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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
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Create your free accountA room of Earth · 土
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. Earth is unusual: it is strong not in one season but at the seams of all four, and it holds the chart's four storehouses.
Earth is strong in late summer and in the four earth months 辰戌丑未 (chén xū chǒu wèi), the doyo at the turn of each season, and weaker in between. These four branches are also the storehouses 墓库 (mù kù): 辰 the vault of Water, 戌 the vault of Fire, 丑 the vault of Metal, and 未 the vault of Wood, where each element is gathered and stored.
Two phases move Earth by the generating cycle. Fire is the mother that warms and sources it, 火生土 (huǒ shēng tǔ), so a weak Earth is fed by Fire. Metal is the child it pours into, 土生金 (tǔ shēng jīn), which draws an overfull Earth down.
Two more phases meet Earth by the controlling cycle. Wood is the root that loosens and parts it, 木克土 (mù kè tǔ), checking a heavy Earth. Water is what Earth dams and holds, 土克水 (tǔ kè shuǐ), and in the wealth reading it is the wealth an Earth chart works.
Beyond strength, a chart is read for warmth and cold, 调候 (tiáo hòu). Cold or waterlogged Earth wants Fire to warm and dry it; hard, packed Earth wants Wood to open it. Climate can decide a chart more than raw balance does.
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.