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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
BaZi
In BaZi (八字, the Four Pillars), your day master is the element that stands for you. A Water day master is read through the season it was born into and the phases around it that source, drain, bank, or warm it.
Water is strong in winter, the months of 亥子丑 (hài zǐ chǒu), when the season is already Water, and weak in summer, when heat scatters it. A strong Water wants draining or channelling; a weak Water wants feeding and sheltering.
Two phases move Water by the generating cycle. Metal is the mother that condenses and sources it, 金生水 (jīn shēng shuǐ), so a thin Water is fed by Metal. Wood is the child it pours into, 水生木 (shuǐ shēng mù), which draws an overfull Water down.
Two more phases meet Water by the controlling cycle. Earth is the bank and the dam, 土克水 (tǔ kè shuǐ), holding a flooding Water in its course. Fire is what Water acts upon, 水克火 (shuǐ kè huǒ), and in the wealth reading it is the wealth a Water chart works.
Beyond strength, a chart is read for warmth and cold, 调候 (tiáo hòu). Cold winter Water is often said to want a little Fire for warmth before anything else, the exact mirror of hot summer Fire wanting Water. Climate can decide a chart more than raw balance does.
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.