The Rooster

The Rooster speaks his mind – he makes a virtue of it -- to the point of aggressiveness. And this brutal attitude will not be without its casualties unless the offended victims overlook the rudeness deliberately on the grounds of “frankness” or “eccentricity”.

The victims who do this are wrong, though. Frank, the Rooster certainly is. He says what he thinks, as he thinks it. Without beating about the bush – Bang! Just like that. But this frankness, far from being a desirable trait, is more than anything a kind of selfishness: the Rooster couldn’t care less about other people or their feelings, and he doesn’t see why he should get any account of them at all. Which means that there’s one career barred to him for a start: diplomacy?

As for his “eccentricity”, this is only an illusion. Certainly he likes to be noticed, and he may dress a little flashily with this in mind. But at the heart he is absolutely, a completely profound conservative – in the political as well as in the general sense.

The Rooster thinks that he is always right and that he knows what he is doing. HE confides in nobody and relies in no one but himself. He is most generous, on the other hand, with his own (unsought) advice!

The Rooster appears to be daring adventurous and reckless. Don’t believe a word of it! It’s just that he is full to burst with absurd and grandiose ideas that haven’t hope of being realized. He loves to dream, to meditate, to build castles in the air, to imagine him a hero – but he is really an armchair warrior. He is an adventurer in carpet slippers, a short-sighted philosopher who isn’t really equipped to improvise at all!

Don’t think that this means he’s a coward, or shy. In fact he really can be daring, given the right circumstances; and even brave when it’s absolutely necessary. He is sometime a prey, due to his dreams of being a hero, to the kind of fool-hardly courage the risks death with a smile on the lips. For this reason alone, the Rooster can be a fine soldier.

People in general find him stimulating company, but if he doesn’t take care he risks unwittingly disappointing them: being something of a boaster, he always promises more than he can in fact achieve.

Often brilliant, he is at his best in the crowded room and shines more in company that he does in the intimate situation.

Because he loves to dream, the Rooster risks falling at times into laziness – though his nature is to give everything to the job in hand once he start it, and has the reputation of being a hard-worker. But he’s forever biting off more than he can chew, undertaking task that are beyond his strength. After all his efforts, he still can’t make it; nobody is more disappointed than he.

The Rooster is right to bustle about like this. Money isn’t going to fall into his lap and he has to work for a living. But if he can control his drams and the cards are fight, he could become rich. HE has in fact the reputation of finding money in the most likely places, of drawing, as it were, blood from a stone. The Rooster can find a worm in the desert! – A smile that goes a long way to explain the continual and restless activity that characterizes him. But if by chance a Rooster allows himself to dream of idle away his time as he would like to, he can easily one of those picturesque tramps, the philosopher often on the road and who you occasionally see asleep on the bench. After all, it’s one way of getting them noticed.

The rooster is particularly suited to agriculture as well as to those which keep him constantly in touch with others, for he adores putting on a bit of a show.

In any case, with his extravagant style, he’s going to spend anything he earns as and when he gets it. HE will be likely, too, to run great risks financially, advancing all too often to the brink of bankruptcy, ruin and disaster because he has dreamed too much. This is no opener of a savings account; he simply doesn’t know how to economize!

The Rooster man likes to be in the company of women, among he can show off, shine swagger and generally demonstrate his cleverness. The Rooster will often do him selves to gain or to keep affection of the love one.

The Rooster woman likes the company of other women, too (though that’s not to say that men bore her!), and she choose those professions which keep constantly in touch with them.

The Rooster will be happy with the Cow, family-minded and conservative. With the Snake, he can play philosophers. In love as in business, the Snake will bring to the partnership some much needed wisdom but he’d better be careful not to shine too brightly, or the Rooster might turn him and destroy.

With the Dragon, a Rooster will be perfectly satisfied to bask in reflected brilliance, especially in the case of female Roosters.

As a partner, the Rabbit is out! He won’t put up for an instant with the boasting or the gaudy raiment. HE doesn’t trust the Rooster an inch.

The Rooster will tough the heights and the 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 tangles. His old age will be happy, however.

If you were born in one of these periods then you are a Rooster
26th January 1933 to 13th February 1934
13th February 1945 to 1st February 1946
31st January 1957 to 17th February 1958
17th February 1969 to 5th February 1970
5th February 1981 to 24th January 1982
23rd January 1993 to 9th February 1994