The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Tiger and the Rooster are five steps apart on the circle of twelve, one short of facing each other. 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 Rooster is a metal sign and the Tiger a wood sign. In the controlling cycle metal cuts wood, so the Rooster is read as the one who sets limits and the Tiger as the one who pushes against them.
The Tiger rules the spring month that starts around Feb 4 and the hours from 3 am to 5 am; the Rooster rules the autumn month that starts around Sep 8 and the hours from 5 pm to 7 pm.
For comparison, the Tiger's harmony partner is the Pig and its trine partners are the Horse 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 Tiger is brave, competitive and warm-hearted, and the Rooster is observant, hard-working and frank. The Tiger tends to bring courage and look for respect; 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?
Tiger years: 1950 (Metal Tiger), 1962 (Water Tiger), 1974 (Wood Tiger), 1986 (Fire Tiger), 1998 (Earth Tiger), 2010 (Metal Tiger), 2022 (Water Tiger).
Rooster years: 1957 (Fire Rooster), 1969 (Earth Rooster), 1981 (Metal Rooster), 1993 (Water Rooster), 2005 (Wood Rooster), 2017 (Fire Rooster), 2029 (Earth Rooster).
10 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Tiger 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 Tiger (寅) 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.