Your Chinese Horoscope 2014: What the year of the horse holds in store for you. Neil Somerville

your fortieth year by regarding it as a time for action. Focus on your priorities and use your strengths to advantage. Your efforts – sometimes helped by a certain amount of good fortune – can make this a personally special year. Enjoy it and give it your best.

      The Fire Tiger

      There is a Chinese proverb that is especially apt for the Fire Tiger this year: ‘Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. Seize the opportunity.’ This is a highly promising year and by acting in determined and enterprising fashion, the Fire Tiger can accomplish a great deal.

      His personal life is particularly well aspected. For Fire Tigers with a partner this can be an often special year, with some marrying, starting a family or reaching a shared goal. Whatever their aspirations, the Horse year will see many Fire Tigers having good cause to celebrate. The Fire Tiger can also benefit from a certain amount of luck this year and once plans are underway, an element of fortune can often help them along.

      For Fire Tigers who are alone and may have had some recent personal misfortune to bear, the Horse year can see a transformation in their situation – often through Cupid’s arrow being aimed directly at them! Romance could be found through a chance meeting or in some other way, but however it comes about, for many Fire Tigers this will be a year of passion. May, July, September and December to mid-January could see some particularly meaningful developments.