One cell of 144
Capricorn + Year of the Rooster
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Capricorn meets the Year of the Rooster, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Capricorn born in the Year of the Rooster?
A Capricorn born in the Year of the Rooster is the Andean Condor. The month and day set the Capricorn half, the birth year sets the Rooster half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Andean Condor for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Capricorn half
Capricorn holds December 22 to January 19, cardinal Earth under Saturn. You climb on schedule. The winter sign builds for a future it fully expects to stand in, stone by patient stone. Read Capricorn 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 Capricorn and the Rooster make together
Capricorn brings the long climb taken stone by stone. The Rooster year brings the standard kept when nobody is checking. The Andean Condor carries both at once.
You ride higher than anyone on almost no effort, and the reminder you need is that landing is allowed.
The Rooster runs in a trine with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Capricorn season, those years give the Shoebill and the Tuatara, 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 Andean Condor the same as being a Capricorn?
Capricorn is half of it. The Andean Condor is the specific crossing of Capricorn 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 Andean Condor's trine?
The Rooster runs with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Capricorn dates, those years give the Shoebill and the Tuatara, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Andean Condor's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.