Earth Element
Video - Jewish Mysticism: The Earth Element in Your Personality - Part 1 - Rebbetzin Rochel Silber
Video - The Earth Element in Your Personality - Part 2 - Rebbetzin Rochel Silber
Video - The Earth Element in Your Personality - Part 3 - Rebbetzin Rochel Silber
The concrete, solid condition. Contains three other Elements in a specially noticeable way. We recognize it in coagulate Fire, coagulated Water and condensed Air (vapor). It’s the mother of metals, minerals, plants and animals and is also called the Great Treasurer. It is the mother of all material things, which are meant to attain to eternal life through evolution, and through the imperfection of things it provides the knowledge of that which is still lacking for completion.
Culpeper defines as: the sediment of blood. Since Earth is the element of precipitation, the melancholic humour can be identified with the plasma proteins that contribute to blood's viscosity, which have a particular role in its clotting mechanism.
Chinese Medicine believes Late Summer belongs to Earth element. This is when Earths luscious fruits and vegetables are bursting for harvest.
Earth is a point of stillness in the cycle of seasons, with the lush tranquil energy of heat, ripening and full. This is a time of slowing down. Earth season acts as the transition from Yang to Yin energy, supporting the space between the cycle of Spring growth (Wood), active Summer abundance (Fire) and the inward, cooler emotions of Fall and Winter (Metal & Water). Earth element is associated with the stomach, spleen, pancreas, muscles, and is related to the mouth.
In TCM , emotions related to the Earth Element include an apathetic view-point or worrisome personality.
The spirit of the Spleen System is Yi (or intellect). Yi is associated with the earth element: its direction is center and its planetary energy is Saturn. Yi includes our capacity to use our conceptual mind to exercise discernment and to form intentions. An unbalanced Yi can manifest as discursiveness or unconscious internal chatter: a kind of over-thinking or “pensiveness” that damages the Spleen. A healthy Yi manifests as spirit-infused intelligence and understanding.
Caraway reinforces the Earth element, restoring our capacity to remain steadfast and centered and is called for whenever quick and easy solutions undermine our firm resolve and constancy.