RE: 5 Element Review (Earth)

[Guest guest]

Another way to visualize the relationship the 5 Elements/Pathways have

to each other is to draw a cross.

 

At the top place Fire and at the bottom place Water.

(This illustration hints at TCM's concept of Fire being the absorber and

interpreter of life's experiences and deep Water's rule of the " sea of

mallow " (the brain);

How the mind is dependant upon the communication (shen) of Fire to

Water.)

 

The left arm would hold Wood and the right, Metal.

 

At the center intersection one can find Earth.

 

How can this be? Isn't the seasonal explanation that

Fire is summer,

Wood is spring,

Water is winter,

Metal is Fall and

Earth is Indian summer? Why would we place Earth in the middle of all

the Pathways?

 

The season of Earth is also referred to as the season between seasons.

(Indian summer is an obvious example of this.)

Try visualizing it for its qualities; a point in time when we are home,

when we can settle in with comfort to our foundations.

 

Some have interpreted Earth's time of season to be at the equinoxes and

solstices.