Root & Branch

Which Phase Are You In?

The Five Phases and how they interactWood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water arranged in a circle. Around the ring each phase generates the next: Wood feeds Fire, Fire feeds Earth, Earth feeds Metal, Metal feeds Water, and Water feeds Wood. The dashed lines across the middle are the controlling cycle: Wood controls Earth, Earth controls Water, Water controls Fire, Fire controls Metal, and Metal controls Wood. FireEarthMetalWaterWood

Around the ring, each phase feeds the next. Across the middle, each one keeps another in check.

Learn about which of the 5 phases (elements) is currently shaping your life. In this quiz, we've got some lists of things that may or may not resonate with you. Tick anything that sounds like you on an ordinary day and skip the rest. It should take you about 4 minutes to complete. There is no penalty for ticking a lot or a little, because what counts is the way they interact rather than the total.