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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