The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Capricorn sun (Earth, Cardinal).
Metal · yinEarth · Cardinal酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Capricorn
Sign element
Earth
Modality
Cardinal
Ruling planet
Saturn
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 and Earth align again, and Saturn presides, so the Capricorn Rooster is the combination at its most disciplined. Everything here points the same direction, toward structure, standards, and the long climb, which makes this person quietly relentless about getting things right and getting them done. Cardinal earth supplies the ambition; yin Metal supplies the precision to execute it, and the two reinforce each other instead of competing. They don't chase recognition so much as build the thing that earns it, treating excellence as a debt they owe the work. In love they're serious and slow to commit, but commitment, once given, is structural, the kind a partner can build a life on, even if affection arrives as reliability more than romance. At work they're the one holding the standard when everyone else is tired, exacting with others because they're merciless with themselves. Their blind spot is the merciless part. Saturn plus Metal can make self-worth conditional on output, so rest feels like failure and good enough feels like a moral lapse rather than common sense.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Capricorn sun that brings ambitious discipline. As a cardinal sign, the Capricorn side starts things. It is happiest at the beginning of a venture, less so in the long maintenance that follows. The blend reads as all of a piece, the kind of person who organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right while wanting, underneath, what every Capricorn wants: a partner who respects the climb.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Capricorn side gives structure and long-game commitment. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is a partner who respects the climb, and they give devotion the Rooster's way. Read traditionally, the 酉 branch (autumn, oriented West) describes exactly this pattern of advance and withdrawal in intimacy.
Career
At work, the Rooster organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right. The Capricorn layer adds structure and long-game commitment, and the cardinal cast means this person starts things. With Saturn as its ruler, the Capricorn Rooster thrives when its two natures pull together.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Rooster in this person criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping; the Capricorn in them can over-rely on ambitious discipline. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Capricorn that charges ahead. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Capricorn Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Capricorn sun (Earth, Cardinal, ruled by Saturn). The Capricorn Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Capricorn's ambitious discipline. 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 Capricorn Rooster agree?
Yes. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Earth of the Capricorn sun reinforce each other, which tends to make the character unusually consistent.
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.
