Born in the year of the Rooster

Born in the year of the Rooster

The people of Vietnam prefer to term this sign ‘ the Chicken ‘ – which doesn’t always meet with the approval of the boastful people born under it! That’s why, along with Japanese, we shall keep to the word rooster, for this dreamer takes himself very seriously and he does like to be flattered…

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 take any account of them at all. Which means that there’s one career barred to him for a start: diplomacy!

The rooster appears to be bold, adventurous, and reckless. Don’t believe a word of it! It’s just that he is full to bursting with absurd and grandiose ideas that haven’t a hope of being realized. He loves to dream, to meditate, to build castles in the air, to imagine himself a hero – but he is really an armchair warrior: he dreams, meditates, builds, imagines in the comfort of his home. He is an adventurer in carpet slippers, a short-sighted philosopher who isn’t really equipped to improvise at all.

As a partner, the cat is absolutely 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 touch 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 happy, however.

Legend has it in the East that two roosters under the same roof make life intolerable for everyone else. As 1969 was the year of the rooster, let us hope that those wives with one Cock already in the yard remembered about the Pill…