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Remedies -- Mother and Child
Remedies -- Mother and Child
The most important elemental relationship may be that of mother and child. In the standard elemental sequence wood, fire, earth, metal and water, when considered in a clockwise rotation, the element clockwise to any other element is the child. The element counterclockwise to any other element is the mother.
The mother produces the child and is capable of providing or withholding nourishment and strength.
In fact, any particular element is positioned between its mother and its child, each of which are capable of affecting its health and strength. In fact, manipulating the mother and child of an element as a standard way to increase or decrease its strength and power.
If an element is too strong and that increased strength is causing problems in the feng-shui analysis, one remedy is to simply decrease its strength using either its mother, its child, or both.
By removing or decreasing the mother element, you automatically cut of the supply of nourishment to its child, the element that is getting out of hand. On the other hand, by increasing the strength of the child element to the element that is too strong, it automatically demands more nourishment and strength from its mother, and decreases its strength accordingly. So an element can be controlled by increasing or decreasing either its mother, its child, or both.
