Year of the Rat

The Rat female appears on the surface to be a calm and accepting sort of person, but inside you is a calculating businesswoman who rules her roost with an iron fist! Your keen intelligence and quick wit always enable you to find the bargain, the sale, the shortcut or the bonus plan that you are constantly keeping one eye open for in order to come out just that slightest margin ahead of the game. You are fashionable and prefer the most elegant surroundings in order to feel at home. You are very generous with those that you love, as long as they never let you down by appearing demanding or lazy in your eyes. Your directness and honesty have caused as many problems for your personal life as they have avoided. You are also a muse of sorts for the creative spirit.

Year of the Ox

The female Ox may exhibit the following typical traits: you are quite outspoken and concomitantly lacking in tact and good manners, which results in fewer party invitations, but no fear -- this does not bother you as you are essentially a very private person who enjoys the comforts of the fine home atmosphere that you have arranged for yourself. You have worked hard to provide yourself with the best, so who can blame you for wanting to keep everything close at hand for yourself and for the family that you value so much? You have a strong sense of justice -- favors will be repaid promptly and in kind, and offenses will be revisited upon your enemies tenfold, no matter how long it takes, as you have a good head for remembered insults.

Year of the Tiger

The female Tiger can be a big pussycat unless she is confronted or bored. You cannot abide a sterile situation, and will move to greener pastures if the least little obstacle presents itself. You prefer to travel rather than settle down, as you like to keep your own counsel and remain independent. Your life is one of adventure, due primarily to a tragically short attention span. When you love it is with great intensity and ferocity, but against boredom even the gods (and goddesses) contend in vain, so that nothing is ever forever with you. You have a mighty spirit, and are intelligent and beautiful, with a sharp and incisive wit and great rhetorical talent, but you take offense too easily and thereby create many enemies for yourself.

Year of the Rabbit

The female of the Rabbit Sign is a very ambiguous personality indeed. You are good at being the perfect hostess, and prefer company to being alone. This having been said, the best part of having company for you is that they must eventually leave and you can be left to your own devices -- no desire to have a large family on your part, as your mothering impulse is atrophied, for better or worse. You are naturally elegant in all matters of style, dress and manners. You have a very acid tongue, and are fond of humor verging upon insult. Your tender, wistful nature is stiffened by your determination to provide yourself with the material necessities of life. You excel in the mental manipulation of others to serve your own ends.

Year of the Dragon

The female Dragon is never happy as a mere wife and mother -- you prefer to be a bit more noticeable than that. You like to be thought of as irreplaceable in the lives you affect on a daily basis. You are supremely attractive, even if you aren't beautiful in the classic sense. You are a rampant perfectionist, and have no time for the shortcomings of others, although you are generous with both time and money for those who can keep up with the rapid pace you set. You enjoy being flattered and couldn't live comfortably without a steady dose of quality attention. Very straightforward yourself, you wish others were the same, and if you ever feel cheated in anything you will walk a thousand miles to avenge such a blatant slight.

Year of the Snake

The female Snake is witty and humorous, and can cut rivals down to size with just the right well-turned phrase from her forked tongue. You are also captivatingly beautiful, and are used to getting your own way in things -- which is why you are capable of throwing a temper tantrum or two if balked on the odd occasion. You are free of the vice of false modesty, as you have it, flaunt it, and make no bones about it. You prefer your home space to be an inviolate nest of comfort, as place to recharge from the stresses of the day. Those who wrong you will meet with intense vengeance somewhere along the line, as you are never quick to forget a slight. You have a feminine wisdom that is swift to penetrate to the root cause of every phenomenon

Year of the Horse

The female Horse is very much the eternal rebel -- she will not tolerate authority of any sort, and prefers the lead to any subordinate role. You are elegant and well groomed, and have mastered the art of arriving "fashionably late" for any social function. Your delightful appearance fairly cries out for the maximum of positive attention. You are completely self-absorbed, and should your partner try to intrude upon your problems with those of their own, the result will be one of those carefully stage-managed scenes that you thrive upon to inject variety into your life. Despite the need for a foil, you do appreciate the necessity for a fine and private place of your very own, where you can curl up and lick away any wounds that your heart has handed you recently.

Year of the Goat

The female Goat enjoys deliberately flaunting conventions, especially if you perceive any sort of social injustice inherent in them. Your carefree existence makes you extremely gullible at times -- watch out or some sharp character is apt to lead you around by the nose! Hostility is simply not in your nature. Your extra helping of talent will be sure to get you noticed in the long run, no matter what field of endeavor presents itself. You feel a great need to be the center of attention, as you cannot abide the slightest bit of criticism or rejection and require the reaffirmation of self inherent in constant praise to be able to function. Luckily, you have many qualities that will elicit praise from the right people almost as a matter of course.

Year of the Monkey

The female Monkey is flirtatious and enjoys provoking jealousy in her many consorts. Despite your need for adulation, you are truly a creature of privacy and require your own space for times of personal retreat. You abhor the idea of marriage, as you would consider such a limitation upon your lifestyle quintessentially boring, and life for you is too short for anything to be boring. You enjoy the company of children as long as they are not your own. You are very practical, and skilled in fixing mechanical devices. You refuse to automatically follow the dictates of conventional morality, and prefer to shape the course of your own existence according to the dictates of your own idiosyncratic conscience. This can land you in hot water from time to time.

Year of the Rooster

The female Rooster is not a malicious sort. In fact, you are quite popular with people due to your inordinate friendliness and generosity, often towards total strangers. You are lacking in tact, as you are a very honest person and have yet to master the art of the "white lie." You appear to be a frivolous social butterfly, but deep down inside you harbor secret passions that do not admit of easy expression. You apply yourself to each separate task as though there were nothing else in the world at that time. You can be very jealous of the unwarranted success of others, even of good friends, but this streak in you is kept carefully under wraps, as you don't like to offend anyone with what you perceive as your infirmities.

Year of the Dog

The female Dog (no name-calling, please) is possessed of an extraordinarily grim sense of humor that can enthrall as easily as it repels. You are quite ambitious in your chosen profession, and you have the required talent necessary to go far, if only you can stay the course and not be discouraged by a few early defeats. You need to learn patience -- nothing happens all at once. You are a good conversationalist, convivial and attractive -- you are a valued guest at parties. You tend to have impossibly high standards in all things, and others who fail to meet the criteria of your personal value system will seem lessened in your eyes, even if their failings are those possessed in equal measure by all human beings.

Year of the Pig

The female Pig is famous for hospitality -- you will never turn a needy guest away from your door, as you presume that everyone needs food. This can result in you being taken advantage of by unscrupulous types, but this does not bother you unduly, and you don't stay mad for very long after being had. You are always infallibly polite, and your brightness and cleverness make you a very valuable conversational partner, not to mention quite popular in your social circles. You are aware that there are spheres of information to which you have never been exposed, but you are always a quick study no matter what the issue happens to be. You may forgive easily, but you will never forget those unpleasant moments.