Yin Wood · 乙酉 · 60-year cycle
Wood Rooster Chinese Zodiac: 1945, 2005 Years
Wood Rooster years in this calendar are 1945, 2005. The latest Wood Rooster year is 2005; the next is 2065, a 60-year return. 2026 is not a Wood Rooster year. Birth-year boundaries begin at Chinese New Year.
People born in Wood Rooster years
A birthday belongs to the Wood Rooster year only within one of these intervals. The days before Chinese New Year belong to the previous animal. Dates below cover this calendar’s 1902–2049 year archives.
1945: Wood Rooster
13 February 1945 – 1 February 1946
乙酉 · Yǐ Yǒu
Lunar months and festivals of 1945 →2005: Wood Rooster
9 February 2005 – 28 January 2006
乙酉 · Yǐ Yǒu
Lunar months and festivals of 2005 →
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What Wood adds to the Rooster
The Rooster's Metal controls Wood, placing its traditional eye for correction alongside the year element's interest in growth and development. The Wood Rooster reading gives detailed observation a shared purpose, emphasizing better ways of working together and the challenge of offering an improvement without taking over another person's task.
The year’s visible stem is Yǐ 乙, Yin Wood; the Rooster branch 酉 retains its fixed Metal element.
The Rooster’s traditional character →Wood Rooster in 2026
2026 is a Horse year. Rooster and Horse occupy branches 酉 and 午.
This pair has no shared harmony, trine, seasonal meeting or Six Clash in the four groups shown here.
Read Rooster with Horse →