Editing Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) (section)

===Phases of the year===
The five phases are around 73 days each and are usually used to describe the transformations of nature rather than their formative states.
*Wood/Spring: a period of growth, expanding which generates abundant vitality, movement and as a consequence is associated with wind.
*Fire/Summer: a period of fruition, ripening flowering, and associated with heat.
*Earth can be seen as a period of stability and stillness transitioning between the other phases or seasons or when relating to transformative seasonal periods it can be seen as late Summer. This period is associated with centralisation, leveling and dampness.
*Metal/Autumn: a period of moving inward it is associated with collection, harvesting, transmuting, contracting, loss and dryness.
*Water/Winter: a period of reclusivness, stillness, consolidation and coolness.