THE FIVE PHASES
Water
Water names flow, depth and storage.
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水 · shuǐ
Water can frame movement through changing paths as well as the quiet keeping of resources. In the Five Phases it is a process image, not a forecast about emotion or fate.
An example
A Water question for a long journey is what should be carried and what can be replenished.
A question to carry with you
What flow needs room, and what resource needs care?
Find your own lunar-year placement
Use your birth date to find the year animal, stem, branch, stem phase and Yin/Yang. This calculator follows Chinese New Year; it does not calculate a full Four Pillars (BaZi) chart.