The Rooster year (Metal 金, yin) meets a Virgo sun (Earth, Mutable).
Metal · yinEarth · Mutable酉 yǒu
The chart, computed
Verified
Animal rank
10 of 12
Branch
酉 (yǒu)
Year element
Metal 金 · yin
Sun sign
Virgo
Sign element
Earth
Modality
Mutable
Ruling planet
Mercury
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.
This is the Rooster at its most undiluted. Metal and Earth align, and Mercury rules the sign too, so the Virgo Rooster's defining trait, the eye for what's slightly off, runs without resistance. Where other Roosters fight their own nature, this one simply is the standard, the person who spots the typo, the wobbly table leg, the figure that doesn't reconcile. Mutable earth keeps the perfectionism practical rather than rigid; they don't just notice problems, they fix them, often before anyone realizes there was one. The yin polarity makes the help quiet and the criticism quieter still, delivered as a small adjustment instead of a verdict. In love they show devotion through usefulness, learning a partner's life well enough to smooth its rough edges, which reads as care to some and as managing to others. At work they're the reliable backbone, meticulous and self-effacing. Their blind spot is the running internal commentary that never switches off, the same scanner that catches every flaw turned inward until good enough never feels like enough, least of all about themselves.
Personality
At core, this is someone whose Rooster year notices the detail that makes or breaks the whole, filtered through a Virgo sun that brings precise, helpful discernment. As a mutable sign, the Virgo side adapts to things. It bends and reroutes easily, which makes it flexible company and, on a bad day, hard to pin down. 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 Virgo wants: to be useful and to improve things.
In love
In love, the Rooster shows care through attention and honest, sometimes blunt, feedback, while the Virgo side gives practical devotion. What this person ultimately wants from a partner is to be useful and to improve things, 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 Virgo layer adds practical devotion, and the mutable cast means this person adapts to things. Ruled by Mercury, the Virgo Rooster does its best work where drive and temperament agree rather than fight.
The shadow side
The shadow side is specific. The Rooster in this person criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping; the Virgo in them can over-rely on precise, helpful discernment. Under stress the two failure modes can feed each other, criticizes the people it loves in the name of helping reinforcing a Virgo that slips sideways. Naming it is most of the cure: this combination grows the day it stops defending the weakness as a virtue.
The Virgo Rooster combines the Rooster year (Metal, yin) with a Virgo sun (Earth, Mutable, ruled by Mercury). The Virgo Rooster sets Rooster's exacting precision against Virgo's precise, helpful discernment. 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 Virgo Rooster agree?
Yes. The Metal of the Rooster year and the Earth of the Virgo 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.
