The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Aries sun (Fire, Cardinal).
Metal · yinFire · Cardinal酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Aries
Sign element
Fire
Modality
Cardinal
Ruling planet
Mars
Hours ruled
17:00–18:59
Season · direction
Autumn · West
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.
Metal sharpens the Rooster into a creature of standards, and Aries hands that creature a Mars-fueled engine with no idle setting. The result moves fast and audits everything it touches mid-stride. A plain Aries charges and apologizes later; the Aries Rooster charges and then files a detailed report on what went wrong, usually about other people. The yin underneath keeps the bravado from being pure noise. This is fire that wants to be right more than it wants to be loud, which is why their criticism lands harder than their temper. They fall for people the way they argue, all at once and with full conviction, then spend weeks privately grading the relationship against an impossible rubric. At work they finish first and review everyone else's draft uninvited. The blind spot is plain to everyone but them: cardinal fire wants to start, Metal wants to perfect, and the space between fills with corrections nobody asked for. Slowing down to ask before fixing would cost them nothing and win them allies they currently mistake for adversaries.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through an Aries sun that brings headlong initiative. As a cardinal sign, the Aries side starts things. It is happiest at the beginning of a venture, less so in the long maintenance that follows. The blend reads as a study in two minds, the kind of person who organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right while wanting, underneath, what every Aries wants: a partner who can keep pace.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Aries side gives the spark that starts things. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is a partner who can keep pace, and they give devotion the Rooster's way. The old autumn-season, West-facing symbolism of the 酉 branch points at the same rhythm of approach and retreat that a good partner learns to read.
Career
At work, the Rooster organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right. The Aries layer adds the spark that starts things, and the cardinal cast means this person starts things. With Mars as its ruler, the Aries Rooster thrives when it is allowed to alternate between instinct and method.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Rooster in this person criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping; the Aries in them can over-rely on headlong initiative. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Aries that charges ahead. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Aries Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Aries sun (Fire, Cardinal, ruled by Mars). The Aries Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Aries's headlong initiative. The two systems describe different textures here (the cutting clarity of Metal underneath a fiery, action-first temperament), and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents negotiate.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Aries Rooster agree?
Not directly. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Fire of the Aries sun describe different temperaments, and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents take turns.
Who is the Rooster most compatible with?
In the branch relations, the Rooster's natural ally (六合) is the Dragon, its trine partners (三合) are the Snake and Ox, and its classic clash (六沖) is the Rabbit.
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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.
