The Year of the Ox

Characteristics

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conscientious
patient
hardworking
reliable
serious
gentle
strong
careful
persistent
determined
clear-thinking
capable
pratical
slow
stubborn
intolerant
biased
hot tempered
dogmatic
conservative
materialistic
complacent
conformist
gloomy
dull

Balance:
Oxen value their privacy highly. They very rarely confide their feelings to anyone. Oxen go to great lengths to keep their feelings from anyone. Oxen go to great lengths to keep their innermost secrets, and the barriers they build to protect themselves can become a prison. Unless people born in the year of the ox learn to balance this need for privacy with a more open and relaxed attitude to their emotions, they will become neurotic and suffer from self-delusion, as too much repression can direct the ox's quite formidable energies inward.

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