Yang Wood
Imagine a big tree with its roots going down deep into the earth. This is a Yang Wood personality. Big trees are not easy to move, unless you cut them down, so sometimes it might be quite difficult to deal with them or to manage them. They are single-minded, goal orientated and can be rather stubborn, pushy and aggressive in order to achieve their goals.
Yang Wood people are very straight forward with their actions and talking and you can always rely on them to tell you a bold truth. Although from the outside they might seem tough, from the inside they are very kind and always keen to help people.
They like to make fast decisions and they don’t have patience to dwell on things, so as a drawback, they often pull the wrong call, and when they do that, they are not keen to change their mind; they go further and make even more damage.
They are subjective thinkers and it’s hard for them to make distance from a situation. They rarely take advice from others, they just want confirmation of their own ideas!
Everything must be real for them; they like reality as they cannot imagine things out of thin air to be able to be creative and achieve. Otherwise they can be successful in anything they do.
Yang Woods are great teachers who are known for their ability to point out other people’s mistakes but sometimes can go too far and people might feel criticised.
Their self-confidence is tightly related to having money and being sexually attractive. They like to dress well and look good to attract the opposite sex.
Generally Yang Wood’s confidence is fragile due to their tree mentality which gets very disturbed when there is a strong wind – which might even pull them out in the case of stormy weather. Thus Yang Woods are confident so long as their conditions are good.
Yang Wood people might have anger issues which is very much related to their low self-confidence because often they can feel helpless and anger is their defence system. In these situations the key for them is to calm down and wait for the storm to pass.
Yang Wood people seem strange or weird, as they are very particular, uncompromising or even stubborn about their lifestyle and living conditions. Their family, friends and colleagues often feel they can’t handle these people. Yang Wood people are like trees, with roots, stem, boughs, branches, leaves and fruit and need specific conditions to survive and thrive. If the conditions are not met, the tree will die or not grow.
A tree needs water, earth, sun and wind. If any of these elements is missing, the tree does not stand a chance. A tree cannot be moved, unless great care is exercised, a tree fears the axe or saw for its life, a tree dreads earthquakes, fires and floods, a tree, though it looks so strong and solid, is a delicate part of nature we actually need badly, as it gives shade, stability, fruit and beauty and above all oxygen.
Living and working with Yang Wood people is often trying. First they check out the conditions, make their own unbending programs, and if they don’t they can’t put their roots down, can’t settle. This is a lengthy procedure and it becomes apparent, that we need a lot of patience when dealing with Yang Wood people. They seem to always need something and not give out so much. They have their habits and routines, which they cannot abandon easily. They are rather inflexible. They are also very, very attached to their mother (earth). This is more extreme in men. The poor wives have mother-in-law around or quoted a lot, as constant competition. When a Yang Wood’s mother dies they are very much effected and they feel totally lost for a long time..
Yang Wood feels very uncomfortable with Yang Metal or Yin Fire people, as the axe or fire are life threatening to them. What they love is the sun, Yang Fire, Yin Earth, with its minerals, and Yin Water to keep it moist.
A Yang Wood person needs her own plot of land, which cannot be infringed by anyone else. She cannot share her near vicinity with another Yang Wood as her roots need space.
There has to be order for Yang Wood, she needs to know what is happening and when, who is around and if any unannounced changes are made, it exasperate them.
If one puts pressure on Yang Wood, they experience it as an earthquake, lose their leaves, a bough, stop bearing fruit, stop growing. So no threatening or shouting at Yang Woods! If you want to influence them, they need explanations, gifts, attention.
When tended carefully and for a long time, the tree will bear delicious fruit. And until then, it will produce life essential oxygen. So it may seem, a tree does not have much effect or result, as we cannot see the oxygen, cannot measure its value, but take that tree away and the place becomes barren and bleak. When the tree has become big and strong, we can lean on it, put a hammock in it, enjoy its shade, its rustling of leaves, harvest its fruit and feel a wonderful stability. So patience, patience, who has patience will success.
The best careers for this elemental type are where everything is already prepared for the person to develop it – they can’t start things from scratch themselves. Therefore they can’t be leaders – or if they are, they always need a boss above them.
They cannot be in the front line; they need a lot of pre-arranged conditions to develop things. Everything must be real for them; they like reality, and that means they cannot imagine things out of thin air to be able to be creative and achieve things. Otherwise they can be successful in everything they do.
