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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 accountA room of Earth · 土
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
Ox, Dragon, Goat, Dog
Earth is the only phase with four fixed-element animals, not two, because it holds the four seam branches that sit between the seasons: the Ox (丑), the Dragon (辰), the Goat (未), and the Dog (戌).
The Dragon 辰 (chén) and the Dog 戌 (xū) are yang earth; the Ox 丑 (chǒu) and the Goat 未 (wèi) are yin earth. These four branches fall at the transitions between the seasons, the doyo that belongs to Earth the between-seasons pivot, which is why Earth claims them all. They are also the four storehouses of the chart: 辰 stores Water, 戌 stores Fire, 丑 stores Metal, and 未 stores Wood.
Each carries Earth in its own temper: the Ox patient and enduring, the Dragon broad and commanding, the Goat gentle and cultivating, the Dog loyal and guarding. A birth year can also add a rotating Earth on top, as in the Earth Dog or the Earth Dragon. Enter a birth year on the element finder to see both at once.
Where Earth 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.