“Fire is dry and hot, air is wet and hot, Earth is dry and cold, and water is wet and cold,” Gailing says. While people all over the world have used elements to classify behavioral tendencies for thousands of years-consider the system of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which includes water, fire, Earth, metal, and wood-several Greek philosophers are credited with pioneering the four-element system used in astrology including Empedocles and Plato, says astrologer Stephanie Gailing, author of The Complete Guide to Astrological Self-Care.Īround that period of time, a few centuries BCE, the elements also made an appearance in Hippocratic medicine (a system pioneered by the Greek physician Hippocrates), for being reflective of a person’s general constitution. Stephanie Gailing, astrologer, wellness consultant, dream interpreter, and author of The Complete Guide to Astrological Self-Care and The Complete Book of Dreams.
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