Rooster years
- #10 of 12
- Element: metal
- midautumn
- 17~19h
The rooster holds midautumn, where metal gathers at its purest. Precision and standards show up as character. Like the rabbit, its branch is almost unmixed, so the direction points clearly one way.
The rooster is called exacting. Only metal hides in its branch — like the rabbit it is unmixed, but on the metal side, so the singleness shows up as standards and precision.
Holding midautumn, it stands in the harvesting phase. The strength appears in closing and ordering what already exists rather than in opening something new. The perfectionist label follows from the phase more than from the temperament.
The five year pillars inside this sign
The branch stays the same; the heavenly stem above it changes every twelve years, and with it the whole reading. Find your birth year below.
1969Yellow Rooster
Wide channels out through speech and craft. Earth grows metal, and every hidden stem here is an output star. When it fits the conversation does not stop; the words also get ahead of themselves.
1981White Rooster
Precise, and slow to give ground. Metal on metal is unmixed and dense. Being right while the relationship frays is the recurring cost, so choosing which arguments not to win becomes the practical skill.
1993Black Rooster
Fine observation, and a knack for ordering things. Metal releases water, so what it sees gets turned into structure rather than kept. It tends to spot the mismatch everyone else walked past.
2005Green Rooster
A high bar, applied to itself first. Metal shapes wood here. The self-audit runs before any judgment of others, which makes the inside stricter than the outside looks.
2017Red Rooster
The sharpening becomes the character. Fire forges metal in this pillar. It gets more precise and more pointed at the same time, so words occasionally land harder than intended.
Which signs Rooster meets well
Branch relations are fixed by position in the cycle, so they hold for every year of this sign.
Six harmony — the easiest pair
Earth producing metal. The dragon holds and the rooster finishes — one makes, the other closes.
Three Harmony — the group that gets things done
Together these three form a metal frame. Their strength shows in setting standards and closing things out.
Clash — meeting head-on
Young wood against forged metal. Both hold high standards, so each tends to challenge the other's first.
Hidden grudge — friction without a reason
One pushes, the other refines, so the criteria never line up. Even with a result, the point of satisfaction differs.
Sign-to-sign is the coarse layer — one twelfth of the population shares it. Real compatibility is read from the day pillar, which needs a birth date.
One catch: Ipchun, not January 1
A sign does not change at midnight on January 1. It changes at Ipchun, the solar term falling around February 4. Someone born in January 2005 is not Rooster — that birthday still belongs to Monkey, the 甲申 year. If you were born in January or the first days of February, the sign most sites hand you may be off by one. ARO reads the solar-term boundary, computed to the minute.
Your sign is one of four characters in your chart. The other three — month, day, and hour — decide how it actually plays out.
ARO reads patterns, not destiny. This page is a way in, not a verdict.