The Rooster

Who is a Rooster?

Years: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005.
Month*: September
Hour: 17.00-19.00
* Caution: the start of the Chinese month can be as early as the 4th & as late as the 9th, depending on the year. I can let you know this too.

What is a Rooster?
The Rooster is yin metal, the night bird, glamorous and with an eye for detail. She appreciates an argument and likes to win but has little patience for causes that drag on. She will appreciate jewellery, fine art and good living and create wealth easily. Conversely of course a wide-awake Rooster like Aung San Suu Kyi can reject such distractions in order to serve a cause that has indeed dragged on for decades. This is yin and yang.
The rule this illustrates by violating is that a typical Rooster is suited to work that involves short decisive arguments such as that of an advocate. Her brief passion is the perfect support for a client. She can defend with enormous commitment and then move on to the next one. That commitment is 100% but it is short lived. If she is in a job that involves holding her peace she may fret and become ill.
Osama bin Laden is a typical 1957 fire Rooster: one big splash and he’s off. A car must be fast, a partner challenging and life full of twists and turns. She is likely to be quick witted rather than profound and her attention span is short.
Her allies the Snake and the Ox are sometimes impatient with her because she can digress so widely and so easily but she brings to the metal alliance the pure competitiveness that the Ox might otherwise misuse and the Snake misunderstand. She is pure metal – that is determined to prevail at all costs – and they are not. They will not win many cases or many contracts without her and they would do well to pay and respect her appropriately despite the fact that she needs longer holidays and a better remuneration package. Conversely if she fails to respect a support system that dots t’s and attends to punctuation and provides the intuitive flashes that the Rooster can exploit but seldom generates, she will not prosper.
Her pitfalls are sex drugs and rock’n’roll. She likes to party and her personality may be addictive. She is likely to prefer dusk to dawn and also to the small hours.
The Rooster enjoys a powerful alliance with the Dragon in which she, uniquely in the average Dragon’s experience, may hold the whip hand. This is not always entirely healthy. She can bend the Dragon out of shape just as the Ox can bend the Rat. This sway must be employed responsibly otherwise both can be damaged. With that proviso this is one of the strongest alliances in the Chinese zodiac.
The Rooster predictably is one of the charismatic Flowers of Romance. Success and glamorous partners come easily to her. Often a Rooster can punch above her weight in this regard. Cinderella was a Rooster and Yoko Ono. This effortlessness can make for complaisancy and bitterness is more common among middle-aged Rooster than any other animal.
With the Monkey she can form a commercial alliance. A business co-run by these two will be irresistibly attractive but may not open on time. It may not close promptly either and may also suffer the cash flow problems that come from poor financial prioritisation. A marriage would risk the same types of problem: great parties, early divorce.
The cautious domesticated Rabbit is the nemesis of the Rooster. The Rooster likes bling and the Rabbit can see no life in a stone. Any relationship would generally be full of obstruction and passive aggression. The insistent wood of the Tiger is almost as maddening although his fierceness would at least engage the Rooster’s attention. The loyal, consistent Dog bores her rigid.

The Rooster: Outlook for 2011
Banner headline: relationship trouble to do with broken trust. The Rabbit, who rules 2011, is your natural enemy. You are on shifting ground all year. This will be less accentuated in January and May when planning and organising are especially effective but a firm grip is called for. You can make much of the year if you will open up.
The temptation to illness, accidents and operations are a consequence you don’t have to fall into. You are aware of those moments of choice when whether to remain healthy or not hangs in the balance. This time you can choose better. Ambitious projects are best shelved until 2012 when the cycle turns in your favour but lining up plans and a team are very timely.
For now, completion and closure are central issues. Boredom, at work especially, is likely but only to mask frustration. Your salvation is the adding of value. Like Aung San Suu Kyi, do more for others this year than ever before; especially those to whom you owe nothing. This is also the remedy for your rising outgoings. Expect opposition and rise to it. The weakness of the unbalanced Rooster is a skin deep perception. If you are bored, look harder and embrace real values. There are helping hands out there if you look: probably male, probably older, probably outside the family. You have nothing to lose.
Friends may have gone missing and peer groups dissolved, leaving you clinging (probably) to a Dragon. A certain paranoia may hang over you. And as they say, just because you’re paranoid does not mean they’re not after you.
Because the Rooster is in opposition to the Rabbit this could be a humdrum year and home, as again Aung San Suu Kyi can attest, is the last place you want to be. Take heart though when June brings you a powerful mentor and April brings the Dragon energy that gives you that sense of belonging that matters so much to you.
The Rooster is known like the Horse, Rat and Rabbit as a Plum Flower or toe far sign. These are the irresistible animals of the Chinese zodiac. The lady Rooster is generally more suited to being a courtesan than a housewife, the male a roisterer than a breadwinner but irresistibility is irresistibility. Frivolity may no longer suit you: in fact it may be breaking your heart. It is a very balanced Rooster indeed who makes relationship work first time out. This year if you will emphasise friendship over passion and value the inner qualities of your partner, you have a very good chance of happiness. Just let yourself.