Chakras & Chinese Meridian Hours: Spleen/Pancreas

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 continue with:

9–11 AM is Spleen/Pancreas. Spleen/Pancreas’ element is Yin Earth. It is associated with the Third Yellow Solar Chakra whose Grace is Power.

We know immediately that Spleen/Pancreas is magnetic and related to worry. It breaks down to low self-esteem, self-blame, disgust, obsessiveness, compulsion, and apathy.

This could play out in several ways. One, you could be low-level questioning or doubting your perceptions about everything all the time. Two, you could be drawing those who behave that way to you all the time. Most often, Spleen/Pancreas is affiliated with bitter anger; mind you, a feeling that one is bitter and therefore angry, not factual bitterness or anger — a vital distinction. To heal, change, grow at no matter what level, the self, as it is, must be welcomed.

Or, you could remember the function of the Spleen/Pancreas is to contribute to utilizing the fuel needed to maintain daily activity. What do you need? 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 self in the world?

Here is a possible fix: Wear yellow, remember what you appreciated initially about whatever fuel you used to use, figure out where new fuel is needed, make the time to honor the worry 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.