Wood element is the soldier.

The scholar, the warrior, the individual. The lifelong learner. The debater. The formless becoming formed. Wood element is structure, practicality, optimism, and confidence.

Wood element is sight. It’s both the pressure and the enthusiasm that can lead to lots of swearing, but people with this element are sensitive to pain. Wood element is the workaholic. One of the familiar expressions of this element is that it takes no breaks and believes everything is up to them. This is the element most valued by western society with its get up and go and do, do, do—you can do it!—attitude. Wood element is also the rebel, the underdog, and the one so stamped upon by authorities that they don’t know who they are anymore. Wood element is our experience of shame, but on the flip side, it is also the empowered, fully individuated, confident expression of Self.