Rabbit Year 2011 its Yin Metal Year Element and Fu Tsi's Pa Kua or Eight Sector Diagram's inter-relation for Feng Shui purposes are considered alongside the 5 Elements Productive Cycle. Yin Metal's qualities (as Year Element) are then discussed with regard to the forthcoming period and some general recommendations made.
Pa Kua Perceptions
Fortunate enough to have a copy of Fu Tsi's Pa Kua / Eight Sector Diagram at home? You might wonder why there two versions of this, known, respectively, as the Earlier and Later Heaven Array.
The Earlier Heaven arrangement represents the Physical Universe's original state-- Heaven (T'ien, 3 Yang Lines) at the top, above all, and Earth (K'un, 3 Yin Lines) bottom or base. This state ended when a giant meteor (see below) hit the Earth, killed off the dinosaurs, caused its Axial Tilt, broke its crust into today's Tectonic Plates--starting the conditions eventually leading to Man's evolution. The Later Heaven Array, subsequently ensuing, shows the same 8 Trigrams (representing Universal building-blocks, including the 5 Elements) still present but differently arranged. This is the Physical Universe we perceive today!
Yin/Yang Dimensions
Yang Feng Shui calculations (of contemporary events, dwellings and interiors) based on the Later Heaven Array are this article's subject rather than Yin Feng Shui (of Tombs, Graves and Graveyards) which uses the Early Heaven version, relating to earlier life on Earth..
The 10-Year Productive Cycle of the 5 Elements
Elements manifesting produce their successors in a supportive relationship in a continuous, ever-repeating Cycle, in first Big/Yang and then Small/Yin modes. Complete 5 Element Cycles comprise 10 years. Underpinning our decimal recording of historical time, these are paralleled by the familiar 12-Year Animal Cycle with duo-decimal links to days, hours and minutes of immediate existence, giving each Animal Year its distinctive name and nature, Year Element Energies modulate and modify their Year Animal counterparts, producing 120 distinctive combinations and human personality variations (the West just 12).
Feng Shui can help individuals (with their unique Birth Year Energies) adjust to and harmonise with Yearly changing Qi energies. Improved, health, fortune and prospects may ensue for those voluntarily adjusting their circumstances to comply with Heaven's Law whilst physically incarnate on Earth, where Man's free-will may operate in unbridled fashion.
Earth produces/ supports Metal (mined from veins therein); Metal produces/supports Water (liquefying when molten and also via pans and bowls); Water produces/supports Wood (via irrigation and cultivation); Wood produces/supports Fire (via conflagration); Fire produces/supports Earth (via its ashes) then, once again Earth produces Metal!. In the night sky Mercury represents Metal, Venus Water, we are (Yin/Small) Earth, Mars represents Fire, Jupiter Wood with Saturn representing (Yang/Big) Earth.
In The Home
Within homes rooms may be subdivided into equal-sized elemental sectors as follows: South West--Fire; North West--Metal; North East--Water: South East--Wood; the Centre-- Earth. Simpler directional attributions might be: South--Fire; West--Metal; North--Water: East --Wood,; and Earth, once again, Centre.
South--Fire; South West--Yang Earth; West--Yin Metal,; North West--Yang Metal; North--Water; North East--Yin Earth; East-- Yang Wood; and South East--Yin Wood. arrangements correspond to the Pa Kua Later Heaven Array. Elements appearing twice reflect changes wrought by the meteor's impact: Yang Wood might be forests--Yin Wood grasses (especially bamboo); Yang Earth might be the Planet--Yin a crystal or gem; Yang Metal might be world-deposits--Yin Man's artefacts.
Consistency in placements, colour, fabrics and materials use whichever convention you follow is essential.
Contemporary Cultivation
2011 sees Tiger Year and Big/Yang Metal Year Element Energies depart. Whenever a Tiger appears consternation abounds. However,Turbulent Tiger's replacement is gentle, easygoing and cultivated Rabbit! Metal remains Year Element but in more flexible and yielding Small/Yin form.. Big Metal tribulations of National Currencies and associated dramas may give way to a new focus on personal finances pursued at a more leisurely pace.
Silver and Copper are Yin Metal, like Quartz in Feng Shui terms (due to its use in communication/control technology) plus Malachite and Azurite (and related jewellery and ornamentation) through their high Copper content, as are mirrors in Feng Shui, whilst gold, silver, grey, red and white are associated colours
Feng Shui coins, gold-ingots, pictures and photographs of metal/metal objects, metal wind-chimes and three-legged toads (complete with coin in mouth) are Yin Metal. Earth supports Metal in Feng Shui so backgrounds and backdrops incorporating its colours textures and materials may also be appropriate.
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