New here? Start with your animal — the rest of the wheel opens from there
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Find your animalyour birth date, one animalWhat your animal meanshow to read yoursToday's readingMon, Jul 20The menagerie
All 144 animalsWestern wingby your sun signEastern wingby your birth yearZodiac crossingsEast meets WestThe Eastern wheel, your birth year's animal
The Western wheel, the sky on your birthday
Your birth-hour chart, read across the great Eastern systems
New this Fire Horse year
사주팔자 · the Korean reading
The same eight characters, heard in a Korean voice. The newest reading on the wheel, cast from your birth hour.
Read Saju PaljaThe three systems
Zi Wei Dou Shu紫微斗数 · Purple StarBaZi八字 · the four pillarsSaju Palja사주팔자 · the Korean readingCast a chart
Cast your chartfree, from your birth hourRead a Purple Star chart命盘 mìngpánLearn how it worksand more →紫微 · your deeper form
Purple Star is the mirror it wakes into
Read your Purple Star chart once to meet the Awakened animal — then let the daily reading wake it, day by day.
Read Purple Star風水 · the art of placing yourself well, room by room
The calendar · Mon, Jul 20
黄历 huánglì · today's almanac
The lunar date, the day's officer, what today favors and what it punishes. New every midnight.
Open today's calendarTwo skies read together, and the climb you share
Create a free account to save your animal, keep your bonds, and open the Primal Mirror.
Create your free accountThe still centre of the wheel
tǔ · the centre · late summer · the virtue 信 xìn, faithfulness
Earth is the phase that permits sowing and reaping, 稼穡 (jià sè). It is stability and nourishing, the pivot every other phase passes through, the ground that holds. Where the other four are the directions and the seasons, Earth is the still centre between them. In Chinese thought Earth is not one thing: it is the immovable mountain and the soft cultivated field at once. Meet both below.
The centrepiece · 戊 and 己
Every phase has a yang face and a yin face. For Earth they even carry their own names: 戊 the great earth and 己 the soft earth. Tap one.
Where Earth sits on the wheel
Earth is fed by one phase, feeds another, holds a third in check, and is held by a fourth. As the centre, it steadies the whole cycle. Follow any thread.
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Everything the research found, one door at a time.
The mountain and the field, temperament by temperament.
What it means to be an Earth day master, and the four storehouses.
The Spleen, transformation, the mouth, and the intellect. Tradition, not medicine.
The centre, yellow, square forms, and the honest limits of the love corner.
How to feed a weak Earth and loosen a heavy one.
Four, not two: Ox, Dragon, Goat, and Dog, the seam animals.
The Yellow Emperor, 后土, the altars of soil and grain, and Mount Tai.
Prithvi, Muladhara, Chi. Earth maps cleanly, but as centre, not corner.
Up to the wheel, down to your animal
Earth is the centre of a turning wheel. Step back and watch all five feed and check each other.
Earth claims four animals at the seams of the seasons, and any birth year can add Earth on top. Find yours.