Discover the 5 elements and your core element
According to the Taoist philosophy, the Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) energies create what are known as the “Five Elements” including:
- Water
- Wood
- Fire
- Earth
- Metal.
The Five Elements theory is an important concept and the key principles are:
- These elements can illuminate more about you.
- Everything you experience can be categorised into one of these elements.
- When these elements are balanced in your reality then you experience health and prosperity.
I provide a summary of what I've been learning about these elements recently and how it helps us to connect more deeply with our true self and others.
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself - Coco Chanel.
Let's explore key features of each element below:
Water
Character Strength: Wisdom
Emotion / feeling: Fear
Colour: Blue or Black
Planet: Mercury
Season: Winter
Connected to Yin and nighttime before midnight. This can make you a night owl!
Upside: unlimited potential, ideas and philosophical.
Downside: excessive fear and isolation from others.
Choose love over fear and implement your ideas in the physical to restore balance.
Wood
Character Strength: Kindness
Emotion / feeling: Anger
Colour: Green
Planet: Jupiter
Season: Spring
Connected to Yang and after midnight. This can make you stay up after people have gone to bed.
Upside: generous, creative and good at getting things done.
Downside: can come across as critical and angry to others.
Choose kindness and forgiveness to restore balance.
Fire
Character Strength: Joy
Emotion / feeling: Anxiety
Colour: Red
Planet: Mars
Season: Summer
Connected to Yang and morning. This can make you an early bird.
Upside: social, passionate and humourous (love to laugh even at their own jokes).
Downside: hyperactivity, mental confusion and arrogance.
Choose harmony and work on your organisational skills or get some help to stay balanced.
Earth
Character Strength: Equanimity
Emotion / feeling: Worry
Colour: Yellow
Planet: Saturn
Season: Associated with the equinoxes
Harmony of Yin and Yang and midday. Maybe you enjoy lunch :).
Upside: stable, accurate and trustworthy.
Downside: over thinking, suspicious and narrow-minded.
Choose relaxation to calm your mind and embrace a growth mindset to restore balance.
Metal
Character Strength: Courage
Emotion / feeling: Grief / Sadness
Colour: White
Planet: Venus
Season: Autumn
Connected to Yin and afternoon. This can make you more alert in the afternoon.
Upside: spiritual (connects with a higher purpose to life), persistence and order.
Downside: holding on and attached to people, places and things and aloofness.
Choose to let go / surrender and move forward with optimism.
What is your core element?
You have a fixed core element and then another element is often dominant too. From viewing these qualities, can you identify with your core element? It’s important not to overly identify with the associated emotion / feeling with your element, because it’s about finding balance with all elements. What is interesting to notice is if that emotion has been dominant in your life, as this can be a helpful clue to your core element. Once you have noticed this, you can then increase your self awareness and choose to work through that feeling.
My core element is metal and my view is this element is very important for where we are right now. There is lots of old programming and beliefs that need to be removed and let go of as the collective moves forward. Humanity is evolving at a much quicker pace so letting go will support the shifts and allowing the new energies available for us to progress.
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Here's to living your best life!
Melissa Taylor
Future Transcendence Leadership Mentor
