New here? Start with your animal — the rest of the wheel opens from there
Start here
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 accountA room of Metal · 金
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
shēng and kè
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.