Quiz - Ashley Abbs

CLARITY AND HARMONY WITHIN YOUR LIFE, WORK & RELATIONSHIPS STARTS WITH YOUR 5 ELEMENT ALCHEMY.

You are governed by a unique 5 Element Alchemy that can assist you in deepening your relationship with your intuition, cultivating meaningful relationships with yourself and your family, & support you in authentically share your unique souls expression to create a life that you love.

Understanding who you are is the greatest gift you can give yourself and others. This Medicine is both a tool and guiding system to help guide and support you in ways that you’ve only dreamed of.

Are you?

Earth: Peacemaker, Caretaker and Mother

Metal: the Artist, Architect and Alchemist

Water: a Dreamer, Philosopher and Mystic

Wood: a Pioneer, Warrior and Visionary

Fire: the Lover, Performer and Connector

Or perhaps your Alchemy comprises a combination that perfectly summarizes your personality and the way you show up in the world.

Only you can be an authority on who you are and why you are the way you are. No more seeking, you already possess the answers. Claiming and leveraging your true elemental nature is the way to your freedom.

The invitation here is to go inward.

The framework and steady steps to support you on your journey to live a life on purpose and help manifest your hearts desires into form starts with you.

If you’re ready to align this rich medicine with your soul and discover your 5 Element Alchemy

Take The Quiz Below.

What colour makes you feel like you are expressing yourself best?

Dark Blue
Green
Red
Earth Tones
White

What is your favourite Season?

Winter
Spring
Summer
Late Summer or Season Transitions
Autumn

What time of day are you at your best?

Sunrise
Morning
Mid-day and Dusk
Afternoon
Late Night

What are your innate gifts?

Organization
Nurturing & Supportive
Communication
Confidence and Assertiveness
Wisdom and Insight

During troubling times you're prone to?

Rigidity or Inflexibility
Anxiety or Worry
Restless or Hyper-Sensitive
Depression
Suspicion

What does your voice sound like?

Singing and Melodic
Fast Chatter
Shouting
Quiet or Moaning
Clear with a slight tremble

What Inspires You?

Creating Balance and Harmony
Creating Community and Intimacy
Making Things Happen
Philosophical Discussion
Art & Creativity

How do you relax?

I Collapse
Reading
Projects & Hobbies
With Friends
Dancing

What's your strongest mental ability?

Big Picture & Risk Assessment
Vision & Drive
Openness
Comfort with what I know
Disciplined & Organized

To which physical weakness are you prone?

Spine, Urination, Sexual, Low Vitality
Headaches, Blood Pressure, Inflammation, Muscle Spasms
Heart Palpitations, Insomnia, Anxiety
Weight Gain, Sluggishness, Indigestion, Lethargy
Breathing, Skin Problems, Digestion, Immune

What is your Emotional Tendency in Overwhelm?

Isolation
Rage
Excitable, Forgetful, Hard to Focus
Seek Comfort
Hyper-critical, Sad

Do you like to try new things, or experience change?

Sure
Of Course
Always
Not Really
No

Do you like to socialize?

Rarely
Oh Yeah!
Always
With a few friends
Selectively

What quality defines your emotional expression best?

Open
Sympathetic
Difficulty Expressing
Honest
Intense

People that know you would describe you as?

Unusual & A Dreamer
Ambitious & Competitive
Passionate & Magnetic
Loyal & Accessible
Classy & Discriminating

My Preferences for group work and projects?

Collaboration is where it's at!
Creating harmony within the group
When everyone understands their objective
I prefer to work alone
To be the Lead

What feeling is most dominant in you?

Fear
Frustration
Elation
Worry
Sadness

What quality do you value most in yourself?

Power / Driven
Compassion
Nurturing
Meticulous
Insight

What quality do you value most in others?

Depth
Confidence
Vulnerability
Honour
Self-Control

With which quality do you have the most difficulty?

Indecision
Boundaries
Saying No
Spontaneity
Authority

With which quality of yours do your friends and family have difficulty?

Elusive
Bossiness
Clinging or Over-Emotional
Wishy-Washy
Rigid & Inflexible

What qualities help you in your vocation?

Discipline
Dependable
Star Power & Charisma
Leadership
Independent Thinker

What are your dominant qualities?

Intelligent - Insightful
Powerful - Born Leader
Talkative, Joyful
Empathetic - Stable
Fastidious - Organized

Your ideal way to move your body?

Yoga
Something that pushes me to my limits
Dancing
Anything with Friends
Running by yourself

Your ideal vacation would be?

Retreat for Self-work
Something adventurous
Sun & Sand
Family Trip
Museums & Architecture

I’m having a slow start to my January and the ne

I’m having a slow start to my January and the new year. My usual rituals and ways to meet this season feel outdated and much like a sweater that feels just a smidge too small.

Rather than panic, I’ve decided to let go and see what naturally wants to fill the space.

I trusted that if I chose not to drive my energy in one specific way the grace of the water element would present me with opportunity and choice. Perhaps in a way that I hadn’t thought about.

The past few weeks, I’ve made art and painted, more than I have in the two years prior.

I’ve written words, some coming soon and with it a new offering (stay tuned)…and others that are just for me.

I’ve moved my body differently - I can’t explain it yet but it feels good.

Most importantly, I’ve relaxed into a new felt sense of spaciousness that I’ve never experienced before. A space with less immediacy and rushing and yet everything still gets accomplished.

Something in me has shifted.

I don’t yet know where its leading me, I may not know for some time. Water medicine kind of works in the realm of the mysterious.

For right now, I’m placing my presences in the flow.

What about you? How has this turn of the calendar felt for you?

What rituals or activities have you found yourself drawn to?

#5elementalchemy #waterelement #newyear2022

Soul is simple. Inquiry into your edges does not n

Soul is simple. Inquiry into your edges does not need to be complicated. I hope that these 5 questions reveal the medicine that is most poignant for your heart at this time.
Feeling into the energies of the solstice and the liminal space that will carry us into a new calendar year I invite you to light a candle, connect with your altar, or just grab a cup of tea and sit in your favourite chair and reflect on these 5 questions.

1) What Went Well For Me This Past Year?

Write it out, Share it, Have gratitude for it, Celebrate it!

2) What Was Challenging For Me This Past Year?

Write it out, Acknowledge it, Forgive (if forgiveness is required to yourself or other people), Let your emotions move through you. Allow the heaviness in your body to soften and its imprint feel just a little bit lighter to hold.

3) What Did I Learn?

From everything that went well and the challenges that revealed new edges and opportunities for growth.

Write it, Pray on it, Move it through your body, Bless it.

4) What Dreams & Desires Do You Wish To Experience And Receive In The Coming Year?
This isn’t a place for how they’re going to happen. The liminal space the occurs in the transition of the Metal and Water Elements of the north and Wood and Fire of the south. This magical time between Solstice and New Year, it isn’t for planning. At least not the way that we are conditioned to plan.

Right now is the time for the big dreams to swirl around in your awareness and land in new ways that perhaps you can’t foresee at this time. Steady steps will arrive when their ready to show up for you. Have faith.

Suspend your wanting to know how its all going to turn out for just a little while and trust that those dreams were placed in your heart for a reason.

Write them out. Claim them. Dance them in to your body so that you can feel their expression within your cells. Cast wishes into the ethers and celebrate your initiation into this next stage your journey.

Lastly,
5) What Supports Do I need In This Space of Becoming?

You may want to first let the previous question settle into your awareness before taking action on this last question. Feel in to it

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Need just one more last minute gift for that perso

As solstice draws nearer, and we’re so close to

As solstice draws nearer, and we’re so close to the return of the suns light, there’s a palpable magic woven into the liminal space that governs our transition between the season of the metal and water elements.

Personally, this is one of my most favourite times to be in clinic and work with patients because its as if miracle after miracle occurs before my very eyes. Pregnancies are announced, healing occurs at a more rapid pace and sparks of inspiration abound for next steps and new opportunities.

Which is why this prompt is an important one to feel into in the coming weeks. How am I making myself available for magic?

Without setting conditions on what exactly this magic or miracle is.

I find being too exact on how energy must flow, tends to gum up the works and stop the flow.

Though that doesn’t mean you can’t with ritual and prayer perhaps ground yourself with possibilities. Dreaming and stating your desires out into the universe certainly has a way of creating a portal for magic to begin to reveal itself to you.

And then the question come back to how do you intend to make yourself available for magic.

A more direct way of asking this, is how do you intend to connect with your heart and its wisdom?

Time in nature?
Meditation?
Limiting distractions?
Being fully present while you make art?
Letting this writing prompt spur others?
Taking more baths?

What do you need?

For me, to be available to magic is to appreciate beauty in all things, nature, art, lights, music. This is the language of my heart which then can be reflected in my life through writing, movement, meditation and work.

Its a simple thing, and yet its easy to forget and not pay attention. Something that I find true with regard to most requirements of the soul.

You’re turn…

#5elementalchemy #writingtheelements #writingprompts

Hello, it’s been a while since I’ve formally i

Hello, it’s been a while since I’ve formally introduced myself and there are some new faces that have chosen to hit “follow” Thank you, 🙏 I sincerely appreciate the support.

I’m an acupuncturist, author and embodiment mentor.

I help individuals come home to their bodies to activate their inner wisdom and create a life they love.

My first book, 5 Element Alchemy was published this past spring. You can grab your copy at your favourite book retailer - link in the bio.

I’ve begun the process of starting my second book, fingers crossed it doesn’t take another 3 years like the last one.

I have a private acupuncture practice where I work with women's health (fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, peri-menopause and menopause) as well as supporting those that experience anxiety and depression.

I live in Calgary, Treaty 7, AB Canada with my camera shy husband Sheldon and son who is lovingly referred to as E here on Social Media.

A few additional random facts.

I am a former top 10 national competitive Ice Dancer

I met my husband on his door step, Yup, for real!

I like to paint with coloured charcoal (conte) in my spare time, I’m thinking of trying water colour - stay tuned.

I struggle with “high functioning” anxiety. Routine, ritual, meditation, body work, therapy and writing in varying degrees are requirements to engaging with it.

I hate surprises, I spoil all book, TV, and movie endings by reading ahead to check if my favourite characters make it out okay.

I’m a collector of nicknames, it seems like everyone I meet creates one for me.

My favourite seasons are Fall and Winter. (Ahem, Earth/Water Element over here)

and

I always put my left shoe on first. A habit from an old skating superstition that has persisted even 20 years later.

Tell me about you! Whats something fun that you would like to share. ✨💗

#5elementalchemy

We are never just one thing. I am not just one thi

We are never just one thing. I am not just one thing.

Even the absence of some things, leaves impressions on our being.

The 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine allow for nuance where I can be both a peacekeeper (Earth) and a dreamer (Water) and call on my star power (Fire) when it’s required.

This doesn’t mean that the Architect (Metal) and the Leader (Wood) in me never materialize.

They just don’t lead.

My go to strengths and skills especially in times of stress or uncertainty will be pulled from my dominant and secondary elements. In my case Earth and Water. I will first care-take and harmonize while trying to look at the big picture of the situation, to wrap my head around it before dealing with the details.

Once that’s done, then I can draw on the other elements to help me. To fill in the gaps and see my way through.

In the beginning of working with this medicine I always felt that my lack of Metal and Wood were a shortcoming.

But now as I honour who I am, enhancing my innate gifts I’ve been able to cultivate a by deepened relationship with each of the elements and found a way to utilize their brilliance in support of my own wholeness.

And I’ve learned the importance of how bringing other individuals with different dominant Elements than my own into my life and teams is a game changer!

To learn your Dominant 5 Element Type, take the free Quiz, [Link in Bio] ✨ Even Better, share your alchemy with me! 💗

#5elementalchemy #5elementquiz

My Beloved, You have an ocean of tears welling u

My Beloved,

You have an ocean of tears welling up behind your eyes.
Yet you insist on not letting them fall.

Holding them back, won’t quell the ache you feel.
Your loss will not hurt more by letting them go.

Your grief will not hasten because you refuse to let yourself feel.
There are no short cuts.
There is no getting to the other side of it.

A piece of you is now gone from this plane and it is terribly sad.
Allow yourself the grace to be sad.
In an odd sort of way it will make you feel better.

Your grief wishes to surface.
Open the dam and let it rain with your tears.
They will heal your aching heart and soothe your soul.

You may even get a chance to to see a rainbow and a glimpse of hope.
I love you.
This is hard.

I’m right here with you.
XO
Metal

#xotheelements #metalelement #5elementalchemy

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