11/13/2025
✨ The Metal Element & the Art of Letting Go ✨
In Chinese Medicine, the Metal element teaches us about completion, reflection, and release. It’s the element of autumn, when the trees shed what is no longer needed so they can conserve energy for what’s to come.
Metal reminds us that death isn’t only a physical ending—it’s also the symbolic ending of cycles, identities, habits, and relationships that have run their course.
Just like the lungs take in what nourishes us and the large intestine releases what no longer serves, we too are meant to breathe in the lessons and exhale the old.
🌬️ Letting go of relationships—whether romantic, familial, or friendships—can feel like a kind of death.
But in the wisdom of the Metal element, endings aren’t failures. They’re sacred, necessary transitions that create space for clarity, alignment, and renewal.
If you’re navigating a season of release, remember:
✨ You’re not losing; you’re clearing.
✨ The grief you feel is proof of your capacity to love deeply.
✨ Letting go is an act of self-honoring.
✨ What remains becomes more precious.
✨ Let go and let God
✨ Take slow deep breathes
As nature teaches us every autumn:
Letting go is how we make room for what’s true, what’s new, and what’s next.