Horse

Horse has an indomitable spirit and is always moving toward a goal. It ranks the seventh in the Chinese Zodiac. People born under the sign of the Horse are clever, active, energetic, quick-witted, fashionable, agile, popular among others and have the ability to persuade others. On the other side, they might be some selfish, arrogant and over-confident.

Chinese: 马 (Mǎ)
Earthly Branches: Wu (午)
Energy: Yang
Five Elements: Fire (Huo)

Lucky things

Lucky Flowers: Calla lily, Jasmine, Marigold
Lucky Gemstone: Topaz
Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 9
Lucky Colors: Green, Red, Purple
Lucky Directions: Northeast, Southwest and Northwest
Best Match: Tiger, Sheep, Dog

Unlucky things

Unlucky Numbers: 1, 5, 6
Unlucky Colors: Blue, White, Golden
Unlucky Direction: North, Northwest
Worst Match: Rat, Ox, Rabbit, Horse

Personality traits

People born in the year of the Horse are fiery, warm-hearted and generous. There are always plenty of friends around them as they are good at getting along with others. But they are not good at keeping secrets. They prefer social activities because of which, there are usually too many overheads preventing them from saving up money.

Open-minded and positive are strong points for the person under the sign of the Horse, but the drawback is that he/she often can not insist on doing things from the beginning to the end. Although showing positive attitude at the beginning, they are easy to give up once encounter small obstacles. Due to this reason, they are usually thought to be lack of responsibility. Most of them like to leave away from home to struggle for their career in youth. So they are easily to succeed when they are young but begin to encounter failure from the middle age.

In love, the Horse person is straightforward and focuses much on appearance. So they are always attractive. However, due to their never-lasting character trait, they usually couldn’t go long with their mates. Also in work, although they have excellent physical conditioning, they couldn’t get great success because of such characters.

Male personality traits

Male Horses are independent and unrestrained. Courage and confidence are the greatest strength of Horse men who are also easy-going and highly capable of management. They look fashionable, seek the limelight, move nimbly and have a swift response, which are inextricable with their habit of taking part in physical exercise. Also, they are quick-witted, cheerful, incandescent, sincere and optimistic. The shortcomings for them is that they are hot-headed, deaf to advice and short of patience and motivation despite they are ambitious.

In daily life, Horse men are energetic but impetuous. Their greatest strength is that they are confident and kind. Male Horses are not routineer. Instead, they prefer to dress up to the nines and choose the gorgeous and tacky peculiar style in light colors to join activities or parties. They are also fond of intellectual and physical activities.

As for love relationship, Male Horses can fall in and get out quickly. Although they adore the feeling of falling in love at first sight, they are suspicious of such relationship deep inside. For them, the most acceptable approach is developing from friends to lovers. Extremely sensitive to crisis in love, they may lose everything once fall in crazily.

Male Horses can take several tasks simultaneously and control the overall situation properly. Once they are determined, they will be devoted to the career without hesitation. They are either running around doing business or lying down exhaustedly. Generally, they act on their intuition.

Female personality traits

Female Horses are energetic, fashionable, pretty, lively and light-headed. Some of them are gentle while some are unruly. However, they can always earn admiration from others.

Full of energy and motivated, Horse women dare to struggle in life. In spare time, they are active and like taking exercise. Also, they love fresh plants, outdoor scenery and nature, are full of positive energy and pass their joys to people around to make everyone happier.

Female Horses are always vibrant and lively in life. Even if they are frustrated, they can remain even-tempered and confident to tide over difficulties. The optimistic and confident Horse women are full of hope for future life.

Quite sensitive to love and relationship, they fall for someone easily and tend to take love as an important part in life. If their lovers propose a breakup, Female Horses may lose everything yet can get out of it quickly.

In their work, they are positive, diligent, studious, sincere, talented and passionate. Even the boring work can be creative and fun for them because they have the ability to revive and create a relaxed and natural atmosphere. Skilled in extrapolation and quite amiable, they are adept in communication with wisdom. Therefore, they can be good partner for colleagues and right hand for superiors.

Compatibility

In terms of relationship with the people under other animal signs, the Horse people’s best companions are the Tiger, Sheep and Dog. The Horse people usually could find the life goal from the dependence of Sheep. When staying with the Tigers, the Horses can be moved by their hospitality and attracted by them. To be together with the Dogs, the Horses could make love grow like an evergreen tree because of the Dog’s patient character.

Also, the people under the Dragon, Snake, Monkey, Pig, and Rooster signs are nice ones to be friends or partners with the Horse people.

However, the Horses don’t like the Rat people and the Rats also can’t accept the Horse’s characters. Besides, there will be conflicts for the Horses to contact with the Ox persons, as their personalities clash with each other. When cooperate with the Rabbits, there will be many frictions for the Horses who usually lack patience. Also in love, they could understand each other completely. When two Horses make a combination, it’s hard to enjoy a stable family because both of them hate the restraint of daily trifles.

Careers

The people under the animal sign of Horse are fit to efficient works instead of simple and monotonous ones. E.g. Journalists, translators, salesmen, and securities traders would be perfect. Also, the Horse people have their qualities to be an artist. The ability to adjust to the changing circumstances also enables them to be a good statesman or critics. The Horses could do some active and positive jobs like an athlete. To those naturally confident Horses, they are suitable to be an adventurer, architect or entertainer and in those works they could get great achievements.

Best Work Partners: Tiger, Sheep and Dog
Best Age to Start a Business: 30 – 50
Best Career Field: Tourism
Best Business to Do: Gallery
Best Direction for Career: East, South, Northeast, Southeast

Love

Horse is ranked in the top four zodiac signs blessed in love relationship. People born in the year of the Horse are good at dressing up, good-looking, charming and very popular with the opposite sex. They are cheerful, gifted for words, responsible and optimistic. In love relationship, Horse people are frank and less possible to get caught up in dilemmas. When they find the relationship is impossible, they will change and find another one.

People of Horse sign like to gallop freely in the vast prairie and they believe in love. In their ideology, love is free and sweet. Therefore, they look forward to the free relationship and would keep their lovers within their control.

Due to the strong sense of crisis in love, they prefer to take the lead and the initiative. Once their lovers are out of control, they will feel very anxious. As the saying goes, ''do not do to others what you would not have them do to you''. Horses are suggested not to impose their own ideas on their partners since everyone enjoys freedom in love. Otherwise, the love will be worn down sooner or later no matter how deep it is.

In a relationship, the other side's thoughts and feelings are very important and the proper distance will make it better. Horse people are suggested to be more sensible and sober in love.

If you have a lover whose sign is Horse, you need to be highly coordinated and enjoy the surprises he/she makes because the relationship will be hurt by the strong personality. A gentle way is easier to get into each other's heart.

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21 January 1966  –  08 February 1967
Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - red. Element - fire.

07 February 1978  –  27 January 1979
Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - brown. Element - earth.

26 January 1990  –  13 February 1991
Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - white. Element - metal.

12 February 2002  –  31 January 2003
Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - blue. Element - water.

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Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - green. Element - wood.

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Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - red. Element - fire.

04 February 2038  –  23 January 2039
Yang (male year, sun and light, sky and day). Colour - brown. Element - earth.