Whether it is Chinese medicine, Chinese martial arts, Chinese astrology, or Feng shui, a system called Five Element Theory is used in all of these disciplines.
What are the Five Elements?
Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal are the Five Elements and they represent all kinds of things such […]
In feng shui practice, common remedies used to balance rooms include use of the five natural elements. The five natural elements are water, wood, fire, earth and metal. Water is the “shui” of feng shui, which literally translates as wind/water.The recommendation and application to use water […]
The role of both real and mythological animals is referred to frequently in feng shui theory and folklore. In many books, there is a description of an ideal house, which has a turtle behind it, a phoenix bird in front of it, and a dragon and tiger […]
In Five-Element Theory, shapes can represent elements. For example:
METAL is defined as round or curved shapes
WOOD is represented by tall, thin, column-like shapes
FIRE is represented by pointy, pyramid-like shapes
EARTH is defined by square or rectangular shapes
WATER is wavy and almost shapeless in the way that water takes […]
Nine Star Ki is a complementary divination art form to Feng Shui. Both draw information from the 9 stars (of the Big Dipper) and the fundamentals of Chinese metaphysics. The interpretation of the stars is often quite different in each domain and from Nine Star Ki […]
There are two main reasons why feng shui terms are so cryptic and misunderstood. One reason is that feng shui masters from the past purposely coded their references so that the average person (or the political enemy) would not have privy to this powerful information. […]
Modern-day Feng Shui practitioners are indebted to Dr. Stephen Skinner for writing some of the best books on our topic. In The Original Eight Mansions Formula he translates a classic text from 1739 by Chang Ping Lin and brings us an historical perspective to […]
Feng Shui, the art and science of determining how your surroundings affect you, includes a vast body of theories and practices. But some areas include just good common sense and recognizing that prolonged extremes in your environment could be harmful to your health and well-being.
Under the […]
Five Element Theory pervades all of Chinese metaphysics and medicine. The Five Elements are often called “Agents” or “Transformations” because they are in flux and one yields to the other within what is called the Productive Cycle of the Elements. These Five Elements (Water, Wood, Fire, […]
