Astrology Glossary

Fire element

Fire (火), the element of warmth and radiance, of summer and the bright south. It leaps up and spreads outward: passionate, expressive, sociable, and joyful, drawn to attention and connection. Its virtue is propriety (禮); out of balance it burns hot and scatters.

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