Metal element
Metal (金), the element of structure and refinement, of autumn and the setting west. It contracts and sharpens like a forged blade: disciplined, precise, principled, and determined, prizing clarity and doing things right. Its virtue is righteousness (義); out of balance it turns rigid or cutting.
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