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[yoga-onion]

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Wuxing – the connections between the Five Dragon Kings (Ref) and the Five Elements philosophy 

To better understand the origins of the Five Dragon Kings and the ancient Chinese legend, it is worth mentioning the wuxing of natural philosophy, which states that all things are composed of five elements: fire, water, wood, metal and earth.

The underlying idea is that the five elements 'influence each other, and that through their birth and death, heaven and earth change and circulate'.  

The five elements are described as followed:

Wood/Spring: a period of growth, which generates abundant vitality, movement and wind.

Fire/Summer: a period of swelling, flowering, expanding with heat.

Earth is associated with ripening of grains in the yellow fields of late summer.

Metal/Autumn: a period of harvesting, collecting and dryness.

Water/Winter: a period of retreat, stillness, contracting and coolness.

The wuxing system, in use since the Han dynasty (2nd century BCE), appears in many seemingly disparate fields of early Chinese thought, including music, feng shui, alchemy, astrology, martial arts, military strategy, I Ching divination, and traditional medicine, serving as a metaphysics based on cosmic analogy.

The wuxing originally referred to the five major planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars and Venus), which were thought of as the five forces that create life on earth. Wu Xing litterally means moving star and describes the five types of Qi (all the vital substances) cycles through various stages of transformation. As yin and yang continuously adjust to one another and transform into one another in a never-ending dance of harmony, they tend to do so in a predictable pattern.

The lists of correlations for the five elements are diverse, but there are two cycles explaining the major interaction. The yin-yang interaction, which by increasing or decreasing the qualities and functions associated with a particular phase, it may either nourish a phase that is in deficiency or drain a phase that is in excess or restrain a phase that is exerting too much influence (see below):

The Creation Cycle (Yang)

Wood feeds Fire

Fire creates Earth (ash)

Earth bears Metal

Metal collects Water

Water nourishes Wood

The Destruction Cycle (Yin)

Wood parts Earth 

Earth dams (or absorbs) Water

Water extinguishes Fire

Fire melts Metal

Metal chops Wood

The Huainanzi (2nd BCE) describes the five colored dragons (azure/green, red, white, black, yellow) and their associations (Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms), as well as the placement of sacred beasts in the five directions (the Four Symbols beasts, dragon, tiger, bird, tortoise in the four cardinal directions and the yellow dragon.

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五方龍王（参照）と五行思想の関連性 

ここで、五方龍王の起源、そして古代中国の伝説をよく理解するために、万物は火・水・木・金・土の5種類の元素からなる、という自然哲学の五行思想について触れておきましょう。 5種類の元素は「互いに影響を与え合い、その生滅盛衰によって天地万物が変化し、循環する」という考えが根底に存在する。 

五行は次のように説明されている：

木は、春の豊かな生命力、動き、風を生み出す成長期。

火は、夏の太陽の暖かさの下で行われる成熟の過程、熱で膨張する時期。

土は、晩夏の黄色い野原での穀物の成熟に関連している。

金は、秋の収穫、収集、乾燥の時期。

水は、冬の雪に覆われた暗い大地の中に潜む新しい生命の可能性と静寂の時期。 漢の時代 (紀元前2世紀頃) から使用されてきた五行説は、音楽、風水、錬金術、占星術、武術、軍事戦略、易経、伝統医学など、中国初期の思想の一見バラバラに見える多くの分野に登場し、宇宙の類推に基づく形而上学として機能している。 

五行とは文字通り「動く星」を意味し、五種類の気（生命維持に必要なすべての物質）が様々な変容の段階を経て循環することを表している。陰と陽は絶え間なく互いに調整し合い、調和の終わりのないダンスで互いに変化していくため、予測可能なパターンで変化する傾向がある。

五行の相関関係は多様だが、主要な相互作用を説明する2つのサイクルがある。陰陽の相互作用は、特定の相に関連する資質や機能を増減させることで、不足している相に栄養を与えたり、過剰な相を排出したり、影響力を及ぼしすぎている相を抑制したりする (以下参照):

相生（陽）のサイクル

木は燃えて火を生む

火が土 (灰) をつくる

土は金属を産出する

金属は表面に水を集める

水は木を育てる

相克（陰）のサイクル

木は大地を構成する

土は水を堰き止める

水は火を消す

火は金属を溶かす

金属が木を切る

『淮南子』（紀元前2世紀）には、五色の龍（紺碧・緑、赤、白、黒、黄）とその関連性 (第4章: 地の形)、五方位への聖獣の配置（四枢の四象徴獣、龍、虎、鳥、亀、黄龍）が記述されている。

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[dorothygale123]

Okay, we're gonna go a little deep today and talk about some fundamental concepts to the Daoist belief system.

How many of you have heard of the 8 trigrams? A few of you, I'd assume. At the very least, those familiar with JttW will remember Laotzu's Brazier of 8 trigrams that famously failed to disintigrate Sun Wukong.

Now, how many actually know what the 8 trigrams are? Quite a bit less, probably. That's what we're learning about today.

This is a traditional representation of the 8 trigrams as created by the god Fu Xi, and the arrangement we're mainly going to focus on. There are other ways to place things, but we won't be looking into those too much thus time.

If you look at the center of the image you'll see a Yin and Yang symbol, or more accurately a Taijitu. Here is a good article going over some specifics, but for now we'll just go with the basics. The white parts are Yang, masculine and active energies. The black parts are Yin, feminine and passive energies. Together they make up the Absolute (Taiji) and are the foundation of the universe. They act on all things, which are represented by the trigrams.

The trigrams are the stacks of 3 lines, either broken or unbroken. Broken lines denote Yin, while unbroken lines denote Yang. Therefore ☰ (sky/heaven) is the most masculine while ☷ (earth) is the most feminine. The other trigrams are ☱ (lake/marsh) and it's opposite ☴ (wind/wood), ☲ (fire/sun) and it's opposite ☵ (water/moon), ☳ (thunder/metal) and it's opposite ☶ (mountain). They are positioned across from their opposite on Fu Xi's Primordial Heaven Bagua (8 trigrams).

When you stack 2 trigrams on top of each other, you get a hexagram, of which there are 64 because trigrams can be stacked on top of themselves. For example ䷀ is two ☰ (sky/heaven) on top of each other, making the hexagram for force.

Things are a bit more complicated when comparing the 8 trigrams to the 5 elements (water, fire, earth, wood, metal), as there is NO way to make those numbers play nice and even so things get a little wonky. Fire and water corrospond to themselves, of course, while earth gets earth AND mountain. Wood gets wind while metal gets sky and thunder.

Honestly it kinda seems like they tried really hard to smush together two concepts that were created independently and were never really intended to interact but both individually became so important to the culture that they kind of HAD to.

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CVL: research

Theory of the 5 Elements

Usually translated as "Five Phases" or "Five Agents," Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; Pinyin: wǔxíng; Japanese: gogyō (五行); Korean: ohaeng (오행); Vietnamese: ngũ hành (五行))is a five-part conceptual framework that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a variety of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the properties of medicinal drugs. The Chinese characters for the "Five Phases" are Fire (火; huǒ), Water (水; shuǐ), Wood (木; mù), Metal or Gold (金; jīn), and Earth or Soil (土; tǔ). The "Days of the Week" sequence is the name of the presentational order. They are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water in the order of "mutual generation"  (相生; xiāngshēng). They are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and Metal in the order of "mutual overcoming" (相克; xiāngkè).

The five-phase approach was employed to explain interactions and connections between various events. This tool was used in many branches of early Chinese thought after it reached its peak in the second or first century BCE during the Han dynasty, including seemingly unrelated fields like Yi jing divination, alchemy, feng shui, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, music, military strategy, and martial arts. Contrary to the Classical components of the ancient Mediterranean civilisation, sometimes translated as the "Five Elements," the Wǔxíng was primarily thought of as cosmic agents of change rather than a way to explain natural objects.

Interactions between the five elements 

Generating interactions 

The five components' producing interactions resemble a mother and child's conception, gestation, birth, and nurturing connection. Such closely related elemental pairings suggest prosperity and good fortune.

Fueling, forming, confining, transporting, and feeding are the five generating interactions:

Wood fuel fire 

Fire forms Earth (volcanoes, ash, etc.)

Earth contains metal

Metal carries water (buckets, pipes, etc)

Water feeds wood (trees, plants, etc)

Overcoming interactions

The five components' overcoming interactions resemble the hostile acts committed by opposing parties in a conflict.

Melting, penetrating, separating, absorbing, and quenching are the five overcoming interactions.

Fire melts metal 

Metal penetrates wood( chopping, sawing, drilling, nailing, screwing)

Wood separates earth (tree roots breaking up soil/ rock)

Water quenches fire 

Depending on the birth year, each person is assigned one of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs and a 12-year cycle. Each of the Chinese zodiac signs and 12-year cycles is related to one of the five elements.

According to Chinese astrology, life energy (or qi) is defined by the time and day of birth, while zodiac sign (or element) and 12-year cycle elements influence personality and luck. To determine your Chinese zodiac sign and element, use the calculator.

How to make good luck using the five elements theory

The most crucial aspect of Fengshui Theory is the Five Elements Theory. Good Fengshui, following traditional Chinese philosophy, will bring good fortune. One of the five elements is considered to govern the qi energy of each direction. Aligning one's life with the qi should thus remove all obstructions and provide good fortune.

The fixed element (lucky element) for your sign should be identified first. Then, using the Feng Shui Associations table above, determine the direction of your element's energy. Then, to increase your luck, employ the energy direction and the colour of your fortunate element.

For example, 

Since the tiger is your zodiac sign, wood is your fortunate element. Because wood energy is in the east, it might be advantageous to face east. Your money, health, and lifespan may all be improved. Green is the colour connected with the Wood element, thus you may adorn your home's east side in green or place a green plant there to bring luck to yourself.

You may also add some water elements in the east to improve your luck since water creates wood according to the five elements producing cycle. For instance, a water-filled fish tank may be placed to the east of your home. In contrast, the overcoming cycle of the five elements advises against placing the Metal element towards the east. Similarly, avoid placing the Fire element towards the east since it would drain the energy of the Wood element.

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Blazing, Bold, Bright: First Encounters with the Fire Element

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5 elements.

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[taijiandqigong]

Tensegrity & Tai Chi & Qigong

Tensegrity & Tai Chi & Qigong

We are held together by this concept.  Every part of us, whether it be a finger, an arm, a leg, a hair, an organ, or the torso, has its own ‘tensional integrity’ – something that holds that part of our anatomy in its shape, and also in position in relation to all our other parts. Noun: The property of skeleton structures that employ continuous tension members and discontinuous compression members…

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[introverted-sleepyhead]

I was convinced out of Ether,

I was draped in Water,

My passions were made out of Fire,

& soul out of Water.

And like everything else I was returned to the Earth.

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[dorothygale123]

I've mentioned the 5 elements in passing a few times, most notably when I talked about the 8 trigrams and the 4 ( or 5) Guardian Beasts, but I haven't gone into detail about them. That changes now!

Most westerners (or anyone that's watched Avatar) are familiar with the 4 elements: earth, water, fire, and air. These were more popular in the west having been codified by Greek philosophers. It's not that they didn't show up in Asia, as they were popular in India and their neighbors. However that part of the world has a significant cultural identity to East Asian countries like China. As such, the Chinese idea of the 5 elements, or the Wuxing, is more common in those regions.

Wuxing, literally meaning 'moving star,' refers to the 5 major planets: Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, and Venus. As is implied by that name the 5 elements were each closely tied to a corresponding planet. Jupiter is wood, Mars is fire, earth is Saturn, Mercury is water, and Venus is metal. For those familiar with JttW, this is why the deities of Mercury and Mars Wukong seeks for help in the incident with the Rhino King are water and fire gods respectively.

The order you place the elements in is important as well, as each element reacts differently with the others in what are called cycles. First, there's the strengthening cycle: wood feeds fire, fire makes earth, earth bears metal, metal collects water, and water grows wood. Note that it does not matter which element begins the cycle as long as the rest are in the correct order. There are also the weakening (wood, water, metal, earth, fire), regulating/overacting (wood, earth, water, fire, metal), and counteracting (wood, metal, fire, water, earth) cycles that each have the elements play off each other in different ways for different purposes.

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The 5 Elements and Hot Stone Massage

In the origins of hot stone massage dating back to India and China, both coincide in showing massage as a method of energetic harmonization. This is because the Hot Stone massage technique brings together the 5 elements.

Fire, Water, Wood, Metal and Earth

The 5 main elements are found in the following form: "The WOOD ignites the FIRE that heats the METAL that contains the WATER that covers the STONES."

Under this principle, the use of Hot Stones in massage not only incorporates all the elements of natural balance, but also the heat emanating from them is absorbed by the energy channels to achieve a healthy and harmonious balance of the body.

If you want to experience the benefits of this ancient technique, AOL Massage is the best place to do it.

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Nature, Architecture, and the 5 Elements: Creating Sustainable and Healthy Spaces

Nature and architecture have always been intertwined, with the five elements of nature – earth, water, fire, air, and ether – serving as inspiration for architects and designers throughout history. Whether it’s a skyscraper reaching towards the sky or a small garden in the middle of a city, the elements of nature play a vital role in the design and construction of buildings and spaces. In this…

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[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

#fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fig faeth #ruben hopclap #lucy frostblade #the rat grinders #adaine abernant #kipperlilly copperkettle #watching fig terrorize him like girl!!! we don’t even know if he’s guilty!!!! #this might just be for me but i do not think 5 teenagers willingly brutally killed their friend idk #like there just has to be some other element to it and i am very scared to find out what that was #what if they were put in a position where they felt there was/there was no other choice… like oh my god #my comedy brain is having fun but my ‘this is a teenager’ brain is in such deep distress all the time this season #the rat grinders i trust brennan to not make u cartoonishly evil so i am holding u as gently as i can in my confused shaky hands #also with the devil’s nectar i’ve been wondering why they all seem so well-adjusted & now i’m curious if they’ve been intentionally- #changing their memories in a way so that either the trauma is lesser or they think they aren’t guilty. idk #but it seems like from how gertie was talking she was making it more recently so the well adjustedness from early jy doesn’t quite add up #they could have another source maybe??? idk i’m just low stakes 4 a.m. spitballing here #there’s also the strong possibility that they’re aware of what happened but they weren’t the ones who killed lucy. idk who knows #the way you could probably devil’s nectar yourself into believing it wasn’t your fault someone died… CRAZY IMPLICATIONS!!! CRAZY IDEA!!! #anyways the bad kids & the rat grinders don’t ever have to like each other but i do wonder if at least some of those kids deserve a chance