Ki Training:
The Relationship Map and The Five Elements
Are your relationships supportive or challenging?
Get a FREE Ki Relationship summary by using the Profile Finder on the left. Check the diagram below to see why your relationship is supportive or challenging.
9 Star Ki
In the system of Nine Star Ki there are nine different personality archetypes represented by the numbers 1 to 9. Your personal profile is comprised of a specific combination of three digits. Each digit represents different aspects of you, but is essentially about your inherent potential. No one number is better than any other, they simply represent different characteristics and potential.
The Five Transformations
Nine Star Ki draws on the natural Law of Five Transformations or Five Elements – wood, fire, earth, metal and water – to explain the relationship between all nine numbers. Each number is represented by an element and each element represents a specific transformation – creation, gestation, consolidation, maturation and dissolution – in the cycle of development from birth to death. Elements relate to each other in either a supportive or challenging way – as shown in The Relationship Map below. It is the unique relationship between the five elements that really inform us as to whether a relationship is ‘supportive’, or ‘challenging’, whether that is the relationship between the numbers in one’s own profile or between people.
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The Supportive Cycle is about complementary elements that empower and nurture each other. In nature for example, wood fuels fire, helping it to burn. Hence in relationships, 3 people naturally empower 9 people and 3’s may find these relationships easy, with respect and support flowing both ways.
The Challenging Cycle (inner arrows above)
The Challenging Cycle represents the dynamic tension between elements. In nature for example, challenges are about giving spark to the opposite element, making them better in some way, as water can prompt fire to be stronger. Yet they can also have a blocking effect, as water can extinguish fire.
Co-operation (same number or element)
Where we share the same adult potential number or element as another person, there is usually co-operation and harmony. These relationships may be mutually supportive. At best there may be a sense of stability and much in common. At worst, there can be a sense of inertia.
Relationships
In terms of relationships, the challenging interactions can be exciting and dynamic, for example a 1 person challenging a 9 person. At best, challenges are about keeping someone grounded and balanced – for example containing excesses, encouraging tolerance, supporting someone out of a stressful situation and provoking rapid development. We may really appreciate relationships with people of the ‘opposite number’ but it is important to use our own common sense to determine how much to counsel with them. At worst, the challenge may have a stifling effect, especially if the challenger is out of balance in some way.
Even in the supportive cycle, the supportive element may be somewhat depleted with the action of supporting another element, for example water being used by wood. This is the same in relationships where we support another person. So there is a two-way flow of energy in our interactions with others, just as there is between elements of nature. Approximately 80% of the energy is moving clockwise (represented by >) and 20% flows back in the opposite direction (represented by < ).
To mitigate the effects of the challenging cycle it can be useful to activate the element that sits between the two opposing elements, for instance 3 and 4 sit between 1 and 9. Therefore in relationships, 3 and 4 people can be effective at making 1’s and 9’s seem less challenging and more approachable to each other. This is because 1’s support 3’s and 4’s who in turn support 9’s. Hence in this example, 3’s and 4’s can be good mediators, encouraging understanding between 1’s and 9’s.
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