![]() ![]() Liver excess is a false way to empower the heart and causes imbalance between fire and wood. Fire types must avoid alcoholic beverages that heat (over stimulate) the liver. The element wood nurtures the element fire wood’s body organ is the liver. Therefore a fire personality may have a disposition for heart problems, such as heart attacks, or may experience minor digestive problems in the small intestines. In traditional Chinese medicine, fire’s body organs are the heart and small intestines. Other heart emotions include joy, vanity, jealousy, frustration, regret, grief from loss of love, and disappointment in relationships. The emotion associated with fire is happiness. The challenge for a fire type is to share joy and laughter without thought of reward. Experiences of love, compassion, fun, joy, and pleasure are healing for fire individuals. ![]() A fire type succeeds by becoming warm- hearted and generous. The fire personality is direct-right out front. When fire expresses feminine yin energy, its color is purple and is symbolized by the flame of a lamp, small and contained, yet helpful.įire personality traits are love, passion, leadership, spirituality, insight, dynamism, aggression, intuition, reason, and expressiveness. When fire expresses masculine yang energy, its color is red and is symbolized by burning wood. Fire’s symbol is a red Phoenix.Īlthough fire is considered a very yang element in general, it can exist in either a yang or a yin state because in Taoism all things have both a yin and a yang expression to create balance. ![]() Fire’s tri-gram is two solid lines above and below a broken line. Fire’s position on the feng shui ba-gua represents fame and illumination. Fire corresponds to the three earthly branches of summertime: Serpent (May), Horse (June) and Sheep Fire’s direction is south. Fire’s season is summer, the time of heat, growth, warmth, and increased light. Fire’s planet is Mars, the intense red planet. The first element, fire, is the most masculine of the five elements. These five elements are the basis of Chinese metaphysics and philosophy and have practical applications including feng shui, astrology/astronomy, and traditional Chinese medicine.Įach element possesses distinct characteristics. But Chinese Taoist cosmology is structured on five, not four elements: fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. Theses three doshas are used in Ayurvedic medicine in a system as fully developed as traditional Chinese medicine. Even the tarot deck and playing cards are based on these four elements whereby fire is wands (clubs), water is cups (hearts), air is swords (spades), and earth is pentacles (diamonds).Īnother way of dividing the cosmos into elemental energies is the ancient east Indian vedic system of the three doshas: vata (air/space), pitta (fire), and kapha (earth and water). ![]() The four elements of fire, water, air, and earth are the basis of many magical and spiritual systems: the native American medicine wheel, the four corners of pagan European ritual, the four elements of alchemical schools of ancient Egypt, and the four elements of astrology. You can add the color green, or grow herbs in your kitchen.įeng Shui Journal Spring 1998, Vol.4, No.1, Pages 22 – 25 THE FIVE TAOIST ELEMENTS Wood added to a Fire for cooking makes the blaze brighter so the kitchen is the room of the element Wood. Wood rules the liver in Chinese medicine. Make this yin room quiet, cool, blue, and soothing like the element Metal. Water rules the kidneys in Chinese medicine so your bathroom is the room of the element Water. Make this room clean, organized, and in light colors. Metal rules the lungs in Chinese medicine so your bedroom, where you rest and breath deeply, is the room of the element Metal. Make this room soft, in golden earth-tone colors, with round or oval tables for this yin element. Make this room lively, colorful, and entertaining like the yang element Fire.Įarth rules the stomach in Chinese medicine so the dining room where we eat and digest is the room of the element Earth. Five elements theory is the basis of traditional Chinese medicine, and is part of feng shui. Applying the five elements to feng shui is easy to remember if you think of each element as a room in your home:įire rules the heart in Chinese medicine so the heart of the home, your living room, is the room of the element Fire. In 1998 Feng Shui Journal published an article I wrote about the five Taoist elements. ![]()
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