Metal Element Flag — 金屬元素標誌

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's time to make sense and harmonize the Eastern and Western ways of looking at the ancient elements, with a modern take.

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 overlap by 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.  To match it up: 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 metallic.  There is even a few that straddle the line like Silicon and Selenium being 'Trans" so to speak, a mix of being both metal and organic. 

But his post is about the Ancient Element of Metal.  The modern Elemental Metal flag is a vertical tri-bar of buff, dark gray, and light grey.  

The Metal Elemental covers the vast range of personal identity traits.   Unlike Wood traits that are organic, Metal working is an active pursuit that puts a person in a certain Tribal affiliation.

Here are just a few example of Metal Tribal Traits: musical interest, food interest, tattoos, jobs, internet/cell phone carriers, pet preference (Cat Tribe, Dog Tribe), intoxicant preference (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis), sports interest, automobile type, hair style, social clique, gang, military experience, pop-culture interests, games to play, Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, marital status, Frat/Sorority, secret society, and many more of personal choice.

Perhaps the most popular type of Metal flags belongs to professional athletic clubs: soccer, football, and baseball.

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,它的時間來有意義和統一東西方看古代元素,與現代採取。

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重疊了三個原始元素: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。 與之相匹配:固體-地球,液態水,氣體-空氣,等離子火。

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",可以說,混合是金屬和有機。

但他的帖子是關於古代金屬元素的。 現代元素金屬標誌是垂直三欄的淺色,深灰色,和淺灰色。

金屬元素涵蓋了一個人可以依附于自己的廣泛個人身份特徵。  與有機的木材特徵不同,金屬工作是一種積極的追求,它把一個人置於一定的順序或要求部落歸屬。  這裡只是金屬部落特徵的幾個例子:音樂興趣,食物興趣,紋身,工作,攜帶者,寵物偏好(貓部落,狗部落),醉酒偏好(煙草,酒精,大麻),運動興趣,汽車類型,髮型,社會集團,幫派,軍事協會,流行文化興趣,遊戲玩,星際迷航,星球大戰,哈利波特,婚姻狀況,和更多的個人選擇。