Water 5    Wood 5    Air 5

  Fire 5    Earth 5    Metal 5

  V  Wisdom

Five, sometimes known as the number of man, is essentially the number of questions. Once the solidity of Four has been attained, the only way to continue the journey, the only way to move forward to Ten, is to jostle the status quo that Four provides and the way to do that is to question it. Five tends to bring along with it all the qualities that questions bring, anxieties, insecurities, and doubts.

WATER 5 : I always think of Water 5 as the feeling you get when it rains on a day you've planned a picnic. The food's all ready; everyone has been looking forward to a day of fun and now it's pouring. But just because you can't be outside doesn't mean the end of everything. You have choices.
Water 5 is disappointment and disappointment is an underrated emotion. You have expectations and they are dashed. When all that has happened is that a picnic is rained out, the choices are obvious and easy but when you don't get that job you'd banked on, it can be difficult to view your situation as an opportunity in disguise. Yet that's exactly what it is.
Water 5 is the cup being half full.

WOOD 5 : Wood, as the element associated with personal growth, is a natural for questions. Transformation often grows right out of questioning of one sort or another. in this case, the image of a tree growing in a situation that's not optimum provides a simple, metaphorical reminder that, while the tree can't pull up its roots and chose another situation...we can.

AIR 5 : Questions are, of course, the bailiwick of the unrestrained mind, the purveyor of doubt and once you get that puppy running, there's often no stopping it. The Five showing up in the suit of Air is simply too much of a good thing. Impossible to control once it obtains the momentum needed to sustain a negative spiral, Air 5 is a cautionary card, re-minding you to be on the look-out for yourself, to catch the obvious hints before you disappear into the not-self and get lost in a whirl of confusion and distraction.

FIRE 5 : Coming from the spirit level of your being, questions are a whole 'nother thing and a lot more like inspiration than interrogatory. Five in Fire says, "Trust it." Trust that imaginative prompting that seemed to come from nowhere, trust it and follow it, change your mind, change your course, maybe even change your life.

EARTH 5 : The ground under your feet is something that you want to be able to rely on...and you can...most of the time. In those times when you can't, life can feel difficult and you can feel compromised. Fact is, though, that, as an ancient sage once said, this, too, will pass. When the earth shakes and breaks, it doesn't last forever.
Earth 5 often shows up to serve as a reminder that life is, by nature, both abundant and persistent, advising you to shift your focus from lack or trauma to the template of reconstruction which is inherent in the DNA of all life.

METAL 5 : Metal loves a challenge. Metal is the suit of the mind at its controlled best. And, yes, the mind is best controlled. The mind is a rangy beast and even on leash will drag you after whatever catches its fancy. Metal - the exercise of will power - is dog training school for the mind. The energy of Metal 5 is "Question? I got your question right here."
Metal 5 will handle it, will face a question, a challenge, an instability and love doing it. Metal 5 does not even recognize doubt. Metal 5 is your friend.

V Wisdom : Does Wisdom question? Yes, it does and it does it with complete neutrality, recognizing the validity of all options, attached to none. In maintaining an attitude of non-attachment, Wisdom is able to discern, as the body responds to various possibilities, the appropriate path to follow.
Wisdom does not so much ask questions as entertain them and by the time the party is over, Wisdom knows.