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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
feng shui
In feng shui, Earth belongs to the centre 中宫 and to the southwest, the 坤 (kūn) trigram, Earth, and the northeast, the 艮 (gèn) trigram, Mountain. It is carried by yellows, browns, and terracotta, by flat, square, and low shapes, and by ceramics, clay, brick, and stone.
To strengthen Earth in a room, add its source, Fire. To calm an excess of Earth, let it drain into Metal or loosen it with Wood. Square earthy forms, yellow and brown tones, and stone or crystals are the usual carriers, placed to invite grounding and stability.
Classically the centre is tied to health and grounding, the southwest to love, marriage, and the matriarch, and the northeast to knowledge and self-cultivation. Some modern systems stretch earth and crystals into promises of wealth or a partner. Treat the classical associations as symbolic and the guaranteed-outcome versions as modern popularisation, not law. A stone is traditionally intended to invite steadiness, and nothing more is promised.
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.