Wu Xing · 五行 · the five phases

The elements are not things.
They are what moves.

The Chinese five phases, 五行 (wǔ xíng), are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Most people call them the five elements, but phase is the closer word: each one is a stage of a single turning, a process that feeds the next and checks another. Walk them below, then turn the wheel that runs them.

↓ walk the phases

Module one · the walk

Step through the five phases

Move phase to phase. The whole page takes the colour of wherever you stand.

Module two · the engine

Turn the two cycles

Every phase both feeds one neighbour and keeps another in check. Switch the cycle, then tap a phase to see what it does.

Module three · your element

Read your element, plainly

Your animal carries one of the five phases. Choose it and hear what it says about you. No test, no guessing.

Where the wheel leads

The elements run through everything

The same five phases organise the sky, the body, and the space you live in. This hub is the spine the next rooms grow from.

Meaning, not prediction. The five phases are a symbolic and philosophical system for reflection and design, drawn from Chinese cosmology and later synthesised with traditional medicine and feng shui. Correspondences vary by lineage. Nothing here diagnoses, treats, or forecasts events. The five phases in feng shui