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The Metal Element: Focus and Completion

Filed Under: Feng Shui Basics & Essentials Tagged With: Feng Shui Color, Five Elements, Metal Element

In Feng Shui, the Metal element represents ideas connected to organization and planning:

  • Your ability to focus and bring projects to completion.
  • Sharp thinking, discernment and insight.
  • Your sense of smell, symbolizing your ability to “sniff out” opportunities.
  • Metal also symbolizes money and finances.

Metal has a contracting energy, bringing things together with structure and good organization. When you wish to bring these qualities into your life, here are a few great ways to do so with the Metal element.

1. White, the purest of hues, is the color for Metal, but it can easily become overwhelming.

When you decorate with white, be sure to “take the edge off” by using the other elements. For example the dark blues of the Water element, or the red of Fire, soften some of Metal’s edge.

2. Circles are also associated with Metal.

A beautiful and sophisticated silver lamp adds the incisiveness of Metal without being too hard edged.

3. A playful rug featuring circles will bring Metal into the space, and makes a subtle and useful Feng Shui adjustment.

Again be sure to bring in the Fire element with red objects and warm lighting to “melt” the hardness of Metal while warming up your space..

Metal is associated with two sectors of the Bagua Map: Children/Future and Travel/Helpful People.

Can you find ways to add this purest of shapes to your space?

How else might you bring the powerful qualities of Metal into your environment?

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  1. Sharon Lowenheim says

    December 9, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    We’ve got some metal picture frames on our mantle. (Mixed in with some wood ones – is that okay?) Also a metal floor lamp with a Tiffany-style shade.

  2. Caroline Green says

    December 10, 2009 at 10:46 am

    My little tip to add: In our home we have great bookshelves with metal verticals and wood shelves, so you get that glint of metal but not too much of it. Got them at The Shelf Shop on the Upper East, they can customize.

    • Ann says

      December 10, 2009 at 3:36 pm

      Hi Sharon and Caroline — So glad to hear you have metal in your spaces 🙂

      The metal bookshelves sound perfect — you want the Metal element but not too much of it especially in a home environment. When Metal’s shape is vertical, like the shelf brackets and floor lamp, it “looks like” wood, too (think of a growing tree). So it sounds like you both have a good balance going of these two elements.

      Thanks for commenting!

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