Taurus Rooster

You're an intense personality, and it takes many years of life experience before you start to mellow. Your mindset doesn't bend easily, and you tend to nurse resentments. You're demanding and rigorous in your standards, which makes you incredibly effective -- but also difficult, stubborn, domineering, and sometimes flat-out selfish. Add in your frequent bouts of bad temper and sudden emotional eruptions, and it's no surprise that people who don't know you well may keep their distance.

You're also deeply passionate and full of contradictions. Born with powerful instincts, you spend much of your life trying to keep them in check. You'll always feel a pull toward the intense extremes of life -- the intersection of pleasure and pain, desire and darkness. You also need to stay alert to your own self-destructive tendencies.

You love life fiercely and are determined to sink your teeth into it whenever you can. But your joys are almost always shadowed by darker thoughts, anxiety, or the nagging awareness that nothing good lasts forever.

With your remarkable capacity for work, career success comes naturally, and you generally have no trouble carving out a strong position for yourself.

You're drawn to extremes, which makes it hard to build a well-balanced love life. Physical desire plays a huge role in your destiny. However, your attachments can be powerful and lasting -- especially when you learn to master your more intense impulses.