Chinese astrology provides another way to look at some of the karmic imprints you come into life with, affecting personality, challenges, and more. You'll find similarities between the two, but ...

Western astrology is composed of 4 elements which work in harmony alongside each other, and Chinese astrology on the other hand has 5 elements whose energies also complement each other.

Professor Sherlock Lam, from the department of chemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said he was impressed with how much information anyone can obtain from the new Visual Elements table.

The Chinese Zodiac Elements are derived from the Five Elements Theory—or Wu Xing. This is a philosophy used to describe the relationship and interdependence between all things.