The Correspondences For The 5 Element System
Winter Nov 7 - Feb 4
- Element: water
- Qualities: Deeply emotional. Need for privacy, stillness, peace, to manifest highest nature. Artistic, poetic, romantic, psychic abilities.
- Positive mental states include wisdom, intelligence, empathy, reflection, intuition, creativity.
- Negative mental states include fear, withdrawal, aloofness, falling into illusion.
- Physical/emotional imbalance tendencies include kidney problems, digestive problems, edema, blood poisoning, high/low blood pressure, infertility and sexual dysfunction, arthritis, rheumatism, tooth decay, depression, lethargy, blocking/storing emotions.
Spring Feb 4 - May 5
- Element: wood
- Qualities: strength and flexibility. Need for deep-root connections to manifest highest nature. Abundance, flower and fruit of wisdom shared with all.
- Positive mental states include kindness, friendliness, generosity, expansiveness, leadership, organization, seeing bigger picture.
- Negative mental states include fear manifested as anger, immobility, difficulty making decisions, projection, resentment and judgment.
- Physical/emotional imbalance tendencies include liver and gall bladder disorders, problems with eyesight, back, and limbs, cramping, paralysis, irritability, confusion, repressed thoughts and emotions, fear of being trapped, inability to make plans/decisions.
Summer May 5 - Aug 7
- Element: fire
- Qualities: bright, radiating. Need quiet reflection time to resonate with unconditional/source spark/center to manifest highest nature.
- Positive mental states include courtesy, courage, enthusiasm, joy, brilliance and love.
- Negative mental states include hyperactivity, confusion, fear, compulsiveness, rash behavior.
- Physical/emotional imbalance tendencies include fever, heart disease, high blood pressure, poor circulation, numbness, digestive problems, poor assimilation of nutrients/malnutrition, speech difficulties, sexual issues, lack of joy, lack of confidence, grief.
Autumn Aug 4 - Nov 7
- Element: metal
- Qualities: thinking in patterns; idealism, perfection. Need simplicity and order to manifest highest nature.
- Positive mental states include discipline, sense of morality and justice, honesty, and sense of rhythms and cycles.
- Negative mental states include intolerance, judgment, grief, and inflexibility.
- Physical/emotional imbalance tendencies include lung problems, large intestine disorders, skin conditions, osteoporosis, spinal vertebrae problems, emotional blocks, repression of grief, depression, hypochondria.
All seasons/All times (this applies to all, but especially to those born in the center of the year, last week in July/first week in August.)
- Element: earth
- Qualities: center, equilibrium, matrix/container of physical life. Need balance to manifest highest nature.
- Positive mental states include equality, justice, nurturance, truthfulness, trustworthiness, patience, steadfastness, firmness, and determination.
- Negative mental states include fear, worry, greed, low self-esteem.
- Physical/emotional imbalance tendencies include diseases of the stomach, pancreas, and spleen, eating disorders, obesity, digestive problems, malnutrition, diabetes, insecurity, craving attention, anxiety, greed, and loneliness.
Learn how to create balance in your sacred living space by using Feng Shui principles. Create tranquility, harmony, and peace with the energy you manifest by using artistic elements from nature such as water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. Change the mood of your surroundings when you cycle and center your universe through meditation. Maintain life where you reside with a system and design wisdom of transformation.