Rooster鸡

The Rooster maps to the branch You. At the You hour (5–7 p.m.) the sun sets and the flock goes to roost; the You month is mid-autumn, Metal at its purest, grain safely binned. The glyph pictures a wine jar — autumn's harvest distilled and sealed.

You is Yin Metal hiding a single stem, Xin — jewel-grade metal, utterly unalloyed, ranking with Zi and Mao among the pure cardinal branches. That purity explains the Rooster's baseline: explicit standards, zero tolerance for fudge, no sand permitted in the eye.

The texts' keywords for Rooster natives: exactness, reliability, outspokenness. Xin Metal governs discernment — Rooster eyes ship with built-in flaw detection: the typo in the document, the logic gap in the plan, the ornament moved two inches, all caught on first pass. Punctuality and promise-keeping rank near the top of the zodiac.

The shadow is fault-finding and pressing every won point: standards harsh enough to exhaust self and company alike, criticism usually correct and usually barbed. The Rooster's refinement path: fit that blade with two sheaths — timing and wrapping.

The Rooster's trine allies are the Snake and Ox (Si-You-Chou, the Metal frame): the Rooster holds the peak seat, the frame's anchor star — a high-efficiency alliance of three realists. Its pair is the Dragon (Chen-You): the Dragon builds the wave, the Rooster runs the numbers — the metaphysical prototype of the "dragon-phoenix match."

Its clash is the Rabbit (Mao-You): metal on wood, the clash felt most in everyday friction. You's self-punishment is on file too — two roosters in one coop critique each other till dawn. Beyond signs, You metal reigns in autumn and sits imprisoned in summer: how much of that edge is usable depends on the month.

You years (2029, 2041…) are the Rooster's Ben Ming Nian; Mao (Rabbit) years clash Tai Sui — the Mao-You clash reshuffles partnerships: signings and splits tend to conclude in such years.

Si and Chou years complete the Metal frame — the years when standards and expertise fetch their best market price; Roosters should lean in. Whether abundant Metal is friend or foe, whether the edge should show or sheathe — the answer is not in a zodiac table, it is on your cast chart.

Being a Rooster fixes only the year branch, You. Technically You is Xin Metal's Lu throne and one of the four Peach Blossoms — in the day or hour pillar it is classically read as fine bearing and easy charm. Folk culture jokes about the chicken; metaphysics prices You as jewel metal. Two different registers.

The zodiac hands you a label; the chart hands you parameters. How pure is your Xin, and does it command its season? Cast the chart and let the parameters speak.