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Goat people have good taste and are quite charming and elegant … and can be rich. You may find them the center of attention at a stylish dinner party, ravishing all with incomparable wit and bon mots. The opposite is also true: they are often quite shy and sometimes prefer complete anonymity, the quiet life at home with a good book, a roaring fire, and the joys of the palate. A creative flame burns in their lives and you may find them before a canvas experimenting with bright bold genius strokes of paint. Sometimes, they tend to be pessimistic and question the meaning of life, wondering "why they dwell among green mountains." They are quite often deeply religious or spiritual and quite passionate about their work and their belief.

If you were born on October 12, 1955 you are a Wood Goat. The successful Wood Goat has the horsepower of an optimist and the emergency brakes of a pessimist. The Wood Goat has a burning ambition that keeps his or her career path always moving upwards towards the mountain top. They are multi-talented jugglers, excelling in whatever endeavors they pursue. Super organizers, they can solve even the toughest of problems. Because of their laser focus, they always generate results. Financial Life is not too bad either! They have the opportunity to make really big money and must constantly be on guard not to let opportunities pass them by. In the Love & Relationships arena, Wood Goats are blessed. Many divorces are caused by the marriage of two people who are in love with themselves. This won't happen with Wood Goats, who love their partners more than life itself. They take great pains to please their loved ones, who, however, may not ever hear whispered sweet nothings from their Goats. The Wood Goats, you see, don't wear their feelings on their sleeve. It's hard for them to talk about love but easy for them to show it. And show it they do, with countless acts of kindness and courtesy! This relationship will be filled with love of the most abiding kind.

All Goats are noted for their whimsical behavior — it is always more or less hazardous to predict their reactions and moves. In the Wood Goat, however, there seems to be a good blend of the stable and the unforeseeable, his caprices alternating regularly with his thoughtful acts. For this reason people generally find his personality more interesting than that of most members of the sign, and he has relatively few problems of social adjustment.

The Goat of this combination is also the theater of numerous others cyclic alternations. Basically confident and optimistic, he periodically gives in to moods of fear and insecurity for no apparent reason. Every now and then he feels himself moved by a powerful surge of self-pride, wanting to do too many things or too well in order to prove his worth, whereas he is generally known as a lazy and dependent individual. Egoistic, obsessively concerned with his own comfort, he may show fits of excessive generosity and indulge in such altruistic gestures as verge on histrionics. With age, however, he will tend to outgrow these tendencies and acquire more equilibrium.

He is likely to be confronted with an internal moral problem most of the time. On one hand, he is a hedonist and sincerely believes that pleasure is essentially amoral; on the other hand, his conscience keeps telling him in its nagging voice that the pursuit of pleasure is unworthy.

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