July 16, 2016:
Aaahhhh, relief. Humidity is gone, at least for now.
I spent a few moments this morning reviewing the
heart and small intestine meridians, just to see how they are the same and how
they are different. They do have
similarities; both are about heat, the element of Fire, a time of peak
expansion or awareness, the extremes of sadness and joy. Both are connected with the operation
of circulation and distribution.
They have differences too; one works with blood and thus with oxygen,
and the other works with food. The
heart, after all, feeds the brain, circulates what is in the lungs, and
distributes oxygen to the far reaches of the body as it controls body
temperature. The small intestine,
on the other hand, digests what is in the stomach, separating solids from
liquids, pure from impure, and directs those things to their appropriate next
steps.
Heart imbalances can cause palpitations,
insomnia, a dry throat, thirst, or jaundice. Small intestine imbalances can cause sore throat, deafness,
swelling, pain or paralysis of the face, mental issues, or abdominal
discomfort.
Both the heart and the small intestine meridians
go inside the torso of the body.
Both of these meridians come to the surface and pass through the
shoulders (heart in front, small intestine in the back), the arm, the hand
(heart on the palm side, small intestine on the back side), and come up to the
face.
Okay then; I think I have a nice grasp of these
two.
I threw a Wild Unknown Tarot card, and got the
Nine of Cups. The image on this
card is not quite what you would expect.
There is a waning moon in the sky, a mostly blue background, with the
beginnings of predawn red at the top of the card. Nine Cups are lined up along the edges of the card, all
upright. The feeling I get from
this card is one of serenity, of having what I need to maintain that serenity,
and of anticipation of what I will be able to experience because of that
ongoing serenity. Bliss is one of
the keywords for this card, as well as the awareness of our blessings, and the
nice thing is that we are just barely at the dawn of the day these energies are
available to us.
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