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.
A room of Water · 水
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
BaZi
In BaZi (八字, the Four Pillars), your day master is the element that stands for you. A Water day master is read through the season it was born into and the phases around it that source, drain, bank, or warm it.
Water is strong in winter, the months of 亥子丑 (hài zǐ chǒu), when the season is already Water, and weak in summer, when heat scatters it. A strong Water wants draining or channelling; a weak Water wants feeding and sheltering.
Two phases move Water by the generating cycle. Metal is the mother that condenses and sources it, 金生水 (jīn shēng shuǐ), so a thin Water is fed by Metal. Wood is the child it pours into, 水生木 (shuǐ shēng mù), which draws an overfull Water down.
Two more phases meet Water by the controlling cycle. Earth is the bank and the dam, 土克水 (tǔ kè shuǐ), holding a flooding Water in its course. Fire is what Water acts upon, 水克火 (shuǐ kè huǒ), and in the wealth reading it is the wealth a Water chart works.
Beyond strength, a chart is read for warmth and cold, 调候 (tiáo hòu). Cold winter Water is often said to want a little Fire for warmth before anything else, the exact mirror of hot summer Fire wanting Water. Climate can decide a chart more than raw balance does.
Where Water sits
The five phases are one lens on your Zodi Animal, the creature you get when your Western Sun sign crosses your Chinese zodiac year.