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 crosswalk
Almost every culture named the elements. They do not agree. Fire, Water, and Earth turn up nearly everywhere; Wood and Metal are China's alone; Air and Ether belong to Greece and India. This page lines them up and, more usefully, marks exactly where the seams are.
Tap a phase
Start from the Chinese phase you know and follow it sideways. Watch which columns hold, and which say "approx."
| Chinese phase 五行 | Greek | Indian mahābhūta | Chakra | Bīja | Ayurvedic dosha |
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The systems themselves
Empedocles named four roots: fire, air, water, and earth. Aristotle set them from two pairs of qualities: hot or cold, wet or dry. A fifth, aether, was the incorruptible stuff of the heavens.
India's five great elements: Prithvi (earth), Jala (water), Agni (fire), Vayu (air), Akasha (ether/space). They combine into the three doshas that Ayurveda reads in body and mind.
Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void (Ku). The Buddhist five, carried into Japan. The Void is not "nothing" but the open space in which the others can arise.
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water. The only system built on motion, with two cycles that say how the phases feed and check each other. This is the spine this hub turns on.
Where the wheel climbs the body
In yoga, the first five chakras carry the five elements up the spine: earth at the root, ether at the throat. That is where the Chakra and Yoga hubs attach to this one.
Muladhara for Earth, Svadhisthana for Water, Manipura for Fire, Anahata for Air, and Vishuddha for Ether, the seven wheels and their tattvas, with the honest history of the rainbow model.
How the five elements fold into Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and how practice families of grounding, flow, heat, and breath organise around them.