New here? Start with your animal — the rest of the wheel opens from there
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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
the clean map
Earth maps cleanly across the world's systems, the way Fire and Water do, unlike Wood and Metal. Almost every tradition names Earth as the solid, grounding, nourishing element. The interesting difference is where it sits.
Greek thought counts Earth among its four roots, cold and dry in Aristotle's scheme. Indian tradition names it Prithvi or Bhumi, one of the five great elements, and the Japanese Godai calls it Chi 地. In each, Earth means the solid, the stable, and the supporting.
Here is the honest structural difference. In the four-element systems Earth is just one of four corners, level with Fire, Air, and Water. In the Chinese system Earth is the centre and a whole fifth season, the pivot the other four turn around. In yoga the Earth tattva sits at Muladhara, the root chakra, with the seed sound LAM, and Earth grounds the Kapha dosha of Ayurveda. The mappings hold, but the geometry is not the same, and that is worth saying plainly.
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.