Rooster and Snake in love
Loyal and mutually admiring — a traditionally excellent match.
Trine — natural allies
Rooster and Snake Compatibility
Rooster and Snake compatibility: they sit 4 apart in the twelve-year cycle, a pairing the tradition classes as “Trine — natural allies”. We score it 90%.
- Relation
- Trine San He, 三合
- Steps apart
- 4 in the twelve-year cycle
- Next Rooster year
- 2029 starts Feb 13, 2029
- Next Snake year
- 2037 new year in late Jan or Feb
New-year dates: Hong Kong Observatory calendar.
Trine — natural allies
90%
Are the Rooster and Snake compatible?
Snake and Rooster share the thinkers' trine with the Ox. The Snake brings wisdom and strategy, the Rooster brings organization and diligence. They admire each other's intelligence and often agree on how things should be done.
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Working together
A strong partnership for planning, finance and precision work.
Where it goes wrong
The Rooster's bluntness offending the Snake's pride.
Over time
How a Rooster–Snake relationship usually unfolds
- At first. Partners in the metal triangle: mutual admiration arrives quickly and runs deep.
- Once settled. A loyal, orderly household with shared ambition.
- What keeps it working. The Rooster tempering its bluntness, since the Snake remembers slights.
Fixed elements
Metal Rooster, fire Snake
generating · controlling
The Snake’s fire melts the Rooster’s metal — heat that can forge metal or melt it. On the controlling cycle the Snake sets the limits for the Rooster.
The fixed element belongs to the animal and never changes; the element of a birth year (wood, fire, earth, metal or water) rotates every two years — see the years below.
On the twelve-year wheel
Where the Rooster and the Snake sit on the wheel
- Rooster–Snake, 4 steps apart: San He, the three harmonies.
- San He triangles. Snake and Rooster share it, with Ox as the third corner.
- Clash axes. Snake–Pig; Rooster–Rabbit.
- Secret friends. In the Liu He list the Snake pairs with the Monkey; the Rooster pairs with the Dragon.
- Six harms. Rooster and Dog; Snake and Tiger — not drawn.
Computed from 108 years of real lunar new year dates
The arithmetic behind this pairing
How the Rooster and the Snake sit on the cycle, and the share of the century each one actually holds.
Lunar years run 353 to 385 days, so the Rooster ends up with 28 more days than the Snake over the 108-year table: 3,305 against 3,277. As a pairing, four positions apart, they make up 1.393% of all pairings.
Possible age gaps — fixed by the cycle
A Rooster and a Snake can only be these numbers of years apart:
4
years apart
8
years apart
16
years apart
20
years apart
28
years apart
32
years apart
40
years apart
44
years apart
Recent birth-year combinations
| Rooster | Snake | Gap |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Rooster 2017 | Water Snake 2013 | 4 years apart |
| Fire Rooster 2017 | Wood Snake 2025 | 8 years apart |
| Wood Rooster 2005 | Metal Snake 2001 | 4 years apart |
| Wood Rooster 2005 | Water Snake 2013 | 8 years apart |
| Water Rooster 1993 | Earth Snake 1989 | 4 years apart |
| Water Rooster 1993 | Metal Snake 2001 | 8 years apart |
| Metal Rooster 1981 | Fire Snake 1977 | 4 years apart |
| Metal Rooster 1981 | Earth Snake 1989 | 8 years apart |
Birth years for this pairing
Born in January or early February? Check the date before counting yourself a Rooster or a Snake.
Rooster
1957 · 1969 · 1981 · 1993 · 2005 · 2017Snake
1965 · 1977 · 1989 · 2001 · 2013 · 2025Cite this page
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