[MellySingsDoom]

Yeah, I didn't think you being conservative reflected you at all.

There's a whole bit about the horse woman in said book as well...would you like me to post that up over the next day or so?

[Cantankerous]

yeah if you want.

horse woman haha.

HORSEBEAST>

[MellySingsDoom]

I'll sort it out either today or tomorrow for ya

[Cantankerous]

thanks

[MellySingsDoom]

Horse Woman (Part One):

Horse Woman

These fascinating women are rarely classically beautiful but Horses of the fair sex always boast a certain physical something which sets them apart from their sisters. The Horse lady's special gift is a natural self-assurance and social accessibility which can be much more fetching than the cold-featured good looks of your standard Playboy centerfold. She is not mysterious or charismatic. Rather, the female Horse has the unmistakeable sureness of the thoroughbred filly. She instinctively knows how to carry her head high as she walks elegantly through a room. She often distinguishes herself by a marked flamboyance in dress and manner. She is an arresting creature who rarely accepts to be overlooked. Her behaviour is sometimes over-emphatic and she may even be accused of insolence. But the Horse woman's outrageousness is not an attention-seeking device: eccentricity is her way of way of establishing herself as unusual, exceptional and independent of what she considers stultifying conversation.

The Horse woman is incapable of concealing the state of her soul. Her face is expressive and even when she tries to hide her feelings they tend to seep out of the sides of her darkened countenance. She can become melancholy under stress and has a reputation in China for being unstable, nervous and excitable.

Her eyes are usually clear, lively and mobile with a provocative twinkle. She has a frank stare which she often accompanies with a knowing grin, using the redoubtable combination to tame adversaries, convince clients or even persuade a political constituency. The Horse woman's mouth is large with full lips which grow thinner as she ages. Her teeth are long and very white, her smile winning and her voice mellifluous, resonant and cheerful.

You may be able to recognise the Horse woman in your own entourage by their straight, wiry build. They carry themselves bolt upright and often have broad shoulders and a short torso with longish arms and thighs. Her build is not exactly what we think of today as feminine, as she is neither delicate nor voluptuous. Yet Horse women have an active, lusty sex life and are attractive to men.

Love, for the Horse woman, is rarely peaceful. There is something tormented about her approach to love which robs her of the pure joy of letting herself go. The Chinese say that she is more attracted to the erotic aspects of sex than the emotional. The way she often insists on odd or novel positions and is attracted to arcanely adventurous escapades such as making love in an airplane lavatory remind one of the classical male approach to sex which, by virtue of its emphasis on technique, is often accused of lacking romance and warmth.

In her secret heart, the Horse woman longs for a Prince Charming who will whisk her off to some mythical sex dreamland whence she will never have to return to punch a time-clock. In reality she is often attracted to weak-willed, ethereal men whom she can handle and even squash. She likes to feel stronger than her mate but feels she can help him to be happier in her company and care.

She is usually faithful in marriage but sometimes, because of a difficult chapter in her relationship or a nagging sense of inadequacy in sex and love, she will throw herself indiscriminately into one or even a few mad affairs. Not everyone feels as profoundly as Ms Horse about marriage and family and she may find herself in the arms of philanderers before she realises that men of easy virtue couldn't care less about her. Sadly, because she is so essentially serious about sex, these hastily terminated marital asides often cause her great sadness and may only increase her sense of failure. She should be careful not to leap before she takes a good look over the precipice of any apparently irresistible aventure sexuelle.

In intimate situations this woman is frequently thought to be cold or stand-offish. The properly-stimulated Horse woman, however, will prove a sensual, gentle and even submissive lover and will know how to please even the most complicated partner. But she needs an understanding lover. She is skittish about being touched or intruded upon and must be cajoled or carressed skilfully before becoming aroused. Once a lover has learned the secrets of this woman's complex sexuality, she can be his for ever as she is not one to flit about looking for cheap thrills.

The Horse woman is usually ebullient and vital. She exudes energy and enthusiasm for all that is new and exotic, for adventure and fun. Mostly we perceive her as self-confident, at ease and glad to be alive. She is always on the move, restless and raring to get up and go - sometimes she grows neurotic and paranoid because she cannot find enough to do.

Idleness is her enemy. Even bedridden, the Horse woman stays busy. The idea of sitting in a room without doing something causes the horse unbearable moral pain.

Concerned first with the material in life, the Horse woman is rarely preoccupied with spirituality. Religion only interests her for its social value. She feels that the church is a good place for the family to go once a week or a convenient outlet for her energy, perhaps volunteering to arrange the flowers or to organize Sunday school picnics. The Horse woman does not seek to penetrate far beyond the surface: she likes to deal in the concrete. She may be said to lack subtlety in her approach to life but this is the "deficiency" which serves her practical needs so perfectly. Horse women are not solely interested in gain, ownership and wealth, but they would prefer to be comfortably secure than entrust their survival to chance, God, or even the goodwill of another human being. They invariably choose the solid-citizen tangible long-term solution over the temporal pleaures of any fly-by-night scheme or the thrill of a fleeting moment of joy.

Once the Horse woman has made up her mind, she sticks with it. She's a rugged individual, a self-starter and finisher. She has unusual strength and a strong, almost virile character, knowing exactly what she wants out of a given situation and going after it in her own inimitable fashion. Beyond the normal courage of meeting everyday life head-on, the Horse woman is capable of unflinching confidence in the face of impossible odds. She is frequently over-optimistic and may even think she can do more than is humanly possible.

When Autumn was small she used to tell me not to worry about being poor because she was going to win a sewing contest where the prize for the best-designed dress was a million dollars. "And I'll give all the money to you, Mom".
"But honey," I had to tell her, "you don't know how to sew!"
"I'll learn," she said gaily.
And she did learn. She didn't win the nationwide contest, and was sharply disappointed, but she so believed in her own talent that she did not let a detail like not knowing how to sew stand in her way.

Autumn's optimism was not entirely unfounded: female Horses are gifted in crafts, arts and skills involving the hands and the head. It's not unusual for a Horse wife and mother to make all her family's clothes, preserve vegetables from her garden, entertain in high style, decorate her home intricately and find time to be a lawyer or a doctor.

Like her male counterpart, the female Horse has impressive intellectual capacities and can choose almost any profession where she will be challenged and guaranteed to keep busy. She also needs freedom and cannot be confined to a small office, or a tiny desk in a typing pool. She takes up a lot of social room and will always set herself apart by exhibiting her desire to take charge and organise the time and efficiency of others. She has little patience for waiting out long-term goals and prefers immediate satisfaction. She loves excitement, challenge and risk. She's addicted to novelty and prefers surprises to predictability, in her work as well as her colleagues.

[MellySingsDoom]

Horse Woman (Part Two):
Providing she finds the right trainer to emulate, the Horse female could be a professional athlete, musician or dancer. She is combative and persuasive as well as socially correct and could do well in politics. As she is an effective reformer and rabble-rouser, any career choice involving teaching, social work, the law, medicine, journalism or psychology will involve struggling against worn-out, established traditions in favour of practical, up-to-date methods. As she likes meeting the public, she might choose to be a travelling saleswoman or product demonstrator, or, in keeping with her craving for excitement, she might be a success as a spy or a private detective, a thriller writer or an international commodities broker.

The Horse woman despises convention and cannot abide snobbery. She chooses her friends from every walk of life and takes pride in her ability to alter her thinking, shift her ideas or make sweeping life changes at a moment's notice. Always confident that things will work out for her, she's a true survivor, who instinctively knows how to bend society's rules and get away with it - without losing her solid social reputation.

A few unappealing character traits may cloud this dashingly interesting wona's personality portrait. She is excessively emotional and controlling her impetuous outbursts is almost a full-time job for her. Also, she is an exacerbated egotist. She is completely insensitive and indifferent to the world's ills. No matter now apparently involved she seems in family or friends, love or money, the Horse woman lives solely for herself and is interested only in serving her own interests. Even the most persuasive and reasonable pleas for humanitarian causes go right over her head. Yet she is usually immensely kind to her friends and immediate family, going out of her way to be hospitable and caring because she feels that she has either chosen, given birth to or inherited these folk and therefore enjoys helping them as an extension of herself.

But outsiders beware: the Horse woman can be ruthless and is entirely self-serving when her own interests (or ego) are at stake. She is a harsh judge of those whom she deems weak or too sensitive to criticism and will often taunt them with hurtful remarks and provocative behaviour. Like her male counterparts, she thinks she is always right and speaks presumptouously on subjects about which she knows nothing. She can be argumentative and outspoken but if suddenly proved wrong or finding herself cornered by a better debater, the Horse woman will cease communication in a flash and disappear into an impressive silent snit that could shroud Russia in darkness for several months.

It is at this point that her emotional vunerability shows most vividly. the Horse woman can 'dish it out but she cannot take it'. The smallest slight may cause her to retreat into one of her tomb states. An unintentionally wounding remark can put the Horse woman off her feed for days. When rejected or humiliated, she pouts and sulks. Joshing and jollying usually don't help - better leave her alone to ease out her black periods. She lacks the ability to laugh at herself, a sense of cynicism or fun, a security valve that lets off steam slowly, allowing her to play it cool when she is attacked or overpowered. But the Horse woman stubbornly perceives herself as alone, aloof and unafraid. Ordinarily, she relates to society and loved ones through solid, pragmatic acts. She believes in honesty and forthrightness and is undone by the irrational or supernatural. When she's befuddled by an intangible, she will scrub the floor or wash all the windows in her house. She is a doer, a thinker, but not an effective layabout who sorts out problems through rumination. Meditation might do her good but she would never go near it for feat of the idleness it involves.

At work, the Horse woman can be both vengeful and vindictive. She is often a die-hard feminist who means to turn the world around and see it run the proper way - her way! The man's world is an abomination. She would like nothing more than to show them all how to do it better, more efficiently and without violence. But because she is profoundly vunerable and emotionally unstable, Ms Horse sometimes lacks persistence in her vendettas. She knows that she needs to focus on her prey, yet she is hounded by a million angry-hunting-dog distractions nipping at her heels and throwing her off her target. Her energies are diluted, time runs out and she sometimes misses her goal, suffering enormously for the failure she perceives as her own damn fault. She may become depressed or despondent. Her biggest enemy is self-doubt, which throws her off course whenever she confronts it.

Sher never blames others for her mistakes but she is neither circumspect nor perceptive enough to work around self-doubt by cajoling herself, taking a do-nothing holiday and being gentle with her fragile nervous system. Her fear of inactivity coupled with the lack of self-confidence will usually send her into spasms of anxiety followed by surges of empty motion which only serve to tire and lead her even closer to the abyss of total nervous collapse.

How can the Horse woman improve her life? Professionally, she is not unlike the Tiger woman and should learn early on to curb her impulsiveness and temper her passion for independence.

Whatever she does, whether she stays at home raising dogs and kids and making a comfortable nest for the family, or becomes a world-beating women's rights attorney the Horse woman will do it well. From birth she is bound for an exciting - and unusual - lifestyle that she will create for herself and her loved ones in her own far from uncomplicated fashion.

[Cantankerous]

i can't believe you typed all that out! thanks

that sounds very accurate to me.

"the Horse woman can 'dish it out but she cannot take it'."

!@£$%! is going to laugh at that. so hard.

[MellySingsDoom]

No probs! I'm so used to typing at work that it's second nature to me

Amazing isn't it how spot on that book is? I tend towards massive cyncism on these things, but I'm very much impressed & convinced with Chinese astrology.

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

No probs! I'm so used to typing at work that it's second nature to me

Amazing isn't it how spot on that book is? I tend towards massive cyncism on these things, but I'm very much impressed & convinced with Chinese astrology.

it is pretty interesting

i just did julian's chart

so much of it is in scorpio, it's insane...something like six planets including the sun..which is completely fitting because he's like the most intense person ever. and nothing gets past him. you cannot hide ANYTHING from him, there's no point even trying. he should be one of those people who interrogates you when you get arrested because he could make you tell him anything and even if you kept yr mouth shut he'd figure it out on his own.

but i can corner him and make the bastard do anything i want because i'm infinitely more clever than he is. trickery and illusions is my game.



oddly enough his chinese animal is a tiger which is equivalent to aquarius
and mine is a horse which is equivalent to gemini

and pisces + scorpio

perfect. neither of us could have been born at a better time.

[MellySingsDoom]

"Trickery and illusions is my game" - a perfect description of Magic....

I just did demonrail's astrological chart out of curiosity - here's what it says about his rising sign (it's very accurate of him):

Rising Sign is in 23 Degrees Taurus
Calm and deliberate, you hate to move quickly or act hastily. Very practical, every effort must count or you can't be bothered. Patient, persistent and steady, but very stubborn -- you can't be pushed or pressured into anything. You seem outwardly self-assured because you tend to repress your inner tension and turmoil. You exude an earthy warmth, friendliness and charm. You demand comfortable surroundings and appreciate the good life. Be careful of a tendency to be overly self-indulgent. At times, you are lazy and difficult to motivate. Overcoming inertia is a problem for you and, because you are not by nature a self-starter, it is often necessary for you to receive stimuli from others in order to get moving.

[Cantankerous]

"an earthy warmth"

hahahahaha

[MellySingsDoom]

Just did Dad Melly's too - very, very accurate. Here be his rising sign:

Rising Sign is in 02 Degrees Sagittarius
You are known for being open, frank, outgoing and honest. At times, though, you are also blunt and quite indiscreet. Others have to learn not to take everything you say personally, because you usually do not mean any harm. You appreciate living your life in a straightforward and simple manner -- you dislike social niceties and consider them to be hindrances to real communication. You have lots and lots of energy and tend to become quite restless if you feel confined. You demand the freedom to do as you choose -- you must be self- directed or you feel trapped and anxious. With your abundant energy, you enjoy being outdoors, and you should be attracted to physical exercise or to those forms of sport which can help you burn off some of that excess energy. Very gregarious, you love to socialize -- your innate enthusiasm livens up any gathering.

[Cantankerous]

this thread is missing pretty pictures

 

[SYRFox]

A few months ago my horoscope announced that I could die of a heart attack in the coming days. It still haven't happened though.

[MellySingsDoom]

My Chinese astrology book say that I'm meant to be good with money...wrong!

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by SYRFox

A few months ago my horoscope announced that I could die of a heart attack in the coming days. It still haven't happened though.

shame.