Rooster 2013
Who is a Rooster?
Years: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005.
Month*: September
Hour: 05:00 pm -07:00 pm
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* 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 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 so is Yoko Ono. This effortlessness can make for complacency, and bitterness is more common among middle-aged Roosters 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.
Rooster 2013:
Stars include: San Tai Lian Achievement, Jiang Xing Commanding, Yin Sha Slander, Nian Fu Libel.
The Rooster is always likely to punch above her weight. Sometimes people envy you your apparently unearned good fortune but you know it’s not like that. In point of fact you have often not valued it yourself. Which may be why in 2012 the scandal and drama camouflaged how much you grew. Take stock now perhaps. It would have been more obvious if you had valued it in the moment. Or if you knew yourself.
You’ve always been a fixer and a shoulder to cry on. This year you are the focus of the toe far or plum flower. This means that your advice is loaded. Don’t give it lightly because it will be taken on. You know things about relationship that are of tremendous value and you will be heard. Lonely and aching hearts will seek you out. So tread wisely. Trust and be trustworthy.
Because of your association with the Snake in the Metal Triad, you get to act out the themes of the year. And what the year is about is truth. Positively the Snake is the seeker after truth. Negatively he (she) is a total bullshitter. It’s not just the Snake though is it? Your self-delusion is clear to anyone who knows you well.
The Rooster is the Muse, the Goddess, the matchmaker. Yin Metal is shorthand for these qualities. That’s always been true; your friends seek you out for this type of advice. It’s a loaded gun; you can’t give casual answers and hope they’ll do. You have to reach deep into what you know for no reason and risk it being wrong. Optimism starts at home. So does deceit. Especially self-deceit.
Consequently or perhaps anyway there is every chance that this year the Rooster pulls in a very big fish. You’ve been looking for that person who ticks all the boxes for geological time. You’ve found him/her. You’ve been advising others forever while more and more you have been asking yourself: What do I know?
For the female Rooster this is about relationship with a big “R”. If you are a man, 2013 could be the year you win big. If you enter competition that daunts you, you may over-achieve. Not that that is unusual for you. It’s just that you’ve never been consistent. You (and your female counterpart above) have been sulking for about two years now. Come off the naughty chair; it’s time. And bring her with you. Hexagrams 31 & 32.
For both genders this is the year when you get out from up yourself and learn to co-operate. You may no longer be forced (or tempted) to work in those artificial teams you claim to hate. You get to learn true partnership. You’ve watched it. Now get stuck in. This year you find yourself dealing consistently with people who tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And you find yourself replying in kind. By year’s end you may know yourself.
The Snake is centrally about regard for truth, understanding of and respect for truth. It’s time you learned this one. Isn’t it?
Health: possible breathing issues, skin,
Money: just as good as last year!
Relationship: the world’s your lobster.
Feng Shui: the South is yours; activate S2 (Horse) for passion and S1 (geng) for your just desserts.
Readers’ Digest Version: count your blessings and learn from what went wrong.
Richard Ashworth©2012