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The twelve Animal Signs
for Women
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Monkey woman
Her physical background
The Monkey female is well noted for her benevolent look. One can detect no shade of malice or wickedness in those naive eyes, which are sometimes dreamy, sometimes surprised. Many natives of the sign, however, have such a strange expression in their eyes that ill-disposed people may take them for sorceresses.
A glowing complexion is often another distinctive trait of the Monkey woman. She gets a tan easily and quickly, even with a tanning lamp, so that she can appear at any period of the year as just back from sunny vacation.
Her face represents a graceful oval, highlighted by the fineness of her features. Her cheekbones are high and protruding. One can generally recognize her by her large, smooth forehead, her small but well-shaped mouth, and her relatively short nose. She often wears her hair short because it is seldom abundant.
This subject enjoys a slender body which slackens only under exceptionally adverse conditions. Her gait and gestures are brusque and jerky, faithfully reflecting her natural nervousness and profound dissatisfaction with the established order. Her garments are even more indicative of her rebellious temperament - she dresses up in an incredibly eccentric manner and wears barbaric jewels. Nevertheless, there is often a curious air of absent-mindedness about her which has its own undeniable charm.
The Monkey female's general physical condition is rather good. A priori, her health does not give any subject of grave concern. But one cannot help noticing how closely her well-being depends on her psychological equilibrium: When happy, she can show astonishing resilience; but when besieged by worries or deceptions, she invariably falls victim to a variety of miseries, minor and major.
She displays a propensity for obscure disorders, which may be only a physiological translation of her nervousness, or more exactly, her drastic refusal to accommodate herself to the existing state of things. As a result, she often suffers from insomnia, colds, fevers, allergies, respiratory troubles, and skin disorders. A homeopath or psychiatrist is likely to be in a better position to treat her than an allopath.
She is sometimes liable to problem of motion, hemiplegia, and even total paralysis. While it may prove difficult to diagnose these flails of hers in advance, it is known that they can only result from some kind of injury to one of the motor centers of her brain. Close surveillance by a well-trained, well-equipped specialist is therefore highly recommendable.
Just as like her male counterpart, the Monkey woman rarely escapes anemia and circulatory troubles with all their possible consequences - periods of exhaustion, vertigoes, faintness, nosebleeds, among others. Her gums may tend to bleed, and her teeth to work loose. But as a woman she deems her disposition to fatigue less "catastrophic" than varices and swellings in her legs!
The most important thing she has to do is to realize and accept the fact that she does not possess an iron health. Once this difficult step has been taken, the task of preserving her physical well-being becomes a rather simple affair.
In view of her extreme nervousness, she will have to live at a leisurely pace and avoid all violent emotions. It is in her interest to convince herself that "Rome was not built in one day" and that world revolution is not her exclusive responsibility.
She needs a lot of sleep - at least eight hours each day - and should never be careless on this score. Her insomnia can be combated efficaciously with herbs, not with sleeping pills, which would only make her condition worse. Alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, and in general all stimulants must be categorically banned.
Concerning her hypotension, there is nothing more pernicious than a sedentary mode of living. Clerical work, for instance, definitely does not suit this subject, both psychologically and physically; even hairdressing is detrimental to her as it may compel her to remain in standing position for hours on end every day. On the other hand, it is good for her to know that the best way to get varices or aggravate them is to bask passively in the sun.
Her foods must be highly digestible and above all varied, with special emphasis put on those rich in B vitamins such as wheat germs, brewers' yeast, bean curd and bean sprouts. Her appetite often needs to be stimulated, preferably with mild spices.
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