The Fire Organs
The Chinese Taoist cosmology is structured on five elements: fire, earth, metal, water, and wood. These five elements are the basis of Chinese metaphysics and philosophy and have practical applications including astrology, astronomy, feng shui, and the traditional Chinese medicine.
Each element possesses distinct characteristics. The fire element is the most masculine of the five elements.
Fire can exist in either a yang or a yin state because in Taoism all things have both a yin and a yang expression.
When fire expresses masculine yang energy, its color is red and is symbolized by burning wood. When fire expresses feminine yin energy, its color is purple and is symbolized by the flame of a lamp, small and contained.
Fire personality traits are love, passion, leadership, insight, spirituality, dynamism, aggression, intuition, expressiveness, and reason. The fire personality is straight-out.
A fire type succeeds only by becoming warm-hearted and generous. Experiences of love, compassion, fun, joy, and pleasure are healing for fire individuals. The challenge is to share joy and laughter without reward.
Happiness is the emotion associated with fire. Other heart emotions include joy, vanity, jealousy, frustration, regret, grief from loss of love, and disappointment in relationships.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the fire’s body organs are the heart, small intestines, pericardium, and the triple burner.
The element wood nurtures the element fire; wood’s body organ is the liver. Fire types must avoid alcoholic beverages that over stimulate the liver, which may cause imbalance between fire and wood.
