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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
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Create your free accountA room of Fire · 火
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
the constant
Fire is Fire almost everywhere. Nearly every elemental system names it as heat and transformation, which makes it a clean bridge from the Chinese phases out to the chakra and yoga systems.
Greek thought counts Fire among its four roots, hot and dry in Aristotle's scheme. Indian tradition names it Agni or Tejas, one of the five great elements, and the Japanese Godai calls it Ka 火. In each, Fire means heat, light, and change.
In yoga the Fire tattva sits at Manipura, the solar plexus chakra, with the seed sound RAM, the seat of will and transformation, and Fire drives the Pitta dosha of Ayurveda. These are interpretive bridges rather than exact equivalences, but Fire is one of the phases where the mapping holds cleanly.
Where Fire 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.