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Fire Element

The Fire Element corresponds to summer. This is the time of greatest warmth and light, the longest days, the greatest activity, and luxuriant growth. In the individual, Fire correspondences include the ability to establish relationships, expressing love and sexuality, expansiveness, enthusiasm, passion, playfulness, joyfulness, warmth, and relaxation. The organ systems include the heart, small intestine, pericardium, and sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. When the Fire Element is not in balance there is a lack of joy and warmth, difficulty in intimate relationships, depression, confusion, doubt, low energy, and digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, cardiac disease, and tinnitus.