Controlling cycle
The order in which the elements check each other: wood parts earth, earth holds water, water puts out fire, fire melts metal, metal cuts wood.
In one sentence
The order in which the elements check each other: wood parts earth, earth holds water, water puts out fire, fire melts metal, metal cuts wood.
How it is used
Control is where structure comes from: the element that controls your Day Master shows up as rules, responsibility and commitment, and the one your Day Master controls shows up as resources and what you handle. A chart with no control at all tends to read as unshaped rather than free. Being controlled is not being harmed; it is the reason anything in a chart has an edge.