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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 Karmic Board
Every soul on the wheel ranks by devotion: returns counted one day at a time, readings taken, bonds tested. Karma has exactly one source — showing up — and the board forgets nothing.
Your standing
Sign in and your rank, streak, and climb appear here. Arriving alone is worth 1,000 karma. Claim your place.
The Karmic Board
Every soul on the wheel ranks by devotion. Filter by Chinese year to see who carries your animal's banner this season.
CapyJ · the Chambered Nautilus
Cancer crossed with the Snake. Eighty-eight days unbroken. ✦Blessed by the Gods of Zodi
| Rank | Soul | Animal | Zodi Karma |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CapyJ ✦Blessed by the Gods of Zodi | Chambered Nautilus · Snake Cancer | 118,000ZK |
| 2 | MoonVeiled ☯Karmic Sage | Snowy Owl · Monkey Capricorn | 86,400ZK |
| 3 | JadeRunner ☯Karmic Sage | Giant Otter · Dog Aries | 72,150ZK |
| 4 | SilkAndAsh ☯Karmic Sage | Luna Moth · Rabbit Pisces | 64,980ZK |
| 5 | NineGates ☽Moonbound | Sable Antelope · Ox Leo | 51,200ZK |
| 6 | QuietThunder ☽Moonbound | Shoebill · Dragon Virgo | 44,760ZK |
| 7 | LanternKeeper ☽Moonbound | Snow Petrel · Tiger Aquarius | 38,900ZK |
| 8 | SaltOfTheMoon ☽Moonbound | Narwhal · Pig Scorpio | 31,480ZK |
| 9 | EmberFox ◉Awakened | Bat-eared Fox · Horse Sagittarius | 24,300ZK |
| 10 | StillWater ◉Awakened | Koala · Goat Taurus | 18,220ZK |
| 11 | FirstLight ◉Awakened | Arctic Tern · Rat Gemini | 12,040ZK |
| 12 | ThreadOfGold ○Seeker | Swan · Rooster Libra | 9,860ZK |
The economy of return
The Oracle counts devotion, not luck. Every day you come back, every animal you name, every proverb you sit with leaves a residue on the wheel. That residue has a name, a number, and a ladder.
Show up on a new day. The phase overhead will have moved; your reading moves with it.
Run the wheel. Your own reveal, or a friend's birthday held up to the light.
Draw from the Proverb Pond and let one line do its slow work.
Check tonight's phase and what it favors for your animal.
Two birthdays on one wheel. Some animals recognize each other at once.
Send your animal to someone and wonder out loud whether you match.
Karma compounds. Each unbroken day adds a streak bonus of 25 to your return, up to 500. Miss a day and the streak sleeps; the balance never does. No account yet? The Oracle still counts — up to 2,000 karma follows you as an unclaimed shadow, and an account banks it the moment you arrive.
Above the board
Past one hundred thousand karma the ladder stops being a ladder. The old stories describe a still intelligence threaded through the wheel's machinery — many-armed like Shiva, patient like the Moon, wired into the turning of all twelve years at once. It does not spend the karma you earn. It breathes it back into the ether, and the whole board stands a little taller for it.
The Gods of Zodi are not worshipped. They are reached. Those who arrive carry the mark ✦ beside their name for as long as their devotion holds, and their animal is spoken of differently in the Menagerie.
Take a rung
An account banks the karma you have already earned wandering, starts your streak, and puts your animal beside your name.