Regarding the Five Elements and the Energy-Entropy plane

I've been reading up on the therodynamics behind the Five Element construct of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and it appears that these Elements, in the language of Western science, correspond to different regions of the plane that spans two axes: that of energy and that of entropy. According to Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing, by Lorie Eve Dechar, The Five elements correspond to five approximately (or exactly?) 72 (one fifth of 360) degree sectors of this plane, with the origin at the most lifeless point in the plane. I'm having trouble figuring out how to align this wheel of five secants with the axis, though. What are the dividing angles?

For reference, below is how the plane is segregated when I use the eight child court cards of the Aliester Crowley Thoth Tarot deck as labels for eight octants. In this diagram, the energy axis is pointing up and the entropy axis is pointing to the left. (So that negentropy, which is the energetic analog of entropy, points to the right.) Also note that the angles are only equal if the units of energy and entropy are properly proportioned to each other.

Legend/Key:
phase
emotion
human sound

-	-	Hot Smoothness	-	-
-	-	lust	-	-
-	-	sustained low voice	-
-	Smoothing Heat	-	Cooling Smoothness	-
-	mirth	-	awe	-
-	pulsed rough breath	-	pulsed low voice	-
Rough Heat	-	-	-	Smooth Cold
rage	-	-	-	care
sustained rough breath	-	-	-	sustained smooth breath
-	Heating Roughness	-	Roughing Cold	-
-	thrill	-	grief	-
-	pulsed high voice	-	pulsed smooth breath	-
-	-	Cold Roughness	-	-
-	-	fear	-	-
-	-	sustained high voice	-	-

• Note the difference between the low and high voice; one cannot switch between them smoothely, and trying to do so results in a discrete jump in pitch; oscillating back and forth between them creates a yodel.

• Also note the difference between the smooth and rough breath; the smooth breath is created by a lung contraction with the throat relaxed, whereas with a rough breath, the throat contracts at a spot slightly higher than the vocal chords, creating a guttural growling sound.

Using the same Legend/Key, below are the five regions of the Traditional Chinese segmentation of the plane, labeled using the table in The Web that has No Weaver, by Ted J. Kaptchuk, and supplemented by Five Spirits where vocabulary differs.

Wood
anger
shouting

Fire
elation/joy
laughing

Earth
pensiveness/sympathy
singing

Metal
grief
weeping

Water
fear
groaning

Now to align these two wheels to each other. Where do they surely match up? Well, I see grief on both wheels, so I'll start there. Weeping is a pulsing smooth breath... yeah that looks right. So I think it's safe to say that every angle of the Roughing Cold octant falls within the Metal sector. Assuming each Traditional Chinese sector corresponds to an equally large 72 degree pentant, then this gives us only 72 - 45 = 27 degrees of uncertainty between the two wheels. Good enough to make another diagram:

-	-	-	Fire	-	-	-
-	-	-	elation/joy	-	-	-
-	-	-	laughing	-	-	-
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	-	-	Hot Smoothness	-	-	-
-	-	-	lust	-	-	-
Wood	-	-	sustained low voice	-	-	Earth
anger	-	Smoothing Heat	-	Cooling Smoothness	-	pensiveness/sympathy
shouting	-	mirth	-	awe	-	singing
-	-	pulsed rough breath	-	pulsed low voice	-	-
-	Rough Heat	-	-	-	Smooth Cold	-
-	rage	-	-	-	care	-
-	sustained rough breath	-	-	-	sustained smooth breath	-
-	-	Heating Roughness	-	Roughing Cold	-	-
-	-	thrill	-	grief	-	-
-	-	pulsed high voice	-	pulsed smooth breath	-	-
-	Water	-	Cold Roughness	-	Metal	-
-	fear	-	fear	-	grief	-
-	groaning	-	sustained high voice	-	weeping	-

Conclusions?

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Previous posts about this project:

New alchemical theory suggested by overlaying two existing repositories of alchemical knowledge: The Book of Thoth, and Traditional Chinese Medicine,

What happens if we interpret the human not through Chinese Medicine's five Element lens, but through a six Element lens?,

An Emotion Waffle,

The Emotions of the Earth and Cosmos,

and

The Emotion Waffle, translated into Chinese

And here's the original post.