Dog 2014
Who is a Dog?
Years: 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006.
Month*: October
Hour: 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Day: ask us
* Caution: the start of the Chinese month can be as early as the 4th & as late as the 9th, depending on the year. I can let you know this too.
What is a Dog?
The Dog is yang earth and a byword for good faith and consistency. Terriers and Rotweilers are both fierce as well as loyal. In mediaeval heraldry and Renaissance painting, the greyhound symbolises constancy.
So a Dog can be expected to revere tradition and have a strong family background. If a Dog commits to something they can generally be relied upon to see it to completion. The difference between male and female Dogs can be that the female gets the message quicker. Interesting to note that Kate Middleton and Prince William are twin Water Dogs of 1982; a very solid match because as a yang earth sign, the Dog is pretty immovable, an ideal best friend or protector. These two are, first and foremost, good friends.
The Dog’s thinking may not always be flexible but when he gets an idea, he really gets it. His natural grouping is with the hunters, the Horse and Tiger. The apportionment of tasks here is obvious: the Horse provides pace and the Tiger ferocity while the Dog watches the rear. If HR people studied Chinese metaphysics, more workplaces would zing: in business the Horse will tend to be the sales person, the Tiger the closer or credit controller and the Dog the provider of after-sales service or er…HR department.
The Dog excels at service because he never gives up. He will return your phone calls and keep that appointment. He’s the friend who sends a card every birthday and the spouse who remembers every anniversary.
The Dog also, perhaps surprisingly, mixes well with the gentle diplomatic Rabbit. The Rabbit schmoozes while the Dog ensures that his openness is not abused. The Dog makes a wonderful bodyguard and middle manager. A Dog employer will have achieved that position by sheer hard work and will demand the same from all around.
The Dog doesn’t like the Dragon because he’s such a smarty pants. Also the Dog hates success without effort and the Dragon creates with such apparent ease. The Snake too; he’d resent the Horse except that he is scrupulously loyal to his own team.
An unbalanced Dog is a bit of a shop steward. He knows his rights and the way things should be – often the way they always have been. An unbalanced Dog (such as one with an October or mid-evening birth) is just too respectful.
The Dog will often have a strong spiritual agenda and if he has a blind spot it may be an inability to tell the difference between religion and spirituality or spirituality and therapy. Because this means he sticks to his guns, the Dog is suited both to new age therapy and religious persecution. He will not be thrown off by the opinions of others once he has committed to a line of action. In fact the unbalanced Dog can be thick skinned in matters of belief; this Dog would be ideally suited to being a Grand Inquisitor. The problem is that his motto ought to be “Do as you would be done by,” and he thinks it already is.
The Dog can work well with other Dogs and with the Pig. With the Pig he shares a love of home and team and they are so different they don’t crowd each other. Sometimes the Dog and Pig can be telepathically close; this is because they are adjacent signs in the calendar linked by the yang earth that is a feature of both. Sometimes this earth is expressed by banter or earthy humour. They can have a lot of fun together while getting the job done.
But the most powerful and most demanding role the Dog can play is in a creative team including the irritating Dragon, the autocratic Ox and the soft Sheep. If the Dog acts as conscience and bookkeeper, the Ox will relax, the Sheep toughen up and the Dragon acknowledge someone else for a change. If you are a Dog recruiting for non-executive directors take note. What is great about the Dog is that if you find advice that works you will adopt it as if it were religion. Bless.
Dog in Wood Horse Year
Stars include: san tai Achievement, nian fou Libel.
The Dog is very straightforward. Aren’t you? You say what you mean, speak as you find, judge on the evidence, treat all others as innocent until proven guilty and so on.
You know what? It may be that not everyone experiences you like that. There may possibly be those who find you closed, bigoted, opinionated and judgemental. Oops. That’s not how you want to be perceived is it? And ultimately of course it’s not true. It’s not who you are.
In 2014 however, there is reason to counsel vigilance. Money loss and illness are what Singapore Master Ang is predicting for you. GrandMaster Tan Khoon Yong – possibly the most respected Chinese prognostician of all – advises: “take extra caution to avoid lawsuits.” These diviners are strictly practical in their approach, they have little truck with psychological analysis. But we can perhaps go a tad deeper.
What can it all mean? One answer – if we go totally linear – is that your privileged position as favoured associate of the Horse could go to your head. The Horse has ego, you generally don’t. But some could rub off this year. In 2014 your confidence could be seen as arrogance, your dispassion as dissociation and your even-handedness as carelessness. Be very conscious both of how you are coming across and more importantly of your true intentions. Be sure they’re congruent and also as enlightened as you wish them to be.
Your traditional partnership with the Tiger may not be much use to you in 2014 either. The Dog may have to seek association of all sorts further afield. If offers to travel profitably arise, give them serious consideration.
One hint is that neither the Horse nor the Tiger, your traditional henchpeople, can be relied upon this year. And your nemesis the Dragon whom you tend to misunderstand and by whom you are often misunderstood, is stronger than you right now. This implies that loose talk will carry a high price sticker. Similarly; orthodox advice is to watch out for Monkeys and Pigs. What you and I know is that they’re just curious but attending to that could slow you down. Expressed (perhaps) more profoundly, the slightest mean spiritedness could backfire in a big way. Highest risk: April, August and November.
Health: care with lungs. Be sure to get enough sleep.
Money: about conserving rather than acquiring.
Relationship: chances pretty good for singles.
Feng Shui: your partnership with Tiger and Horse not much help this year. Activate, occupy, face: East at auspicious times.
Readers’ Digest Version: progress follows caution.