The Creative Cycle: A living pattern that connects human life and the more-than-human world Human and Ecological Cycles Through the Five Elements The Creative Cycle is a cyclical pattern that underpins how life unfolds—within human experience and far beyond it. It describes how ideas, actions, relationships, and ecosystems come into being, take form, mature, dissolve, and return to potential. Rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Daoist philosophy ((often known as the Creation Cycle or Birth Cycle), the Creative Cycle mirrors the Five Elements—Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal—not as static substances, but as dynamic phases of movement and transformation.…