Wood
Mù
Growth pushing outward — the impulse to begin, extend and become.
The character draws a tree: trunk, branches reaching up, roots spreading down.
Correspondences
| Season | Spring |
|---|---|
| Direction | East |
| Phase | Birth — the seed breaking ground |
| Climate | Wind |
| Virtue | Benevolence 仁 |
| Organ | Liver & gallbladder |
| Taste | Sour |
| Colour | Green / blue-green 青 |
In a person
VisionInitiativeKindnessPlanningResilience through bending
Too much 太过
Overreaching — too many projects started, stubbornness read as principle, anger that flares at obstruction.
Too little 不及
No direction. Plans stay drafts; you wait to be told where to go and bend until you break.
How it relates
In your chart
Strong Wood 旺
A Wood-heavy chart moves first and asks later: entrepreneurial, restless, hard to keep on one track. It usually wants Metal to prune it and Fire to spend the surplus.
Weak Wood 弱
Little Wood reads as low initiative — competent but waiting. Water (study, mentors, rest) feeds it back; more Metal only cuts it further.
Cast a chart and look for Wood
Bringing it back
Walk among trees, start something small and finish it, go to bed before midnight (the liver hours), keep a little sour in the diet, face east in the morning.
In the cards
Wood has no suit of its own — tarot carries four elements, BaZi five. Wands hold Wood's growth alongside Fire's heat; when a Wands card feels like “beginning” rather than “burning”, that is Wood speaking.