Cross-System · Glossary
Earthly Branches
The 12 cyclical characters (子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥) used in Chinese metaphysics.
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 KAXANTA, earthly branches is one of the concepts KAXANTA cross-references when synthesising your reading. It runs through all nine wisdom traditions so you can see how the same question reads through multiple lenses.
Want to see your earthly branches?
Run a free reading — your blueprint takes about two minutes to generate, and reads all nine systems together.