SJ

Question 1

SJ1

Answer 1

Rushing the Frontier Gate (Guan Chong)

Metal

Harmonizes metal and fire/wei qi

balances joy, inspiration, social contact, life boundaries

Question 2

SJ2

Answer 2

Fluid secretion gate (Ye Men)

Water

Moistens mucous membranes: surfaces of intimate contact with others

Mediates water in the 3 burners

regulates fire/homeostasis

Question 3

SJ3

Answer 3

Middle Islet (Zhong Zhu)

Wood

Empowers vision to horizon

fuel for fire

vision to outer limit of our boundary

Question 4

SJ6

Answer 4

Middle Islet (Fei Hu)

Fire

Quells inappropriate contact
Grounds rising yang

3 cun up

Question 5

SJ10

Answer 5

Heavenly well (Tian Jing)

Earth

• empowers virtues of center, stability, integrity and nurturance within fire
• Mediates interpretation of innate and acquired jing as our deepest resource (?)

1 cun above elbow

Question 6

SJ4

Answer 6

Yang Pond (Yang Chi)

Source

Refreshes 3 heater w/ clear source of yang qi

regulates thermostatic mechanisms in all aspects of being

Question 7

SJ7

Answer 7

Assembly of Ancestors (Hui Zong)

Xi Cleft

Moves stagnation in all 3 jiao that obscures appropriate relationship to env

mediates influence of ancestral wisdom imprinted in jing and radiated by shen

1 finger lateral to SJ6

Question 8

SJ5

Answer 8

Outer fronteir gate (Wai Guan)

Luo

Vents heat to exterior

Harmonizes Int/Ext

Allows mind to focus by harmonizing exterior

appropriate relationship boundaries, read external cues

maintain homeostasis