The Horse

The Horse always looks terrific! He’s got plenty of sex appeal and he knows how to dress formally. HE adores anything where there will be plenty of people – concerts, theaters, meetings, sporting occasions, parties... the lot! He is often a sportsman of some note. HE knows how to make a compliment and to turn a pretty phrase: he is happy, sympathetic, amusing, gossipy and always popular.

Above all, the Horse is cut out to be in politics, a career could bring him a personal satisfaction with the opportunity to grind his own axe. He could be a winner here, because he has the facility to sway the crowd.

He is very quick-witted and he is right in there with you before you have had the chance to finish what you are saying: he’s on to the thought of your mind even before you’ve expressed it! This permits him to forestall any arguments – whether he approves or disapproves of them that his opposite number can dream on.

In general, the Horse is gifted, as hardly in practical matters as he is with his mind. But in truth he is really more cunning than intelligent – and he knows it. Which is why, despite that air of assurance, he lacks confidence in himself. At heart he is weak.

The horse is hot-blooded, hot-headed and impatient. Because of this, he is often apt to talk himself out of his ability to make himself well-known. Those who have suffered one of his rages will never feel quite the same about him again, for his fits of temper are inevitably a bit childish. If he wants to succeed, he has to master them.

The Horse is selfish. He will crash anyone blocking his way without the least of remorse, for his ambition is all consuming. He’s a bit of an egoist, too, and it’s rare for him to interest himself in any problems except his own-though will, on occasion, intervene courageously in other people’s affairs. Independent and self-willed, he will always go his own way – and he never takes advice! The sooner he leaves the bosom of the family to make his own life, the better it will be for him. He’ll do it gladly, too, because the atmosphere of the home is important to him – so long as he has made it.

When in his turn he brings up his own family, he is going to be the wheel about which the whole thing turns; and he is going to love it. Everything will revolve around him; his job, his problems, hi health, the ironing of his shirts, the crease in his trousers. (Though it should be said that this attitude is justified by the fact that his attention protects the family: if ever he disappears or leaves them for any reason, the whole thing will come tumbling down like a house of cards.)
Though this egoist works only for himself and his own success, his work nevertheless benefits everybody – and his output in invariably good!

The horse is a worker, adept at handling money and a good financier. Unfortunately, as he’s a creature of changing moods he is liable to lose interest suddenly in things he’s taken up. Whether it’s a love affair, a single deal in business, or a whole career. But never mind! – He’ll start again with the same determination, and he’ll enjoy an equal success. He can make it in any career that demands neither solitude nor meditation, for he is an extrovert and he needs to be surrounded by the people who approve of him and flatter him.

In his relations with the opposite sex, the Horse is weak. He’ll give up everything for love. A Hose in love becomes besotted to the exclusion of everything else. That’s why, in his life, he’s so often left high and dry despite his positive gifts. But if he can manage to overcome this weakness, if his ambition gets the better of passion, he can live happily and successfully.

The Horse can make his life with the Goat. Conspirators together, they can go around the precise of life while the changeable sense of humor of the Goat, the whims by which he is seized, will bounce off the armor of selfishness worn by the Horse. Neither of them will be aware of it, what’s more!

For opposite reasons, the Horse can live amicably with the Dog or the Tiger. These two, intent on the solution of their own psychological problems, will pay no attention to the romantic instability of the Horse. As far as they are concerned, he can live his own life and get on with it.

Whatever happens, the Horse must not marry the Rat – in particular the Horse female and born under the sign of Fire Horse (1846, 1906, 1966 etc.). Any liaison between these two passionate natures’ only results in sparks which must lead to conflagration.

The first part of the Horse’s life – and the second – will be full of ups and downs. He will leave his home and family while he is still very young, and this will bring its own disappointments. His love life will be by no means smooth. But the third phase will be a peaceful one.

The six decades spanning the gaps between the years of the Fire Horse mean that this rare sign occurs only in the years 1846, 1906, 1966, 2026 etc. These years are bad for the Horse themselves and bad for families who have a Horse in the house. Because his influence can change from beneficial to malign and such families will become subject of illness, accidents and bad luck in general.

Men and women actually born in the year of the Fire Hose will have the same characteristics as the ordinary Horse – but they will be accentuated, in the good qualities as well as in the bad. The fire Horse will thus be a harder worker, a more cunning individual, more independent, more gifted… and alas, far more selfish. His passionate nature and the frantic egotism which seizes him will lead him to commit his worst excesses when he is in love.

There are those who say that the Fire Horse can be a good influence in his own family. But popular belief asset that he will make trouble in the home he was born in just as he does in the one he himself built.

What we know is that the Fire Horse will have a career that is more varied, more exceptional, more interesting, than that of the ordinary horse. And that he carries him the seeds of fame… or of notoriety.

If you were born in one of these periods then you are a Horse
30th January 1930 to 16th February 1931
15th February 1942 to 4th February 1943
3rd February 1954 to 23rd January 1955
21st January 1966 to 8th February 1967
7th February 1978 to 27th January 1979
27th January 1990 to 14th February 1991