Direction
South
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.
Phase 2 of 5 · Wu Xing 五行
huǒ · South · Summer
Heat, ascent, and brightness, 'that which blazes and rises' (炎上). The peak and fullness of activity, the quality of summer.
Where it sits on the wheel
No phase stands alone. Fire is fed by one neighbour and pours into the next, while it restrains a third and is restrained by a fourth. Follow any thread.
The correspondences
As a temperament
Driven by love, connection. Warm, joyful, charismatic. This is Fire in balance: the love felt as a gift, not a demand.
Scattered, frantic, burnt out. The classical counterweight is Water 水, the phase that steadies Fire on the controlling cycle.
In the body & in your space
In classical Chinese medicine, Fire is traditionally linked to the Heart (+ Pericardium) and Small Intestine (+ San Jiao), the sense of tongue, the tissue of blood vessels, the bitter flavour, and the emotion of joy.
Classical system, not medicine. This describes a traditional correspondence, not diagnosis or treatment.
Your animal
These Chinese zodiac animals carry Fire as their fixed branch element. If one is yours, Fire is woven into your Primal Animal.