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Horse and Rooster compatibility

The Horse (午, yang fire) and the Rooster (酉, yin metal) in the Chinese zodiac: how the classical tables pair them, and why.

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The tables

Why the pair is rated this way

The Horse and the Rooster are a quarter turn apart on the circle of twelve. They are not a harmony, a trine, a clash or a harm pair, so the classical tables call the pair neutral: nothing special pulls them together or apart.

The Horse is a fire sign and the Rooster a metal sign. In the controlling cycle fire melts metal, so the Horse is read as the one who sets limits and the Rooster as the one who pushes against them.

The Horse rules the summer month that starts around Jun 6 and the hours from 11 am to 1 pm; the Rooster rules the autumn month that starts around Sep 8 and the hours from 5 pm to 7 pm.

For comparison, the Horse's harmony partner is the Goat and its trine partners are the Tiger and the Dog; the Rooster's harmony partner is the Dragon and its trine partners are the Snake and the Ox.

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In love, friendship and work

Traditionally the Horse is energetic, sociable and independent, and the Rooster is observant, hard-working and frank. The Horse tends to bring enthusiasm and look for freedom; the Rooster tends to bring honesty and order and look for appreciation.

In love, the zodiac neither helps nor blocks this pair, so the rest of each chart, and the two people, decide how it goes.

As friends or co-workers they tend to keep each other in check, which can sharpen the work as long as neither tries to run the other.

Years

Which years are these animals?

Horse years: 1954 (Wood Horse), 1966 (Fire Horse), 1978 (Earth Horse), 1990 (Metal Horse), 2002 (Water Horse), 2014 (Wood Horse), 2026 (Fire Horse).

Rooster years: 1957 (Fire Rooster), 1969 (Earth Rooster), 1981 (Metal Rooster), 1993 (Water Rooster), 2005 (Wood Rooster), 2017 (Fire Rooster), 2029 (Earth Rooster).

18 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Horse years.

12 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Rooster years.

Your pair

Check two birth years

A zodiac year starts in late January or February, not on January 1: Chinese New Year calendars switch at Lunar New Year, and saju switches at Lichun, around February 4. If you were born in January or early February, you may belong to the year before.

Beyond the birth year

On Bias Match the animal that counts most is not the birth year but the day branch, the animal in each person's day pillar. If two people's day branches are Horse (午) and Rooster (酉), the compatibility calculator scores that check as zero, neither plus nor minus, next to five other checks.

The text is fixed sentence templates filled in with the classical relation tables built into the Bias Match engine; no AI model generates or rewrites it. For entertainment only: the zodiac describes old patterns, not what will happen between two people.