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
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Earth is fed by Fire (火生土), it feeds Metal (土生金), it controls Water (土克水), and it is controlled by Wood (木克土). As the centre, Earth is the hinge that steadies the whole cycle.
To strengthen a weak Earth, add its mother, Fire, whose ash makes soil. To drain an overfull Earth, let it pour into its child, Metal, the ore it bears. This is the generating cycle, 相生 (xiāng shēng).
To calm an excessive Earth, add its controller, Wood, whose roots part and loosen it. Earth in turn keeps Water from running to excess by damming and banking it. When a phase grows too strong the balance can distort into over-control (相乘) or rebellion (相侮), which is why the aim is always proportion, not dominance. As the centre, Earth touches every other phase and keeps them in relation.
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.