One cell of 144
Libra + Year of the Rooster
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Libra meets the Year of the Rooster, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Libra born in the Year of the Rooster?
A Libra born in the Year of the Rooster is the Satin Bowerbird. The month and day set the Libra half, the birth year sets the Rooster half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Satin Bowerbird for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Libra half
Libra runs from September 23 to October 22, cardinal Air under Venus. You weigh both pans before you speak. The balance you hold for other people is labor, and you do it so smoothly they call it charm. Read Libra 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 Libra and the Rooster make together
Libra brings the instinct to level the two pans. The Rooster year brings the standard kept when nobody is checking. One animal holds both, and its name is the Satin Bowerbird.
You build the most beautiful case you can and then stand beside it to be judged on the work.
The Rooster runs in a trine with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Libra season, those years give the Swan and the Paradise Tanager, 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 Satin Bowerbird the same as being a Libra?
Libra is half of it. The Satin Bowerbird is the specific crossing of Libra 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 Satin Bowerbird's trine?
The Rooster runs with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Libra dates, those years give the Swan and the Paradise Tanager, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Satin Bowerbird's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.