Yearly Forecast

 Chinese New Year of the Red Fire Monkey 2016

2016 is a leap year, so there will be an extra day in February (Feb. 29). Beginning on February the 8th, 2016 ~ The Year of the Red Fire Monkey. It will end on the 27th of January, 2017.

What is the purpose of a leap year? Well, it takes the Earth a bit more than 365 days to orbit the sun — 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds longer — so in order to avoid throwing off the calendar, an extra day is added every four years to use up the extra hours. Julius Caesar's astronomer, Sosigenes, came up with this solution, which was later named "leap year" by Pope Gregory XIII.
• The Summer Olympics will be held this year in Rio de Janeiro, beginning Aug. 5. Rio will be the first South American city to ever host the Summer Olympics. There will be two new sports for this Olympics: golf and rugby sevens. Finalists for this hosting were Madrid, Chicago, and Tokyo.
• Mercury will this year take a rare trip between the Earth and the sun, something that will not happen again until 2019. Only Australia and far eastern Asia will not be able to see at least a partial transit.
• A massive Panama Canal expansion project known as Third Set of Locks, adding a third set of locks is expected to open in April, doubling the capacity of the canal.
• The year 2016 has been designated as the International Year of Pulses by the U.N. General Assembly. The term "pulses" refers to legume crops such as navy, kidney or pinto beans, lentils, and the like. Pulses are important to crop rotation because they are able to fix nitrogen within the soil and increase soil fertility, proving not only nutritious for other crops, but also good for the whole environment.
• The 2016 El Nino is expected to be one of the strongest on record.
• The NASA spacecraft Juno, launched on Aug. 5, 2011, is expected to reach Jupiter on July 4 of this year. In other space news:
• In March, the European Space Agency and Russian State Corporation for Space Activities plan to launch the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.
• NASA plans to launch the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from an asteroid called Bennu.
• China expects to complete the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope.
• Sierra Nevada Corporation is planning the first launch of the privately built spaceplane Dream Chaser for an unmanned mission.
• A private Russian spaceflight company called Orbital Technologies has announced that it plans to launch a "space hotel" in 2016 for rich tourists.

On February 8th this year, the Year of the Monkey will succeed the Year of the Goat. We will pass over a Yin year that's been especially Zen, in exchange for a Yang year that's rather tonic, active, positive, and oriented towards our social life and the outside world. Here a few things we need to know about this playful year! The Year of the Monkey will be a surprising and frenzied year that will centre on career and innovation. The atmosphere will be optimistic, creative, risk-taking, and relaxing in your professional life as well as in your personal one.
A particularly auspicious time for new inventions, the Year of the Monkey is for taking risks and being rebellious, a year where agile, inventive minds, sheer guts and bravado will win out. Now is the time of courage, action, anarchy, and true devotion to even the wildest of schemes, a time to start new endeavours, for they are destined to succeed under Monkey's influence. But a word to the wise: those who can hang on for the wild ride, outsmart the confidence-trickster, and bluff their way through will come out unscathed. Those who are dull or slow witted, and can't handle the stress will come unglued. So keep a focus on breathing and practices to centre onself. .
On the individual level, do go ahead with your life. Move forward, make strides, and stretch out for what may lay ahead. The Year of The Monkey 2016 is a time for business considered as risky, and here the seeds of unplanned success lie. Run with ideas, embrace the inventive, and don't look back.
The year of the Monkey. This is a generally auspicious year for Rats, Oxen, Dragons, Horses, Monkeys, Roosters and Dogs. However, this could be a difficult year for Tigers, Snakes, Dogs and Boars. Rabbits should beware their finances. Sheep should take care of their health.
Amazing Year for: Rats, Dragons, Monkeys – brings charm and confidence. Unstable but dynamic.
Positive Year for: Goats, Rabbits, Ox – improvement in all areas of life. Progress finally.
Exciting Year for: Roosters, Horses – Tricky situations abound. Enjoy the stimulation.
Complex Year for: Tigers, Snakes, Boars, Dogs – strong focus and objectivity brings the best results.
Talk is fast and cheap though, so be on the alert for deceptions. With so much mental energy zapping around, everyone needs to re-think their fitness program, diet and health plan. If you don't have one, you definitely need to instigate some form of regular physical activity this year. The body was designed to move! Honour it. Stress needs to be burned off by going to the gym, swimming, yoga, water aerobics, dance, martial arts, team sports, tennis or long walks. When was the last time you did any of these things?
Although a lively, optimistic and progressive year where finances, politics, and real estate should see an upturn, there will be a decided undercurrent of insecurity. Everyone wants to work the shrewdest angle, get the best deal, and win big. However, business decisions made this year should be based on fact, not emotion. Problems and chicanery abound, so nothing this year should be taken for granted, whether politically, financially, professionally, domestically or emotionally.
A particularly auspicious time for new inventions, the Year of the Monkey is for taking risks and being rebellious, a year where agile, inventive minds, sheer guts and bravado will win out. Now is the time of courage, action, anarchy, and true devotion to even the wildest of schemes, a time to start new endeavours, for they are destined to succeed under Monkey's influence. But a word to the wise: those who can hang on for the wild ride, bluff their way through , and outsmart the confidence tricksters will come out unscathed. Those who are dull or slow witted, and can't handle the stress will come unglued. It is heard to be said, that to remember that this year will reward the individual effort. That those who place their trust in the group collective will face disappointment.
According to Chinese Five Elements Horoscopes, Monkey contains Metal and Water. Metal is connected to gold. Water is connected to wisdom and danger. Therefore, we will deal with more financial events in the year of the Monkey. Monkey is a smart, naughty, wily and vigilant animal. If you want to have good return for your money investment, then you need to outsmart the Monkey. Metal is also connected to the Wind. That implies the status of events will be changing very quickly. Think twice before you leap when making changes for your finance, career, business relationship and people relationship.