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 blade and the harvest
jīn · west · autumn · the virtue 義 yì, righteousness
Metal is the phase that yields and is reshaped, 從革 (cóng gé). It is the turn inward, the harvest gathered in, the clean edge that cuts to what matters. In Chinese thought Metal is not one thing: it is the raw sword and the fine jewel at once. Meet both below.
The centrepiece · 庚 and 辛
Every phase has a yang face and a yin face. For Metal they even carry their own names: 庚 the great metal and 辛 the fine metal. Tap one.
Where Metal sits on the wheel
Metal is fed by one phase, feeds another, holds a third in check, and is held by a fourth. Follow any thread to that phase.
Go deeper
Everything the research found, one door at a time.
The sword and the jewel, temperament by temperament.
What it means to be a Metal day master, season by season.
The Lung, the breath, the skin, and the corporeal soul. Tradition, not medicine.
West, white, round forms, and the honest limits of the authority corner.
How to feed a weak Metal and temper a hard one.
Monkey and Rooster, the yang and yin metal of the zodiac.
The White Tiger, 少昊 and 蓐收, the famous swords, and bronze bells.
The honest gap: Metal has no true Western or Indian twin.
Up to the wheel, down to your animal
Metal is one turn of a larger wheel. Step back and watch all five feed and check each other.
Monkey carries yang metal, Rooster carries yin metal, and any birth year can add Metal on top. Find yours.