Five elements - The fundamental

Guess you must have heard of Jin (Metal) Mu (Wood) Shui (Water) Huo (Fire) Tu (Earth) 金木水火土? Yes, these are the fundamental for a bazi or fengshui enthusiast. Before one can proceed to the next higher level; the complexities of metaphysics studies, the basic fundamental should manage well first.

And do not under estimate these basic five elements, they are very useful when they are used for analysis. Why do I say so? Well, if you were to look at the Five elements - cycle of birth.

Earth produces Metal, while Metal produces Water, Water in turn produces Wood, thus Wood produces Fire, Fire will return back to Earth.

If you are doing bazi analysis, if you have identified the element of your subject (Person). You can find clues from the bazi, for example :

A set of lady's bazi

Hour Pillar Day Pillar Month Pillar Year Pillar
丙Bing (Fire) 己Ji (Earth) 丙Bing (Fire) 己Ji (Earth)
寅Yin (Wood) 巳Si (Fire) 寅Yin (Wood) 未Wei (Earth)

IN this set of bazi, the lady belongs to 己Ji Earth element (Day master). From here, we can search for clues on this person. For simple illustration,If someone were to ask about her mother. With the information here, we can see check for the element that produces her element, in this instance, it will be Fire. From here, we can deduce that her mother is close to her.

If you were wondering this person's creativeness, check for her output. From the above bazi, there is no metal element. Therefore, we can deduce that this person is not creative.

With such illustration, you can have a rough idea how bazi master analyse your bazi.

In fengshui, five elements also play an important part in fengshui analysis. For example, if a main door faces East direction (East represents Wood), in such condition, ideally there should NOT have any Metal element.