The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Libra sun (Air, Cardinal).
Metal · yinAir · Cardinal酉 yǒu
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Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Libra
Sign element
Air
Modality
Cardinal
Ruling planet
Venus
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.
Venus and the Rooster both care intensely about appearances, but they mean different things by it. Libra wants harmony and balance; yin Metal wants the thing done to spec. The Libra Rooster therefore arbitrates with a ruler in hand, weighing both sides fairly and then quietly noting which side was sloppier. Cardinal air gives them initiative in relationships and a real talent for setting the social temperature, while Metal supplies the discernment that keeps their charm from being merely pleasant. Since the elements don't cohere, the tension surfaces as indecision sharpened by exacting taste: they can see the flaw in every option, which makes choosing agony when each choice fails a different standard. In love they're attentive and refined, courting through beauty and good manners, though a partner may sense they're also being assessed against an aesthetic nobody can quite name. At work they negotiate and polish, smoothing conflicts while raising the bar. Their blind spot is confusing fairness with avoidance. The need to keep the peace and the need to be right can strand them between two equally well-argued doors.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Libra sun that brings graceful even-handedness. As a cardinal sign, the Libra 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 Libra wants: balance and a fellow aesthete.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Libra side gives harmony and partnership. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is balance and a fellow aesthete, and they give devotion the Rooster's way. The 酉 branch is a autumn sign, and that cool-then-committed cadence is precisely how this person warms to someone.
Career
At work, the Rooster organizes, audits, and refuses to ship something half-right. The Libra layer adds harmony and partnership, and the cardinal cast means this person starts things. With Venus as its ruler, the Libra 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 Libra in them can over-rely on graceful even-handedness. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Libra that charges ahead. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Libra Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Libra sun (Air, Cardinal, ruled by Venus). The Libra Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Libra's graceful even-handedness. The two systems describe different textures here (the cutting clarity of Metal underneath an airy, idea-led temperament), and the interesting part of this combination is how those two currents negotiate.
Do the Eastern and Western sides of a Libra Rooster agree?
Not directly. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Air of the Libra 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.
