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 Hardworking, resourceful,
courageous and talented, Roosters are self-assured people. They possess
powerful personalities and are notoriously dominant. In groups they are
vivacious, amusing and popular. But Roosters can be conceited creatures,
vain and boastful, with a strong egotistical need to constantly be the
center of attention. Excellent at small talk, they can be the life of any
party. Roosters are talkative types, outspoken, frank, open, honest -- but
a little too blunt at times. A polished debater and able to cogently refute
any opinion, the Rooster is a talented polemicist, and could be an excellent
journalist or writer. With the Rooster's dedication to work well done, he
or she would also make a good economist or a gifted administrator.
These people are born
organizers, refined and elegant. They take pride in working hard and following the
rules, and are tidy-minded and like to keep everything neat and shipshape.
Their affairs will be all in order, accounts
up to the minute and documents systematically filed away. They function best in an environment
where everything is organized and their schedules programmed. When it comes
to making decisions of any kind, Roosters prefer to carefully consider all
sides of a situation before coming to a conclusion. In conflicts, Roosters
will push to the extreme but flee before open hostilities break out. Their
reflective and analytical abilities sometimes get the better of them. They
must constantly question their point of view to ascertain its validity.
The management of finances is
perhaps their strength, both on a private and professional level. When it
comes to money, Roosters are prudent and careful. They are brilliant
managers of other people's money; financial advisers, bank managers, and
accountants would all do well to be born in the Year of the Rooster. The
Rooster has the reputation of finding money in the most unlikely places, like
drawing blood from a stone. In Vietnam they say that, thanks to the strength
of his beak and claws, the Rooster can find a worm in a desert. This metaphor
goes a long way to explain the continual and restless activity that characterizes
him.
The Rooster man likes to be
in the company of women, among whom he can show off, shine, swagger and
generally demonstrate what a clever fellow he is. However, he rarely goes
out for a night with the boys; men bore him to extinction. His Hen counterpart
also likes the company of other women -- that's not to say that men bore her! --
and she chooses those professions which keep her constantly in touch with
them.
The Rooster will touch the
heights and depths during the three phases of his life, business-wise as
well as romantically. He will go from poverty to riches, from ideal love to
the most sordid of emotional entanglements. The Rooster's old age will be
happy, however.
Legend has it in the East
that two Roosters under the same roof make life intolerable for everyone
else.
The Dashing Rooster
Roosters see the world as
either black or white; when it comes to individual people, they will
immediately either love or hate them on sight. Their love life has all the
elements of romantic excitement. They like the idea of dominating their
partner, but this notion is more for fun and show than it is from real
conviction. Emotionally, Roosters are said to be passionate and, though they
may possess a very active sex drive, they tend to lack firm personal
commitment when it comes to serious relationships. The salient
characteristic attributed to these people is their honesty, and Roosters are
never backwards in coming forward to speak their mind. Their lack of tact,
coupled with a sanctimonious attitude to life, has been responsible for the
breaking up of many a Rooster's marriage. Yet Rooster males are dashing,
handsome fellows and will have young women flocking to their sides. Their
Hen counterparts, stylish in the classical vein, will attract their suitors
through their no-nonsense, down-to-earth approach to life. Because of their own
exquisite taste in clothing, both Roosters and Hens may be impatient or aloof with
people who don't dress well.
In love, the Rooster will
often do himself harm to gain or to keep the affection of the loved one.
He will disappoint her often too, for the reality will never match up to
the dreams he would so much like to share with her. There's one thing in
his favor, though -- he really is sincere about those dreams!
Neither male nor female
Rooster will wear their hearts on their sleeves; they keep even the minutest
detail about their sexual exploits and love affairs strictly to themselves.
Because of their scrupulous honesty, when happily settled in a permanent
relationship, Roosters are loyal and highly unlikely to deceive or cheat on their
partners. Regardless of sexual preference, they believe in monogamous unions. One thing they
need to control, however, is the tendency to criticize loved ones, possibly driving them away.
The
Snake, Ox
and Dragon understand Roosters and make ideal partners. They
would gain much from friendship with the Monkey
and Boar. The introverted Rabbit
does not trust the Rooster and won't put up with his boasting. Power struggles and miscommunications may erupt between the
Rooster and the Tiger. The Rooster and the Rat are competitive rivals
and incompatible.
October is the month of the
Rooster. The time of the Rooster is from 5:00 p.m. to 6:59 p.m.; their
direction of orientation is the west. The Rooster's color is
peach.
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