Today is the last episode in a 5 part series about the elements. The 5th element in Chinese Medicine is Metal, but in Ayurvedic traditions, the 5th element is considered Ether 0r Space. Ether is the source, the original element, from which all the other elements stem. Air, Fire, Water and Earth are formed. from the stability of earth, through the flow of water, the passion of fire, and lightness of air, we reach the element that makes everything else possible: ether or ‘space’. Ether is both nothing and everything at the same time. It’s stillness, yet it’s the very thing that makes all movement and life possible. Ether is space and stillness. It is that which contains and holds. From all stillness comes possibility and movement. Ether is the element that connects us to spirit, intuition, other realms and planes.
