Everything the wheel opens, one animal at the center
The Eastern wheel, your birth year's animal
The Western wheel, the sky on your birthday
The craft your Zodi Animal practices
五行 · featured system
The five phases that move through everything — now mapped to the seven chakras, each with its own yoga practice.
BaZi
Cast your charttoolWhat is BaZi八字 Bāzì · eight charactersYour Day Master日主 RìzhǔThe Ten Gods十神 ShíshénYou & themTwo skies, read together
The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
The phase of the blade and the harvest
jīn · west · autumn · the virtue 義 yì, righteousness
Metal is the phase that yields and is reshaped, 從革 (cóng gé). It is the turn inward, the harvest gathered in, the clean edge that cuts to what matters. In Chinese thought Metal is not one thing: it is the raw sword and the fine jewel at once. Meet both below.
The centrepiece · 庚 and 辛
Every phase has a yang face and a yin face. For Metal they even carry their own names: 庚 the great metal and 辛 the fine metal. Tap one.
Where Metal sits on the wheel
Metal is fed by one phase, feeds another, holds a third in check, and is held by a fourth. Follow any thread to that phase.
Go deeper
Everything the research found, one door at a time.
The sword and the jewel, temperament by temperament.
What it means to be a Metal day master, season by season.
The Lung, the breath, the skin, and the corporeal soul. Tradition, not medicine.
West, white, round forms, and the honest limits of the authority corner.
How to feed a weak Metal and temper a hard one.
Monkey and Rooster, the yang and yin metal of the zodiac.
The White Tiger, 少昊 and 蓐收, the famous swords, and bronze bells.
The honest gap: Metal has no true Western or Indian twin.
Up to the wheel, down to your animal
Metal is one turn of a larger wheel. Step back and watch all five feed and check each other.
Monkey carries yang metal, Rooster carries yin metal, and any birth year can add Metal on top. Find yours.