Healing Your Emotions: Discover your five element type and change your life. Angela Hicks

on the health of the Wood type, these ways of coping produce both virtues and vices. Some of the virtues are:

      

a strong capacity to organize

      

a commitment to continuous growth

      

a capacity for determining rightness or correctness and a resolve to see this carried out with justice

      

a useful warrior mentality

      

a youthfulness, even in old age, born out of a commitment to continue growing.

      Some of the vices are:

      

over-attention to structuring, detail and rules

      

over-assertive behaviour which can lead to chronic belligerence

      

repetitive rebellion which forgets the outcome of growth or development

      

never admitting to the real goals and ends

      

passive stuckness which has forgotten the real ends.

A FAMOUS WOOD TYPE — CHRISTABEL PANKHURST ⁶

      Wood type Christabel Pankhurst was born in 1880. Along with her mother Emmeline and her sister Sylvia, she is famous for her militant crusade which culminated in women gaining the right to vote. She had a combination of many of the Wood type strategies mentioned above. Like many Wood types she was a ‘justice seeker’ and channelled her assertion into positive rebellion, challenging the rules in order to create social change. She was also a natural ‘structurer’ and was known to be a formidable organizer. Her belief in ‘getting things right’ led her to achieve her aims with one-pointed directness.

      As a child, Christabel was brought up in an atmosphere of revolution. Her father passionately believed in fighting for women’s rights. Christabel’s own fight intensified, however, when on deciding to enter the legal profession she found to her anger and dismay that the profession was barred to women.

      In 1903, Christabel along with Emmeline and Sylvia, formed the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). From then on Christabel used an increasingly militant campaign to lobby for the vote. As well as being an impressive organizer, she was also a gifted orator. Her Wood type personality helped her to argue the case for women’s suffrage by speaking all over the country. When speaking to many women’s groups she roused many other women to give up their jobs and dedicate themselves to the cause.