What is the character of someone with strong Wood?

Its core themes are Growth · drive, Benevolence (仁), Planning · beginnings. Grow straight, but learn to bend, and Wood's drive travels far without snapping.

Which elements does Wood generate and control?

Produces Fire — wood catches and gives rise to flame (木生火). Controls Earth — roots break into and grip the soil (木克土). In a Bazi chart, the distribution of the five elements is computed from your birth date and time, and balance is read from which energies are abundant and which are scarce.

木

Wood

Growth · drive
Benevolence (仁)
Planning · beginnings

In brief

The rising, growing energy of spring — the grain of benevolence (仁) and beginnings.

Season: Spring
Direction: East
Color: Green / Blue
Organ: Liver & Gallbladder

What is the Wood element?

Wood is the energy of spring, the vitality of a seed pushing through its husk and rising straight up. It is assigned to the East, the color green-blue, and the Liver and Gallbladder. Its nature to grow straight connects to benevolence (仁), growth, planning, and drive. It produces Fire and controls Earth, and is controlled by Metal. In a chart, moderate Wood reads as enterprising; excess as stubborn or spread across too many ventures; deficiency as weak in decisiveness and drive.

Generating & controlling cycles

Generates (相生)
Produces Fire — wood catches and gives rise to flame (木生火).
Controls (相克)
Controls Earth — roots break into and grip the soil (木克土).

How to work with Wood

Grow straight, but learn to bend, and Wood's drive travels far without snapping.

Frequently asked

What does the Wood element (木) mean in Bazi?: The rising, growing energy of spring — the grain of benevolence (仁) and beginnings. Wood is the energy of spring, the vitality of a seed pushing through its husk and rising straight up. It is assigned to the East, the color green-blue, and the Liver and Gallbladder. Its nature to grow straight connects to benevolence (仁), growth, planning, and drive. It produces Fire and controls Earth, and is controlled by Metal. In a chart, moderate Wood reads as enterprising; excess as stubborn or spread across too many ventures; deficiency as weak in decisiveness and drive.
What is the character of someone with strong Wood?: Its core themes are Growth · drive, Benevolence (仁), Planning · beginnings. Grow straight, but learn to bend, and Wood's drive travels far without snapping.
Which elements does Wood generate and control?: Produces Fire — wood catches and gives rise to flame (木生火). Controls Earth — roots break into and grip the soil (木克土). In a Bazi chart, the distribution of the five elements is computed from your birth date and time, and balance is read from which energies are abundant and which are scarce.

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Bazi and the Five Elements are a traditional East Asian study, offered here for reflection. Source: Based on standard Five Elements theory (generating/controlling cycles, seasonal, directional, and organ correspondences).