The 5 elements
I am not sure how to use the 5 elements in each room according to the different cycles, creative, control and reduction cycles. Do the cycles depend on how you place the elements in relation to eachother or do they depend on the amount of each element? If it is the amount of each element, then how do you determine the amount for each element for each cycle? I would appreciate any help with this subject.Â
Wow Carey, you are thinking…I am proud of you. Excellent question! You are putting me to work! 
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I am glad you are a Mastery student so I can answer you at the mastery level.
Yes, you use the elements according to all cycles depending on the combination of what you want to accomplish and at what scale. Â
For example, if you have a 1, 3 flying star combo AND it is in the N (Water), E, or SE (Wood), add more Water—generative cycle…while I don’t love the color blue, I have successfully painted (that’s a lot of water) with a smashing blue that strategically works with the décor! Â
Another example: if you have a 5,2 or a 2,5 combination (as you do in many period 8 charts), the traditional reducing element Metal (and there are fab, but expensive metallic paints), would be good in the w, or nw, and if metallic paint works with the door (I love them and white or grey is boring!). If that combination was in N, E, or SE, I’d add big Water (paint)…keep in mind that the “traditional destructive cycle is earth destroys water†but doesn’t “water also fill in and destroy earth?†Aha! Never use moving water with these combos as it will stimulate their ick!Â
If using paint (the biggest enhancer or reducer) isn’t feasible or the solution isn’t as clear, you’ll have to make compromises between the flying stars and the elements of the direction as well as the “scale†or the priority.Â
Excellent answer too! Keep thinking!
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May 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Wow Carey, you are thinking…I am proud of you. Excellent question! You are putting me to work!
Â
I am glad you are a Mastery student so I can answer you at the mastery level.
Yes, you use the elements according to all cycles depending on the combination of what you want to accomplish and at what scale. Â
For example, if you have a 1, 3 flying star combo AND it is in the N (Water), E, or SE (Wood), add more Water—generative cycle…while I don’t love the color blue, I have successfully painted (that’s a lot of water) with a smashing blue that strategically works with the décor! Â
Another example: if you have a 5,2 or a 2,5 combination (as you do in many period 8 charts), the traditional reducing element Metal (and there are fab, but expensive metallic paints), would be good in the w, or nw, and if metallic paint works with the door (I love them and white or grey is boring!). If that combination was in N, E, or SE, I’d add big Water (paint)…keep in mind that the “traditional destructive cycle is earth destroys water†but doesn’t “water also fill in and destroy earth?†Aha! Never use moving water with these combos as it will stimulate their ick!Â
If using paint (the biggest enhancer or reducer) isn’t feasible or the solution isn’t as clear, you’ll have to make compromises between the flying stars and the elements of the direction as well as the “scale†or the priority.Â
Excellent answer too! Keep thinking!