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Tomorrow is the Chinese new year. The sign is the monkey and the element will be wood. So it's going to be the year of the wooden monkey. Just though I'd share that bit of international knowledge with everyone.

I was born on a year of the monkey. However, my element was metal. So that makes me a metal monkey.

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The Metal Monkey

- The native of this combination ranks among the most intelligent members of the sign. He (or she) has the exceptional power of both analysis and synthesis. Nothing can escape his sharp and inquisitive mind. He approaches every problem with a carefully studied detachment, leaving little room for fantasy or unfairness. Although his decisions are generally irrevocable, he has nothing of a foolhardy man, for the limits of his capacities always make a part of his calculations. Moreover, he gives every indication of his perfect self-control.

- This is a charmer in his own way despite his eccentricities of manners and dress, his startling switches, and his malicious delights in shocking. The secret of his success in society resides in his great simplicity, his magnetism, his mild craziness as well as his sense of the given word. People simply cannot help liking him. Yet, gregarious and sociable though he may be, the Metal Monkey does not mind being alone and even sometimes longs for quiet and solitude.

- Unlike his Earth brother (or sister), who seeks social acceptance as a necessity, he does not tend to be affected by his environment; public opinion and gossip have practically no influence on his thoughts and deeds. He is totally impervious to the martyr complex.

- Despite all his denials or pretenses, this Monkey hates familial life, be he a venerable ancestor, mate, parent, or child. He feels uneasy when dealing with members of his own family whereas he can be on excellent terms with people outside this circle. However, his loyalty toward his nearest ones, when it is needed, can never be put in doubt.

- For some obscure reason this Monkey often knows a much more difficult destiny than the other Monkeys, with numerous dramas, upheavals, and reversals. But he possesses sufficient fortitude and generally emerges from each trial more grown up morally than ever before. It seems that difficulties and problems of all kinds are apt to bring out the best in him.

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You can find your own sign and element here at Master Rao's Astrology Center.