東方 · the eastern tree
The Eastern tree
A whole second tradition grows here, beside the tarot. The twelve animals and five elements, the old oracles of bone and block and leaf, and the destiny arts that map a life from the moment it began.
生肖 · the zodiac
The animals & the elements
A sixty-year cycle, five elements, twelve animals, and the tools to find yourself in it.
Start here
十二The Twelve Animals
Rat to Pig, each with its full reading. The heart of the system.
Tool
算Your Animal & Element
Birth year → your sign, its ruling element, and yin or yang.
Reference
五行The Five Elements
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, the five phases and their cycles.
Tool
合Compatibility & Trines
Two animals on the wheel: the trine, the secret-friend thread, or the clash.
Tool
時Hours & Inner Animals
Your year-mask, month-heart, and the secret hour-self of your birth.
Reference
甲子The 60-Year Cycle
The sexagenary Jiazi, ten stems against twelve branches.
Daily
運Daily & Weekly Horoscopes
Today and the week ahead for all twelve, by post if you like.
Lore
話Myth, Festivals & Luck
The Great Race, Lunar New Year, and each animal's lucky colors.
占卜 · the oracles
Older ways of asking
Bones cracked in fire, blocks let fall, sticks shaken loose, leaves left in a cup. Each one is its own small ritual, a yes-or-no or a verse for the question you bring.
Moon Blocks
Two crescent blocks fall yin or yang. Ask one clear thing and read the temple's yes, its laugh, or its quiet no.
卜Oracle Bones
Brand a yes-or-no question into an ox scapula and read the crack that answers.
求Kau Cim
Shake the bamboo cylinder until one numbered slip leaps free, then confirm it with the blocks.
梅Plum Blossom
Shao Yong's number method: two trigrams open out of the moment and one petal moves.
靈Ling Qi Jing
Cast twelve carved counters in three falls, Heaven then Man then Earth, and read the figure.
葉Tea-Leaf Reading
Drink the cup down, swirl it three times, and read the shapes the leaves leave clinging.
茶Cha Dao
Warm the gaiwan, awaken the leaf, and read how it wakes, floats, and colors the water across steep after steep.
八卦Feng Shui
Lay the eight-trigram Bagua over a room, anchored to its door, and read what each area is doing.
命理 · the destiny arts
Reading a whole life
The deeper arts: the four pillars of your birth, the purple-star court of palaces, and the lines of a hand or the zones of a face.
Bazi · Four Pillars
Your birth moment as four pillars of stem and branch, the eight characters of you, weighed for their elements.
紫Zi Wei Dou Shu
Purple Star astrology: the court of fourteen stars falls into twelve named palaces, your life mapped.
奇門Qi Men Dun Jia
The Mysterious Gates: a nine-palace cosmic board of stars, gates, and spirits cast on the moment you ask.
鐵Iron Plate
Give your four pillars and a single count, and a fixed arithmetic turns them into your numbered verses.
手Palmistry
Shou xiang: build your own palm from a few look-at-your-hand choices, then read the lines and mounts.
面Face Reading
Mian xiang: read the three zones and twelve palaces of a face from a few mirror choices.
莲花开 · the lotus deck
Read the Lotus deck
Our 95-card Chinese ink deck, the 78 reimagined as Bamboo, Vessels, Blades and Coins, plus the five elements and twelve animals as oracle cards. Pull it in its signature Lotus Bloom spread (switch to the Lotus deck with the deck picker on any spread or in the library).
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