Feng Shui

Using the right elements to help yourself


Good and bad for your personal elements - Feng Shui Five Element cures / remedies

Wu Xing (五行, wu xing), or the Five Movements, Five Phases or Five Steps/Stages, sometimes translated as Five Elements, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields. Therefore the preferred translation of "movements", "steps" or "phases" over "elements". Still most know the five elements as the more common layman phrase.
The five phases describes two cycles, a generating or creation (生, sheng) cycle, also known as "mother-son", and an overcoming or destruction (剋, ke) cycle, also known as "grandfather-nephew", of interactions between the phases.

In the ancient Chinese form of geomancy known as Feng Shui practitioners all based their art and system on the five elements. All of these element are represented within the Ba gua on the Luo Pan. Associated with these elements are colors, seasons and shapes, all of which interacts with each other.
Based on a particular directional energy flow from one phase to the next, the interaction can be productive, destructive, or exhaustive. With proper knowledge of the action and reaction of each elemental energy flow will enable the Feng Shui practitioner to apply certain cures or rearrangement of energy (rearrangement of furniture) in a way they believe to be beneficial for the receiver of the Feng Shui "Treatment or cure."

As I have touched in the first post on the productive and destructive of the five elements, the productive and destructive relationship between elements, here's the exhaustive side of the interactive elements.

Wood absorbs Water
Water rusts Metal
Metal breaks up Earth
Earth smothers Fire
Fire burns Wood

The structure of the five elements mirrors the cosmos. Each element has a complex series of associations with different aspects of nature, as can be seen in the below analysis. In another words, you have found your birth elements and feng shui elements of your house or surrounding, try to apply these factors to your advantage, by referring back to the productive elements you need to introduce more of into your surrounding, e.g. if you are fire, you need to apply more wood elements into your surrounding as wood generates Fire.

Colors for each element:
•WOOD : Green, Brown
•FIRE : Red, Strong Yellow, Orange, Purple, Pink
•EARTH: Light Yellow, Sandy/Earthy, Light Brown
•METAL: White, Gray
•WATER: Blue, Black
So lets say you belong to the fire category, you need wood so you need green and brown.

Shape for each element:
•WOOD : Rectangular
•FIRE : Triangle
•EARTH: Square
•METAL: Round
•WATER: Curve

Materials for each element:
•WOOD : Wood, Plants, Flower
•FIRE : Fire, Light
•EARTH: Clay, Stone
•METAL: Gold, Silver
•WATER: Water, Mirror

Direction for each element:
•WOOD : east
•FIRE : south
•EARTH: center
•METAL: west
•WATER: north

Planet for each element:
•WOOD : Jupiter
•FIRE : Mars
•EARTH: Saturn
•METAL: Venus
•WATER: Mercury

Heavenly Stems for each element:
•WOOD : Jia 甲, Yi 乙
•FIRE : Bing 丙, Ding 丁
•EARTH: Wu 戊, Ji 己
•METAL: Geng 庚, Xin 辛
•WATER: Ren 壬, Gui 癸
Years ends with:
•WOOD : 4, 5
•FIRE : 6, 7
•EARTH: 8, 9
•METAL: 0, 1
•WATER: 2, 3

The correlated of the I Ching to the eight trigrams:

•Metal - (I Ching) Heaven - (Trigrams) ☰ 乾 qián
•Earth - (I Ching) Earth - (Trigrams) ☷ 坤 kūn
•Wood - (I Ching) Thunder - (Trigrams) ☳ 震 zhèn
•Wood - (I Ching) Wind - (Trigrams) ☴ 巽 xùn
•Water - (I Ching) Water - (Trigrams) ☵ 坎 kǎn
•Fire - (I Ching) Fire - (Trigrams) ☲ 離 lí
•Earth - (I Ching) Mountain - (Trigrams) ☶ 艮 gèn
•Metal - (I Ching) Lake - (Trigrams) ☱ 兌 duì

Here's a downloadable table of reference: Downloadable Five Elements Chart

Feng Shui Element Cure remedies

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Find your birth element using Ba Zi (natal data)
BaZi- The Destiny Code: Your Guide to the Four Pillars of Destiny

As I mentioned in my previous post, you would need to find out your birth element to be able to apply the right Feng Shui elements into your environment.
First let me explain more clearly what is Ba Zi (natal data).
Basicly, Ba Zi analyzes the unique numerals of an individual's birth data and gender then matches them to a matrix of metaphysical knowledge based on the Sun and its
elemental influences on him/her. From which it uses the 5 basic elements, Wood (木), Fire (火), Earth (土), Metal (金) and Water(水) to represent and map out each
individual's Four Pillars of fate and destiny, in which that's why some fortune tellers can tell your fortune simply by analysing your Bazi map (well that's another
topic altogether).

Before reading on, do an online personal Ba Zi analysis at one of these website:
http://www.fengshui-innovations.com.au/chinese-astrology/bazi-calculator.html
http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-element.html
From which you should get a table showing your Ba Zi (natal Data) analysis.
Leave that window open and continue to read on...

The 4 Pillars are allocated into the Year, Month, Day and Hour. Each pillar is represented by an element, as translated from one's birth data.
Each pillar consists of the Heavenly Stem and the Earthly Branch.
The self-element (which is what we are trying to find out before going about employing Feng Shui into your environment) represented by the Day pillar (which means you should be looking at the column under DAY matching the row Heavently Stem) of the Heavenly Stem is used as a reference point in its inter-relationships with the other seven elements in the 4 Pillars for fortune reading.

This system maps out the 12 stages of the life cycle in a person's life to reveal the strengths of the SELF-element within this framework. This forms the basis for a
precise interpretation and an accurate forecast of a person's destiny. Ba Zi interpretation encompasses the various aspects of one's life and the forecast of his
future is also based on influence of the ruling element of his luck pillar, year, month and hour.
I shall stop here for the Ba Zi analysis, although there's still so much more to talk about on this topic, as I am not talking about fortune telling using Ba Zi, I
just want to demonstrate how to find out your birth element for your Feng Shui analysis need.

Now that you know what's your birth element, you can refer back to the previous post about the five element's productive and destructive relationships and what kind of element you need more of and others that you need to eliminate in your surrounding environment.

Now that you have found out your birth element, maybe you would like to read more on your birth element, by choosing one of the below books:


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The five Feng Shui Elements
Feng Shui Cures for the Five Elements

One of the basic principles of feng shui is the principle of five elements, which are Wood (木), Fire (火), Earth (土), Metal (金) and Water(水). These feng shui elements interact between themselves in many ways, generally defined as the productive and destructive cycles.

In the PRODUCTIVE CYCLE - These element relations are conducive, beneficial, congenial, friendly, supporting and generating.(Affinity Relationship):
Water generates Wood - Water is the mother of Wood
Wood generates Fire - Wood is the mother of Fire
Fire generates Earth - Fire is the mother of Earth
Earth generates Metal - Earth is the mother of Metal
Metal generates Water - Metal is the mother of Water

In the DESTRUCTIVE CYCLE - The elements have the capability to destroy, defeat, overcome and overwhelm the other elements as well. (Destructive Relationship):
Water can extinguish Fire
Wood can break the Earth
Fire can melt Metal
Earth can make Water disappear
Metal can break Wood

Here is the color correspondence of each of the five feng shui elements:
•WOOD : Green, Brown
•FIRE : Red, Strong Yellow, Orange, Purple, Pink
•EARTH: Light Yellow, Sandy/Earthy, Light Brown
•METAL: White, Gray
•WATER: Blue, Black

Knowing how to use the five feng shui elements to strengthen and balance the energy of your home is a complex feng shui subject, but there are always basics to it.

To Know which element is lacking in your environment, you will need to know your Birth astrological element. Which can be based on your birth date and time.

The right placement of feng shui colors is defined by the Luo Pan (feng shui campass) or the feng shui energy map of your environment. I will later write another topic about Luo Pan or the Feng Shui Campass.
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