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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
wù and jǐ
Earth splits into a yang face and a yin face, and Chinese metaphysics gives each its own name: 戊 (wù) the great earth and 己 (jǐ) the soft earth. One is the mountain, the other the field.
The yang Earth. Its images are the mountain, the city wall, the dam, and the vast dry ground, 城墙之土 (chéng qiáng zhī tǔ), high and broad and immovable. Tradition paints 戊土 people as steady and dependable, honest and tolerant, magnanimous and slow to anger, a rock others lean on.
Its shadow is the mountain that will not move: stubborn, inflexible, over-cautious, and closed-off, so fixed in place that nothing new can grow on it.
The yin Earth. Its images are the field, the garden, and the soft moist soil, 田园之土 (tián yuán zhī tǔ), fertile and receptive, growing whatever is planted in it. Tradition paints 己土 people as gentle and nurturing, patient and adaptable, quietly fruitful and good at cultivating both people and plans.
Its shadow is the soil turned to mud: over-worrying and indecisive, self-effacing and calculating, holding things in until it is murky and overwhelmed.
The point is balance, not ranking. Whether an Earth runs too hard or too soft is always relative to the rest of a chart. That is the question BaZi takes up in the next room.
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.