Rooster 雞
Metal · Yin
Year of the Rooster
The Rooster sees the loose thread from across the room. Observant, exacting, and constitutionally honest, Roosters keep the standards everyone else quietly relies on — the checked figure, the pressed detail, the schedule that actually holds. They announce the dawn as they see it, popular or not. The shadow is criticism that arrives sharper than intended, and a perfectionism that grades its own reflection hardest of all. At their best, Roosters are the trusted eye: the person whose “this is good” means it is actually good.
♥ In love
Loyal and surprisingly warm once trust is set. A Rooster shows love by noticing — and needs a partner who hears their honesty as care, not attack.
◆ At work
Excels in quality-critical work: accounting, law, editing, surgery, operations. Vague briefs and moving goalposts offend a Rooster’s whole nervous system.
Compatibility
The Rooster's trine allies are the Ox & Snake — signs whose energy traditionally amplifies theirs. The clash opposite is the Rabbit: friction that can teach, but takes work. Folklore, not fate.
Rooster years
Zodiac years begin at 立春 (Start of Spring, around February 4) — January and early-February births usually belong to the previous animal. Our lookup corrects for this automatically.