The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Cancer sun (Water, Cardinal).
Metal · yinWater · Cardinal酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Cancer
Sign element
Water
Modality
Cardinal
Ruling planet
Moon
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 cuts; Water absorbs, and the Cancer Rooster spends a lifetime negotiating between the two. The Rooster's instinct to inspect and correct runs straight into the Moon's tidal moods, so this person can deliver a flawlessly accurate observation and then feel terrible about the wound it left. Cardinal water wants to protect and initiate care; yin Metal wants the household run to standard. Together they nurture exactingly, the parent or friend who remembers every preference and also every lapse. Since the elements don't align, the strain shows as a person who is genuinely tender but armored in particulars, fussing over details to manage feelings too large to say outright. They love deeply and defensively, testing whether someone will stay before fully letting them in, then guarding fiercely once they do. At work they stay conscientious and quietly indispensable, though criticism, even fair, can capsize them for a day. Their blind spot is treating sensitivity and high standards as opponents. They aren't; the trick this person keeps missing is letting the soft motive show before the sharp correction.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Cancer sun that brings protective feeling. As a cardinal sign, the Cancer 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 Cancer wants: to be needed and kept safe.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Cancer side gives care and emotional memory. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is to be needed and kept safe, and they give devotion the Rooster's way. Facing West in the classical scheme, the 酉 branch encodes the same push-and-pause this person brings to love.
Career
At work, the Rooster organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right. The Cancer layer adds care and emotional memory, and the cardinal cast means this person starts things. With Moon as its ruler, the Cancer 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 Cancer in them can over-rely on protective feeling. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Cancer that charges ahead. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Cancer Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Cancer sun (Water, Cardinal, ruled by Moon). The Cancer Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Cancer's protective feeling. The two systems describe different textures here (the cutting clarity of Metal underneath a watery, feeling-led temperament), and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents negotiate.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Cancer Rooster agree?
Not directly. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Water of the Cancer 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.
