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 accountThe phase of the peak and the flame
huǒ · south · summer · the virtue 禮 lǐ, propriety
Fire is the phase that flames and rises, 炎上 (yán shàng). It is heat at its peak, the noon of the year, brightness that warms a room and shows what was hidden. In Chinese thought Fire is not one thing: it is the blazing sun and a single candle at once. Meet both below.
The centrepiece · 丙 and 丁
Every phase has a yang face and a yin face. For Fire they even carry their own names: 丙 the great fire and 丁 the small fire. Tap one.
Where Fire sits on the wheel
Fire is fed by one phase, feeds another, holds a third in check, and is held by a fourth. Follow any thread to that phase.
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Everything the research found, one door at a time.
The sun and the candle, temperament by temperament.
What it means to be a Fire day master, season by season.
The Heart, the spirit, the tongue, and joy. Tradition, not medicine.
South, red, light, and the honest limits of the fame corner.
How to feed a weak Fire and temper a blazing one.
Snake and Horse, the yin and yang fire of the zodiac.
祝融 the fire god, the Vermilion Bird, the phoenix, and the lanterns.
Agni, Manipura, and Ka. Fire is Fire the world over.
Up to the wheel, down to your animal
Fire is one turn of a larger wheel. Step back and watch all five feed and check each other.
Snake carries yin fire, Horse carries yang fire, and any birth year can add Fire on top. Find yours.