SPACETRASH / DROP 001 · FIRST 100
Five Elements
Five mushroom charms for luck, one for each element. Find the element you were born under, then join the early bird list for first access to the first 100.
Find your element
Day MasterThe five
Drop 001 · 100 pieces across five elements · Stone colours are final when the samples are.
Early bird list
Free · first accessFive, everywhere
Many ancient cultures, East and West, described the world in fives. The lists differ, the instinct is the same. This drop follows the Eastern Five Phases, where the five are not substances but stages of change, each one turning into the next.
- Ancient Greece
- Earth · Water · Air · Fire, and Aether as the fifth
- Ancient India
- Earth · Water · Fire · Air · Space
- Japan
- Earth · Water · Fire · Wind · Void
- The East, Five Phases
- Wood · Fire · Earth · Metal · Water
Written in the sky
Long before telescopes, sky-watchers in the East tracked five wandering stars and gave each one an element. Jupiter is the Wood star, Mars the Fire star, Saturn the Earth star, Venus the Metal star and Mercury the Water star. Jupiter takes about twelve years to circle the sun, so it was used to count the years.
- JupiterWood star
- MarsFire star
- SaturnEarth star
- VenusMetal star
- MercuryWater star
The 60 count
The calendar runs on two wheels: ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches. Turn them together, one step a day, and the pairs repeat every 60, the lowest common multiple of 10 and 12. Days have moved through this count for centuries. The stem of the day you were born is your Day Master, the element tradition says is you.
10 stems×12 branches→a cycle of 60
The cycle
Each element feeds the next and checks another. Wood feeds Fire, Fire leaves Earth, Earth bears Metal, Metal gathers Water, Water feeds Wood. Mycelium lives the same loop: it breaks the old down and grows the new.
- Feeds Wood → Fire → Earth → Metal → Water → Wood
- Checks Wood → Earth → Water → Fire → Metal → Wood
Wearable signal · NFC
Tap for your now
A chip sits in the base of every mushroom. Hold it to your phone and tap the notification to open a reading of where you stand now: today's element and this year's element, read against yours. It changes every day.
Early bird
Joining the list is free. When early bird opens, the list hears first: $20 holds one of the first 100 pendants, is credited toward your pendant at launch and is fully refundable any time before it ships. Expected to ship January 2027.
Rooted in tradition, made for reflection and fun. Not a prediction. Stones are cubic zirconia.