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
Kidney and will
In classical Chinese medicine, Water governs the Kidney (腎) and Bladder (膀胱). The Kidney is traditionally said to store the body's deepest reserve, 精 (jīng, essence), and to stand behind the bones, the ears, and the will.
The Kidney is classically described as the store of 精 jīng, the essence tied to growth, aging, and reproduction, and as the root of both yin and yang in the body. Water is traditionally associated with the bones and marrow 骨髓, the ears 耳 and hearing, and the head hair.
Each phase carries an emotion and a spirit. For Water the emotion is fear 恐 (kǒng) and the spirit is 志 (zhì), the will or willpower. Water and Fire, Kidney and Heart, are read as a pair that must stay in conversation, 心腎相交 (xīn shèn xiāng jiāo), the heart and kidney communicating.
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.