Fire Monkey and Fire Rooster

[Gerard]

2016 (yang) and 2017 (yin) are both prime years for healing the Fire work. Expect anger and lust to surface. Working around when the Heart Qi is most dominant (11am to 1pm and then a sudden surge from 1pm to 2pm) and the Pericardium (7-9pm and sudden surge from 9-10pm) will ensure we are really targeting the Fire element at its root. More info about its importance in here:

 

http://www.itmonline.org/5organs/heart.htm

 

"Opening the Heart" will mean that you are opening yourself to EVERYTHING but it's not as easy as it seems. Lots and lots of determination and watching the mind 24/7.

 

Working near trees and running water will speed up the purification process as we also work the mother (Wood/liver) and the root (Water/kidney).

 

 

Happy practice!

[cheya]

Thank you Gerard, both for that practice post and the article, and from that for introduction to an excellent website, http://www.itmonline.org , new to me!

[dwai]

2016 (yang) and 2017 (yin) are both prime years for healing the Fire work. Expect anger and lust to surface. Working around when the Heart Qi is most dominant (11am to 1pm and then a sudden surge from 1pm to 2pm) and the Pericardium (7-9pm and sudden surge from 9-10pm) will ensure we are really targeting the Fire element at its root. More info about its importance in here:

 

http://www.itmonline.org/5organs/heart.htm

 

"Opening the Heart" will mean that you are opening yourself to EVERYTHING but it's not as easy as it seems. Lots and lots of determination and watching the mind 24/7.

 

Working near trees and running water will speed up the purification process as we also work the mother (Wood/liver) and the root (Water/kidney).

 

 

Happy practice!

Thanks for sharing

[mindtooloud]

2016 (yang) and 2017 (yin) are both prime years for healing the Fire work. Expect anger and lust to surface. Working around when the Heart Qi is most dominant (11am to 1pm and then a sudden surge from 1pm to 2pm) and the Pericardium (7-9pm and sudden surge from 9-10pm) will ensure we are really targeting the Fire element at its root. More info about its importance in here:

these times, are they local to where ever you are? or specified to a specific time zone?

[Gerard]

Certainly, the times will apply to your location.

[Daeluin]

Yes, thank you for sharing. They say the energy of the month is the strongest, and we've just come out of the Snake month (yang fire) into the Horse month (yang and yin fire), so the fire during this time may be some of the strongest. But then we enter into the sheep month where we still feel all that heat very strongly, and then into the metal months. These are metal years, so we can expect these months to carry strong lessons as well.

 

Metal is related to our ability to digest what we've been through, how to accept and move on. Often we have trouble accepting, trouble letting go, and don't want things to be over yet. So we attach to our desires and don't let go. But here the fire, if we work with it sincerely, can help us to melt down those old attachments and dissolve those feelings before they get planted as new seeds for desire yet again.

 

These fire-metal years may raise strong challenges, but also provide great opportunity to re-forge ourselves. It's hot, but if we bear the heat we can do great work... we just have to do it.

[Daeluin]

As far as timing goes, if one is in DST that must be adjusted for.

 

Additionally Liu Yiming notes that the blance of yin and yang is not fixed to the clock. Zi and Wu indicate the extremes of yin and yang, while Mao indicates yang overcoming yin (sunrise), and You indicates yin overcoming yang (sunset).

 

If one wishes to follow this more fluid timing, then the above windows are:

The hour before and after noon, and the following 2 hours.

Between an hour after sunset and an hour before midnight.

These are rough windows, as the length of an "hour" is also in fluctuation between winter and summer.

 

One may look up the time for noon and midnight based on one's location here. Also note this theory may come from a highly respected daoist transcendent, but to my knowledge is not found in modern medicinal/astrological practice.

[Gerard]

Yes, thanks for pointing the Metal element out. It's all about letting go 'old injuries' and karmic habits from the Heart via Large Intestine, the discharging organ of the Lung (Po, the animal soul, our connection to the Yin, what makes us human, two legged beings walking on the Earth that sustains us, Earth is the Mother of the Po, Metal). This is the best time to work hard on the kleshas. Watch them 24/7 during these two excellent years to cultivate this element, since Fire controls it. Any excess should be burnt by Fire so that you can give rise to a new Heart akin to the phoenix.

 

Practice hard and consistently but not too hard, Yin better than Yang or the shy crayfish (MIND) will go deeper into the hole.

[Fate]

This makes a LOT of what I've been going through lately make sense on an energetic level!

hahahahha

 

Off to the nearby river!

[Gerard]

Great to hear you picked up the energetic shift this year, from the placid yet fiery Year of the Sheep to the more active, highly curious, intelligent and witty nature of the Monkey...an animal with deep insight but the added Fire (2016) quality allows it to go higher (yang) as opposed to a  Water, Metal or Earth Monkey. Great year for cleansing the Heart and the 'letting go'. Same goes with the Fire Rooster, another animal that is able to see with the Heavenly eye.

 

These years will have a lot more water than the previous two, especially the Wood Sheep, very dry here in Australia. It was a nightmare for me as a Fire Horse person.