Chakras & Chinese Medicine Hours: Liver

I often use the Chinese medicine hours to help me diagnose a physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual mystery, especially if someone is waking up again and again at the same time of night, for example. When time features prominently in the narrative of what’s happening, the Chinese medicine hours have never steered me wrong, especially the emotional associations with the elements of each organ/time slot.

We’ll take them one at a time, connect the meridian to the chakra system, and outline the emotions that tend to match the two-hour time slot.

First, some basics:

Each Chinese Medicine meridian is associated with an organ.

Each organ has a Yin or Yang designation. In that Tai Chi binary (think the Taoist circle,) ancient designations would make Yin feminine and passive, and Yang masculine and active. I prefer to think of Yin as magnetic; and Yang as dynamic. Yin draws things to it; Yang goes and gets things.

After the Yin/Yang designation comes one of the 5 Elements: Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal. Each of these has a major emotion attached thereto:

Water = fear
Wood = anger
Fire = joy
Earth = worry
Metal = sadness

Now let us begin with:

1–3 AM is Liver. Liver’s element is Yin Wood. It is associated with the Third Yellow Solar Chakra whose Grace is Power.

We know immediately that Liver is magnetic and related to anger. It breaks down to Anger, Panic, Frustration, Powerlessness, Depression, and feeling Overlooked.

This could play out in several ways. One, you could be low-level angry at everything all the time. Two, you could be drawing anger to you all the time, and it will seem to come out of the blue.

Or, you could remember the function of the liver is to remove toxins from the body. What’s in your world that’s toxic to you right now?

Here is a possible fix: Wear yellow, take the Amy Cuddy power pose, spend some time in the sunshine, figure out where you feel disempowered and make a new choice.

A reminder: here is where chakras come from: When a being incarnates, there is a burst of brilliant light. I’d call that The Divine Spark. It animates all your systems. If you’ll view that burst of light, that Divine Spark, through a prism, you will see the eight major chakras.