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Chinese Customs and Culture - the year of the Rooster, this year the Rooster tends
to be over confident and is prone to come up with nonsensical plans. While the colorful
Rooster brings bright and happy days, he also dissipates energy. Better stick to practical and
well-proven paths. Forget about that controversial best seller you were going to
write. No get rich quick schemes this year, please! |
It may require a great deal of effort this year to resist going off on
wild goose chases. Refrain from making speculative ventures. Disappointments and
conflicts will result. The Rooster likes to flaunt his authority and a lot of trouble can
come from his domineering attitude. But since he also symbolizes the good administrator and
conscientious overseer of justice in the barnyard, the peace will still be kept.
Everything will be precariously balanced in the Rooster's year, as his dramatic personality can
set off all kinds of petty disputes.
This year we may have to expend maximum effort for minimum gain. Try not to fuss too much.
Details do need looking into, but don't forget to view the whole picture. Be cautious. Do not
aim too high. One is liable to get shot down.
Politics will adhere to hard-line policies. The diplomatic scene will be dominated by
philosophical orators who rave a lot about nothing. Governments will be found flexing their
muscles at each other, but just for show. There may be no real confrontations. It is just that
everyone will be too occupied with himself to hear or care what the other person is saying.
The self-conscious influence of the Rooster will cause us to take offense at the smallest slight.
We will tend to be terribly ostentatious about the splendid image we think we project.
Dissensions and debates on all fronts will signify the Rooster's pen-chant for
argumentative exercises and will not be likely to do permanent damage to anyone when taken in
the right context.
This will be a buoyant year in spite of the Rooster's knack for making simple things
complicated. One thing is for sure: he seldom comes up empty-handed. This is the year of one
very self-sufficient bird that will never go hungry.
Just keep your eyes open and your mouth shut and check facts and figures before making
unprecedented moves. We should all get by without too much hardship. Our pockets will not
be empty although our nerves may be a bit frayed.
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