Chinese Horoscopes: The Rat

Rat: 1924 Wood, 1936 Fire, 1948 Earth, 1960 Metal, 1972 Water, 1984 Wood, 1996 Fire, 2008 Earth
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Rats in 2010 - The year of the tiger is full of unexpected happiness. Male rats may loose friends if they are too narcissistic. Don’t be too persistent as to undertake a project. Let nature take its course. Don’t miss opportunities. It is a year for change, travel and moving. Be flexible and don’t fear change. Innovation will be needed, but if looking for novelty, consider that there may be a year-long learning curve.

1924: Victory and good fortune arises from crisis.  Women worried about relatives should pray and chant.  Be optimistic.  1936: It’s a year of honor and a good time to study hard.  You’re never too old to learn. Benefit others as well as yourself.  1948: There will be an abundant harvest.  Enjoy more gourmet cuisine.  Open up a new market.  1960: Choose the elegant solution.  Win by strategy and innovation.  Past practices will bring frustration.  1972: It’s a year for advanced study and research.  Writing and lecturing achieve high marks.  Don’t seek small profits or a crushing defeat will follow.  1984: You will profit immensely from study.  Be creative.  Seek novelty.  Do not let yourself be constrained.  1996: It’s a good year for travel.  Indulge in an active lifestyle.  Patronize the performing arts, especially singing and dancing.  

12/7-1/5: Many good opportunities appear.  A talent is put to good use, but guard against arrogance and impetuosity.  Balance your work and rest. 

1/5-2/4: Good luck brings everything together.  You’ll be filled with exultation, but don’t get too slaphappy.  It’s important to know the real reasons why you succeed and fail.

2/4-3/6: There are many good opportunities now.  Go out and make change.  Be innovative.  Your body and mind are not peaceful.

3/6-4/5: You are surrounded by a lot of love, filled with exultation.  But don’t delay working because of this.

4/5–5/5: You might feel lonely and melancholy, so visit with proactive people.  Avoid being passive and pessimistic.  Communicate clearly and find things to amuse yourself. 

5/5–6/6: Affection is good medicine. Get together with your loved ones and good luck will come unexpectedly.  Good communication and amusement will change your luck for the better. 

6/5–7/7: Anticipate emotional perplexities.  If you’re not careful, you’ll suffer unexpected financial loses from an emotional response.  Be rational and keep your composure. 

7/7–8/7: Beware of transformations in different fields.  Work hard and wholeheartedly.  Useless emotional behavior will keep your business from growing.   

"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap."
Rat Richard Cobden

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."
Rat James Arthur Baldwin

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."
Rat Doris Day

"Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it."
Rat Garry Trudeau

"It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition."
Rat Bono

"If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"
Rat Stevie Nicks

"Honesty is very sexy."
Rat Valerie Bertinelli

"I think that if you love something so much you have to do it."
Rat Ashlee Simpson

"Optimism doesn't wait on facts.  It deals with prospects.  Pessimism is a waste of time."
Rat Norman Cousins

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
Rat Diane Ackerman

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
Rat W. Edwards Deming

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."
Rat Herbert Henry Asquith

"The well of true wit is truth itself."
Rat George Meredith

"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves."
Rat John McCain

"The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision."
Rat James Lee Burke

"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
Rat May Sarton

"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives."
Rat Maurice Chevalier

"He makes a beast of himself to get rid of the pain of being a man."
Rat Ralph Steadman

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
Rat Clarence Thomas

"It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice."
Rat Alyssa Milano

"I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside."
Rat Donna Summer

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
Rat John Cage

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"
Rat Terry Pratchett

"Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking"
Rat Lee Iacocca

"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it."
Rat Clark Gable

"In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms."
Rat Max Roach

"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. "
Rat Henrik Ibsen

"Originality is going back to origins."
Rat Antoni Gaudi

"I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem."
Rat Jim Brown

"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."
Rat Charles Caleb Colton

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."
Rat Omar Khayyam

"I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? Why do I have to stop?"
Rat John Belushi

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
Rat Hal Borland

"It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're a jock, you still think you have three plays in you."
Rat Burt Reynold

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Rat Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It doesn't matter how old you are, if you're a jock, you still think you have three plays in you."
Rat Burt Reynold

"Fashions fade - style is eternal."
Rat Yves Saint Lauren

"Even should one zealously strive to learn the Way, that very striving will make one’s error more"
Rat Bai Juyi

"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism."
Rat George Moore

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
Rat Pablo Casals

"I thought always, with the age all become lighter. But life becomes ever more complicated and more stressful."
Rat Ursula Andress

"Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer."
Rat Gene Kelly

"The first duty of the revolutionary is to get away with it."
Rat Abbey Hoffman

"No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
Rat Al Gore

"If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out."
Rat Louis Armstrong

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
Rat John Madden

"If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."
Rat Woody Guthrie

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."
Rat Rosa Parks

"We can't all be lion tamers."
Rat T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

"This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain."
Rat Shaquille O'Neil

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
Rat Emile Zola

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
Rat Jimmy Carter

"It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way."
Rat Marlon Brando

"But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison."
Rat Truman Capote

"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."
Rat George Foreman

"So my wandering among the sciences, far from freeing me from my despair, only strengthened it."
Rat Leo Tolstoy
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"When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with."
Rat William Shakespeare

"To err is nature, to rectify error is glory."
Rat George Washington

"I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them."
Rat George Bush

"I've been an evangelist on the subject. Both of my Kung Fu series on television were infomercials for the art."
Rat David Carradine

"I am the Fred Astaire of karate."
Rat Jean-Claude Van Damme

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