The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Leo sun (Fire, Fixed).
Metal · yinFire · Fixed酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Leo
Sign element
Fire
Modality
Fixed
Ruling planet
Sun
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.
Fixed fire and yin Metal make a performer who has also memorized the score. The Leo Rooster wants the spotlight the way Leo always does, but the Rooster underneath refuses to step into it unprepared, so the showmanship rests on real rehearsal. The Sun gives this person warmth and a genuine appetite for admiration; Metal gives them a critic's ear, including for their own act. That produces someone impressively polished and quietly hard on themselves, glittering in public and grading the footage in private. Because the elements pull against each other, pride and precision compete: Leo wants to be celebrated, the Rooster wants to be correct, and the two don't always crave the same applause. In love they're generous, loyal, and a little exacting about loyalty in return, expecting the devotion they hand out to come back at full size. At work they lead with flair and hold the line on quality. Their blind spot is needing to be both adored and right at once, which leaves no graceful room to simply be wrong in front of anyone.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Leo sun that brings warm, generous pride. As a fixed sign, the Leo side holds things. It commits hard and changes direction reluctantly, which is both its anchor and its trap. 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 Leo wants: to be seen and appreciated.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Leo side gives loyalty and a sense of occasion. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is to be seen and appreciated, 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 Leo layer adds loyalty and a sense of occasion, and the fixed cast means this person holds things. Sun-ruled, the Leo Rooster 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 Rooster in this person criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping; the Leo in them can over-rely on warm, generous pride. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Leo that digs in. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Leo Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Leo sun (Fire, Fixed, ruled by Sun). The Leo Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Leo's warm, generous pride. 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 Leo Rooster agree?
Not directly. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Fire of the Leo 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.
