the inner planes. Within it, if you can access it, is information related to humanity and physical life, and probably a lot of other stuff I'm not aware of. I will say there are other dimensions where that energy/light barely reach though, so perhaps that is what your teacher speaks of. The 'sun' is absolutely there though, perhaps an analogy would be if you are in your house you could neither see or feel directly, the sun. So, some dimensions are like that, but there are so many of those...... so so many..... As for jobs there I have no idea, I have trouble enough doing the one I've got here! Getting up in the morning has never been a strong point of mine

There we go, Libra/pluto type...behold........ THE holy grail of Blow Job types.

Vortexs' answer was the most complete. I will say though that it also depends on what ethnic Chinese group has built up in some places also. There are 55 minor groups and plus the dominant han. I always mix it up with 54 though......cos I'm thinking of Heinz baked beens 54 varieties!! hahahaa

Oh man........ so you mean to tell me I've been having sex with a gay man inside a womans body!!!! Now I know why a few people I have met have said 'you can't beat a ladyboy', still, I'm sticking with the Librans! If female Librans are gender confused I say "let them be"!!! True that.... but don't worry Lino, most are pretty hot, venus goddess of beauty and all..... I promise you, you can't see the gay man trapped inside the body!!!! However I'm gonna have to be careful what I think the next time I get oral fixation! ohhhh.... maybe I need to extend my research! I would wager though you have scorpio/pluto or the 8th house prominent, what with the sex thing and your attraction to the mysteries. Maybe there is a hidden 'holy blow job grail' aspect that hasn't been identified yet. Further research is most definitely in order!!!

Ya, they are cordial that's true. If you live here for sometime and depending which part of China you live, you may feel the effects though. One American I knew was so tired of hearing complaints about America that he started saying he was from Europe I was once advised by someone Chinese that instead of saying I was English I should say I'm German!!! German!!! I'm not gonna bring up a couple of world wars but I'm pretty sure we didn't start those. If the truth be known the Chinese love America..... they just wish it was their country...haha, simple jealousy, their always comparing themselves to America. Mao actually did like the Americans due to the Americans actually helping the Chinese during the second world war, although he kept up the pretence and for ideological reasons(?)continued to 'educate' the people against the west. But ya, your're right....England should be in second place at least....still I for one am not complaining! We just follow behind you guys these days and let you take the flak, "oh look, we're in Iraq, darn those yanks, there always getting us involved in stuff we don't wanna be involved in.....we'res our cut of the oil by the way?" .

Me either brother! Me either!

Ya, the 'mei' from mei guo(America)does mean that Yoda but it's only because it sounds the same as the middle part of America to them, so they translated it to that as a sound that was to them somewhat similar. Japanese are the most hated with Americans second on the list, sorry to tell you that. If it's any consolation their not so kean on the English either bearing in mind we apparently burned down their summer palace and stole lots of stuff... and not to forget Hong Kong too. England is called 'Ying Guo' the sound related to England being similar to 'ying'. 'Ying' means 'hero', but I can assure you they certainly don't consider us heroic. We're third on the list.

I should warn you before you read this that my post will go from reasonable to crass..... but...will remain on topic to some degree Years ago I studied astrology(western), self taught I should say, I taught myself how to cast a chart from the birth time and interpret it based on the results. There was a clear correlation between certain characteristics in people and their birth data, having said that, it could be put down to being subjective also. The mind see's what it wants to see sometimes, that is also true....in my experience anyway. As for interpretations of progressions(predictive astrology)I never went too deep into that, but it does show possible energies involved in a persons life at certain times, and I will say there is an uncanny correlation with certain aspects and people showing up in your life that, sometimes, exactly represent the archetype that is strongly aspected. Syncronicity? Possibly.... but then we have to get into what exactly is fueling syncronicity. Now for the somewhat crass... feel free to stop reading here(I know you wont ). From a more down to earth view point I have found that the best lovers in the bedroom department are absolutely Librans.... and this comes from my own in-depth study with blinds and and controls I'm not joking actually. I have 'done' the zodiac sorry. By rights it should be Scorpio, yet I have found they have way too much self repression going on(pluto)to really let rip. Venus is the planet of the 'love arts' after all. BUT I should add...... if you can find a Libran with scorpio/pluto or the 8th house prominent then oh my God your in for something amazing....I'm talking 'porn star'(I did tell you it would go crass). I can only comment on the female Librans, someone else is gonna have to do the study for the males, it's just not my bag. I would like to add one further point, perhaps even more crass....but...I might add, still related(to some degree)to the topic under discussion, Libran females often have an oral fixation...... by that I mean...... do I really need to explain...well....I'm gonna..... in my experience no other can seriously get off on it.... giving I mean...... all of the ones I've known anyway I did warn you it would go crass.... I apologise... but... this is a gem I have 'gleaned' from looking into astrology from a somewhat 'deeper' level, there are others, but definitely not as interesting(in my opinion)as that one. Use the information 'wisely', get some birthdates and an ephemeris and go hunting! Libra with Scorpio/pluto 8th house prominent. You'll thank me for it one day

This is possibly the most ridiculous thing I've seen all day, apart from when I looked in the mirror this morning. http://www.toastwar.com It's hardly related to the tao, but the first three letters are the same.... all be it in a different order.

This won't really help further the discussion, but I just can't resist. What a writer. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath His mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and incarnation was complete. F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

I think all you have said is very true. In the east the whole romance angle is not really valued that much. However I will say that due to western influence individual females are considering it more and more these days. But when it does come down to the actual marriage the families will suggest otherwise. This creates a specific problem of sadness and regret, simply because of not having had the right to choose. It was I that mentioned the point of 'the one that got away'. However I would like to state something else. I have had one relationship that went beyond the normal psychological reactions to some degree. I was with someone for some time that had a very unusual connection to me, I can only describe it as a form of tele-empathy... as in what I felt she felt, and what she felt I felt. We had both confirmed this many times. I can't exactly describe the feeling..... all I can say is it went beyond anything I'd ever experienced before... some may say I'm romantisizing, and I wouldn't blame them, but I know the difference. Feelings are transfered all the time, but, sometimes a certain someone comes along and for whatever reason, karmic(?), vibratory simularity(?)and literally merges with you. How can you find that? No idea.... but I recommend you don't find it, as part of finding it also seems to entail losing it..... and no one will ever be the same again.... and of course, they.... become the one that got away...haha.... circles within circles.

Chinese people 'meditating'. http://www.sleepingchinese.com The police are especially good at 'meditating'.

Not. When your at a buffet and it's all you can eat, that's what you do, eat all you can and try all the dishes. It's never ending, it doesn't equal love. Actually you would have been better off not having had all the chances and simply finding one person...... but alas..... so many pretty girls.... and so many chances..... yet so little love. Even when they truly love you that love becomes meaningless due to it now having become common place. Money and security doesn't equal love, but then again it does sometimes. It simply the conditioning in society through the media and culture that women react to, in the same way men do in fact. It's not their fault. If you can combine the alpha male and Mr success they will fall all over you. Sad but true. The truly sad thing is you won't find love by having changed yourself to be more attractive to women. You'll get a lot of sex that's for sure .... but there will be no depth, why would there be when ..... here comes another pretty one.... she must be 'the one'. The only 'one' there is, is 'the one that gets away'. She was/is the one because she got away, had you kept her/him reality would have reared it's ugly head, and she/he would have ceased to be 'the one' just like all the others did. The only 'perfect' love you can ever really have is the love you never had and/or lost or love developed withing yourself... cos it's all you anyway, they were only ever mirrors of yourself, a self that you had lost or ignored. Unconditional love, that's the key, but seriously hard to really develop.

China Don't walk on a man hole cover, the water below is stagnant, therefore the qi is also so if you walk on it it can affect you....ie. 'unlucky' as they put it. If you do so and your with a friend they will hit you suddenly to take away the bad luck. There is a story kind of connected to this(in my mind anyway). During the Qing dynasty there were those, as usual who wanted to overthrow them. They sought out some feng shui people to find a way. The Qing came from the north east region so the feng shui guys said that they drew their power from a particular hilly area, and most importantly from certain 'dragon lines'/'ley lines' within the earth in that area. So, the particular part of the energy line that was said to be the dragons head. representing the Qing Dynasty, needed to be cut off from the rest of the body/energy line. They did this by digging into the earth at that point, and filling the hole with manure, thereby cutting off the flow of power. Don't have the foot of your bed toward the bedroom door, apparently makes it easier to die . A girl I know her grandfather had been dying in bed for some time and was in a lot of pain, he was going to die yet still didn't. They called someone in, he suggested changing the position of the bed so the feet were towards the door, they did so, and he died the same day. Don't have a mirror facing your bed, actually I don't know why, they simply say it's cos if you wake in the night and suddenly see yourself it's gonna give you a real fright! must be another reason though. You can't get your hair cut for a month after the moon festival, if you do it means your uncles gonna die!! Great if you don't like your uncle I suppose.