Five Elements Theory
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Think of the body as a garden.
Metaphors from nature: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood
That which moves the world from the outside moves within
me.
The 5 elements describe the parallelism and synchronicity
of events in the inner and outer world. They are ordered in the five
phases - fire, earth, metal, water, wood - which each corresponds to five organ
networks and their respective meridians along with the five seasons, climates
and personality types.
Analagous to the seasonal cycles of evolution: birth,
growth, ripening, harvest and decay/death.
Fire = summer, joy, red
Earth = late summer, pensive, yellow
Metal= autumn, sadness, white
Water = winter, fear, black
Wood = spring, anger, blue
