Rooster/Capricorn and Monkey/Scorpio meet at 77-82%, the straight arrow and the artful dodger. One is grace under pressure with an unerring work ethic; the other prefers the words embellishing, streamlining, and borrowing, and needs a partner who cannot be pushed over.
Monkey/Scorpio requires a mate with a strong, vibrant personality, since clashes are practically guaranteed, and Rooster/Capricorn is nobody's pushover: unflappable, ambitious, and immune to razzle-dazzle. The attraction is respect between two operators taking different routes to the same summit, one by ladder, one by rope trick.
Rooster/Capricorn speaks in commitments and expects them honored to the letter; Monkey/Scorpio speaks in angles and enjoys the game of it. The Rooster's directness actually soothes the Monkey, who finally trusts something it cannot spin.
Friction lives in method. The Rooster's rectitude bristles at the Monkey's streamlining of inconvenient rules, and the Monkey's thin self-control tests the Rooster's patience. When wills lock, neither backs down quickly, which is half the appeal.
Rooster/Capricorn is the tight leash Monkey/Scorpio secretly knows it needs, keeping the crafty simian on the right side of the line, while the Monkey teaches the Rooster that not every summit requires a frontal climb. Each sharpens the other.
At 77-82%, Rooster/Capricorn and Monkey/Scorpio have good chemistry, rectitude and cunning in productive tension, strong so long as the games stay outside the marriage.