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Earthly Branches (Bazi)
The twelve Earthly Branches mark the hours, months, and seasons a chart is built from, and each hides one to three stems inside it. The branch is the technical term; the zodiac animal is only its popular name.
Earthly Branches (Bazi)
The twelve Earthly Branches (地支) of Bazi — calendrical units that mark the hours, months, and seasons, each carrying hidden stems (藏干). The branch is the name; the zodiac animal (Rat, Ox…) is only its popular label.
midnight and the year's still point — pure Water at its coldest, everything held in potential
Read the page →frozen field — damp Earth that stores Metal, patient and load-bearing
Read the page →the first stir of spring — rising Wood carrying the spark of Fire, sudden initiative
Read the page →full spring growth — pure soft Wood, lush, fast, everywhere at once
Read the page →the damp reservoir — Earth that stores Water, fertile and volatile, the vault of storms
Read the page →rising summer Fire — the forge, bright and coiled, Metal hidden in the heat
Read the page →high noon — peak Fire at the year's zenith, pure heat and visibility
Read the page →dry summer earth — Earth that stores Wood, warm and settling, the harvest ground
Read the page →the first Metal of autumn — sharp and restless, the seed of Water already forming
Read the page →pure refined Metal — the harvest blade, exact, finished, unmixed
Read the page →dry autumn earth — Earth that stores Fire, the banked ember, loyal and guarded
Read the page →the opening of winter — broad Water carrying the seed of next year's Wood
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