Modern Feng Shui Consultant in Alexandria: The Girl of the Wood Element

The Girl of the Wood Element

When I was a little girl, nothing mattered more to me than spending weekends at my grandparents’ farm. Those days felt like the only place where time made sense. I never questioned it. I never tried to understand it. I simply knew I belonged there.

I have many memories from my childhood, but one stayed hidden for years—quietly resting inside me, like something forgotten at the bottom of a drawer. About 18 years ago, I entered a guided meditation called “Your Favorite Place.” The guide invited us to return to the place where we felt most alive. Without hesitation, I was there.

I was back at my grandparents’ farm. The familiar hills stretched pale and still in the distance. My hand rested on green grass, and there was a kind of silence that didn’t feel empty—it felt alive. Then I leaned against the trunk of a tree.

It was a Huarango.

It wasn’t a giant or dramatic tree. It was steady—grounded, with a strong trunk and a full canopy that offered shade without asking for anything in return.

And something happened there that I never really had words for. It didn’t feel like I was just standing next to it. It felt like the tree and I were part of the same quiet moment of presence. Like for a moment, nothing separated me from it—only stillness.

Years later, I stumbled upon something out of curiosity that explained the deeper patterns behind personality and natural elements. When I learned that my element is Wood, something inside me didn’t question it. It simply recognized it.

That lifelong pull toward fields, mountains, and trees suddenly had language.

I understood then that I had never been just observing nature. I had always felt a deep sense of belonging within it. That is where I began to understand myself as the girl of the Wood element.

But life has a way of testing roots.

Years after those childhood days, I returned to the farm and went looking for my sanctuary. That is when I learned what had happened to my tree. It had been cut down and burned. Its roots had grown too strong, too deep—beginning to disrupt the path to the farm. In the end, they had to remove it.

Standing in that empty space, I couldn’t help but feel something shift inside me. It wasn’t just loss. It was the realization that even something deeply rooted, something life-giving, can be seen as too much for the space around it.

Even now, when life asks me to slow down, I find myself searching for trees, open land, and mountains. I look for stillness. For something rooted that does not move.

Some people find peace by the ocean. I find it in the quiet presence of the earth—leaning against something strong, grounded, and alive.

Perhaps I have always been the girl of the Wood element.

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