Everything the wheel opens, one animal at the center
The Eastern wheel, your birth year's animal
The Western wheel, the sky on your birthday
The craft your Zodi Animal practices
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The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
A room of Metal · 金
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
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Metal is fed by Earth (土生金), it feeds Water (金生水), it controls Wood (金克木), and it is controlled by Fire (火克金). Those four relationships are how you feed a weak Metal or temper a hard one.
To strengthen a weak Metal, add its mother, Earth, from which ore is born, 培土生金. To drain an overfull Metal, let it pour into its child, Water, which it carries. This is the generating cycle, 相生 (xiāng shēng).
To calm an excessive Metal, add its controller, Fire, which melts and reforges it. Metal in turn keeps Wood from running to excess by cutting and pruning it. When a phase grows too strong the balance can distort into over-control (相乘) or rebellion (相侮), which is why the aim is always proportion, not dominance.
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.