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The twelve Animal Signs
for Women
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Tiger woman
Her physical background
The Tiger woman possesses exceptional ascendancy over others. All those who come into contact with her cannot help being swayed by her powerful personality. Her magnetism is such that no one can remain indifferent in her presence.
All her physique bears witness to her health, vitality, dynamism and aggressiveness. She is generally taller than average, slender, muscular, with a slightly angular figure and a determined, energetic gait. Her bearing is erect and proud - she never loses an inch of her height and always gazes at her interlocutors straight in the eyes. Overall, this woman is not very feminine by habitual standards, but she looks definitely pretty and sexy.
Her face is elongated, somewhat triangular, like that of the Rat woman, but much more vivid and expressive. It is easy to recognize her by her high forehead, her prominent cheekbones, her small mouth, her thin lips and her resolute chin. The candor of her look is at the same time fascinating and disarming. Her eyes always reflect faithfully all her emotions and sentiments, however hard she tries to dissimulate them.
Owing to her incessant activity and fighting optimism, the Tiger-born woman remains slim and youthful until well past her middle age. Nature protects her completely from cellulitis, a scourge for numerous other women. As she prefers slacks to skirts, casualness to formality, and adventures to security and comfort, she tends to enhance her image as an eternal young girl.
The native is graced with a sound constitution and great powers of resistance. Her immense energy allows her to undertake vast projects and struggle successfully for her identity as a woman in this man-dominated world. Her chief fault is her persistent indifference to the demands of her organism and tendency to overstep the bounds of her endurance. She habitually refuses to interrupt or reduce her activity even though she feels tired, pretending that tiredness is only a psychological phenomenon and that in any case she cannot afford to slacken and indulge in idleness for a moment. Her constant tension lies at the root of her many health troubles which are perfectly preventable with a little more common sense. She shares with her male counterpart the same liability for headaches, nervous breakdowns and stomach ulcers. She would be well inspired to heed the alarm signal sent out by her body when on waking in the morning she feels exhausted; it would be most unwise for her to overdo in that case and hope that things will eventually straighten themselves out in due time.
So long as she leads a reasonable life, making enough place for rest, sleep, open air, a balanced diet and sport, there is nothing she must fear for her physical well-being. A less aggressive attitude toward life and people may also be of great help. After all, she must realize that not every woman is as much privileged on the physical plane as she is, and must get down to the business of preserving her precious health capital to the best of her ability.
The most dreadful danger lurking on the path of this subject is her relentless unwillingness to accept herself as a female. We have here a woman who, more or less consciously, refuses to be a woman and wishes to be a man. Her feminity she regards as a curse or at least as a distinct drawback; she sincerely believes that her life would be simpler and better should she belong to the bearded sex. Where any observer can explain her attitude, only psychiatrists are able to pinpoint aptly the somatizing reactions triggered by her conflictual tension. She may suffer from conversion hysteria, presenting an acute dysfunction of her breasts or genitals, or being bothered by a varied number of disorders which can be ascribed to no apparent cause. It is clear that only common sense is in a position to help her ward off this grave danger.
Despite her vitality and dynamism, the Tiger-year female often falls victim to her emotional instability. She tends to react too strongly and too deeply to situations and events which could leave quieter types unruffled. Any emotional shock of some importance is instrumental in upheaving her physiological equilibrium and opening her body's doors to all kinds of illnesses; great fears, angers or deceptions are more dangerous to her than germs and toxins. In all logic, she should try to arrange her life in such a way as to be sheltered from emotional convulsions. She can reach this objective by taking life and herself more lightly, by practicing relaxation and self-control, and above all by learning equanimity and stoicism.
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