Air Element Flag — 空氣元素標誌

So what are the ancient elements?  Half the world includes Earth, Air, Fire, & Water while the other half thinks about Earth, Fire, Water, Metal and Wood.  It all depends on which culture you grew up in.  But since the world is basically one big city, it is time to harmonize of the ancient elemental notion with a modern view.

Basically, the cultures that follow Western-Roman Astrology use four elements, while cultures that follow Eastern-Chinese Astrology came up with five elements.  Both the Eastern and Western Zodiacs agree with three original elements: Fire, Water, and Earth.   The difference is that East has a category for Metal and Wood, which the West does not.  Yet, the West has a category for Air, while the East does not.

One theory is that the Western Mind knew that matter could exist in different forms: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.  Thus in a way, the early Western model of elements had a rudimentary understanding of the different states of matter: solid-Earth, liquid-Water, gas-Air, plasma-Fire.

Likewise in the East, another rudimentary aspect about matter was understood.  Ancient Chinese thinkers figured that matter could be categorized as metallic or non-metallic with their Wood and Metal classifications.  Wood is mostly made up of non-metallic matter like: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and such. While the vast majority of other atoms are metal.  There is even a few that straddle the line like Silicon and Selenium being 'Trans" so to speak. 

But his post is about the Ancient Element of Air.  The description was important to the West and overlooked by the East.

The modern Air Elemental flag is for both the East and West—and for the North and South for that matter, plus the Up and Down.  The flag is a vertical tri-bar of blue, cyan and white.  The colours represent the essential colours of the sky during the day. 

The modern elemental meaning is associated with ones religion or spirituality, including atheists too.  A more general term to include religion and Atheism would be a Meaning of Life Organization.  Basically, when you meet another person who shares your outlook for the meaning of life, by believing in the similar words of particular book (Torah, Koran, Bible, L. Ron Hubbard, Book of Mormon, Ayn Rand, Marx, Darwin) or certain manners for meditation and prayer, your spirit should feel free to breathe.  People of a similar spirit Air-Tribe to you own, are like a breath of Fresh Air!   

Finally, Air takes up all the spaces available beyond liquid and solid, that fills the void and seems to be everywhere.  Air is where we connect with the heavens and stars, but you must also remember it is Air that connects us to the Earth, Water is always flowing in and out of our bodies, and Air is the perpetual element of life, through breath. Thus Air makes a good analogy for one's Spirit Tribe.  

Isn't it odd how the East/China missed out on ancient Elemental Concept of Air?

那麼,古代元素是什麼? 世界的一半包括地球、空氣、火和水,而另一半則考慮地球、火、水、金屬和木材。 這完全取決於你成長於哪種文化。 但是,由於世界基本上是一個大城市,是時候將古代元素概念與現代觀相協調了。

基本上,遵循西羅馬占星術的文化使用四個元素,而沿襲東西方占星術的文化則提出了五個要素。 東部和西部十二生肖都同意三個原始元素:火、水和地球。  不同的是,東方有一個類別的金屬和木材,而西方沒有。 然而,西方有一個空氣類別,而東方沒有。

一種理論認為,西方頭腦知道物質可能以不同形式存在:固體、液體、氣體和等離子體。 因此,從某種意義上說,早期的西方元素模型對物質的不同狀態有初步的瞭解:固體-地球、液態水、氣-空氣、等離子體-火。

同樣,在東方,人們也理解了關於問題的另一個基本方面。 中國古代思想家認為,物質可以分為金屬或非金屬,其木材和金屬分類。 木材主要由非金屬物質組成,如:碳、氧、氮、磷、硫等。而絕大多數其他原子是金屬。 甚至有幾個跨越線像矽和硒是'Trans]可以這麼說。
但他的帖子是關於古代空氣元素的。 描述對西方很重要,而東方卻忽略了。

現代空氣元素標誌是為東方和西方 - 以及北方和南方,再加上向上和向下。 國旗是藍色、青色和白色的垂直三欄。 顏色代表白天天空的基本顏色。

現代元素意義與宗教或靈性有關,包括無神論者。 一個更普遍的術語,包括宗教和無主主義將是一個生命組織的意義。 基本上,當你遇到另一個和你一樣對生命意義的看法的人,通過相信特定書籍的類似話語或冥想和祈禱的某些方式,你的靈魂應該可以自由地呼吸。 人的精神和你自己相似,就像呼吸新鮮空氣!

最後,空氣佔據了除液體和固體之外的所有空間,填補了空白,似乎無處不在。 空氣是我們與天堂和星星連接的地方,但你也必須記住,它是空氣連接我們到地球,水,總是流動進出我們的身體。 因此,空氣為一個人的精神部落做了一個很好的類比。
有趣的是,東方/中國錯過了古代空氣元素概念。