The Rat may encounter some financial challenges, for their business will need utmost care and tending in order to reach full prosperity. But they should not wreck their health by working excessively. On the contrary, they would be better off looking for a good sense of relaxation in meditation and reflection.

Dear Rat, be a bookworm, and you'll profit from the year well. Do you know that reading is for the mind what exercise is for the body, as Joseph Addison said? Of course, it isn't necessary to read much, but it is necessary to read usefully. Through reading, you can find the means to ennoble yourself and to become wiser.

Wood Rat
Enterprising and at the same time sufficiently prudent so as not to take excessive risks, you'll cleverly manage your affairs. This is what will allow you to beat all obstacles and to reach important professional objectives this year.

Fire Rat
What a fine year! It will indeed bear the mark of the stars. As a result, in your work you'll know how to exploit the opportunities that will be presented to you, and you'll rapidly climb up the ladder of the hierarchy.

Earth Rat
This year you'll have the possibility to achieve great things. However, in order to succeed, you should channel your energy and beware of having an unfocused mind. In love, be wary of inappropriate outbursts! If you're happily married, don't risk jeopardizing everything by indulging in sudden whims.

Metal Rat
Confidence will be present in you, and this will permit you to move mountains! On the professional plane, you'll be in a position to achieve some of your highest ambitions. In love, you'll succeed in making passion and faithfulness coexist. And if you're single, you'll have great chances to meet the ideal partner!

Water Rat
You'll need harmony around you, and it's why you'll be prepared to control any aggressive tendencies. Heartwise, this intelligent attitude will allow you to soften the tensions that sometimes exist in your couple life and to have tender moments with your mate. In your work, you'll take time to get around the obstacles.

First quarter

Will you be looking for everlasting love? Not quite! What will most interest you during this period will be testing your seductive power and flirting with many hearts. You'll have no difficulty carrying out this program. Beware, however, of possible complications. In March, conjugal life may present you with some obstacles. You'll hesitate to make a choice that seems permanent. However, if you try to think it over seriously, this choice will appear perfectly evident and inescapable. Anyway, talk about it with your spouse.

Second quarter

If you've been in love with someone for a long time, you must put more imagination into your relationship. Avoid routine and monotony as you would the bubonic plague. 'In love, there is no more appalling disaster than the death of imagination' as George Meredith said. Your efforts will be rewarded. If you're free and intend to remain so, your love partners will all fail to put a rope round your neck at this time. But this should not be a reason for continuing to court danger.

Third quarter

This period will be a windfall for single natives. Suddenly, your existence will change drastically, for you'll undoubtedly experience a most exciting romance even though you may not have met your sister soul yet. Married couples will enjoy a renewal that will provide them with unknown delights and pleasures. However, sentimental climate toward the end of this quarter may not be particularly agreeable. You may have to stay far from your beloved one, or your love life will become complicated. You'll then have a seething desire to escape reality. These misunderstandings and separations may not be due to conscious intentions, but rather to an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Have patience, for things will turn a corner!

Fourth quarter

At the beginning of this period, the situation will not be very rosy. All the doubts that you've been able to dispel may haunt you. Yet the person whom you love will show you attachment and devotion. But you'll need more than that in order to feel reassured. Fortunately, the situation will change for the better around mid-December. The atmosphere will then be one of harmony. At the theater, the cinema, rock or classical music concerts, you may meet a person with whom you'll have many things in common, and the affairs of your heart will then fare very well.