The shoulder tension that turned out to be Wood
A designer with chronic shoulder and jaw tension. The chart showed Wood without an outlet.
Tension he had carried for six years, massaged, stretched and injected, always returning within a week.
What the chart showed
Strong Wood, no Fire. In the classical system Wood is the capacity to plan and to grow outward; Fire is the capacity to express. A chart with abundant Wood and no Fire is a chart that keeps generating plans it cannot discharge. The tension sits in the shoulders and the jaw because that is where unexpressed Wood is held.
The reading
We did not tell him to meditate. We told him he needed an output channel — something with a visible end, on a schedule. He chose to write about the work he was already doing, one piece a week, published under his own name.
Result
Tension reduced over roughly four months. His own description: “It is not gone. It is going somewhere.”
