Rooster 2012

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 was 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 2012

Among the qualities of the Rooster is the sharpest mind of the Chinese Zodiac. Like all sharp things however, it can cut many ways and in addition to being the smartest, the Rooster is the most literal minded of the Animals. Which may have been your downfall in 2011.

The Rooster is not all that good at recognising, appreciating and valuing good fortune. Noel Gallagher once described his brother Liam (whose Month Pillar representing occupation, is a Rooster) as “a man with a spoon in a world of soup.” This year keep fork, spoon and indeed table knife about you. If you are trawling West (your best location, especially this year) when the opportunities are East (both profitable and healthy for 2012) you could still be disappointed. So don’t.

As the economic and other cuts went deeper and more personal for everybody, you may have thought it was about you. Duh! Look around you. 2010’s distant corporate and governmental cutbacks involving figures with so many zeros nobody understood them, have become the closed libraries and withdrawn subsidies of 2011. Everybody’s hurting. Or at least everyone who is not a banker. And given your acuteness of mind, you may well be one. Either way you may think you’ve been hardly done by. Nobody loves you. They don’t understand how hard it is. You’re only making a living. This was where the opportunities were. Your qualifications committed you. And so on.

If you are a Rooster and these thoughts are alien to you and you are not in financial services or an ancillary business, don’t think they don’t apply. You are likely to have them inverted. 2011 has been a year of challenge for you. For God’s sake let 2012 be better. No, the Metal of the Rooster cuts the Wood of the Rabbit whatever year it is. If you think 2011 was a year of misfortune as opposed to one of opportunities missed due to your failure to pay appropriate attention, 2012 will be even worse even though you are one of the favoured in 2012.

So wake up. You are not the only pebble on the beach. The Dragon is your friend but not your servant. (Even though technically you bend him out of shape by turning his Earth to Metal.) There will be a wealth of opportunities this year. It will be hard for you not to progress. But you may achieve that dismal ambition if you do not sit down quietly, think through 2011 and remember what gifts you were offered that you turned down. Self pity and blame are equally fraudulent and equally disempowering.

The Rooster is often subject to Metal complaints like arthritis and shortness of breath. Look after yourself this year.

As far as relationship is concerned, this is your year. But pay attention; one person’s need is another’s opportunity. You are likely to have a pretty good time but take nothing for granted and remember there’s no such thing as a free lunch. For every action there is a reaction. Be sure you’re ready for the inevitable reaction if you act without care.