What's in store for year of the sheep?

HOPES for prosperity, wealth and good fortune are usual for the Chinese who celebrate a new lunar year, but does this year the year of the goat or sheep herald different tidings for different people as it kicks off?

The year of the sheep which is also the year of the ram or goat all are correct starts on 19 February 2015 and is the most important Chinese holiday in the year.

Also known as the Spring Festival in China, throngs of Chinese migrate home each year for a family reunion abandoning all work and professional commitments.

Work takes a back seat as celebrants relax for 15 days over the festive season. Chinese New Year to the Chinese is akin to Christmas in Australia.

Every year has one of 12 the Chinese zodiac animals assigned to it. Since 1900, those with birth years 1907, 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003 and 2015 are said to have been born in the year of the goat.

Melbourne Chinese Feng Shui consultant, Lok Tin Yung says the year of the goat, and a "wood" goat at that, will be filled with issues relating to religion and trust.

"Each animal year comes with an element, and this year is the wood. This means there will be plenty of religious world issues around," he said.

"Also the wood element will stir up the earth so we should expect to see more earthquakes."

My Yung also predicts bad energy in the "west".

"Places like Europe, or the western part of a country will have some trouble. And don't renovate the western part of your house," he said.

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What's in store for year of the sheep?