金 Jīn - Metal

金

Metal

Metal expresses health and righteousness

With concentration at its core it neurotically strives for a structure that can hold up to strain

As a blacksmith longs for valuable treasures

Refined then polished, a child is born, and acts of service are done

It is about material identity, honing things in, perfecting what has been done by keeping what is good and expelling what is not

It fears being unwanted by others

Its season is fall, its time is sunset, and its age is elderly

Its moral foundations are in fairness and reciprocity

Greed and laziness can taint its goodness

If metal wants to be useful, it must be smelted

It is much like a young boy

It needs to accomplish

The one seeks a treatment

It is felt through grief, satisfaction, and smell; seen in monochrome and formed as Hexahedron

Its stern personality is tenacious, unyielding, competitive, sharp and righteous

Its soft personality is refined, grandiose, brilliant, meticulous and materialistic

A blacksmith earns by creating, inspires collecting, is strengthened by distribution and is controlled by display.

As it contemplates, it moves inward

On the hand it would be the index finger. Declining from the centre, turning inward, almost done. A useful tool

In TCM it has to do with the lungs, lymph and immune system, and is associated with what is pungent

In feng shui it is associated with the colours white through grey, and round, spiral shapes

Its odd number is 7 and its even number is 6