Monkey and Rooster Compatibility
“One of you found the shortcut. The other one is reading out where it goes wrong.”
Monkey and Rooster make an open ground in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 65 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Open Ground
Monkey and Rooster have no fixed tie in the branch cycle: no inherited alliance, and no inherited quarrel.
Monkey and Rooster shared a raft with a Goat and have been arguing about the method ever since. Both of you are clever and both know it, and there the agreement ends. Monkey's cleverness is improvisational: find the angle, get across, enjoy it. Rooster's is procedural: check it, do it correctly, say so out loud. Neither of you is inherited as an ally, and the friction is that each regards the other's intelligence as the inferior kind. Rooster thinks Monkey is cutting corners it has not earned the right to cut; Monkey thinks Rooster is doing enormous amounts of unnecessary work and announcing it.
Between you almost nothing goes wrong undetected. Rooster catches what Monkey skipped and Monkey finds the way past what Rooster has got stuck on, which is a genuinely useful pairing on any actual piece of work. Monkey also lightens a Rooster, who takes everything to heart, and Rooster gives Monkey the follow-through it does not naturally have. Neither of you is dull, and the arguing, while constant, is often quite enjoyable.
Rooster criticises out loud and Monkey answers with mockery, which is the one response Rooster cannot handle, since Rooster's pride is entirely invested in being right. Monkey then finds Rooster's wounded dignity funny, which makes it considerably worse. Neither of you concedes a point. And Rooster's need for the plan to be followed collides permanently with Monkey's habit of changing it and mentioning it afterwards.
Two metal signs: precise, principled, and capable of a very cold silence when standards slip.
One yang, one yin: one of you moves first and the other reads the room, which is the oldest working arrangement there is.
Monkey and Rooster in the Ancient Zodiac
An animal year is half of a reading. Which of the twelve Ancient Zodiac signs each of these two actually carries depends on the season they were born in, and the pairing below is where the reading gets specific.
