As the cock crows at sunrise,
may the Year of the Rooster
bring you much sunshine,
joy, harmony, & peace!
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The Chinese Lunar New Year 4703 begins on February 9, 2005
when the first New Moon after the Full Moon greets the Year
of the Rooster. The cock is a solar bird and attribute of
sun gods. The rooster is the 10th animal sign in the Chinese
Zodiac, and corresponds to the element metal, the color white,
and the direction west. As ghosts disappear at sunrise,
the cock is supposed to drive them away by his crowing.
The rooster is associated with the yang principle,
benevolence, faithfulness, and valor. With a crown
on its head it portrays the literary spirit; with spurs
it is a warlike character. The rooster symbolizes courage,
reliability, vigilance, and the dawn. Rooster-year people
are aggressive, dauntless, industrious, and straightforward.
They are artistic, ambitious, hard-working, and resilient,
making them good actors, musicians, philosophers, scientists,
and writers. Musicians born in the Rooster Year: Enrico Caruso
& Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Otto Klemperer (1885),
Gene Krupa (1909), Elton John & Eric Clapton (1945);
Explorers: Fridtjof Nansen (1861); Film Stars:
Erich von Stroheim (1885), Errol Flynn (1909),
Deborah Kerr, Yves Montand, & Peter Ustinov (1921);
Philosophers: Alfred North Whitehead & Rudolf Steiner (1861),
G. E. Moore (1873), Simone Weil (1909); Scientists:
Alexis Carrel, Lee De Forest (1873), Neils Bohr,
Harlow Shapley (1885), Irène Joliot-Curie,
William Reich (1897), Edwin Land (1909);
Writers: August Strindberg (1849),
Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Willa Cather,
Walter de la Mare (1873), William Faulkner (1897),
Alex Haley (1921).
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