What Is Your Element?
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By: Ira Kurylenko
Created: 3 months ago
People have associated human personalities with elements—air, fire, water, earth, and aether—because these elements represent fundamental aspects of nature that mirror human traits. This practice dates back to ancient philosophies, widespread throughout different nations, religions, and spiritual practices. But what is your element exactly? How do people go about finding their nature, their passions?
In this Elemental Quiz, you’ll get to connect with the natural and spiritual parts of your being through a series of short questions. Provided that you answer to the best of your heart’s impulses, the detailed map of your desires, preferences, likes, and dislikes will connect you with one of the five fundamental elements.
These elemental patterns are meant to reflect personality traits, making them more relatable and easier to grasp than the intricate depth of our psyche. It also provides a poetic and symbolic way to express how people interact with the world and each other. Furthermore, these associations are deeply embedded in cultural narratives, literature, and astrology, reinforcing their significance over time. Thus, linking personalities with elements offers a timeless, natural way to explore and explain the human experience.
The five elements as presented in several philosophies around the world include:
The five elements as presented in several philosophies around the world include:
Air
Traits: Intellectual, communicative, adaptable, curious, free-spirited.
Fire
Traits: Passionate, energetic, confident, bold, determined.
Water
Traits: Emotional, intuitive, empathetic, nurturing, creative.
Earth
Traits: Grounded, practical, reliable, patient, disciplined.
Aether
Traits: Spiritual, ethereal, imaginative, transcendent, wise.
This is only one of the several lists of basic elements as perceived throughout the world. Other cultures do include a variety of other substances and forces: wood, sulphur, mercury, metal, sky, void, and so on. However, the five-element pattern is arguably the most widespread belief that covers all the different aspects of a human character. Thus, we are using this system in our test.
So, are you ready to find out what is your element?