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 accountThe phase of growth and spring
mù · east · spring · the virtue 仁 rén, benevolence
Wood is the phase that bends and straightens, 曲直 (qū zhí). It is the first green push of the year, growth reaching upward and outward, the young yang of spring and new life. In Chinese thought Wood is not one thing: it is a towering tree and a climbing vine at once. Meet both below.
The centrepiece · 甲 and 乙
Every phase has a yang face and a yin face. For Wood they even carry their own names: 甲 the great tree and 乙 the grass and vine. Tap one.
Where Wood sits on the wheel
Wood is fed by one phase, feeds another, holds a third in check, and is held by a fourth. Follow any thread to that phase.
Go deeper
Everything the research found, one door at a time.
The tree and the vine, temperament by temperament.
What it means to be a Wood day master, season by season.
The Liver, the free flow, the eyes, and the soul. Tradition, not medicine.
East, green, plants, and the honest limits of the wealth corner.
How to feed a weak Wood and prune an overgrown one.
Tiger and Rabbit, the yang and yin wood of the zodiac.
The Azure Dragon, 神農 the Divine Farmer, the sun-tree, bamboo and pine.
The honest gap: Wood has no true Western or Indian twin.
Up to the wheel, down to your animal
Wood is one turn of a larger wheel. Step back and watch all five feed and check each other.
Tiger carries yang wood, Rabbit carries yin wood, and any birth year can add Wood on top. Find yours.