Wood Element 

Self Element

The Heavenly Stem of the Day pillar is the element that represents you. If the heavenly stem of your day pillar is of Wood (regardless of Yang Wood or Yin Wood), then you are consider a Wood person.

For example:

	Hour	Day	Month	Year
Heavenly Stem	X	Yang Wood Jia	X	X
Earthly Branch	X	X	X	X

or

	Hour	Day	Month	Year
Heavenly Stem	X	Yin Wood Yi	X	X
Earthly Branch	X	X	X	X

A Wood person is generally benevolent yet stubborn.

Below is a list of items associated with Wood. If Wood is favourable to you (whether Wood is your day element or not), you can try to apply or introduce them to your daily life:

Representing Directions
Wood is associated with the directions East and Southeast.

Representing Numbers
3 and 4 are associated with Wood. When combined, 3 and 8 represents a Wood Combination (although 8 is an Earth number).

Representing Years
Years ending with the number 4 and 5, for example 1994, 2004, 2024 etc.

Representing Animals (Chinese Horoscope)
Tiger and Rabbit.

Representing Colours
Wood colours include shades of Green.

Representing Characteristic
Among the five elements, Wood is associated with Benevolence.

Representing Industry/Careers
Lumber, Furniture, Carpenter, Hairstyling, Publications, Design, Paper products, Planting, Spices, Textile, Fashion etc.

Representing Season
Wood is associated with Spring. In Spring, Wood is strong.

Representing Trigram
In the Later Heaven Trigram, Xun () and Zhen () is associated with Wood.

Representing Body Parts/Organs
Liver, Gall Bladder, Limbs, Hair, Eyebrows etc.