酉
The Rooster
Truth said plainly, with reasons
This page is about a birth-day animal, not a birth-year animal. Everyone has a day animal, from the day they were born, and it is often not the year animal they know.
You and I have both been told we could put it less plainly. Neither of us has taken the advice.
The Rooster in Korean Saju
You say what needs saying. You have standards, you can explain them, and you have little patience for people who pretend not to have any. You are precise, reliable and well prepared. The cost is that being right is not the same as being listened to.
Basic facts about this animal
- Its hours of the day
- 5pm – 7pm
- Its month
- September 7 – October 8
- mid-autumn
- Element
- Yin Metal
- Yang is the outward, active form; Yin is the inward, quiet form
- Place in the order
- 10th of twelve
If this is your day animal
The Rooster is the animal of clarity and order: it says plainly what the situation is.
What this animal is like in a chart
A Rooster day is someone with exact standards who says out loud what is true. The Rooster rules the month of the autumn equinox, and it is pure Metal: both characters it carries inside are Metal. It holds its standards in public, finishes work to spec, and speaks up whether or not the room wanted to hear it.
Being right does not make it heard. With nothing hidden and nothing diluted, a Rooster day has no cushion for disagreement: it is audibly right or audibly wrong. That purity is the cost as well as the gift. Its hardest lesson is the difference between being accurate and choosing the right moment.
How it gets on with the other animals
Pulls together — The Dragon
Easy to fall into, hard to leave. The Rooster and the Dragon are one of the six pairs that pull together, the closest link two animals can have.
Clashes head-on — The Rabbit
A pairing that does not let either person stay the same. The Rabbit sits directly opposite the Rooster on the circle of twelve: a head-on clash. That makes it a restless match, not a bad one.
Team of three — The Snake & The Ox
These three get the most done together. With the Snake and the Ox, the Rooster makes a team of three that pulls toward Metal.
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