Chakras & Chinese Meridian Hours: Gall Bladder
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 Yin 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 continue with:
11 PM-1 AM is Gall Bladder. Gall Bladder’s element is Yang Wood. It is associated with the Third Yellow Solar Chakra whose Grace is Power.
We know immediately that Gall Bladder is dynamic and related to anger. It breaks down, on the shadow side, to bitter, irrational, defensive, repressed, resentful, and trouble with forgiving.
This could play out in several ways. One, you could feel low-level powerless about everything all the time. Two, you could be drawing those who behave that way to you all the time.
Most often, Gall Bladder is affiliated with a feeling of resentment. To heal, change, grow at no matter what level, Power as it is in your life right now, must be welcomed.
Or, you could remember the function of the Gall Bladder is to help digest fat, a function needed to maintain daily activity. What do you need to allow yourself to feel delightfully powerful? Do you have it? It’s startling how few of us even know what we need let alone knowing whether we have it or not. Knowing takes stillness and silence. What’s your top fuel to fund your sense of personal power of all kinds in the world?
Here is a possible fix: Wear yellow, remember what you appreciated initially about whatever feelings of power you used to have, and recreate them. Figure out where new power infusion is needed, make the time to seek out and connect with the energy that is behind it, 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.
