- White for snow from the North, for winter storms
- Great white cleansing wind
- Red for blood of life, blood of the people
- Blood for strength to face the storms - physical, sociological, psychological, spiritual, etc.
- Earth, pipestone, blood of the people
2.4.4 Other Associations
- Native American Associations:
- Modern Psychological Associations: Dancing the Wheel with Mary Loomis
- Western Associations: Lunar, Celtic, Amulets
- Eastern Associations: Chinese, Feng Shui, Tibetan
2.4.5 Feng Shui
2.4.5.1 Chinese Five Elements
- Water (Living Color 23)
- Black (deeper, darker)
- Creates Wood (E)
- Puts out fire (S)
- *Condensation on outside of metal vessel of cold water
- Ba-gua 5-Element Color Wheel (Living Color 29)
- North - insight - Winter - kidneys
- W - Kan - Black - career - ear - Water
- NW - GEN - black/blue/green - knowledge - hand - self-cultivation
- Feng Shui Food/Health Color Wheel (Living Color 114)
- Water - black/dark brown - lungs
- Food = black beans, beef, lamb, soy sauce, eggplant
- Accent color = white, green/blue
- Water (Living Color 23)
2.4.5.2 Chinese Color Associations (Living Color 46-48):
- Black - positive and negative
- On positive side, black, or any dark color gives feeling of depth, both in mood and perspective
- Black ink of Chinese monochrome paintings - helps create a beautiful, contemplative setting, allowing viewer to think deeply
- Yet black indicates lack of hope and it make us feel "dark," slow, depressed
- Grey is an ambiguous color, or gray area
- Its impact depends on an individual's association
- To some, like a cloudy day, connotes frustration/hopelessness
- To others, it is positive, a marriage of opposites (black/white)
- In this instance, signifies balance and resolution of conflict
- Black - positive and negative
2.4.5.3 The Eight Trigrams and Color Attributes (Origins of Wisdom 42-59)
- Kan - the Danger - Moon/Water - Water - North - Mid-Winter - Black/Blue
- Image of wheels, curves, mental disturbance - Danger; also success (White, 1)
- Ken - the Stillness - Mountain - Wood - Northeast - Early Spring - Beige
- image of gates, fruits, seeds; also children and family (White, 8)
- Number 1 - represents the ultimate
- It is the number of the gods
- Mortals cannot occupy this position comfortably for too long
- Number 8 - symbolizes harmony and hapiness; also has religious associations
- Kan - the Danger - Moon/Water - Water - North - Mid-Winter - Black/Blue
2.4.5.4 The Black Tortoise (Origins of Wisdom 42-59)
- To the rear of any site which should face North
- The yin force of the black tortoise dominates
- He is represented by a rnge of hills protecting the site from chill north winds
- The main entrance of a house should never face north
- And preferable to have a solid, heavy wall in place of windows or doors
2.4.5.5 Feng Shui (Walters)
- Correlations for North:
- Tortoise - Winter - North - Black - Black Tortoise - also "Warrior"
- North - Winter - Black - Water - the Water Planet (Mercury
- Shape - water has no shape and every shape
- Metal element represented in undulating and irregular hills
- By any building with bizarre or complex structures - although more rounded than angular
- Symbolism of Water Element:
- Winter - north - black; material - glass; shape - square, flat shape
- Water type building revealed in irregularities of shape and construction
- Buildings that seem thrown together rather than designed
- Seem to show features of all forms of other elements may be said to belong to water element
- Though not too definitely angular or flat surfaced
- Element of communication, all matters concerned with transmission of ideas benefit from influence of water element
- Literature, and arts, particularly music
- Skyline of famous Sydney Opera House happily reveals characteristics
- Predominant use of glass in modern construction
- Another way to reveal element
- Cannot be used without another element - brick, metal, or wood
- Benefits form metal or wood, not from brick
- In home, obvious use for cleaning purposes
- Bathroom, laundry, and still-room are mundane applications in material sense
- Any area that receives beneficial influence of water could be used for study
- In business, element represents post and communications, media advertising,
- Word processing, computer terminology, electrical engineering
- And enterprises involving liquids and fluids, as brewing and distilling
- Oil business a major part of water's domain in past 100 years
- The Water Site:
- Unusual shaped buildings: Sydney Opera House, Sagrada Familia, and St. Basil's
- Site: Wood Environment/Water Site
- Water symbol of arts, music, media: building intended to benefit community
- Two elements in harmony
- Excellent configuration for concert hall, theatre, or communications center
- Site: Fire Environment/Water Site
- Water victorious over Fire, combination undesirable
- Enterprise a detriment to surroundings
- Family in location would rise above neighbors by becoming active in local politics
- But presence unwelcome and their concern as indifference
- Attempts to improve quality of life in neighborhood construed as meddlesome
- Water victorious over Fire, combination undesirable
- Site: Earth Environment/Water Site
- Not advised to take up residence or employment in such a site
- Building of irregular or asymetrical shape in an Earth Environment consisting of mostly flat-roofed, high- or low-rise buildings
- Earth and Wood in destructive sequence, water sallied or polluted by earth
- Those who spend long periods in these circumstances
- In danger of damaging their reputations, subject to malicious gossip, scandal, or ill-will
- Not advised to take up residence or employment in such a site
- Site: Metal Environment/Water Site
- Water-type building in landscape of gently-rolling hills or in townscape of similarly-featured buildings
- Favorable for both commercial and residential combinations
- Metal generates water
- Reveals the accumulation of wealth and continuing prosperity
- Site: Water Environment/Water Site
- Sydney Opera House stands conspicuously in a Water location
- Stable and flexible, maintains continuity through ability to make changes rapidly
- A good commercial enterprise, able to prosper and develop successfully by being able to adapt to needs of consumer
- Water-type house in this environment would see many generations of same family raised there
- Children born there would have great ambitions to travel
- Would succeed in literature, arts, and music
- Like, migratory birds, feel need to return, settle, and raise own family
- The Water Room:
- Room: Room Element Water/Personal Element Wood
- Excellent for bedroom, study or office
- If used for other function the stimulating and beneficial influences of room likely to be lost
- Harness them to good effect on health and well-being of individual
- Excellent for bedroom, study or office
- Room: Water Room/ Personal Fire
- Unsatisfactory atmosphere, avoid; if bedroom, sleep is restless
- As office, the malign influences are manifested in the client's ability to concentrate
- Room: Water Room/Personal Earth
- Could be satisfactory environment for a room of secondary importance
- Do not use for bedroom or main office in business
- Short-term office or recreation room, it would be quite suitable
- Room: Water Room/Personal Metal
- weakening atmosphere, not recommended
- If used for bedroom, client would wake tired and unrefreshed
- If office or study, inability to concentrate
- result, client would lose grip on financial affairs
- Room: Water Room/Personal Water
- Quite satisfactory environment for a writer's study or musician's practice room
- Might be thought of as a suitable location for a library
- Bedroom would be quiet and peaceful; a lounge, restful
- Correlations for North:
2.4 North - White or Red - Winter - Night
