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Force Of First Cause
Magick is the esoteric component of any activity. There have been magickal practices involved in fishing, hunting, building, you name it. If it’s old enough, it has a magick connected to it, and there are even some new magics. Today, we are talking about one of the oldest systems on the planet. No body knows…
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Patterns Of Chi
Today, science is recognizing many of the patterns older disciplines based their lore on, if with severe qualifications. But the Chinese yearly zodiac also corresponds to a cycle of the five categories of earth, fire, water, wood, metal. It’s not just, say, the year of the ox, it’s the year of the fire ox. They…
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Wuxing Cycle Of Creation
Shall we choose a specific focus and give the wuxing take on it? Suggestions? Art? Perhaps states of mind, which relates to art and problem solving as well. You cannot think in only one category. You will naturally think in all five (earth, fire, water, wood, metal) but perhaps you may be conscious of only one…
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Wizard Friendly
Everyone familiar with Myers Briggs? The five wuxing categories (earth, fire, water, wood, metal) actually exist in Meyers Briggs even though they only use four terms. The recombination of these four terms into distinct sets is the category of wood. This is why wood people make good trainers and educators. How do the categories match up…
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Fight Before Fighting
In martial arts, some claim to be able to disrupt your chi and make you weak. They can, because they fight you before actually fighting you. They have developed an awareness of their own chi advanced enough that they can recognize chi patterns in you, and they deliberately shift their state to exhaust yours. Not…
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Everything Has Chi
Shall we discuss chi? Chi is universal subtle energy. It is said to precede all other forms of energy, to give rise to the behavior of these others forms, as well as govern how they interact with each other. It runs through all states of matter. Those we consider alive and those we do not.…
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Flows of Chi
Chi is said to flow in two ways. It can be receptive and reinforcing, or it can be disruptive and “cutting.” Martial arts use the cutting kind? It uses either kind, and martial arts styles are often defined by whether they are “hard” or internal. I saw a guy who could disrupt an opponent’s chi…
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Chi Cultivation
In chi cultivation you consider two things, primarily. How you are holding your chi and where you are gathering it from. Poor quality chi is seen as more or less poisonous and will deplete your strength. High quality chi, like you might absorb standing next to a pure mountain stream taking in clean mountain air,…
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Poise in the Flow
It is said in Taoism that the thing that goes against the Tao cannot endure. The Tao is the natural harmony or balance of the world. People usually become angry because they have set themselves in opposition to the balance of things in their current place or situation, otherwise they would just become motivated. Done…
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Interplay of All Energies
Is it mostly the case that each person falls more either to yin or to yang, or is there presence of both within every person? Both are present in every person, but you do balance one way or another. Is it helpful for a yin to cultivate their yang chi and vice versa? It is. It’s…
Category: Wuxing
Wuxing is connected to ancient Chinese physics more than their religion. It is a set of disciplines that are focused on the behaviour and manifestation of the force they call chi. Chi is the force of first cause. In wuxing, they identify different patterns in energy and matter. Solids are the earth category. Liquids are the water category. Plasma is the fire category. The other two being wood and metal. They adapt the five categories into a whole system of natural philosophy. It’s what wuxing is.
Duality always resolves according to the balance of chi between the two apparent opposites. Human chi is a composite of many different patterns of chi. Literally all five categories or you could not live. But they do balance differently in different people, and people have individual needs for a specific pattern of chi.
“Wu Xing” is actually the short form of “Wu zhong liu xing zhi chi” or “the five types of chi dominating at different times”. Water dominates in winter, wood in spring, fire in summer, metal in autumn. At the intersection between two seasons, the transitional period is dominated by earth. It is customary in Chinese writing to summarize a longer phrase into a couple of characters. Sometimes the meaning is completely lost in the abbreviated form if the original phrase is not referred to. Wu Xing is one such example.” Master Joseph Yu