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
Where to sleep, work, and rest, mapped to your animal. Free with a Zodi account.
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The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
The phase of depth and wisdom
shuǐ · north · winter · the virtue 智 zhì, wisdom
Water is the phase that moistens and descends, 潤下 (rùn xià). It stores itself through winter, finds the low place, and knows by going deep rather than by force. In Chinese thought Water is not one thing: it is a great ocean and a single raindrop at once. Meet both below.
The centrepiece · 壬 and 癸
Every phase has a yang face and a yin face. For Water they even carry their own names: 壬 the great water and 癸 the small water. Tap one.
Where Water sits on the wheel
Water is fed by one phase, feeds another, holds a third in check, and is held by a fourth. Follow any thread to that phase.
Go deeper
Everything the research found, one door at a time.
The sea and the raindrop, temperament by temperament.
What it means to be a Water day master, season by season.
The Kidney, the essence, the ears, and the will. Tradition, not medicine.
North, black and blue, real water, and the honest limits of wealth lore.
How to feed a weak Water and calm a flooding one.
Rat and Pig, the yang and yin water of the zodiac.
上善若水, the Dragon Kings, the great rivers, and Yu taming the flood.
Jala, Svadhisthana, and Sui. Water is Water the world over.
Up to the wheel, down to your animal
Water is one turn of a larger wheel. Step back and watch all five feed and check each other.
Rat carries yang water, Pig carries yin water, and any birth year can add Water on top. Find yours.