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.