The Rooster in the Year of the Wood Snake 2025

Rooster Pic by @elliespinelli

Who is a Rooster?

Years:         1945, 57, 69, 81, 93, 2005, 2017.
Month*:      September
Hour:          17.00-19.00

Day: you’ll need a Chinese Calendar.

* Caution: the start of the Chinese month can be as early as the 4th & as late as the 9th, depending on the year. We can let you know this too.

What is a Rooster?
The Rooster is yin Metal, the night bird, glamorous and with an eye for detail. She appreciates an argument and likes to win but has little patience for causes that drag on. She will appreciate jewellery, fine art and good living and create wealth easily; she can spend it as easily too. Conversely of course a wide-awake Rooster like Aung San Suu Kyi can reject such distractions in order to serve a cause that has indeed dragged on for decades. And like Aung San Suu Kyi can suddenly and mysteriously change their mind. This is yin and yang. The Rooster’s moral compass is often a learned thing. Glamorous and fickle are words often associated.

The rule this illustrates is that a typical Rooster is suited to work such as that of an advocate involving short decisive arguments. Her brief passion is the perfect support for a client. She can defend with enormous commitment and then move on to the next one. Rooster’s commitment is 100% but often short lived. If she is in a job that involves holding her peace she may fret and become ill.

Osama bin Laden may be a good example of a typical 1957 fire Rooster: just the one big splash to his name. A car must be fast, a partner challenging and life full of twists and turns. The Rooster is likely to be quick witted rather than profound, with concentration focused tightly before moving on. Attention span is usually short.

Her allies the Snake and the Ox are sometimes impatient with her because she can digress so widely and so easily but she brings to this Metal alliance the pure competitiveness that the Ox might otherwise misuse and the Snake misunderstand – or is it vice-versa? She is pure Metal – that is determined to get it right at all costs – and Ox and Snake are not. They will not win many cases or many contracts without her and they would do well to pay and respect her appropriately even though she expects longer holidays and more money. A support system that dots t’s and attends to punctuation will tend to empower the Rooster’s intuitive flashes. She needs a team to generate opportunities which she will exploit. Respect – especially of such a support system – is so often a life lesson. For team read “spouse”or “family” btw.

Your most dangerous pitfalls however are sex drugs and rock’n’roll. You probably like to party and your personality may be addictive. You are likely to prefer dusk to dawn and also to the small hours.

The Rooster enjoys a powerful alliance with the Dragon in which they may hold the whip hand. This may be unique in the Dragon’s experience. They can bend the Dragon out of shape just as the Ox can bend the Rat. This is not always entirely healthy, such sway must be employed responsibly otherwise both can be damaged. With that proviso this is one of the strongest and longest lasting alliances in the Chinese zodiac.

The Rooster predictably is one of the charismatic Flowers of Romance. Success and glamorous partners come easily to her. Often a Rooster can punch above her weight in this regard. Cinderella was a Rooster as is Yoko Ono. This effortlessness can make for complaisancy, bitterness is common among middle-aged Roosters. Growing old is hard for the Rooster who can so easily become Snow White’s stepmother. Who is the fairest of us all? Consider these aspects in the contrasting lives of Mick Jagger and Che Guevara both of whom were born – in different years – on the day of the Rooster. “You’re so vain you probably think this song’s about you.” Carly Simon (1945 Wood Rooster), was clearly concerned with vanity. Why would that be, do you think?

With the Monkey this wily, numerate bird can form a commercial alliance. A business co-run by these two will be irresistible but may not open on time. It may not close promptly either and may also suffer the cash flow problems that come from poor financial prioritisation. A marriage would risk the same types of problem: great parties, early divorce.

The cautious domesticated Rabbit is the nemesis of the Rooster. The Rooster likes bling and the Rabbit can see no life in a stone. Any relationship would generally be full of obstruction and passive aggression as well as disappointment and a failure to keep agreements. The insistent wood of the Tiger is almost as maddening although his fierceness would at least engage the Rooster’s attention. The loyal, consistent Dog usually bores her rigid though she may in extremis fall upon him for support.

2025, Breezes, Hurricanes, Twisters,

The outlook for the Year of the Wood Snake.

Note: There are four (or five) Pillars in your ba zi, each with a different nuance. It is as unlikely that they are all ill-starred as it is that they are all

blessed by any given year. Examine the portents for each and perhaps use that as an indication of how to respond.

Rooster

Man Cheung Sam He

Formal learning Favoured

For you this year should about Man Cheung, that is higher education but the learning could be less formal. For this to happen, sufficient Water is required. So December or November may be the time. If study is scheduled for September, aim to start before the Rooster month opens so as to let the Monkey Month produce the Water you need in combination with the Snake. Obviously if you’re not planning such a thing, avoid Water.

The typical Rooster is all about display. And you are much more than that of course. Following the disappointments of the Rabbit Year of 2023 you may have been avoiding attention. Now is the time to push back. Your elegance will be catching eyes again. Vanity may be too strong a word but it is certain that you have a gift for presentation and an eye for beauty. A lady Rooster’s father probably did too.

Technically your team is in the Metal group with Ox and Snake which will naturally be strongest in the autumn. If you have big plans, focus on August and October. There’ll probably be breaks in the Ox Month of January and incremental development visible in May and August. Also minor setbacks in September – time for a break perhaps.

Such setbacks will derive from your short attention span. There are certain big holes in your life: possibly family or relationship shaped, possibly but less likely to do with career. What has not happened for you so far will be due to your low threshold of boredom which is kept in place by a certain contempt. Could be time to think this all the way through. It has been a source of great loss to you and the Snake year uniquely offers to illuminate and address that. You need to be bigger than your attention span.

As a Rooster you will do well in business to concentrate on the elegant. But don’t overdo it. You can probably make anything look (or sound) beautiful and unlike many of your peers technology does not baffle you. Nor does dispute, one of the themes running through the year. There will be plenty of that. You may find you have little choice but to take up a fixed position in March when the Rabbit energy confronts you. There may be a deep disappointment to settle between you.

There is danger of money loss around March too. If so it will be due to taking your eye off the ball. Be appropriate in what you emphasise. You can go too deep too quick, as you know. All that glitters……

Or not. In this deceptive year your appearance may change and a big increase to your acquaintance is likely. As a member of the Metal Sam He Group you are at the cutting edge. You’ll be up with new developments and included in the gossip.

Your at-arms-length buddy the Dragon is a tad muted this year. They’ll appreciate you putting your attention out in their direction. Promotion is often not their thing. Tidying them up would be a real gift. Be careful how deep you go if you are otherwise committed. This is a very creative partnership, possibly too creative, be clear what you want to create before you go beyond pulling back. April would be the time for that.

Your Hexagram, Number 33 Dun, The Yielding is a pretty good guide. It’s about the awareness that to progress we need to commit. We start by going with the flow while we can still back out and then progressively find that true commitment involves voluntarily locking the doors. Roosters always know where the exit is. Love may involve putting another in a position to deal you a crushing blow and trusting they won’t. You cannot live a full life without knowledge of this.

Lesson: Consistency.

Best Months: April, May, August

Worst Months: March, September.

Theme: Learning.😊

Hexagram: 33 Dun The Yielding

Health: =/😒 Wealth: =/😊 Relationship: 😊

Where to find help: other Snakes, Oxen, Dragons, Rats, some Snakes.

Who should I be careful with: Roosters, Rabbits, Dogs.

This forecast is prepared by comparing your own Chinese year Animal with the Wood Snake of 2025. Your Year Animal is just one of the four that make up your Ba Zi or Four Pillars of Destiny. A fully-drafted ba zi can indicate possible futures and probable pasts as well as moments of decision. Knowing these moments can heal and prevent heartbreak as well make success and happiness more easily achievable. What is a ba zi?

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