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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
上善若水
上善若水 (shàng shàn ruò shuǐ), the highest good is like water. Laozi's line from the Dao De Jing sets the tone for how China reads Water: it benefits all things, seeks the low place others avoid, and overcomes the hard by yielding.
In chapter 8 of the Dao De Jing, water is the model of the sage: it nourishes everything, contends with nothing, and settles where others will not go. Softness that outlasts hardness is the whole teaching, echoed in the proverb 水滴石穿 (shuǐ dī shí chuān), dripping water pierces stone.
Water runs through Chinese myth: the Dragon Kings 龍王 who rule rain and sea, the Yellow River 黃河 and the Yangtze 長江 as the country's lifelines, the flood-taming of 大禹 (Yu the Great), and 玄武 the Black Tortoise, guardian of the north and of Water. The chengyu 飲水思源 (yǐn shuǐ sī yuán), drink water and think of its source, carries the same current into daily speech.
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.