Winter in the Chinese Five-Phase (or Five Element) wheel, is the time of Water.  Every element also has multiple associations with it, including a color, flavor, sense organ, emotion, body part and climate or temperature.  In Winter, the color is black, flavor is salty, sense organ is the ears, emotion is fear, body part is bones, and climate is cold.  In Winter, the Yin and Yang organs that rule this time are the Kidneys and Urinary Bladder.  What does all this mean and how do we apply it to our lives?