What it is
The 10th sign, so it carries some 1 energy.
Rooster years add up to 1, 4, 7 or 22.
Its hours each day: 5 pm to 7 pm.
As a person
No sign is more loyal, even when loyalty hurts its own cause.
Combative and quick to argue. Built for a fight, not for negotiation.
Up early, and wakes everyone else.
Hides no dislike, and sticks to the rules.
Clashes with other Roosters; no other sign has trouble with its own kind.
As a year
You are a Rooster if you were born in one of these spans:
- 26 Jan 1933 to 13 Feb 1934
- 13 Feb 1945 to 1 Feb 1946
- 31 Jan 1957 to 17 Feb 1958
- 17 Feb 1969 to 5 Feb 1970
- 5 Feb 1981 to 24 Jan 1982
- 23 Jan 1993 to 9 Feb 1994
- 9 Feb 2005 to 28 Jan 2006
- 28 Jan 2017 to 15 Feb 2018
Each span runs from one Chinese New Year to the day before the next. New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February, so a birth date before 21 February can belong to the sign before.
Good for Roosters, Oxen and Snakes.
The enemy year of every Cat (Rabbit in most calendars).
Next Rooster years: 13 Feb 2029 to 2 Feb 2030; 1 Feb 2041 to 21 Jan 2042; 19 Feb 2053 to 7 Feb 2054.
As a month
The Rooster month runs 7 Sep to 6 Oct each year. Anyone born in it carries a smaller dose of the Rooster. It is the enemy month for everyone born in the Cat month.
Friends and enemy
Friends: Ox and Snake, the other two corners of its triangle. Inside this triangle the Snake and the Rooster get on better with each other than with the Ox.
Enemy: Cat, straight across the wheel. For a Rooster, Cat years are for holding back. The Cat month is a lesser caution, unless the Rooster was born in a Goat, Pig or Cat month. For a Rooster born in the Rooster month it is the full enemy month: hold big starts in it.
No soulmate sign. The method names one soulmate pair only: Rat and Ox.
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