One cell of 144
Taurus + Year of the Rooster
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Taurus meets the Year of the Rooster, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Taurus born in the Year of the Rooster?
A Taurus born in the Year of the Rooster is the Superb Bird of Paradise. The month and day set the Taurus half, the birth year sets the Rooster half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Superb Bird of Paradise for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Taurus half
Taurus holds April 20 to May 20, fixed Earth under Venus. You build slowly and keep what you build. Once you have decided a thing is good, the argument is over, whether or not anyone else has noticed. Read Taurus 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 Taurus and the Rooster make together
Taurus brings the weight that keeps a thing standing. The Rooster year brings the standard kept when nobody is checking. The Superb Bird of Paradise carries both at once.
You rehearse the whole display knowing most audiences walk away, and you rehearse again anyway.
The Rooster runs in a trine with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Taurus season, those years give the Giant Clam and the Pangolin, 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 Superb Bird of Paradise the same as being a Taurus?
Taurus is half of it. The Superb Bird of Paradise is the specific crossing of Taurus 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 Superb Bird of Paradise's trine?
The Rooster runs with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Taurus dates, those years give the Giant Clam and the Pangolin, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Superb Bird of Paradise's.
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Neighboring crossings
Or start over at the full 12 by 12 grid, or read how the crossing works.