Electromagnetism and the "Big Five"
The "Five Activities" (as the
ancients generally called them) or the Five Elements, as they are generally
known today, offer explanations of temporal and systems-level manifestations of
electromagnetic wavelengths. Because these are our basis for remedies to homes
and environments, let's look at how electromagnetism can be interpreted within
Five Element Theory.
Earth
According to Han-shu well as the
Yijing, the Earth Element is a buffering agent — what we'd call an insulator.
Everyone knows that the Earth is used as a ground in electricity.
The Earth Element's associative
color is yellow,
which falls into the pure spectral range of 5770 to 5970 angstroms. If we
include orange, the range jumps from 5770 to 6220 angstroms. (Remember, the
lower the frequency the longer the wavelength.)
Metal
Metals are great conductors of
energy and polished surfaces of metals make good reflective substances.
Qian (6) is the hot, white light of
the heavens on a sunny day. Dui (7) is the image of sun reflecting off the
surface of a placid lake, both white and metallic all at once — an image of the
synthesis of red, green and blue, the primary colors. It is evocative of the
entirely of the visible spectrum for humans.
Water
At once reflective and refractive,
water is also involved in evaporation and condensation. This is hinted at in the
Yijing by Kan the Water Element, which is also the Abysmal, the great depth of
the unknown.
The primary
color associated with
water is blue. Black, one of the other colors associated with 'an, hints that we
are at the edge of our visible spectrum at night, when only the rods in our eyes
function and our vision is in black and white; or, that we are in the absence of
light in deep space, where there are no objects for light waves to fall upon.
Another color sometimes associated
with Kan is violet, also at the end of the visible spectrum for humans. Violet
has the shortest wavelengths, 3900 to 4550 angstroms.
Wood
The Wood Element was associated
with the Ministry of Agriculture in ancient China — a terrific mnemonic for
vegetative life and potential energy (like the potato), photosynthesis,
respiration and transpiration.
Its associative color is green, and
the pure spectral color falls into a range of 4920 to 5770 angstroms.
Fire
The color of the longest wavelength
(6220 to 7700 angstroms) is associated with the Fire Element, which makes sense
considering it is identified with noon, the sacred direction of south — from
whence comes radiant heat in Chinese thinking. The next color on the spectrum
lower than red is infrared, which has its own associations with heat.
Fire Element is concerned with
induction (heating metals), radiation (emission of light waves invisible to
human eyes) and heat energy, and the combustion process (which releases energy
when a chemical is burned in air).
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