1906* January 25 to
February 13 1907
1918 February 11 to February 1 1919
1930 January 30 to February 17 1931
1942 February 15 to February 5 1943
1954 February 3 to January 24 1955
1966* January 21 to February 9 1967
1978 February 7 to January 28 1979
1990 February 11 to February 1 1991
2002 February 19 to February 8
2003
2014 February 16 to February 5 2015
(* ‑ the Year of the
Fire Horse, a particularly inauspicious sign to be born under, which
occurs every 60 years.)
The Horse always
looks terrific. He's got plenty of sex‑appeal and he knows how
to dress. He adores anything where there will be lots of
people ‑ concerts, theatres, meetings, sporting events, parties, the
lot! He is often a sportsman of some note. He knows how
to make a compliment and to turn a pretty phrase, he is gay,
sympathetic, amusing, gossipy, and always popular. Above all,
the Horse is cut out to be in politics, a career which could bring
him great personal satisfaction with the opportunity to grind his
own axe. He could be a winner here, for he has the facility to
sway the crowd. He is very quick‑witted and he is right in
there with you before you have had a chance to finish what you were
saying. He is aware of the thought in your mind even before
you have expressed it. This permits him to forestall any
arguments that you can dream up.
In general the
Horse is gifted, and as handy in practical matters as he is with his
mind. In truth he is really more cunning than intelligent, and
he knows it, which is why, despite an air of assurance, he lacks
confidence in himself. At heart, he is weak. The Horse is
hot‑blooded, hot‑headed, and impatient. Because of this, he is
often apt to talk himself out of his ability to make himself
popular. Those who have suffered one of his rages will never
feel quite the same about him again. His fits of temper are
inevitably a bit childish, and if he wants to succeed, he has to
master them. The Horse is selfish. He will trample on
anyone blocking his way without the least remorse, for his ambition
is all‑consuming. He is a bit of an egoist too, and it is rare
for him to interest himself in any problems except his own, though
he will on occasion intervene courageously in other people's
affairs. Independent and self‑willed, he will always go his
own way and he never takes advice. The sooner he leaves the
bosom of the family to make his own life, the better it will be for
him. He will do it gladly, too, because the atmosphere of the
home is important to him so long as he's made it. When he
brings up his own family, he is going to be the hub about which the
whole thing turns... and he is going to love it. Everything
will revolve around him: his job, his problems, his health,
the ironing of his shirts, the crease in his trousers. This
attitude is justified by the fact that his very presence protects
the family and if he ever disappears or leaves them for any reason,
the whole thing will come tumbling down like a house of cards.
While this egoist works only for himself and for his own success,
his work nevertheless benefits everybody, and his output is
invariably good.
The Horse is a
worker, adept at handling money, and a good financier.
Unfortunately, as he is a creature of changing moods, he is liable
to lose interest suddenly in things he has taken up, whether it is a
love affair, a single business deal, or a whole career. He
will start again with the same determination and he will enjoy an
equal success in the new venture. He can make it in any career
that demands neither solitude nor meditation, for he is an
extrovert, and he needs to be surrounded by people who approve of
him and flatter him.
In his relations
with the opposite sex, the Horse is weak. He will give up
everything for love. A Horse in love becomes besotted to the
exclusion of everything else. That's why, in his life, he is
so often left high and dry despite his positive gifts. If he
can manage to overcome this weakness, if his ambition gets the
better of his passion, he can live happily and successfully.
The Horse can make a good life with the Goat. Conspirators
together, the can skate around the precipices of life while the
changeable sense of humor of the Goat and the whims be which he is
seized, will bounce off the armor of selfishness worn by the Horse.
Neither of them will be aware of it, what is more. For
opposite reasons, the Horse can live amicably with the Dog or the
Tiger. These two, intent on the solution of their own psychological
problem will pay no attention to the romantic instability of the
Horse. So far as they are concerned, he can live his own life
and get on with it.
What ever happens,
the Horse must not marry the Rat (particularly if the Horse is
female, and a Fire Horse. Any liaison between these two
passionate natures can only result in sparks which must lead to a
conflagration.
The first part of
the Horse's life, and the second will be full of ups and downs.
He will leave his home and family while he is still young, and this
will bring its own disappointments. His love life will be by
no means smooth, but the third phase will be a peaceful one.
* The six
decades spanning the gaps between the years of the Fire Horse mean
that this rare sign occurs only in the coming years of 1966, 2026,
2086, and 2146, etc. These years are bad for Horses
themselves, and bad for families who have a Horse in the house, for
his influence can change from beneficial to malign, and during these
years, such families will become susceptible to illness, accidents,
and bad luck in general. Men and women actually born in the
year of the Fire Horse will have the same characteristics as the
ordinary Horse, but they will be more accentuated, in the good
qualities as well as the bad. The Fire Horse will thus be a
harder worker, a more cunning individual, more independent, more
gifted.... and, alas, far more selfish. His passionate nature
and the frantic egoism which seizes him will lead him to commit his
worst excesses when he is in love. There are those who say
that the Fire Horse can be a good influence in the heart of his own
family, but popular belief asserts that he will make trouble in the
home he was born in just as he does in the one that he himself has
built. The Fire Horse will have a career that is more varied,
more exceptional, more interesting, than that of the ordinary Horse,
and that he carried within him, the seeds of fame or of
notoriety. |
