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Rooster Hour 酉时 17:00–18:59: Secret Animal & Meaning
The Rooster hour 酉时 runs 17:00–18:59. Born then, your secret animal is the Rooster; the hour branch is 酉 (Yin Metal), and the hour stem follows the day stem.
Traditional secret-animal reading
The Rooster hour’s inner image
Rooster hour is Yin Metal at the centre of the autumn sequence. Its secret-animal symbolism is refinement after an initial sorting, when attention turns to the fit of individual details. The picture concerns a clear outline and a considered finish, rather than the first act of division.
In hour folklore, this is the hour hens come home to roost as the light goes.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Rooster period
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Rooster hour pillars are possible
- 01 · on 甲 Jia / 己 Ji days癸酉Yin Water Rooster
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days乙酉Yin Wood Rooster
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days丁酉Yin Fire Rooster
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days己酉Yin Earth Rooster
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days辛酉Yin Metal Rooster
Two clock edges
The Rooster hour changes at 17:00 and after 18:59
The Rooster interval begins at 17:00 and includes 18:59. Use the recorded local civil clock time.
The same branch geometry at every scale
Its clash, harmony and trine do not change with the clock
The Rooster branch clashes with Rabbit, forms Six Harmony with Dragon, and belongs to the Metal trine with Snake and Rooster and Ox. These relationships come from fixed positions.