Five Elements
Wood, fire, earth, metal and water: the five kinds of energy every character in a chart belongs to.
In one sentence
Wood, fire, earth, metal and water: the five kinds of energy every character in a chart belongs to.
How it is used
A reading counts which elements are heavy, which are thin and which one your Day Master belongs to, because that balance is the ruler everything else is measured against. A missing element is not a defect; it points at an area that takes deliberate effort instead of arriving by default. The month branch is weighted most, since the season decides how strong an element can be at all.