Enter a birth date. See your element (mệnh), colors that fit, colors to use lightly, plus materials, shapes and plants that grow well in Northern California.
Your element
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Common mistake:Painting the whole house in your element color. You don’t need to. One accent is enough: the front door, a pillow, a vase, a plant. Keep walls light and neutral. Buyers pay more for a home they can picture themselves in.
Shared palette
How it works
Element (mệnh) = nạp âm of your lunar birth year. Born before Tết counts as the year before.
Fits best: your own element and the one that feeds it (tương sinh). OK: the element you feed or control. Use lightly: the element that controls yours (tương khắc).
Cycle: Wood feeds Fire, Fire feeds Earth, Earth feeds Metal, Metal feeds Water, Water feeds Wood. Wood controls Earth, Earth controls Water, Water controls Fire, Fire controls Metal, Metal controls Wood.
Two people: colors that neither person’s element is controlled by. If one element controls the other, a “bridge” element sits between them.