This represents autumn when the weather begins to turn cold and leaves fall from trees. Metal Qi is contracting, controlling, condensing, cold and cutting. Colours, are white and grey metallic. Shapes are round and curving. There are two types of metal people, like two sides of a coin, one is a great leader, but can dominate and conquer, constantly active with high ideas, ambitious and egotistical.
They hate to lose, very self critical, strongly materialistic and can seem stubborn and overly ambitious. The other is a great orator, tactful, elegant and well liked by others. They like to be free, dislike supervision and hate to be ignored.