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
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The Moon overhead, its phases, and the path they light.
The 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.