The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Scorpio sun (Water, Fixed).
Metal · yinWater · Fixed酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Scorpio
Sign element
Water
Modality
Fixed
Ruling planet
Mars / Pluto
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 water and yin Metal build something formidable and hard to read. The Scorpio Rooster watches before it speaks, and when it speaks the accuracy can be unnerving, because Metal's eye for flaws fused with Scorpio's eye for motive misses very little. Mars and Pluto load the precision with intensity; this person doesn't critique idly, they investigate, and what they conclude tends to stick. The elements don't align, and the friction runs deep: the Rooster wants to name what's wrong out loud, Scorpio prefers to know it and hold it in reserve. The result notices everything and discloses on its own schedule. In love they're loyal to the point of obsession and slow to trust, vetting a partner with quiet thoroughness, then defending them without limit once vetted. At work they're relentless, exacting, and impossible to bluff. Their blind spot is the held card. All that withheld observation curdles into suspicion if it never gets aired, and they'll punish a small failing they catalogued months ago and never mentioned, leaving the other person blindsided.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Scorpio sun that brings intense, all-or-nothing depth. As a fixed sign, the Scorpio 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 Scorpio wants: total, unguarded trust.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Scorpio side gives fierce loyalty and honesty. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is total, unguarded trust, 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 Scorpio layer adds fierce loyalty and honesty, and the fixed cast means this person holds things. Mars / Pluto-ruled, the Scorpio 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 Scorpio in them can over-rely on intense, all-or-nothing depth. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Scorpio that digs in. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Scorpio Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Scorpio sun (Water, Fixed, ruled by Mars / Pluto). The Scorpio Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Scorpio's intense, all-or-nothing depth. 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 Scorpio Rooster agree?
Not directly. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Water of the Scorpio 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.
