The five elements, or, in other words, elements, form the basis of the Chinese teachings of Feng Shui, Qi energy exists in various forms that correspond to these elements. They are determined by the interaction of Yin and Yang. These elements are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
Each element has its own characteristics and accordingly endows a person with certain qualities. Today we will talk about how to find out which element your date of birth belongs to, and how this element affects you.
How to determine your element according to Feng Shui by date of birth?
- In order to calculate the elements according to Feng Shui by date of birth, you must first understand that the Chinese horoscope is compiled according to the rules of chronology adopted in the East. And there the New Year comes in a completely different way than is customary here. Not strictly on January 1, but on a specific day from January 21 to February 21.
- So it turns out that people born during this period can celebrate their birthday in different years: in European style - next year, and in Chinese last year. This feature must be taken into account when drawing up a Feng Shui horoscope.
Table
- So, how to find out your element according to Feng Shui depending on your year of birth? The last digit is important here: if you were born after February 20, be determined by the date of your birth year, its last digit. For example, you were born on February 25, 1975, which means your number is 5, and your element is Wood.
- If your date of birth falls between January 1 and February 20, take into account the date of the previous year. For example, you were born on January 15, 1978 , your number is not 8, but 7, and your element is not Earth, but Fire, because the Chinese New Year has not yet arrived.
In any case, the last numbers of the year correspond to the following elements:
- 0-1: Metal
- 2-3: Water
- 4-5: Tree
- 6-7: Fire
- 8-9: Earth
It is also important to understand the meaning of even and odd years. Even years symbolize the Yang type of person. They are extroverts who like to live in dark and cool houses. Yin type belongs to introverts who prefer bright, spacious rooms.
Method for calculating Gua number
For many centuries, Feng Shui has been helping people fill their homes with harmony and find inner balance. By transforming the surrounding space, followers of the teaching improve various areas of their lives, learn about their inner world and the laws of the Universe. One of the main elements of the Feng Shui system is the individually calculated Gua number. Having received this fateful figure, you can find out the most favorable directions of the world for development and self-improvement. Correct calculation and its application allow you to improve absolutely any area of life, improve health, gain financial stability, peace and tranquility in the family. You need to get your personal number according to the following scheme:
After all the calculations, you should carefully study your individually calculated number. The numbers 1, 3, 4, 9 form the east group. The south and east will bring prosperity and good luck to people from this group, the north will give stability, and the southeast will bring prosperity. The numbers 2, 6, 7, 8 make up the west group. The western and northeastern directions will be fateful for this category of numbers, the northwestern side of the world will fill life with harmony, and the southwestern side will help make your cherished dreams come true.
According to the laws of Feng Shui, east and west are in opposition, and areas that are favorable for one group will be extremely unfavorable for the other.
Brief description of the elements according to Feng Shui
What is characteristic of each element according to Feng Shui? Let's consider this issue in detail.
Element Fire
- This is heat in any form, flame, summer heat. It can be a source of heat and light, but it can also exude aggression, explosions, and fire.
- Associated with any light sources, triangles, the red part of the spectrum, any artificial materials.
- Men of this element live in adventures, surprises, and risky adventures . They are active, often ignore generally accepted rules, are undisputed leaders - they burn themselves, and carry everyone around them with them.
- They hate restrictions, love to invent, and have a good sense of humor. In any relationship - friendly, love, work - they avoid strict obligations and prefer play. They know how to gracefully avoid problems and constantly move forward.
- Women largely repeat the masculine traits of Fire, but in their own, feminine way. Swift, active, energetic, impulsive. They often make femme fatales, easily driven crazy. At the same time, they can be faithful to the end if they meet true love. They are reasonable and do everything to be the first in everything.
Appearance
Element Water
- The water element in all its manifestations - from warm, life-giving rain to a storm or tsunami. Often these are people of art with a rich inner world. They can serve as support, sympathize, and nourish, but fear, depression, and anxiety are possible.
- Associated with streams, rivers, lakes, seas, fountains, black and blue colors, glass and mirrors.
- Men value femininity, soft beauty, and grace in the opposite sex. At the same time, they themselves are distinguished by cunning and inconstancy, and are indiscriminate in cordial and bed relationships. Diplomats know how to persuade and are strong in the negotiation process.
- Open , they will charm any interlocutor, they seem to be the best of friends, but they jealously guard their inner world and few can allow anyone there. To achieve their goal they use all possible means.
- Women are cunning, capricious, but at the same time everyone is crazy about them. They are quite flighty, but this shortcoming is easily forgiven. They can easily communicate with anyone, charming the interlocutor and achieving their goal. They have an excellent imagination, a keen sense of the world and people around them. Smooth out conflicts and move away from them.
Water
Element Earth
- These people are a breeding ground for everything new and growing. Support, nutrition and support for other elements. They are wise, sincere, have developed intuition, but at the same time they are overly anxious, nervous, and are tormented by empty expectations.
- A suitable shape is a square; among colors, preference should be given to brick, dark orange, earthy yellow.
- Men are very practical, they make decisions carefully, after long deliberation. They love life and its joys, are faithful husbands, and are stress-resistant . Confident optimists .
- Women are sensitive, strive to join the harmony of the world around them, feminine, charming, stylish, individual. At the same time, they are terrible owners both in relation to things and to their partner. Jealous people, you can’t feel free with them. They love stability and are balanced.
External characteristics
Element Metal
- This is strength, hardness, autumn severity. They are interesting in communication, easy-going, fair. However, it can carry dangerous particles of sadness, destruction, and danger. It is worth knowing that metal is a weapon, as well as jewelry.
- Associated with any metal products, watches, coins, white and gray colors. The preferred shape is a circle.
- Men are convinced that they are right, ambitious, and often simply ruthless. They confidently move towards their goal, often achieve success in life, but at the same time they do not stop, enjoying what they have achieved.
- Women have charm and magnetism, which is quite intrusive and even frightening - their feelings are manifested brightly and boldly. They strive to achieve excellence in all areas: at work, in love, in friendship, while acting methodically and consistently.
Characteristic
Element Wood
- A tree is spring growth, rebirth. The ambiguous element Yin symbolizes pliable softness and flexibility, and Yang symbolizes hardness and strength. It can serve as a support staff, or maybe as a striking spear.
- Associated with any plants, pieces of furniture, paper. Green color. Columns, pictorial elements, and finishing works are suitable for this element.
- Men of this element are emotional ; universal universal love is important to them. People who share their views can count on friendship and altruism. In relationships, they prefer to be the leader rather than the follower. They value friendship and seek common interests and ideals in all respects.
- Women have unobtrusive beauty, are honest and truthful. They are resourceful and elegant, independent and value freedom very much. They protect their inner world and open it very rarely and only to those who are really close to them. She does not show a sense of ownership towards her loved ones, but she herself will not tolerate being a toy in someone’s hands.
About external qualities
Love compatibility of elements according to Feng Shui
Now let's see how different elements are combined according to Feng Shui during sexual relationships. Each combination of elements has its own possible relationships.
Relationships and energies
- Metal and Metal. Passion and love rule here Partners can understand each other well and express their love in all its diversity. To maintain such a relationship longer, you need to moderate your selfishness a little.
- Metal and Water. The union of hard Metal and gentle, pliable Water can be ideal if Water shows novelty and experiments.
- Metal and Wood. For an ideal union, these elements must understand the partner more deeply and not judge his actions by themselves. Metal is conservative, and Wood strives for development, this must be taken into account.
- Metal and Fire. Raging passions, manifestation of a strong principle in each of the partners. Both are active and strive for dominance. However, as a stronger element, Fire must weaken its desire to subjugate its partner, and then their union is quite viable.
- Water and Wood are the perfect sexy couple. There is harmony in all relationships. If you don’t forget about the daily routine and don’t shy away from everyday problems, the union can become ideal.
- Water and Earth. Earth is emotionally stronger, allows itself to be loved, and Water loves selflessly , dissolving in its partner. Everything will be fine if partners accept these roles and do not try to change them.
- Tree and Tree. Full mutual understanding and mutual complementarity. But you cannot dissolve too much in each other and avoid external conflicts that can destroy this union.
- Wood and Fire. Opposites attract - this is about such a union. Wood is aesthetic and inventive, while Fire is active and passionate. These feelings arouse the admiration of your partner.
- Fire and Fire. An equal union of two raging elements, where no one strives to take a leading position. The main thing is not to get tired of each other.
- Fire and Earth. A union of contradictions that can both cause mutual admiration - the active passion of Fire and gentleness, the love of Earth - and become a stumbling block.
- Earth and Earth. They go well with each other intimately, while maintaining spiritual closeness. They need to be afraid of mutual jealousy and intolerance so as not to destroy mutual attraction.
- Water and fire. The sexual compatibility of this couple is low, since Fire is more passionate, impulsive, loves experiments, and loves to dominate. Water, on the other hand, is more tender and vulnerable, does not always accept the dominance of its partner, and tries to seek a compromise.
Compatibility
- Tree and Earth. A tree can emotionally suppress the Earth , since it is always in motion and development, while the Earth is stable and does not like to leave its comfort zone. Sexually, such a couple often has problems, since they have different views regarding this area of life.
Yin and Yang in the Chinese horoscope
In addition, the animal can belong to the yang or yin sign (Table 1).
Each of the five elements has positive and negative aspects, and which of them are expressed in you depends on whether your animal sign is yin or yang. For example, the Rat is a yang aquatic animal.
It turns out that for people - Rats, the qualities of the element Water are expressed positively. The Ox, on the contrary, is a Yin water sign. Therefore, the qualities of the element Water are expressed negatively in them.
These are the characteristic qualities of yin and yang people.
Yin: average weight, often tall, smiling, love rich colors, poor health, individualistic, sympathetic, warm-hearted, thoughtful, quick-witted, independent, solitary, rebellious, non-materialistic.
Yang: average height, often plump, sociable, hospitable, good health, optimistic, active, pragmatic, impressionable, rationalists, emotionally unstable, distrustful, self-confident, materialistic, conservative, hot-tempered.
| animal | Yin Yang | element |
| rat | yang | water |
| bull | yin | water |
| tiger | yang | tree |
| rabbit | yin | tree |
| the Dragon | yang | tree |
| snake | yin | fire |
| horse | yang | fire |
| goat | yin | fire |
| monkey | yang | metal |
| rooster | yin | metal |
| dog | yang | metal |
| pig | yin | water |
Friendship and the elements according to Feng Shui
A good friend will help, provide support, and be there in difficult times. Therefore, choosing a true friend is a difficult but necessary art. How to choose friends, guided by the teachings of Feng Shui about the five elements? Let's determine the main friendly traits of a person of each element according to Feng Shui.
- Fire. As the name suggests, these are passionate, ardent, active, active natures. In friendship, they are more likely to be a “locomotive” and help their friends to realize themselves.
- Metal . Loyal, reliable friends, despite their cynicism, secrecy and cunning. They know how to support in difficult times.
- Earth . These people's friendships are natural and simple, reliable. Stubborn, do not give up under the influence of momentary failures, support friends and serve as a reliable support for them.
- Water . It's easy to make friends with them, they are sociable, witty, and have a sense of humor. A little absent-minded, changeable in mood. However, their friends should be on their guard - people of this element are irresponsible, and can set up a friend not out of malice, but out of character.
- Tree . Excellent friends, especially in extreme situations, where they show calm, equanimity, diplomacy and responsiveness.
Extend a hand of friendship regardless of the elements
Friendly and unfriendly years of the eastern horoscope
In astrology, there are friendly and unfriendly years of the eastern horoscope.
Friendly, that is, well correlated with each other, include the years of the following triplets:
- Years of the Rooster, Bull and Snake.
- Years of the Tiger, Dog and Horse.
- Years of the Hare, Goat and Boar.
- Years of the Monkey, Rat and Dragon.
These are the four best teams (groups). By joining their efforts, people from each of these
teams achieve good results in business and friendly relationships. Marriages concluded between people belonging to the same group, as a rule, also turn out to be very successful.
The relationships between these four groups are of two types:
The Rooster, Bull and Snake always oppose the Hare, Goat and Boar; Tigers, Dogs and Horses oppose Monkey, Rat and Dragon.
Neutral relationships develop between the Rooster, Bull and Snake, on the one hand, and the Tiger, Dog and Horse, on the other;
Rooster, Bull and Snake, on the one hand, and Monkey, Rat and Dragon, on the other;
Hare, Goat and Boar, on the one hand, and Tiger, Dog and Horse, on the other;
Hare, Goat and Boar, on the one hand, and Monkey, Rat and Dragon, on the other.
And yet, despite the above-mentioned features of the relationship between different years of the “eastern” horoscope, it is impossible to draw unambiguous and far-reaching conclusions regarding the fact that relationships between specific people will develop in the same “statistically average” way.
Feng Shui colors and elements
Speaking about the characteristics of each element according to Feng Shui, we talked a little about what color suits it. This is useful to know when choosing an interior, the color of clothes, a car, and other objects that surround you in everyday life.
So:
- For Water , ultramarine, sapphire, sky colors, as well as aqua and indigo are preferred
- Fire corresponds to garnet, wine, red-orange, terracotta and brick colors.
- For the Earth , white, lilac, peach-beige will be comfortable , as well as khaki, wormwood, and marsh.
- Metal loves all shades of gray: gray, lead, ash.
- The tree is in harmony with all shades of green: malachite, jade, coniferous, viridian.
Color scheme
Now, knowing the characteristics of each element according to Feng Shui, you can more consciously and creatively choose your friends, life partner, build relationships with work colleagues, neighbors and relatives.
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