Alright, I did some bit of research on Chinese Zodiac if anyone is interested. Each Chinese Zodiac is represented by 12 animals and 5 elements (wood, fire, metal, earth, water). There are also another subset of 8 symbols involved in the calculations (you can find those symbols on South Korean flag). This website is just a general calculation of the birth signs commonly found in most people born in certain year. Each of the zodiacs shown only states some of the obvious signs for certain individuals (not everyone sharing the same birth year and date will have all these traits stated in the website).
http://www.tuvy.com/entertainment/chinese_horoscope.htm
But if you need to do specific calculations, you will have to do calculations based on your name, sex, locality, date and hour when you were born, etc. Each day is represented by the same 12 animal signs and the range of hours are also represented by the same 5 elements and 8 symbols. The Chinese Zodiac signs are calculated based on the Chinese calendar.
Say, for example, a person born in the year of the ox. You can see an extreme personality of either:
1. They are extremely hardworking or
2. They get frustrated easily or
3. They are usually regarded as jerks by many people, etc.
The differences of such extreme behaviors depends on how accurate the zodiac signs are calculated. The Chinese believe that if your birth date falls on a bad sign, then that's where the need of Feng Shui masters step in. Their job is to diagnose any possible bad signs and to provide remedies to treat these bad conditions.
Ok, enough of this zodiac geek talk. I'm beginning to sound like an old Chinese geezer already. Yeeesh...
