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The Cosmic Meaning of the Chinese Elements
The 5 Chinese Elements: What they mean and their relationships to one another
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 5 Chinese elementsThe five material agents in Chinese astrology are wood-fire-earth-metal-water. They are grouped in the order by which they produce one another or their progression of change. They provide a deeper understanding of our inner being and how it relates to the cosmic web.What is important to understand is that these five agents explain everything including the progress of change in the universe.
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The progression of change goes like this (Outer ring)
Wood gives rise to fire
Fire gives rise to earth
Earth gives rise to metal
Metal gives rise to water
Or, they are grouped in the order by which they are conquered by one another (Inner arrows)Fire is conquered by water
water is conquered by earth
earth is conquered by wood
wood is conquered by metal
metal is conquered by fire.
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The 5 Chinese Elements
The outer ring of arrows represent the progression of change.
The inner arrows show the order in which each element is couquered by another. |
The Progression of Change in the Chinese Elements
Each of these orders, or the sequence in which they occur, can be used to explain the progression of change in just about everything.
When the modern western physicist talks about the unification of forces (electromagnetic force, strong force, weak force, gravity, etc.), that person is not conceiving these forces as spilling into or conquering one another; this physicist would consider it absurd to apply any of these forces to anything other than mechanical or atomic physics.
The five agents (i.e. Chinese Elements) in Chinese astrology, however, are a metaphysical explanation of the progression of change that is meant to be applied to every phenomenon one encounters in this changing universe: politics, ethics, music, biology, time, seasons, history, etc.
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Chinese Elements, Seasons and Colors
Associated with the agent wood is the season spring, fire is summer, metal is autumn, and water is winter.
The color green is the color of the wood agent, red the color of fire, yellow the color of earth, white the color of metal, and black the color of water.
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The Chinese Elements and Human Anatomy
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| In Chinese elements and their relationship to the human anatomy, the spleen is ruled by wood, the lungs by fire, the heart by earth, the liver by metal, and the kidneys by water.
If one has a disease of the liver, it is because the liver is being overcome by a fire agent or pathogen. Since fire is overcome by water, one would treat the liver pathogen with a water agent.
This is basically how the system of Chinese medicine and elements works. Using this system of diagnosis Chinese medical practitioners have treated their countrymen for millennia.
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