earth
Associations
Color: Yellow (harvest of corn, lighting of day)
Sound: Singing (Sing-song, like a mother soothing a child, sound is always asking for sympathy & draws us towards the person)
Odor: Fragrant (sickenly sweet, like over ripe fruit, Clinging/cloying smell that sticks in your nose-like moxa smell on your clothes) A person with Diabetes may smell this way.
Emotion: Sympathy (Take care of/nourish me, make up for the missing harvest in me)(May be wanting none to too much sympathy) (empathy and concern)
Season: Late Summer (Harvest and storing-canning/drying foods) It lasts about one month and feels as though time is suspended/stopped
Taste: Sweet (of ripe fruit & vegetables, breast milk)(root vegetables that are high in sugar content: carrots, beets, parsnips); Milk; some fruits, dairy in general, junk foods (pastry, etc…)
Direction: Center (Old 5 element chart had earth in center-earth is our home/center of our being-provides security, groundedness, roots, stability; no beginning & no end; like a mother that is always present)
Parts of Body: Muscles (stores and reserves of food energy)
External Physical Manifestation: Flesh (stores and reserves of food energy; help to keep body warm/protected) (related to be people over-eating and under-eating)
Climate: Humid (like a green house with over ripe blooms, moisture coming out of the harvest/vegetation)
Power: Decrease (energy begins to decrease, a slow waning from fire)
Sense Organ: Mouth (this is where food is taken into body-stomach & spleen and is the first place where food is broken down-saliva)