Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger

Wow, I've just found out there's more to the Chinese animal zodiac than the 12 animal years and five elements. You also have an "inner animal" based on your lunar birth month and "secret animal" based on your hour of birth.

"To sum it up, while a person might appear to be a dragon because they were born in the year of the dragon, they might also be a snake internally and an ox
secretively. In total, this makes for 8,640 possible combinations (five elements x 12 animals in the 60 year cycle (12 x 5 = 60) , 12 months, 12 times of day) that a person might be."

So despite being a gluttonous Pig with a food blog, my inner animal is a Dragon and secretly I'm a Tiger! Who knew?

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