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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 Metal · 金
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
BaZi
In BaZi (八字, the Four Pillars), your day master is the element that stands for you. A Metal day master is read through the season it was born into and the phases around it that source, drain, forge, or feed it.
Metal is strong in autumn, the months of 申酉戌 (shēn yǒu xū), when the season is already Metal, and weak in summer, when Fire melts it. A strong Metal wants draining or forging; a weak Metal wants feeding and sheltering.
Two phases move Metal by the generating cycle. Earth is the mother that forms and sources it, 土生金 (tǔ shēng jīn), so a weak Metal is fed by Earth. Water is the child it pours into, 金生水 (jīn shēng shuǐ), which draws an overfull Metal down.
Two more phases meet Metal by the controlling cycle. Fire is the flame that refines and tempers it, 火克金 (huǒ kè jīn), checking a raw Metal. Wood is what Metal cuts, 金克木 (jīn kè mù), and in the wealth reading it is the wealth a Metal chart works.
Beyond strength, a chart is read for warmth and cold, 调候 (tiáo hòu). Tradition splits the two metals: 庚金 wants Fire to forge it and Water to sharpen it, while 辛金 wants Water to wash it to a gleam and fears heavy Fire. Climate can decide a chart more than raw balance does.
Where Metal 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.