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All 144 animalsWestern wingby your sun signEastern wingby your birth yearZodiac crossingsEast meets WestThe Eastern wheel, your birth year's animal
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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
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Create your free accountA room of Wood · 木
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
BaZi
In BaZi (八字, the Four Pillars), your day master is the element that stands for you. A Wood day master is read through the season it was born into and the phases around it that source, fuel, prune, or root it.
Wood is strong in spring, the months of 寅卯辰 (yín mǎo chén), when the season is already Wood, and weak in autumn, when Metal is strong. A strong Wood wants draining or pruning; a weak Wood wants feeding and rooting.
Two phases move Wood by the generating cycle. Water is the mother that roots and sources it, 水生木 (shuǐ shēng mù), so a weak Wood is fed by Water. Fire is the child it pours into, 木生火 (mù shēng huǒ), which draws an overfull Wood down.
Two more phases meet Wood by the controlling cycle. Metal is the blade that prunes and shapes it, 金克木 (jīn kè mù), checking an overgrown Wood. Earth is what Wood roots into, 木克土 (mù kè tǔ), and in the wealth reading it is the wealth a Wood chart works.
Beyond strength, a chart is read for warmth and cold, 调候 (tiáo hòu). Early-spring Wood is often said to want a little Fire for warmth and some Metal to shape it. Climate can decide a chart more than raw balance does.
Where Wood 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.