Success was rare in the 2015 Goat Year and a superb Monkey Year has melted into the Year of the Rooster on January 28.
And this is the first general outlook on 2017.
Oxen
in the limelight
Quarterback Matt Ryan has lost the Super Bowl against "Snake" Brady.
Cristiano Ronaldo has received his fourth Football player of the year award.
Stan Wawrinka has won the US Open against "Rabbit" Djokovic and Nico Rosberg did win his first Formula 1 championship after an engine failure at "Rat" Hamilton.
Simone Biles and Jim Phelps are the golden top stars at the Olympic games.
Chris Froome has won his third Tour de France and Max Verstappen became the youngest Grand Prix winner of all times.
Bruno Mars has scored a Grammy and he was playing at half-time when the two head coaches Ron Rivera and Gary Kubiak had clinched the very first double Super Bowl entries for one specific Chinese symbol.
90% of the German Ladies would fancy Barack Obama and George Clooney in bed and which man would say no to Kate Moss.
Chinese call the Ox "Cho" because he is "niu" what means soft.
Oxen were surprisingly well positioned in 2016 with not only Nico Rosberg winning the Formula Championship and Cristiano Ronaldo on top of his game.
But now the 2017 Rooster Year is going to be very different when the generous Monkey will be replaced by the probably most stingy symbol.
In fact, that was well observed by Kim Dotcom who had launched his Megaupload filesharing platform back in 2005, what has been the last year of the Rooster.
Certainly most Oxen will appreciate the much more down-to-earth character of a Rooster year, but despite that both are called traditional soulmates, their mutual understanding can be very critical.
Both are well known for their strong egos and Oxen will be well advised, when trying to avoid disputes and conflicts.
Even George Clooney and Rooster Renee Zellweger did not last long, but at least some affinity was there.
Oxen should also remember, that the last Rooster year 2005 will always be remembered as the final countdown for Tennis champion Monica Seles, Saddam Hussein and Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand.
At the same time there were also several success stories, but those were written by some hard working and also smart Oxen.
"... she would crawl over broken glass just to make that point ... "
Catch up with major Oxen related headlines and their cosmic Karma over the past years.