energies · III / XX · Sphere A · Values & Stages · All 20
Five feeling-types for the one element human.
One day, five weather systems: outward push one moment, nothing but flow an hour later. Not personalities: states you wander through daily, in a shifting mixture every hour.
Do you know the moment when you woke in the morning and thought: something is burning today? Or: today I just want to flow? That is not mood. That is mode.
I · Structure · Measurable
Plutchik's Wheel (1980, currently extended) operationalises base emotions. HRV studies (HeartMath 2025) show distinct autonomic signatures for activating vs receiving states, measurable in milliseconds.
II · Flow · Tradition
The five elements come from Indian (Bhûtas), Chinese (Wu Xing · slightly different), Greek (Empedocles), Tibetan, and Hebrew (Shalem) traditions. Four outer elements, one inner element. Universal architecture.
III · Breadth · Synthesis
Not a personality test: a state map. You are not one element. You are all five, in different mixtures each hour. Self-observation becomes a weather map of the inner.
Tool · Body map
Choose an emotion: click a name, or use arrow keys and Enter. The body shows where it warms and where it withdraws.
Interactive educational offering · not a diagnosis
Tool · Element resonator
A sentence or two is enough. The chamber assigns the moment one of the five lifeforces.
AI classification · educational offering · a mode in the moment, not a personality test
Tool · Wu Xing
The five phases
Five forces, fine. Now arrange them the way the Chinese did two thousand years ago, and five states become a cycle: Wood feeds Fire, Fire turns ash into Earth, Earth bears Metal, Metal gathers Water, Water waters Wood. A closed ring in which no one stands at the end.
Beside it runs a second circle, politely called the controlling cycle: each element keeps exactly one in check and is kept in check by exactly one. A perfectly balanced contest, undecided for two thousand years.
And yes: this is Wood-Fire-Earth-Metal-Water, not our Fire-Water-Air-Earth-Source. Two fives that never quite overlap. We don't blur it, we set them side by side.
Generating cycle (outer) · Controlling cycle (star)
Choose a phase: click, or arrow keys.
Wu Xing · five phases of the Chinese tradition · not identical with the five lifeforces
5 element-feelings · alchemical
Fire · Yang
activating
Outward push, impatience, initiative. The hour in which you write the mail you have been postponing for weeks.
Water · Yin
receiving
Flow, surrender, longing. The moment you listen to someone and realise you do not have to prepare an answer.
Air · Bridge
bridging
Clarity, distance, language. The middle of the walk, when the thought suddenly finds its sentence.
Earth · Form
stabilising
Grounded, persistent, present. The feeling after a hard hour of garden work or three sets of squats.
Source · Shalem
complete
Nothing missing. Rarely long, but unmistakable. Sometimes in a summer forest, sometimes in the middle of the subway.
resonator elementorum · which mode are you in right now
Write a sentence. We hear which element is speaking now.
Not “are you a water type”, but “which water is up now”. A mode map, not a personality test.
Shalem element resonance · AI-assisted, not diagnostic
📐 Workshop · where in the body
Feelings have places.
In 2014 Nummenmaa, at Aalto University, measured where people feel emotions in the body. Seven hundred and one participants, Finnish and Taiwanese. And the maps were cross-culturally universal. Choose a feeling and see where it lives.
Choose a feeling
- 1 · I have been reading inner weather maps for years. The rain still surprises me every time.