Which Element Personality Are You?

by Nancy Robbins

WHICH ELEMENT PERSONALITY ARE YOU?

AIR  –  FIRE  –  WATER  –  EARTH  –  ETHER

 

We are made of the elements of nature – Air – Fire – Water – Earth – and Ether and have a great kinship with our Mother Earth.  These five elements consist of an element for each cardinal direction and season, with Ether being the center and spiritual essence of harmony.  Air qualities connect with the East, Spring and Mental power; Fire connects with the South, Summer, and Spiritual Action; Water connects with the West, Autumn, and Emotional power; Earth connects with the North, Winter, and Physical Power. 

We need all of these elements to maintain balance, but usually one of them is predominant.  Knowing which Element is predominant and reflects your personality, and is mirrored in your home, helps you to make sure that element is included in your home environment to support you and bring you joy in life.  It will also inform you of the opposite element on the wheel that can help you balance your predominant element.  For example, if you are an Air person and mentally active, you may need to balance that with feelings of Water, and bringing your vision (Air) together with the creativity of Water.  Being aware of your predominant element will also help you balance the energy in your home, and make sure your element is well represented in your home.

Below are some questions that will help you determine what your predominant Element is that defines your personality, and which home description suits you best.  Have fun with it, it really is eye opening! It will give you some ideas on how you can redesign your own home environment.  You can also look at the individual articles on each element which gives you more in-depth information.  I also included a Quick Reference Guide that will help you determine which element you may need now to balance your energy, and the energy of your home.  Enjoy!!

FOR EACH ANSWER CHOOSE THE STATEMENTS THAT BEST DESCRIBE YOU. 

YOUR ANSWERS WILL TELL YOU WHICH ELEMENTS SUPPORT & BALANCE YOU.

I AM …

1. ___ Rational, analytical, intelligent, yet imaginative.
2. ___ A nurturer desiring to bring comfort and healing.
3. ___ A person who loves to craft with my hands and feel sensual textures.
4. ___ Active, passionate, intense, and optimistic.
5. ___ Organized and a careful planner.
6. ___ I feel it is important for me to share my skills with others, my spiritual mission.
7. ___ Sensitive of the feelings of others and relationships are important to me.
8. ___ Dependable, practical, a non-conformist.
9. ___ Happiest when surrounded by family.
10. ___ Surrounded by vibrant, erratic colors that clash in an artful abstract way.
11. ___ Courageous and adventurous with the pioneer spirit.
12. ___ A person that needs to feel the freedom to move about.
13. ___ A person that needs absolute privacy to recharge.
14. ___ Very intuitive, psychic, and spiritual.

WHICH HOME DESCRIPTION DO YOU FEEL FITS YOU BEST?

1. This home is lofty, airy, and expansive with clean sleek lines and elegant, classical style. This home is well organized and maintained.  There is a modern, almost minimalist style here.  Through the tall windows draped in sheers you see a sweeping lawn with a formal garden.
2. This home has a lot of warmth and comfort. You walk into the kitchen, and you can smell bread baking, there are some children’s drawings on the oak table.  There are a lot of handmade items in this house and a lot of family photos.  You look at the window and see flowered curtains blowing in the breeze.  You hear a fountain in the yard surrounded by an English country floral garden.
3. This Tudor home has a beautiful living room with leaded crystals in the window. There are rich velvet drapes at the windows pulled back with fat tassels.  The furnishings are sumptuous with many pillows.  Beautiful paintings are elaborately framed and spotlighted individually in the room.  The lights are dimmed with a candelabra on an ornate table.  Looking out the window you see a beautiful wrought iron garden gate leading to an intimate seating area.
4. This home has a beautiful living room with a couch covered in unbleached muslin, a natural sisal rug with oversized cushions on the bamboo floor. You smell sandalwood incense in the room.  There are lots of plants in the room, some handmade baskets, and a Native American drum hanging on the wall next to a primitive African mask.  You look out the window and you see large earthen pots with herbs and a vegetable garden.
5. As you walk into the living room you notice that this room is very modern, with black leather furnishings and vibrant colors in the room, there is a modern sculpture in the middle of the room, and a large canvas with dashes of brilliant color on it leaning against the wall. The lighting is bright in this room and the music is vibrant and loud, like the colors.  Looking out the window you see multi-leveled terraces of a modern garden of succulents and cacti.
6. As you walk into the living room you see a beautiful chocolate brown suede couch. A low cherry wood coffee table sits in front of the couch that holds a hand turned wooden bowl of aromatic balsam fir and pine cones.  There are rich leafy green plants in beautifully decorated pots about the room giving a feel of abundance.  You walk to a large square window with rich emerald velvet drapes cascading down on either side.  You contentedly gaze out the window at the woodland landscape that protectively surrounds the house.  The path through the woods beckons for adventure.

 

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE

Elements can either support and increase flow or inhibit and decrease the flow of energy of another element which helps to create balance.  This balance affects your element personality and your environment.  To balance, activate the needed energy and decrease its opposite: 

For example:      If you need more vitality – activate Fire and decrease Earth.

                                   If you are feeling too emotional, activate Air and decrease Water. 

                                   If you are feeling like an “air head” activate Earth and decrease Air.

                                   If you are feeling hyperactive, activate Earth and decrease Fire. 

 

WHICH ELEMENT DO YOU NEED NOW?

Use AIR for greater Mental activity and Freedom, and if you need:

• If you feel too claustrophobic and need to feel free to soar.
• To expand your vision, be inspired, and see the big picture.
• To be more focused, organized, and have mental clarity.
• To be “streamlined” and have an uncluttered feel.
• To create freedom of movement.

Use FIRE for Action and Spirituality, and if you need:

• To have high energy, motivation, passion, and vitality.
• To create focus by delineating attention in one area to create privacy in another to recharge.
• A greater sense of spirituality and relight the spark within.
• Have the power to transform and make changes.

Use WATER for Emotions and Intuition, and if you need:

• More emotional sensitivity and awareness.
• To have more flow in your life.
• To have nurturing and comfort.
• Enhance emotions of the heart, relationships, and romance.
• Need more creativity.

Use EARTH for Physical Health and Stability, and if you need:

• To be grounded in the here and now.
• More stability.
• A greater sense of abundance and fertility.
• A greater connection to the planet Earth.
• Enhance physical health.

Use ETHER for Spiritual Connection and a feeling of Unity and Harmony

• To feel more centered, aligned, and balanced.
• To feel a deeper connection with self and the spiritual realm of angels, guides, ascended masters, higher self.
• To feel a connectedness and unity with All That Is.
• To add greater focus on what you wish to transform and manifest.

 

ANSWERS TO THE FIRST TWO QUESTIONS:  Review your answers to see which elements you need to focus on now.

1. Air                   11.  Earth                    1.  Air Home
2. Water            12.  Air                         2.  Water Home
3. Earth              13.  Fire                       3.  Fire Home (Sanctuary)
4. Fire                 14.  Ether                    4.  Earth Home (Organic World)
5. Air                                                             5.  Fire Home (Abstract)
6. Ether                                                        6.  Earth Home (Sensual)
7. Water               Note:  An Ether Home is any of the 4 element homes with a greater focus on using that
8. Earth                element to create spiritual connection and harmony.
9. Earth
10. Fire