Earthly Branches

What this means

Each branch corresponds to an animal (Rat through Pig), a two-hour period, a compass direction, and one or more of the Five Elements. They form the bottom row of each Ba Zi pillar.

In practice

In K A X A N T A, earthly branches is one of the concepts The Architect cross-references when synthesising your reading. The cross-system engine surfaces it alongside seven other wisdom traditions so you can see how the same question reads through multiple lenses.