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Irishman:
I am totally at sea with this.

Sunny wanted to know what time of day i was born as apparently this has some baring on my lunar birthday?? She says our lunar birthdays might be the same although we were born bout two months apart by the western calender|

I get that there is a lunar calender that runs in accordance to the lunar cycles and thus odesnt match up with the western one. But how can we share the same lunar birthday if we are born months apart???!!
Also she tells me her parents only wish her happy birthday on her lunar birthday , the western one apparently is meaningless to them. She said her mother even asked her if she thought I would ring her to wish her happy birthday on her lunar one. I get the impression that I better!

To top it all off Sunny says she has three birthdays. At this stage my head was fit to pop right off and all i could hear was white noise, does not compute.

So anyone care to have a stab at why :-

1) Even though we were born over a month apart we could have the same lunar birth date?, and why is the time of day relevant to that?
2) How can she have three birthdays a year?
3) Do i need to buy three sets of presents a year?

wilsbrough:
Hello Irish.

Well i could be very wrong here, i'm sure the bro's will shoot me down if i am.:icon_cheesygrin: So do not hold me to it ok? But regarding the Lunar birthday, i think it may have something similar to do with something we say in the west called your 'rising sign' Which i like your star sign, ie like Aries/Leo etc, but what your rising sign is, depends on the constellation that was 'rising' (like the sun in the morning) at the time of your birth, so although you are born months apart, your rising sign could be the same, giving you the same birthday... Bit confusing right... :-/ but if you find out the time of your birth, on the day of your birth, you should be able to go online and find your 'rising sign' which like i say, i think will then be your lunar birthday.

And regarding the Three birthdays, Well, the Queen has two, so i'm sure sunny must be your Princess, so maybe that's why she has three birthdays....:icon_cheesygrin:

Andy...

Neil:
Interesting question.  Nina asked me the same question about time of birth.  Apparently it was very important to her parents so they could give us our fortune.

RegnisTheGreat:
The whole aries/leo astrology is western.And she must be fairly traditional, most modern Chinese go with the western.

David5o:
What date is her real Birthday??  ......''The Date She Was born!!!'' is the one true answer...

David....

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