KI Flashcards
1
Q
KI1
A
Bubbling Spring (Yong Quan)
Wood
- connection to cosmological pole of earth
- receiving water at it’s source
- rising of essence through us toward heaven -> evolution
- pulls influence of heaven down through our roots ensuring that all growth is grounded in a vision of our depths
- water-> roots of a tree -> heaven
2
Q
KI2
A
Blazing Valley (Ran Gu)
Fire
- secures the HT/KI axis
- increases KI yang
- regulates presence of fire in KI (?)
- “regulates the impulse that stirs water from within and summons it from without”
3
Q
KI3
A
Great Mountain Stream (Tai Xi)
Earth
Yuan Source
- T Yin and Yang of KI
- Harmonizes water and earth (innate and acquired constitutions)
- Balances all spirit level KI treatments by grounding them at their source
- earth controlling water to support life like banks of a river
4
Q
KI7
A
Returning Current (Fu Liu)
Metal
Empowers conception
Draws qi through metal gate (jin men)
Imparts essence to water to give it value
2 cun up
5
Q
KI10
A
Yin Valley (Yin Gu)
Water
- Empowers fluidity in all aspects of being
6
Q
KI5
A
Water Spring (Shui Quan)
Xi cleft
- reinstates flow in all aspects of being
- removes the tarnish of mundane yin from the influence inherited constitution (jing)
- moves stagnation, natural flow born of faith and instinct
7
Q
KI4
A
Great Bell/Cup (Da Zhong)
Luo
- Directs mind toward innate purpose
- quiets mind and stills ambition
- vents ignorance embodied as dampness and heat that stagnates to obscure original nature and block inborn potential
