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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
gēng and xīn
Metal splits into a yang face and a yin face, and Chinese metaphysics gives each its own name: 庚 (gēng) the great metal and 辛 (xīn) the fine metal. One is the raw sword, the other the finished jewel.
The yang Metal. Its images are the sword, the axe, the halberd, and the raw ore, 剑戟斧钺 (jiàn jǐ fǔ yuè), hard unrefined metal made to cut and to hew. Tradition paints 庚金 people as decisive and tough, loyal and righteous, straight-talkers who act where others hesitate.
Its shadow is the blade turned destructive: rigid, aggressive, stubborn, and over-blunt, cutting where it should hold.
The yin Metal. Its images are jewelry, gold, gems, and the needle, 珠玉首饰 (zhū yù shǒu shì), refined and finished metal made to adorn and to mend. Tradition paints 辛金 people as elegant and sharp-minded, tasteful and meticulous, quietly persuasive to the last detail.
Its shadow is the jewel turned cold: vain, hypersensitive, sharp-tongued, and perfectionistic, so fixed on flaw that it chills the room.
The point is balance, not ranking. Whether a Metal runs too hard or too fine is always relative to the rest of a chart. That is the question BaZi takes up in the next room.
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.