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
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The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
A room of Earth · 土
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
Spleen and intellect
In classical Chinese medicine, Earth governs the Spleen (脾) and Stomach (胃). Together they are called the root of postnatal life, the source from which the body makes its qi and blood.
The Spleen is classically said to govern transformation and transportation 运化 of food and fluids, to be the root of postnatal qi and blood 气血生化之源, to govern the muscles and flesh 肌肉 and the four limbs, to open to the mouth 口 and show in the lips, and to keep the blood in the vessels 统血. Good appetite and steady energy are described as the sign of a settled Spleen.
Earth carries the emotion pensiveness and overthinking 思 (sī) and houses the intellect or intention 意 (yì). The classics warn that overthinking harms the Spleen, 思伤脾, and that worry knots the qi, 思则气结. The Spleen and Stomach are the postnatal root 后天之本, the counterpart to the Kidney's prenatal root.
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.