Discover your Chinese zodiac element.
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water? Your Chinese zodiac element comes from the moment you were born. Enter your birthday and get a personal reading — clear, warm, and in plain English.
Wood · Fire · Earth · Metal · Water
Your birthday is all it takes
No charts to decode. You only read the part that is about you.
Enter your birthday
Your date of birth, and the hour if you know it. Not sure of the time? That is fine.
We find your element
Your birth moment is placed on the traditional Chinese calendar to reveal your element and inner balance.
Read your reading
Who you are, your natural gifts, where you get stuck — and one small thing to try this week.
What your reading looks like
An example for someone born on 15 June 1992 at 10:30. Yours is drawn from your own birthday.
A River That Finds Its Way
Your element is Water — like a river: adaptable, deep, always finding a way around what blocks it. You often understand people before they finish explaining themselves.
Your natural gift is connecting ideas that others keep apart. Where you get stuck: you keep everyone else's plans afloat and quietly forget your own.
One thing to try this week: before you say yes to the next request, wait one night and ask whether it moves you toward something you want.
Example text, shortened. Readings are for reflection and enjoyment, not predictions.
More readings
Your first reading is free. These deeper readings are being prepared and will open soon.
Today
- Today's theme
- Work and communication
- One thing to watch in relationships
- One action to take today
One question
- Scope checked before you pay
- An answer to that one question
- What the answer does not cover
- One free follow-up
Two-person reading
- Both sides, separately
- Where you complement each other
- Where it gets difficult
- How to talk about it
Full reading
- Your chart and its limits
- Overall theme
- Character and tendencies
- Work and study
Explore the five elements
What each Chinese zodiac element says about personality, love and work — plus the lucky colors and numbers that go with it.
Good to know
What is my Chinese zodiac element?
There are two answers. Your year element comes from the last digit of your birth year (0–1 Metal, 2–3 Water, 4–5 Wood, 6–7 Fire, 8–9 Earth) and is shared by everyone born that year. Your personal element comes from the day you were born — that is the one our free reading finds, and it is much closer to who you are.
What is this, exactly?
It is based on BaZi (“eight characters”), a centuries-old Chinese way of describing a person from the year, month, day and hour of their birth. We turn it into a short, modern reading for self-reflection — no jargon.
What are the five elements?
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. In Chinese tradition everything is a mix of these five forces. Your birth moment has its own mix, and one element sits at the center — that is the element you were born under.
I don't know my birth time. Can I still use it?
Yes. Tick “I don't know the exact time” and we will read the date alone. The hour adds detail, but the heart of the reading comes from the day.
Will it predict my future?
No. It describes tendencies and strengths to reflect on. It never predicts illness, disaster or fortune, and it should not be used for decisions about health, money, law or relationships.
What were you born under?
It takes about a minute, and your first reading is free.
Reveal my element