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The twelve Animal Signs
for Men
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Rooster man
His productive capacities
Whatever his occupation, the average Rooster man never considers it a purely bread-winning chore. He views his work with far more seriousness than the majority of people do, always finding in it a challenge to take up or a confrontation to settle, regardless whether it concerns the material or immaterial world.
To him, the end always justifies the means - his morality is essentially the morality of success. This is what makes his force, but also what renders him inhumane, as indicated earlier.
If this individual fails in an endeavor, it is likely due to one of these two weakness of his or to both: his pride and his self-destructive inclination. Proud he certainly is to such a degree that he systematically refuses to ask for or accept aid and equally systematically takes unnecessary risks. As for the other defect, it gives rise to his "failure neurosis:" He may, quite unconsciously, mobilize as much ardor to abort his undertakings as to bring them to a successful conclusion!
This man is well known as a jack-of-all-trades. He can indeed do any kind of work with equal grim determination and earnestness; even the most routine or uncongenial jobs are accepted by him as good opportunities for self-mastery.
Given his taste for secretiveness, his suspiciousness, and mercilessness, the Rooster male can naturally be an excellent undercover agent or spy. He will leave nothing to chance. If in addition he has the conviction of serving a worthwhile cause, then his efficiency will be unsurpassed. The only problem here would be to clearly define the limits of his actions, for his very efficiency could bring him to commit excesses.
He can most profitably exploit his qualities of vivid intelligence and perspicacity in all professions concerned with efforts to see through the veil of evidences and appearances, to detect what is concealed to ordinary people. This will be the case of the psychologist, psychiatrist, policeman, detective, or investigator. He would not need truth drugs to reduce lawbreakers to confessing their crimes.
It is quite possible for the sadistic urges inherent to his nature to be taken advantage of by sublimation through work. As a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinary, for instance, he can, in a safe and socially useful way, satisfy his unconscious desire to see or inflict sufferings. Provided the process of sublimation is well conducted, the stronger the urges, the more successful the native will be in his profession.
Many men of this sign choose the careers of stage or movie actors, military officers, sportsmen, or firemen, because they see in them an opportunity to secure some glamor. Such glamor may sometimes seem too modest or purely subjective, but, realistic as they are, they can content themselves with it for want of anything better.
The Rooster man's aggressiveness and taste for power may incline him towards politics and political struggles. He is at his very best as a revolutionary, insurgent, guerrilla, plotter, or shadow fighter in whatever capacity, for he can also make use of his profound sense of secrecy.
It may happen that the Rooster man chooses to harness his inborn nervousness and anxiousness into a creative channel. For this reason there exist a crop of artists belonging to this sign who express with surprising boldness and vigor what other artists dare not even deal with.
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