Rooster

1945 乙酉

Wood Rooster year

1945 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Rooster

Quick answer

People born from February 4, 1945 through February 3, 1946 are Wood Roosters. (Born on February 4, 1945 itself? The exact boundary falls at a specific hour that day — a birth time settles it.) Born in 1945 before that date? You belong to the previous year — the Wood Monkey.

The Rooster sees the loose thread from across the room. Observant, exacting, and constitutionally honest, Roosters keep the standards everyone else quietly relies on — the checked figure, the pressed detail, the schedule that actually holds. They announce the dawn as they see it, popular or not. The shadow is criticism that arrives sharper than intended, and a perfectionism that grades its own reflection hardest of all. At their best, Roosters are the trusted eye: the person whose “this is good” means it is actually good.

The Wood year makes it grow outward: more idealism, more building, a stubborn faith that things can be better made than found.

♥ In love

Loyal and surprisingly warm once trust is set. A Rooster shows love by noticing — and needs a partner who hears their honesty as care, not attack.

◆ At work

Excels in quality-critical work: accounting, law, editing, surgery, operations. Vague briefs and moving goalposts offend a Rooster’s whole nervous system.

Why this element: The heavenly stem 乙 (Yi) carries Wood; the Rooster's fixed element is Metal. That combination is what makes 1945 a Wood Rooster year.

The Rooster temperament in full — love, career, trine allies and clashes — lives on the animal page.

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Your Wood Rooster year is one pillar of four.

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