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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
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Create your free accountA room of Wood · 木
One of the five phases behind your Primal Zodiac Animal
the green dragon
Wood is the east, the spring, and the first stirring of life, and Chinese myth fills it with green dragons, sacred trees, and the farmer who tasted the herbs.
The Azure Dragon 青龍 (Qīnglóng) guards the east and the spring, one of the four celestial animals. 神農 (Shénnóng), the Divine Farmer, invented the plow and tasted a hundred herbs, 嘗百草, to teach medicine and agriculture, the culture-hero of the Wood domain. Myth also names the sacred sun-tree 扶桑 (Fúsāng), from which the suns rise, and the world-tree 建木 (Jiànmù) at the centre of the earth.
Wood carries China's evergreen virtues: the Four Gentlemen 四君子 of plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, and the Three Friends of Winter 岁寒三友, pine, bamboo, and plum, symbols of endurance and integrity. Bamboo 竹 bends without breaking; pine 松 holds green through the cold. The proverb 十年树木百年树人, ten years to grow a tree and a hundred to raise a person, carries Wood's long patience.
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.