One cell of 144
Aries + Year of the Rooster
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Aries meets the Year of the Rooster, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is an Aries born in the Year of the Rooster?
An Aries born in the Year of the Rooster is the Cassowary. The month and day set the Aries half, the birth year sets the Rooster half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Cassowary for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Aries half
Aries runs from March 21 to April 19, cardinal Fire under Mars. You start things. The season opens with you, which is why waiting is the one skill the sign never hands you for free. Read Aries in the Western wing.
The Rooster half
The Rooster is the tenth branch and shares its trine with the Ox and the Snake, the careful builders. You keep the standard when nobody else remembers there is one. Recent Rooster years are 1993, 2005 and 2017. Read the Year of the Rooster.
The crossing
What Aries and the Rooster make together
Aries brings the nerve to move first. The Rooster year brings the standard kept when nobody is checking. Put both in one creature and you get the Cassowary.
You walk straight through ground everyone else routes around, and the forest quietly depends on exactly where you choose to pass.
The Rooster runs in a trine with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Aries season, those years give the Sun Bear and the Loggerhead Shrike, the two crossings whose engines run closest to yours.
The boundary
Born near the boundary?
The Chinese year does not turn on January 1. It turns at the lunar New Year, somewhere between late January and mid February, so a birthday in those weeks can belong to the animal before this one. The year finder checks the real date for any year you give it.
Common questions
Questions about this crossing
Is the Cassowary the same as being an Aries?
Aries is half of it. The Cassowary is the specific crossing of Aries with the Year of the Rooster, one cell out of 144. Two people can share a Sun sign and carry different animals, because the birth year changes the second half.
What if I was born in January or February of a Rooster year?
The Chinese year turns at the lunar New Year, which lands between late January and mid February. A birthday in those weeks can belong to the previous animal, so the year finder checks the real boundary before the grid names your crossing.
Which crossings share the Cassowary's trine?
The Rooster runs with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Aries dates, those years give the Sun Bear and the Loggerhead Shrike, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Cassowary's.
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Neighboring crossings
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