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The twelve animals and the five elements
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東方 · the eastern tree
New to a tool? Start with a practice guide, or browse all oracle tools. Each guide explains the method and how our version adapts it.
The roots · 生肖
A sixty-year cycle, five elements, twelve animals, and the tools to find yourself in it.
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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.
The branches · 占卜
Explore digital casts and symbolic exercises inspired by Chinese divination practices. Choose a method, learn how it works, and bring a question for reflection.
Looking for tea-leaf reading, Cha Dao, or Feng Shui? Visit the blossoms below.
A digital cast of two crescent blocks. Ask one clear question and explore the possible falls.
卜A reflection inspired by oracle-bone divination. Bring a question and explore a symbolic crack pattern.
求Shake the bamboo cylinder until one numbered slip leaps free, then confirm it with the blocks.
梅Shao Yong's number method: two trigrams open out of the moment and one petal moves.
靈Cast twelve carved counters in three falls, Heaven then Man then Earth, and read the figure.
易Cast six lines, read the hexagram, and follow any changing lines into a second figure.
The blossoms · 茶與居
A cup, a room, a slower way to notice. These practices invite attention to the everyday, with their own histories and modern adaptations.
Drink the cup down, swirl it three times, and read the shapes the leaves leave clinging.
茶Warm the gaiwan, awaken the leaf, and read how it wakes, floats, and colors the water across steep after steep.
八卦Lay the eight-trigram Bagua over a room, anchored to its door, and read what each area is doing.
The canopy · 命理
Explore birth-chart structures, the purple-star court of palaces, and traditional readings of hands and faces. Our tools offer symbolic reflection; their guides identify the calculations and simplifications.
Your birth moment as four pillars of stem and branch, the eight characters of you, weighed for their elements.
紫Explore a twelve-palace Purple Star board. This simplified tool uses civil dates without lunar-calendar conversion.
奇門The Mysterious Gates: explore a nine-palace board of stars, gates, and spirits based on the date and hour.
鐵Give your four pillars and a single count, and a fixed arithmetic turns them into your numbered verses.
手Shou xiang: build your own palm from a few look-at-your-hand choices, then read the lines and mounts.
面Mian xiang: read the three zones and twelve palaces of a face from a few mirror choices.
莲花开 · 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).
Open the Lotus Bloom spread →
The twelve animals and the five elements
Oracle branches: bone, block, stick, and hexagram
A tree of Chinese zodiac traditions, oracle practices, and our own reflective adaptations grows beside the tarot. Begin at the roots, then follow the branch that meets your curiosity.
