It announces the day before you can see it.
You is the double hour of the early evening, when the light is going and the bird is still the one telling everyone what time it is. The rooster is the sign of saying the thing out loud first, before anybody has agreed with you.
The stone is different on this one
Eight of the twelve pendants carry African opal. The Rooster does not. It is set with natural amethyst — the stone worn for nine hundred years by people other people were relying on, and the colour of it is iron caught in quartz and then hit by natural radiation over millions of years. The colour is damage, held steady, and we find it beautiful.
Is this your sign?
The Rooster years are 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 and 2029.
But the zodiac year begins at Chinese New Year, not on 1 January, and that date moves between 21 January and 20 February. A birthday in January or the first half of February usually belongs to the animal before. The box on the product page does that sum for you.
The pendant
- Branch You 酉 · the double hour 17:00–19:00 · fixed element metal
- Set with natural amethyst, picked by hand for your order
- Solid 925 sterling silver, gold plating on the animal and the mount
- White cubic zirconia accent stones — laboratory-made, not mined, and we say so
- Pendant roughly 25 mm across, on a box chain. No size to choose
- Made after you order it, up to 10 days. Free tracked delivery
See the Rooster pendant — £189 →
Your own zodiac year
Every twelfth year is your own animal's year again — běnmìngnián. Traditionally it is the year people wear their own sign. The next Rooster year is 2029.
All twelve signs · All amethyst at Asi8 · Read the file on amethyst
Carried as a mark of when you started. Some people feel something when they put one on. Some don't. Either way it is an old idea, accurately made. We make no medical or health claims.