New here? Start with your animal — the rest of the wheel opens from there
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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
Create a free account to save your animal, keep your bonds, and open the Primal Mirror.
Create your free accountA room of Water · 水
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
Rat and Pig
Two of the twelve zodiac animals carry Water as their fixed element: the Rat (子, zǐ) is yang water, and the Pig (亥, hài) is yin water. A birth year can also add a rotating Water on top.
The Rat sits at 子, the branch of deep midnight and the yang face of Water, quick, resourceful, and perceptive. The Pig sits at 亥, the yin face of Water, warm, generous, and steady. Their branches also name the winter water months and the late-night water hours.
Years such as the Water Rat and the Water Pig layer the rotating Water element over the animal's own, which tradition reads as intensifying the animal's water character. Enter a birth year on the element finder to see both at once.
Where Water 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.