🔥 Family Correspondence with Five Elements
Father → Fire
Fire symbolizes brightness, leadership, passion. The father is like the “sun” in the family, providing energy and direction.
Mother → Water
Water symbolizes nourishment, gentleness, and inclusiveness. The mother is like water: able to nurture life while also harmonizing family conflicts.
Son → Wood
Wood represents growth and vitality. The son is like a tree, constantly growing upward, full of life force and potential.
Daughter → Metal
Metal symbolizes purity, firmness, restraint. The daughter often brings warmth and beauty to the family, while also maintaining order and rationality.
Ancestors → Earth
Earth represents support and foundation. Ancestors are like the great earth, forming the basis of family bloodline and ethics.
🌿 Mutual Generation and Restriction in the Family
Generating→ represents love, support, nourishment in the family.
Restricting→ represents rules, conflicts, and balance in the family.
If generating and restricting are balanced, the family thrives in harmony. If one side is too strong, imbalance and conflict arise.
✅ Generating (Supportive) Cycle
Water generates Wood → A mother raises her son with patience and care, like water nourishing trees.
If the mother is gentle and wise, the son will grow strong.
If the mother spoils excessively, it is like a flood drowning the tree, making the child weak.
Wood generates Fire → When the son studies hard and succeeds in work, it’s like wood igniting fire, bringing glory to the father.
The son’s success enhances the father’s reputation.
If the son rebels or fails, the father’s “fire” cannot burn, leading to anger or disappointment.
Fire generates Earth →The father’s hard work (fire energy) transforms into wealth and foundation, finally becoming “earth,” extending to the ancestral shrine and family hall.
A successful father brings blessings to ancestors and support for descendants.
If the father burns only for momentary glory without accumulation, he may turn to “ashes,” leaving the earth unstable
Earth generates Metal →Family traditions and virtues from ancestors are like earth producing metal, giving daughters good character.
In a family with good teachings, daughters tend to be virtuous and dignified.
If ancestral “earth” is barren and lacks cultural foundation, daughters may lack resilience.
Metal generates Water →A filial daughter takes care of her mother, like metal transforming into water, nourishing the mother’s heart.
Daughters often understand and ease their mother’s hardships, offering warmth.
If the “metal” is too hard (daughter too stubborn), she cannot generate “water,” lacking gentleness
⚡ Restricting (Balancing) Cycle
Water controls Fire → Mother’s gentleness (comforting, persuading) soothes father’s temper
Fire controls Metal → Father’s strictness may suppress daughter’s freedom and individuality
Metal controls Wood → Daughter’s rational criticism may point out her brother’s impulsive mistakes.
Wood controls Earth → Son’s rebellion may challenge ancestral rules or traditions.
Earth controls Water → Ancestors’ authority may restrict the mother
