September 24, 2016: Wood and air meridians compared

September 24, 2016:

My Dreams of Gaia card for today is the King of Air, again.  The King of Air represents a fair yet stern leader who is educated, with vast knowledge at his disposal and wisdom learned from his every-day experiences.  He is imposing and a bit intimidating because he is formal, but because of his deep spiritual beliefs, he is also compassionate.  The King of Air believes that rules are made to be followed and he is not easily corrupted or lured into unethical behavior.  While he can be a bit rigid, his final judgment is fair and is delivered without the distraction of any emotions.  I am being reminded today that I should not allow myself to be drawn into unnecessary arguments.  I need to adhere to the rules, and to my own ethical code, without pushing boundaries, and I need to attempt to keep emotions out of the events and decisions of the day.  I would be better off asking for expert advice instead. 

Maybe today would be a good day to compare the two Wood/Air meridians.  Both meridians are connected to expansion, wind, deciding, and the season of Spring.  Both meridians are connected to anger, however the liver meridian is more about internal anger, while the gall bladder meridian is more about outer anger, and adds in the influence of compassion.  The liver meridian connects more to planning, processing and organizational parts of the process of deciding, while the gall bladder meridian focuses more on motivation or catalyst.

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September 21, 2016: the gall bladder meridian

The Four of Water is my Dreams of Gaia card, and it is dreamy!  The keywords for the Four of Water are confidence, awareness, self-acceptance, forgiving, self-belief, receptive, deserving, and consequences.  The image, of a scarred man looking at his reflection in a mirror, and smiling at the beauty he sees there, is quite attractive.  The ability to acknowledge faults and past mistakes while choosing to see only the good that has come from those experiences is not an easy ability to find and maintain, but it is worth the effort.  I need to let go of the concept of perfection, and instead I need to strive to be the best I can be and to learn from what I’ve experienced.

The other meridian is the Yang meridian associated with the element of Wood, the gall bladder meridian.  It corresponds with anger and compassion, expansion, wind, deciding, motivation or catalyst, and external anger.  The gall bladder holds bile, and is connected to all secretions, including saliva, gastric acid, insulin, and intestinal hormones, as well as bile.  The gall bladder meridian is connected to our decision-making processes, and to the courage we need in order to move on and release that which no longer serves us. 

The gall bladder meridian begins at the outer corner of the eye; it splits, with an external branch circling the face and the ear and then traveling to the hip, and an internal branch that crosses the cheek and descends to the gall bladder, and then meets the other branch at the hip.  The meridian then extends down the outside of the leg and ends at the tip of the fourth toe.

Ear issues, migraines, dizziness, nausea, gall bladder issues or hip problems can all be an indication of an imbalance in the gall bladder meridian, as well as the state of our tendons and ligaments.

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