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2010 Rat Predictions

In Year of Metal Tiger

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2010 Rat Predictions

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by guest author Suzanne White

You're always a bit insecure in Tiger years. The Tiger cares nothing for security, society or safety. He lives and breathes in a state of constant peril. You may not enjoy being held back by a heavyset Ox or even criticized by the disquiet Dog. But you do hate being forced to comply with the rambunctious Tiger. He's so volatile and you're so jumpy. You never quite know what's going to happen next.

Will the year bring you riches or will you slide directly into poverty without passing GO? Nobody knows-not even the terrible Tiger. What's worse, he doesn't care. Money and material gain mean nothing to him. He's luckier than most, so he doesn't have to work as hard as you. Besides, he can be shifty. Not that you are not his arch rival in the shiftiness department. But you don't like the ease with which he goes about being sleazier than thou and getting away with it.

Political and social changes are happening all around you, which doesn't help. Take it easy, though. The Tiger does not dislike you and admires your talent for leadership. If you can relax a bit, keep your beady little eyes open and wax fatalistic for a change, you might learn something-or at the very least, be appointed the Tiger's chief chicanery counselor.

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