The tie-in
Feng Shui and Your Animal
Three threads connect your Primal Animal to the space you live in.
Direction
Your year animal is a direction
The twelve year animals are the twelve Earthly Branches, and the branches are compass sectors. Your year animal has a home direction on the luópán, and the phase it carries interacts with a room's element through the generating and controlling cycles. See the compass.
Element
Your palette
Each Primal Animal has a symbolic element, and its Habitat names a phase to feed it and a phase to temper it. The five phases set the colors, shapes, and materials that steady your animal.
Favorable directions
Your Kua
The Eight Mansions method turns your birth year into a Kua number and four favorable directions to face. Put it all together in the Habitat, or find your animal to begin.
Keep exploring
More of the Feng Shui hub
See how this shapes your own space in the Habitat, or find your animal on the Oracle.