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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
the white tiger
Metal is the west, the autumn, and the harvest gathered in, and Chinese myth fills it with white tigers, famous swords, and the ringing of bronze.
The White Tiger 白虎 (Báihǔ) guards the west and the autumn, one of the four celestial animals, tied to war and the harvest-execution season. 少昊 (Shàohào), the White Emperor 白帝, rules the west, and 蓐收 (Rùshōu), the axe-bearing god of autumn and metal, presides over gathering-in and punishment. Autumn was the season of the autumn tribunal 秋决, when clarity and justice, the virtue 義, were said to rule.
Metal is the stuff of China's legendary blades: 干将莫邪 (Gan Jiang and Mo Ye) and 昆吾 (Kunwu), forged by master smiths, and the ritual bronze vessels 青铜器 and bells 钟 that held ceremony together, 器以藏礼. The mirror 镜 is metal made to reflect. The chengyu 百炼成钢 (bǎi liàn chéng gāng), a hundred temperings make steel, carries Metal's slow refinement into strength.
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.