[Close]People born under this sign are renowned for their charm. Although easily angered, they appear to be cool, calm and completely under control. Their ability to hide anger and discontent is a valuable asset.
Rat people have a great deal of ambition and integrity, and unbelievable persistence. Naturally thrifty, they have the ability to save money (and can be stingy too).
Rat people are, alas, inclined to be fussy about pretty things. Love brings out their generosity. They must guard against loving back because they can, in eagerness to impress, spend everything they've managed to save.
They like to live well and are good to themselves.
Since rat people adore gossip, their friends are sometimes of short duration
Principal qualities: Charm, Intelligence, imagination
Principal defects: Aggressive and individualistic. Insists upon
living only at their own rhythm
In work: Clever and opportunistic. Not one for group work, unless
everyone depends on them
Best role: Confidential agent
Worst role: Administrative employee
Money: Greedy and spendthrift
Luck: To be born on a summer's night, for in winter the granaries
are empty and they must work very hard to feed themselves
Cannot live without: Passion
Adores: Everything off the beaten track
Detests: Agendas, alarm clocks, family photograph albums
Leisure activities: Any voyage at all, provided they think they
are the first to take it
Favourite places: Grottoes, catacombs, caverns, underground passages,
undiscovered caves
Colours: red and black
Plants: savory, wormwood
Flowers: Orchid, tuberose and thistle
Skills: Salesman, commercial traveller, legal or financial expert,
broker, critic, writer, politician (of an extreme party, never the centre)
speleologist, doctor, anaesthetist, anatomical pathologist, criminologist,
detective and ... spy!
Adrenauer, Lucretia Borgia, Charlotte Bronte, Jimmy Carter, Pablo Casala, Charles I, Maurice Chevalier, Disraeli, Galileo, Haydn, Himmler, Ibsen, Lawrence of Arabia, Jack London, Mata-Hari, Monet, Mozart, Peter the Great, Rodin, Rossini, Shakespeare, Shelley, Johann Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Leo Tolstoy, Toulouse Lautrec, Washington, Emile Zola.