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The objects.
This section is about the things themselves: what they are made of, how they are made, and what they have meant in Chinese tradition. The reasoning about your own chart lives in the free reading, and the metaphysics lives in the library. Here we describe jewelry.
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The first run
The Pixiu Bracelet
Black obsidian, solid brass pixiu
Volcanic glass and a small brass beast that, in the folklore, takes things in and does not hand them back.
- 8 mm black obsidian, cut and polished rather than dyed. Obsidian is glass, so it holds light differently from the opaque stones it usually sits beside.
- A solid brass pixiu finished by PVD vacuum plating — a thinner, harder coat than the dipped plating that goes patchy in a season.
- Doubled elastic cord, knotted by hand with the knot tucked inside a bead.
- Arrives with a card explaining what the pixiu is in Chinese tradition, and what it is not.
In the first run. Made to the specification below.
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Three ways in
By intention
What you would keep it for. No knowledge of the system required.
By five elements
Where a piece sits in the five-element system — the same five your reading reports.
By zodiac sign
Each of the twelve animals is fixed to one of the five elements. Yours points at a colour family, which is as far as a sign on its own can honestly take you.
- RatWater
- OxEarth
- TigerWood
- RabbitWood
- DragonEarth
- SnakeFire
- HorseFire
- GoatEarth
- MonkeyMetal
- RoosterMetal
- DogEarth
- PigWater
Horse · 2026
The Year of the Horse opens on 17 February 2026, which makes it Ben Ming Nian — one's own zodiac year — for anyone born in a Horse year. The custom for that year is red worn close.
The rest of the catalogue
Written as purchasing specifications rather than photographed as products, because that is honestly the stage they are at.
- Water$59
The Standing Pixiu
Black obsidian, 12 mm, cast brass pixiu
The same specification at 12 mm, for a wrist a slim bracelet disappears on.
Wealth · Protection
- Earth$39
The Merchant's Stone
Heat-treated citrine, 8 mm
The yellow stone traders kept on the counter, sold with its treatment printed on the card rather than left off it.
Wealth · Clarity
- Wood$42
The Green Shoot
Undyed green aventurine, 8 mm
Aventurine that glitters because of what is caught inside it, not because of what was done to it.
Wealth · Harmony
- Fire$45
The Banded Stone
Undyed golden tiger's eye, 8 mm
Golden tiger's eye, matched bead by bead so the shimmer runs the same way around the wrist.
Clarity · Protection
- Metal$79
The Scholar's Jade
White nephrite jade, 8 mm
Nephrite rather than dyed quartzite: the stone Confucius reached for when he wanted a figure for character.
Clarity · Harmony
- Metal$39
The Red Cord
Braided red cord, single nephrite bead
The red thread worn through one's own zodiac year, with a nephrite bead where most versions have a plastic one.
Protection · Harmony
Anything we make is jewelry: an object to wear, and a reminder of an intention you set yourself. We describe its materials, its craft, and what it has meant in Chinese tradition. We do not describe it as something that changes financial outcomes.
Not sure which one
Start with your five elements, not with a product grid.
The free reading calculates your birth chart the traditional way and reports which of the five elements your chart is built around. That answer maps to a colour family here. It takes about a minute, there is no account, and nothing on this site can be paid for today.
The reading is written by AI and labeled as such on every page of it.
This is not financial advice. It is also not medical advice, not legal advice, and not a substitute for a licensed professional. No particular outcome, result, or benefit is promised or assured.