Monkey

Overall

A year of movement beckons. Whether it is more fun than a barrel of monkeys will depend on your attitude. More travel than usual could entail the dream holiday of your life or sleeping past your subway stop on the way to work. Perhaps you are moving house . . . or someone else’s heart, a year to monkey around. Gibbon a chance, the digestive tract has the potential to go ape.

Health

You don’t want to be monkeying around with your health, so take extra care in the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth lunar months. Food and drink should not be too cold, so perhaps keep the gorilla to hand. The dog stars say stay well by placing stone in the west, so if you have kidney or gallstones just lie on your side when you sleep.

Wealth

Reputations are on the line and you are no-one’s chimp - time to get the monkey off your back. Your efforts may not translate into hard dollars this year, but those bananas you’re storing will keep through the months and ripen later. It’s not a time to turn down peanuts. Shelling out now will keep you ahead of the pack.

Love

We all know that goat years have monkeys falling for their better half, but just because this is not a goat year does not mean that wearing horns around on full moons, growing a goatee and patting your underbelly, claiming it is cashmere, will do you any good. Go out and seek love, it’s waiting for you beyond the bars of your emotional zoo cage.

Career

Climbing that greasy monkey pole gets so tiring, but this year you might get a monkey grip on it. Movement is indicated and we don’t think that means the fire escape. You’re on the way up! Take note of chattering apes that you pass by, as you might just make your macaque, and that’ll not be monkey business.

Famous Monkeys

Hong Kong actor and singer Nicholas Tse; businesswoman Wendi Deng; actor and singer Leslie Cheung; martial artist and actor Lo Mang; film maker Wong Ka-wai; US actor Tom Hanks.