The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Monkey and the Rooster are neighbors 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.
Both are metal signs, the Monkey yang and the Rooster yin, so in five-element terms they speak the same language.
The Monkey rules the autumn month that starts around Aug 8 and the hours from 3 pm to 5 pm; the Rooster rules the autumn month that starts around Sep 8 and the hours from 5 pm to 7 pm.
For comparison, the Monkey's harmony partner is the Snake and its trine partners are the Rat and the Dragon; 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 Monkey is clever, playful and inventive, and the Rooster is observant, hard-working and frank. The Monkey tends to bring fresh solutions and look for variety; 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 move at the same pace and understand each other quickly.
Years
Which years are these animals?
Monkey years: 1956 (Fire Monkey), 1968 (Earth Monkey), 1980 (Metal Monkey), 1992 (Water Monkey), 2004 (Wood Monkey), 2016 (Fire Monkey), 2028 (Earth Monkey).
Rooster years: 1957 (Fire Rooster), 1969 (Earth Rooster), 1981 (Metal Rooster), 1993 (Water Rooster), 2005 (Wood Rooster), 2017 (Fire Rooster), 2029 (Earth Rooster).
23 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Monkey 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 Monkey (申) 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.