One cell of 144
Virgo + Year of the Rooster
Two calendars cross at your birth date. This is the cell where Virgo meets the Year of the Rooster, and the animal that lives in it.
Answer first
What animal is a Virgo born in the Year of the Rooster?
A Virgo born in the Year of the Rooster is the Weaverbird. The month and day set the Virgo half, the birth year sets the Rooster half, and the crossing points at one cell in a grid of 144. Read the Weaverbird for the full reading of that cell.
The two halves
What each calendar brings
The Virgo half
Virgo holds August 23 to September 22, mutable Earth under Mercury. You see the flaw and the fix in the same glance. Care, in your hands, looks like maintenance done before anyone asked. Read Virgo 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 Virgo and the Rooster make together
Virgo brings the eye that finds the flaw and the fix. The Rooster year brings the standard kept when nobody is checking. The Weaverbird carries both at once.
You build so well that the building itself becomes the way you say you care.
The Rooster runs in a trine with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Virgo season, those years give the Beaver and the Trapdoor Spider, 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 Weaverbird the same as being a Virgo?
Virgo is half of it. The Weaverbird is the specific crossing of Virgo 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 Weaverbird's trine?
The Rooster runs with the Ox and the Snake. Held to the same Virgo dates, those years give the Beaver and the Trapdoor Spider, the two animals whose instincts sit closest to the Weaverbird's.
One step away
Neighboring crossings
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