Rat and Rooster Compatibility
“One of you works quietly. The other one announced it before it was finished.”
Rat and Rooster make an open ground in the Chinese zodiac, scoring 67 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
Rat and Rooster have no fixed tie in the branch cycle: no inherited alliance, and no inherited quarrel.
Rat and Rooster have no fixed tie in the branch cycle and two entirely different theories of communication. Rat works quietly and would rather be underestimated. Rooster spotted the raft, said so loudly, and got everyone across, and considers saying it loudly to be the useful part. So Rat finds Rooster's frankness a liability, giving away position for nothing, and Rooster finds Rat's discretion evasive and slightly untrustworthy. Both of you are competent, both are more anxious than you show, and neither of you is wrong about the other, which is why this can either settle into a genuinely effective partnership or into a long low-level irritation, depending almost entirely on whether you are working towards the same thing.
You are both practical and neither of you is lazy, so the household runs. Rooster's directness is genuinely useful to a Rat, cutting through a situation Rat would have spent a fortnight approaching sideways. Rat in turn saves Rooster from the consequences of having said the true thing at the wrong moment, repeatedly and without making a lecture of it. Neither of you is sentimental, so arguments here stay on the subject and get concluded.
Rooster criticises out loud, in detail, and Rat, who never says anything without having weighed the cost, receives every correction as an attack conducted in public. Rat does not answer it. Rat withdraws, and starts routing around Rooster, which Rooster eventually discovers and considers proof of everything it suspected. There is nothing inherited holding this together, so once the trust goes there is no floor underneath it, and both of you are too proud to name what happened.
In the generating cycle metal feeds water, so Rooster supplies what Rat runs on. That direction is worth knowing: the giving here is not symmetrical.
One yang, one yin: one of you moves first and the other reads the room, which is the oldest working arrangement there is.
Rat 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.
