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So, Taoist Sexual Meditation really had me thinking about this, and Bruce offers indelibly helpful aid, but I’ve also found things online that calculate the time and date of birth in order to divvy-up your percentage of each element. I’ve also considered the idea that, regardless of how much you are percentage-wise, that the element of year that you are (I’m Wood) is something you’re inclined to learn (I take this notion from something I learned in western-astrology with regards to Sun sign from Antero Alli, that says that your sun sign isn’t what you’re good at, but rather what you’re not good at and here to learn).
Percentage-wise I’m excessively Water and Metal (as per the site’s guidelines for distribution of elements) and while I can see this in the general flow of my life, I also tend to see the importance of Wood (though it is considered of balanced distribution for me) especially with what Bruce says about boundaries, grudges/letting-go, and monogamy (and, most especially, not trying to grow too quickly at one time!!).
Was wondering, then, what wisdom others here could impart with regards to elements and what they’ve learned through their own ruminations about Bruce’s insights? Or, just general elemental chit-chat.
The online calculation you’ve obtained are called BaZi (Eight Characters) which form the SiZhu(Four Pillars). Simply put Heaven energy and Earth energy culminate together on the specific date and time at each of our individual conceptions. The BaZi are these specific energies that manifest into us and work through us as we move through life, and that move us through life. Taoism learned a long time ago how to discern our specific energetic matrix and put it together this way. It is so logical and spot-on, but to be as accurate as possible you need to know the time you were born and the place and consider for daylight savings time as well. I’ve learned to do this manually, and some of these online calculators are a little off.
Each of the Four Pillars represents the Year Pillar, Month Pillar, Day Pillar, Time (Hour) Pillar).The most influential piece is called the Day Master – The Heaven Energy (top line) from the Day Pillar. This influences how all the other energies act within our BaZi. In the sense that you’re talking, as a blanket statement, the year pillar is not the most influential. In weighing the amounts of the the different energies appearing, this gives us a different influential strength or weakness.
It’s definitely not as cut and dry as looking at the four pillars and eight energies, because there are so many hidden influences.
So then, what is your day master and maybe some light can be shed on you Water and Metal influences.
Book: The Definitive Book of Chinese Astrology by Shelly Wu can provide a lot of insight.
Hope this helps.
Steve
I was born on the 7th of September, from what I checked that’s Male(yang?) Wood and Green Dragon
Thanks for the help, Steve
Cody
I was born on September 7, which it says male/yang? Wood and green dragon.
This really helped, thanks Steve
But I suppose I’m also after what Bruce is getting at, cause this really helps but I can see how one’s life can move in phases of elements that is less restrained by astro-logical influences and more of what takes place within the pure-point of your being and how that is spelled out in the world.
(in stereo!!)
Sounds stupid, but I just learned, for me, doing sudoku is a really easy way to short-circuit this Wood problem of getting ahead of myself…revealing just how I get ahead of myself
Putting the pieces together, and with the post from another thread by Janak about Bruce saying that meditation is about ‘moving beyond influence’, I can see how I misinterpreted the section in Taoist Sexual Meditation on ‘What Element Am I?’ as pertaining solely to astrology.
Based on the section, I find myself to be Metal. Though I wonder, in aspiration, how far one can move beyond the influence of any given element? Can one truly transcend one’s dominant element? making one’s self a sort of on-going phasing between elements?
Or is the aim to make one’s self smooth enough that the predominant element isn’t a drawback and only shines through in its positive affectations and characteristics? The latter seems to make the most sense, just pondering electronically.
Argh, I keep trying to figure out what predominant element(s) I am, but, needless to say I’m having a tough go of it.
I see so many different characteristics in myself, and times in my life, that relate to all the elements. But I’m aware that a predominant element acts more as a point of focus or a lens through which one views the whole elemental-phasing. Yet, in spite of this, I’m still having a hell of a time trying to see myself as wholly Metal or Wood or both or anything; and I can see this as an elaborate sublimation to avoid being Metal. But, in of the whole-elemental phasing, it feels like it could be Wood refusing to be “overcome” by Metal, or some such thing.
When I kinda visualize the energy I’m feeling, and associate with Metal, it appears brighter/more-vital than the other elemental-energies; are things then getting clogged-up in the elemental-phasing at Metal and I won’t let them overcome Wood? How do you allow yourself to yield to the overcoming elemental energy, or is that even a thing? Does this just mean I’m Metal? Anyone else had this dilemma?
From my experience, being Wood doesn’t mean one is naturally strong and silent but that this is what works best. One is strong when one is silent.
Though, that’s just fancy talk for what I perceive as a potentially necessary phase/phasing of Metal behavior/talkativeness that cuts through all the brambles and vines that grow up when Wood is rendered limp/wussy.
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