Gifts for the Dragon Personality

East/Southeast

Southeast is the inter-cardinal, direction halfway between south and east, and the opposite of northwest, this period of “waxing” is very much a time for reflection. It is a time of promise and a time of greater possibilities that we should take advantage of during this transition. We are capable of so much more and our abilities to balance what we have is equivalent to how we perceive ourselves.

1st Trine

The twelve Chinese Zodiac signs are divided into four categories of three signs each, known as Trines

The first trine consists of the Rat, Dragon, and Monkey. These three signs are intense and powerful individuals, capable of great good or great evil. They make great leaders, but the three may have different approaches.Frustrated when slowed down or delayed, these signs are ruled by highly potent energy and unpredictability. At their worst, Rats are ruthlessly power hungry, vindictive, and Malevolent. Dragons are inflexible megalomaniacs and dogmatists. Monkeys are destructive manipulators and hedonists. They are intelligent, magnanimous, charismatic, charming, authoritative, confident, eloquent and artistic. They can also be tyrannical, bombastic, prejudiced, deceitful, imperious and ruthless.

Sources: Shelly H. Wu. (2005). Chinese Astrology. Publisher: The Career Press, Inc. ISBN 1-56414-796-7

Secret Persona

Based on your TIME OF BIRTH, your secret animal is thought to be a person’s “secret persona” or your truest representation, since this animal is determined by the smallest denominator: a person’s birth hour. This animal represents the person you are but, that you prevent the rest of the world from knowing about.

The Chinese Zodiac is based on astrology so those 2-hour increments of time coincide with the position of the sun in the sky, not the time on your local clock. Remember: The sun’s position isn’t lead by daylight savings time or Greenwich mean time so be sure you’re calculating your birth time accurately or you may end up with the wrong secret animal.

Your Power Persona

People with primary POWER traits are natural leaders who are driven to identify goals and attain them. These self-assured personas quickly earn the respect of their friends, family, co-workers, customers and peers. The 5 defining POWER personality characteristics include:

1. Confident: A POWER personality usually does not fear the unknown and rarely doubts their ability to reach the finish line.

2. Goal-Oriented: Those with a POWER personality tend to be intensely focused on achievements. Their drive to succeed usually makes them ideal candidates for taking on large tasks and projects.

3. Influential: As leaders, POWER personalities are often looked to for answers and assistance, which usually provides them the opportunity to guide family, friends, customers and co-workers.

4. Opinionated: An individual with a POWER personality usually has strong beliefs. They are known for their candor and say what needs to be said. They are formidable debaters, negotiators and salespeople.

5. Decisive: POWER personalities are able to easily make decisions. They are known to quickly size up a situation and determine a course of action. They would have likely already set the path and started leading others down it.

The Five Personalities

In psychology, the Big Five personality traits are five broad domains or dimensions of personality that are used to describe human personality. The theory based on the Big Five factors is called the Five Factor Model(FFM). The Big Five factors are:

Openness: (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious). Appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and variety of experience. Openness reflects the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and a preference for novelty and variety. Some disagreement remains about how to interpret the openness factor, which is sometimes called “intellect” rather than openness to experience.

Conscientiousness: (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless). A tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement; planned rather than spontaneous behavior; organized, and dependable.

Extroversion: (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved). Energy, positive emotions, urgency, assertiveness, sociability and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others, and talkativeness.

Agreeableness: (friendly/compassionate vs. cold/unkind). A tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.

Neurotic: (sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident). The tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability. Neurotic also refers to the degree of emotional stability and impulse control, and is sometimes referred by its low pole – “emotional stability”.

The Big Five model is a comprehensive, empirical, data-driven research finding. Identifying the traits and structure of human personality has been one of the most fundamental goals in all of psychology. The five broad factors were discovered and defined by several independent sets of researchers. These researchers began by studying known personality traits and then factor-analyzing hundreds of measures of these traits (in self-report and questionnaire data, peer ratings, and objective measures from experimental settings) in order to find the underlying factors of personality.