Chakras & Chinese Meridian Hours: Wood
I fell over a file in my computer the other day that I didn’t remember saving. Does that ever happen to you?
The file held a simple list of polarities related to the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM.
So let’s take a look at the elemental connections to be found in the meridian clock. Next comes Wood.
In the clock format, there are two segments for each element, except Fire, which has four.
The Wood element covers 11 pm-3 am and pertains to Gall Bladder and Liver. Gall Bladder is the Yang aspect of Wood; Liver is the Yin aspect.
It makes sense to me that Gall Bladder and Liver go together elementally. They work together!
The emotional polarity of Water is Forgiveness and Anger.
In these organs, anger can show up in Gall Bladder as a something that ‘galls’ you, and it can feel like life or death in Liver as in ‘live’ or die.
So what fixes the Anger? Well, of course Forgiveness. It’s worth a look at the etymology of the word. My spiritual brand of etymology insists that to forgive is to give for — to give blessing in return for supposed harm. The solution to Anger here is connecting to your personal power, and following its directives. Oftentimes, if you’ll take your eyes off the anger, it’ll slink away, merely for lack of attention.
And of course, there are chakra fixes related to the Third Yellow Solar Chakra: wear yellow, drink yellow-charged water, take little opportunities to feel your own power in any relationship. It will surprise you how much humans have learned to accept our powerlessness instantly rather than digging deep for a calmer, gentler, long-lasting form of power.
Think of it this way: most often anger heats us up, it makes us want to take action — any action, it often causes words and deeds that require clean-up when cooler times prevail. Often, we feel victimized by our own anger.
Beloved, anger is really quite simple: it’s the human no. It indicates that something has gone past a boundary of ours. Heed your own no, ask what it needs to be reinforced, breathe a lot, and when in doubt, always, always forgive.
