The Monkey year (Metal 金, yang) meets a Taurus sun (Earth, Fixed).
Metal · yangEarth · Fixed申 shēn
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
9 of 12
Branch
申 (shēn)
Year element
Metal 金 · yang
Sun sign
Taurus
Sign element
Earth
Modality
Fixed
Ruling planet
Venus
Hours ruled
15:00–16:59
Season · direction
Autumn · West-Southwest
These values are computed from the Earthly Branch and tropical sign, not looked up in a table. The year element follows the sexagenary cycle; the sign facts follow the tropical zodiac.
With Taurus, the Monkey finally gets a body to live in. Metal and Earth pull the same way, so this cleverness has somewhere solid to land instead of spinning in the air. Here is the schemer who actually builds the thing, then keeps it, then quietly profits from it for years. Venus softens the Monkey's sharper edges into charm and a real appetite for comfort: good food, good fabric, a chair worth sitting in. They are shrewd about money in a way that looks effortless and isn't; they simply notice value the way other people notice weather. In love they run warm, possessive, and slow to be rushed, treating a relationship like a long-term holding rather than a quick trade. At work they are maddeningly patient, content to wait out faster rivals until the situation tips their way. The blind spot is the fixed streak meeting Monkey pride: once they have decided how something works, watch them defend the position long after the evidence has moved on, mistaking stubbornness for the wisdom of having been right before.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Monkey year solves the puzzle three ways and picks the funniest one, filtered through a Taurus sun that brings sensual steadiness. As a fixed sign, the Taurus side holds things. It commits hard and changes direction reluctantly, which is both its anchor and its trap. The blend reads as all of a piece, the kind of person who improvises brilliantly and gets bored by routine while wanting, underneath, what every Taurus wants: security it can actually feel.
In love
In love, the Monkey charms easily and craves novelty and play, while the Taurus side gives comfort and follow-through. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is security it can actually feel, and they give devotion the Monkey's way. Read traditionally, the 申 branch (autumn, oriented West-Southwest) describes exactly this pattern of advance and withdrawal in intimacy.
Career
At work, the Monkey improvises brilliantly and gets bored by routine. The Taurus layer adds comfort and follow-through, and the fixed cast means this person holds things. Venus-ruled, the Taurus Monkey is at its strongest given a clear aim and the room to pursue it its own way.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Monkey in this person outsmarts itself and skates past the deeper thing; the Taurus in them can over-rely on sensual steadiness. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, outsmarts itself and skates past the deeper thing reinforcing a Taurus that digs in. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Taurus Monkey combines the Monkey year (Metal, yang) with a Taurus sun (Earth, Fixed, ruled by Venus). The Taurus Monkey sets Monkey's inventive cleverness against Taurus's sensual steadiness. Here the Eastern and Western readings point the same way: the metal of the animal year and the earth of the sun sign reinforce each other rather than pulling apart, which tends to make the character unusually consistent.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Taurus Monkey agree?
Yes. The Metal of the Monkey year and the Earth of the Taurus sun reinforce each other, which tends to make the character unusually consistent.
Who is the Monkey most compatible with?
In the branch relations, the Monkey's natural ally (六合) is the Snake, its trine partners (三合) are the Rat and Dragon, and its classic clash (六沖) is the Tiger.
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For entertainment only. This page presents traditional astrological compatibility frameworks (Theodora Lau's Triangle of Affinity for Chinese astrology; classical Hellenistic correspondences for Western signs). Readings are not psychological, medical, financial, or relationship advice.
