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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
rén and guǐ
Water splits into a yang face and a yin face, and Chinese metaphysics gives each its own name: 壬 (rén) the great water and 癸 (guǐ) the small water. One is the ocean, the other the raindrop.
The yang Water. Its images are the sea, the great rivers, lakes, the flood, the waterfall, and the tide, 大海之水 (dà hǎi zhī shuǐ). Tradition paints 壬水 people as bold and open-hearted, broad-minded and generous, with a heart as wide as the sea, quick-witted, driven, and good at connecting people and ideas.
Its shadow is the flood. 壬水 is said to be easily stirred to mood, impulsive when feeling runs high, and prone to scatter its force in too many directions at once.
The yin Water. Its images are rain, dew, mist, fog, cloud, the mountain spring, and the trickling stream, 雨露之水 (yǔ lù zhī shuǐ), water that quietly moistens all things without a sound. Tradition paints 癸水 people as gentle, refined, reserved, and sharply perceptive, able to notice the small detail everyone else misses and to win people over drop by drop.
Its shadow is the shadow of sensitivity: indecision, melancholy, overthinking, and being easily overwhelmed without enough support.
The point is balance, not ranking. Whether a Water runs too big or too small is always relative to the rest of a chart. That is the question BaZi takes up in the next room.
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.