What does 'weak' really mean?

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I do not think of myself as a weak person, however, I have learned that I am a weak Fire. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean that I should avoid certain colors/elements/people or else they will weaken me? For example, should I never wear my unfavorable colors? It seems silly to me.

Also - how to avoid unfavorable elements/people when you usually don't know this type of information about people. I also found out the my fiance is a strong Earth and from the Feng Shui perspective we are not very compatible, so this is disheartening. Should couples that are not compatible focus on surrounding themselves at all times with favorable colors and elements?

Thank you.

[Robert Lee]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
I do not think of myself as a weak person, however, I have learned that I am a weak Fire. What exactly does this mean?

Frankly, a weak person does not mean that person is weakling, nor does a strong person mean you are a strong person.

It is just one of the two classification for what element you belong to when you relate yourself to the environment. For example, an element like fire can either be a weak fire or a strong fire. That state basically helps to define what kinds of element is good or bad for you. In turn, once you know this proces, you can easily relate the what careers, what colours, what direction, what people will be considered favourable or unfavourable to you.

For example, a weak fire means you lack wood and fire elements, so these two elements is considered your favourable elements. When you related to the career, that means wood can mean teaching is favourable, while fire is like sales and marketing.

So the weak or strong state, just helps you make sense about what you belong to in the world of the five element.

Anonymous wrote:
Does it mean that I should avoid certain colors/elements/people or else they will weaken me? For example, should I never wear my unfavorable colors? It seems silly to me.

It seems silly to you, because you do not really understand how to use it.

Elements that are favourable to you, just means that having more of such elements will benefit you. While, elements not so favourale for you, just means you should have less of it.

The ultimate goal is to have 20% of each element. As a completely harmonious person is where you have just the right porportion of elements distributed in various parts of your life (ie your home, your career, your favourable colour, the people around you etc).

So it does not mean that unfavourable for you means you completely should not have it. Just that you should have as little of it as you possibly can. You will still require it to help balance everything as you need all five elements to balance yourself. The only difference is how much or how little of such element you should add to make it a perfect balance.

In feng shui, the goal is for perfect harmony and balance.

Anonymous wrote:
Also - how to avoid unfavorable elements/people when you usually don't know this type of information about people.

Frankly, you will always be meeting different people, so you do not have to check up on each and everyone. But rather check up on it for important things. Such as if you do wish to go into partnership with another friend, your success will be greater if they are your favourable element. So it is for important partnership or comparison then you really go and check on this. Otherwise, it is really impractical to check on everyone. No one does this.

Furthermore, like I mentioned, relationship with others is one factor. Often we consider this as Human Luck factor which is harder for one to control. But there are always ways to improve it. I mean that is why having good people to people skill will allow you to be able to make friends easily.

The area you usually have more control is choosing the right house (Earth Luck), the right decoration in the room to improve family harmony, the right colour to boost your own individual luck, the suitable career to boost your career luck.

Anonymous wrote:
I also found out the my fiance is a strong Earth and from the Feng Shui perspective we are not very compatible, so this is disheartening. Should couples that are not compatible focus on surrounding themselves at all times with favorable colors and elements?

Like I mentioned, it is more about trying to harmonise the relationship. In any two couples, there is always an element or two elements together that you can use to harmonise them. The best way for couples would be the room colour and house decor. If the common area the two person share have favourable colours, this helps to reduce potential conflict and improve harmony. The rest will depend on your own Human Luck effort. ie how much each of you are willing to give and take to make a relationship last.

For example, a Strong Earth and weak Metal will mean that the common element to bind relationship is Metal element (ie white/gold colour decor).

For example,a Strong Earth and weak fire, will mean that wood is the best elementimprove harmony.

So in any relationship, there is always a way to attempt to improve the relationship by assessing the five element. The rest will then depend on individual effort.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research