Year of the Goat

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[NormsRevenge]

Harry Potter & Putin

[NormsRevenge]

Fri Jan 31, 4:13 AM ET

A woman threads a live snake up her nose and out her mouth during a performance at the Temple of the Earth fair on the eve of Chinese New Year in Beijing Friday Jan 31, 2003. Thousands crowded the fair Friday in early celebrations of the Year of the Goat, which begins Saturday. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

Fri Jan 31, 2:29 PM ET

Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites), left, and Dobby, the house elf character from the movie 'Harry Potter (news - web sites) and the Chamber of Secrets,'' are shown in this photo combo. Moviegoers around the world have been struck by the resemblance between Putin and Dobby. The BBC even set up a Putin/Dobby poll on its children's web site. Out of 9,188 people who had cast votes as of Friday, Jan. 31, 2003, nearly 57 percent agreed that Putin does look like Dobby. (AP Photo)

[NormsRevenge]

Daydreaming all afternoon sounds heavenly to the Goat. This creative, esoteric Sign needs plenty of time alone in which to feed its Muse. Goats are generally most comfortable in their own minds (which other, more linear-thinking Signs may have trouble deciphering). This Sign makes a great craftsperson or artisan, or perhaps a teacher of New Age studies -- any occupation that allows its mind the full range of freedom. Goats tend not to be very well-organized, precluding many more dry business endeavors. In fact, Goats tend not to be very materialistic in general, finding plenty of riches in their own imagination. However, especially when in love, the Goat can be quite a lavish gift-giver.

Perhaps it's that artistic temperament that so often causes Goats to feel insecure, but the result is that these high-strung creatures need to feel loved and admired lest they start worrying incessantly. For this reason, Goats tend to have a hard time with romance; anyone who couples up with a Goat must know, this Sign has a sensitive streak a mile wide and can be subject to bouts of anxiety over seemingly inconsequential things. Goats need plenty of love, support and open reassurance from their lovers. If a relationship is marked by conflict, the Goat will often pull away -- either physically or simply by retreating into the safe haven of its imagination.

If the romance is going well, however, Goats won't hesitate to tell their partner what they need -- and they can be quite insistent about it! This Sign will definitely return the favor, however; the Goat has a luxurious side that delights in indulging a lover's every wish. Appearances are also important to the Goat, which may explain why these folks can spend hours primping and posing.

Goats would be well-served by learning to relax and let others run the show from time to time. Once they can be certain that their friends and lovers won't be gone when the Goat returns from its daydreams, life will be a field of daisies.

The most compatible match for a Goat is the Pig or the Rabbit.

The Western Astrology counterpart to the Goat of Chinese Astrology is the Sign of Cancer.

[LibKill]

Y'know, if I had never seen that picture of the girl with the snake I might have lived forever. Just maybe.

Now we'll never know.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It looks like a Photoshop job, and not even a very good one at that. The snake would have to be twisted 180 degrees somewhere in there, to make it look like that (two different color pieces).

[SamAdams76]

The girl with the snake: How the heck does one go about practicing something like that? I don't even want to think about what she might do for an encore.

[LibKill]

Puhleeze! I don't know. I don't want to know.

All I know is that seeing that picture cost me my shot at immortality.

[smalltown]

I set it as my desktop - for when the wife turns on the computer tomorrow morning.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I don't even want to think about what she might do for an encore.

In one ear and out the other?

[B Knotts]

[LibKill]

I set it as my desktop - for when the wife turns on the computer tomorrow morning.

Are you mad at her? Does she have some kind of heart condition thingy?

And most importantly, is she armed?

There is still time to undo that desktop.

[Slyfox]

Your goats are not safe!

[sociotard]

I've always found chinese astrology a bit perplexing (ok, I find all astrology strange). Since they base it on what year you were born in, shouldn't that mean everyone in your graduating class should be more or less the same. ;) Even so, I am a chinese "cock", and the placemat at the evergreen buffet said that meant I was excentric, so they got that right.