• 10:00am 

Today is Jia Xu according to the Four Pillars system (Bazi Chinese Astrology, also known as the Energy Almanac in the Huang di nei Jing).

It is a Yang day. The image is of Yang Wood from Heaven, and Yang Earth from Earth.

According to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic, Jia is an energy likened to that of a sprout breaking through the soil; whilst Xu is “the image of retreating from the visible excitement of life,” (ch.66, p.238).

These energies are seemingly contradictory, and I expect to notice that struggle between wanting to emerge and break out, and wanting to retreat.

In observing the energies of the Celestial Stems & Earthly Branches, I have noticed that my moods have fluctuated – unfortunately I haven’t observed my pulses and tongue over this period to see any signs of internal changes, but I know that they are there. Over the Summer break, my health has fluctuated quite a lot. Nothing too serious, but I have had lower back pain (Qi/Xue xu), and some digestive/middle jiao issues (including abdominal distention and bloating), not to mention putting on of weight. It could be because I have been fairly sedentary, and not out and about as much as I’d like. My diet is generally very good: balanced, organic and regular (more or less – there is still room for improvement…)

  • 18:50 pm

I have had a very interesting day: I have spent a great deal of today doing Tarot readings for others (a very busy day). This kind of endeavour – like any form of healing – requires a great deal of energy, because you are constantly in a process of healing and helping others; being that I work a lot on an intuitive manner, this is more so. This is no different to practising Chinese Medicine – the doctor needs to be healthy and happy also, with a good reserve of energy (jing-qi) to be able to help one’s patients.

The fact that today was a yang day would have helped me a lot, considering the volume of readings I did. The majority of readings were for students beginning their new courses (orientation day at the Victorian College of the Arts) and all the readings I did were concerned with ‘new beginnings’: very much the young sprouts breaking through the earth…

But it is also the end of some 3 months of holidays for these kids: very much the retreat from the excitement of life, especially since most of them would have spent their holidays celebrating the end of their school days, and looking forwards to the new journeys they would be starting with these courses which may lead them onto their future careers.

So I can now see what today’s energy was about…