Direction
East
Everything the wheel opens, one animal at the center
The Eastern wheel, your birth year's animal
The Western wheel, the sky on your birthday
The craft your Zodi Animal practices
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The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
Phase 1 of 5 · Wu Xing 五行
mù · East · Spring
Growth, flexibility, and upward, outward expansion, 'that which can be bent and straightened' (曲直). The vital, spreading quality of spring and new life pushing into form.
Where it sits on the wheel
No phase stands alone. Wood is fed by one neighbour and pours into the next, while it restrains a third and is restrained by a fourth. Follow any thread.
The correspondences
As a temperament
Driven by growth, progress. Decisive, visionary, flexible. This is Wood in balance: the growth felt as a gift, not a demand.
Irritable, stubborn, impatient. The classical counterweight is Metal 金, the phase that steadies Wood on the controlling cycle.
In the body & in your space
In classical Chinese medicine, Wood is traditionally linked to the Liver and Gallbladder, the sense of eyes, the tissue of sinews / tendons, the sour flavour, and the emotion of anger.
Classical system, not medicine. This describes a traditional correspondence, not diagnosis or treatment.
Your animal
These Chinese zodiac animals carry Wood as their fixed branch element. If one is yours, Wood is woven into your Primal Animal.