One cell of 144
Scorpio + Year of the Rooster
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Scorpio meets the Year of the Rooster, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Scorpio born in the Year of the Rooster?
A Scorpio born in the Year of the Rooster is the Devil's Flower Mantis. The month and day set the Scorpio half, the birth year sets the Rooster half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Devil's Flower Mantis for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Scorpio half
Scorpio holds October 23 to November 21, fixed Water under Mars. You read what sits under the surface. Whatever you decide to keep, you keep completely, and the door closes without a sound. Read Scorpio 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 Scorpio and the Rooster make together
Scorpio brings a depth that keeps its own counsel. The Rooster year brings the standard kept when nobody is checking. The Devil's Flower Mantis is what the two look like sharing one body.
You pass as a flower right up until you become a warning, and by then the question is settled.
The Rooster runs in a trine with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Scorpio season, those years give the Giant Salamander and the Slow Loris, 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 Devil's Flower Mantis the same as being a Scorpio?
Scorpio is half of it. The Devil's Flower Mantis is the specific crossing of Scorpio 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 Devil's Flower Mantis's trine?
The Rooster runs with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Scorpio dates, those years give the Giant Salamander and the Slow Loris, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Devil's Flower Mantis's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.