EARTH type in Chinese Medicine, de-mystify yourself . Mercury's message for us all, delivered in September, a time of ripening (Earth Phase Power) -----and slam-dunked home by the X Class solar flares of this last week.

I was at a summer fair in Ireland this summer. There was food stalls displaying foodie treats from artisan quiches and crepes to homemade cheesecakes and sausages. There were crystals, paintings, plants and crafts,  innovative clothes designs and the local GAA (Gaelic Football) representatives.

It was a lovely hot sunny day and the scene was set in a farmers field which overlooked the vast stretch of  beach where children ate ice creams and played in the sand.

We sat on the ground and ate the crepes and cheescake.

The day was surreal because the weather in Ireland, usually catches you out, so rain jackets always need to be packed. This day was the days of childhood summers.

After we ate our treats we set off for a wander around the fair's flea market and car boot sale.
Browsing and turning things over, I was not intending to buy anything, we strolled past many stalls, until I saw a book which immediately compelled me to buy it. I did not need to buy a book. I had enough books brought over with me, and still plenty more at home.

For some reason I had to have it.  I paid much more for it than would have been expected at a car boot sale, but without thinking, I didn't question the price and paid the money.

The book's title was "Between Heaven and Earth, a guide to Chinese Medicine", by Harriet Bleinfield and Efrem Korngold,  Ballantine Books New York. It was certainly not new, published in 1991.


The afternoon  passed pleasantly and as we were leaving we passed a stall where some women had gathered to talk about healing therapies. One lady, a reflexologist, caught sight of the book I had cradled in my arm, and exclaimed that she too had seen the book and had intended to buy it.
She couldn't say why she hadn't, but wished she had, Then she said "The book was obviously meant for you."

At that time during my holiday, I was in reasonable health, good even,  but I was, you could say, using the holiday rest to let me and my body recover from the ongoing, low level stress of the past three months ( that had evolved out of a  high pitch stress period which has lasted  for a period of nearly a year and half, (actually the truth is closer to 7 years, but that's another story, and interestingly, the explanation was found in the very book I bought that day).

I started to read the book later the next day, and knew it was going to be very good.

Then I became very ill, it was the first of two episodes while in Ireland.


On returning to UK I was able to function as one does even when one is not very well.

This was precisely the tipping of the scales. I had the results of a MRI on my knee and now know I need key hole surgery. I also have mad abdominal pains and a bloated and painful distended stomach. Increasing in frequency and intensity.

I am awaiting scans urgently asked for by the doctor as she can feel the edge of my liver through my abdomen. Before these that I called "the fibromyalgia' symptoms" ( chronic pain in my lower back, legs and stomach and tingly arms ) really kicked in, in this latest episode which started on Wednesday 6th September, I had arranged a series of acupuncture treatments which were blissful.

Incidentally, after I got back from Ireland, and after having had two three day episodes of chronic pain there, whilst there. The next serious episode of chronic pain kicked in around 6th September, which was at the time when Mercury finally went direct. This point of Mercury going direct was indicated as being the point (helped along the energy of Mars) that DELIVERS to us individually, and specifically uniquely  to each person....the GIFT THAT WAS CREATED And alchemised for us BY THE ECLIPSE OF AUGUST 21st. 

The 6th September was also the beginning of the latest blasting  by X Class Solar Flares.

It seems for me that these last 6 days have been the beginning of the clearing of the "brain fog" which, up until that point, had left me not unhappy but just unsettled,  slightly rattled and unable to clarify what needed doing. 


So from the 6th, until yesterday, 11th September (September 11th, hello!!!)  The Change from being in a fog---- TO ----the 'goo' of being in a body wrapped in pain, only abated today, September 12th. 

The gift was delivered by Mercury, Gift wrapped and dropped kicked in by Mercury and punched home by Mars. 

Mercury has now left the building.

Its also funny but I had some photos, from my trip home to Ireland, on my mobile. which when I uploaded them to this laptop I wanted to then delete them from my phone. Which I successfully did, apart from one. It was a photo of a statue of "MERCURY".  The statue of  Mercury stood in a Water -Lilly filled pond, situated in the beautiful House and Gardens of Garnish Island, Ireland.  Look it up if you will.....anyway... lets break up this text with some photos....

This is the photo of mercury that would not delete from my phone, it was one of 370 photos, (yes, I do like to take photos) and the other 369 photos, could all be deleted off the phone, no problem. 

This is a beautiful place....but funnily it was that day, on the way back from visiting this place, that I became incredibly sick and in chronic pain...
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I remember the time, a week or two later, back in the UK, when the photo refused to be deleted from my phone, thinking that there must be a very interesting reason why, and it would only become clear when the message of the solar eclipse on 21st August, would be delivered to me, by MERCURY when it went direct, (read for Mercury going direct -things stop 'faffing' around-) and the message would be ultimately punched home by Mars energy.

Yesterday I picked up a Snickers Chocolate bar, which at the moment have silly "other" names printed on for some reason...the name on my bar  instead of  'Snicker' was "FAFFER"....I was being told, OBS.

BTW, I always think of September as being a very special time. It is actually.  Spiritually, September is a very auspicious time for energy, and you can find many on-line resources which tell why this is, (sorry, I  am being distracted again) and that is why some horrific stuff goes on in September. Horrific terror atrocities which may be (or may not be, depending on how you see things),  caused by the Negative powers that be,  with  negative agendas to freeze and paralyse people into fear.

It is to stop the masses, i.e Us , the normal people from reaching up and expanding and benefiting from the amazing ripening of September and its powerful and auspicious energy.

In the book, I read to day, Late summer, i.e September, marks the ascendance of power of EARTH (Both of the EARTH itself and the Earth 'phase' of the individual). It is a time of ripening, when "momentarily we are free of the cycle of birth, growth, decay and death." This is a time when we appreciate the flowering of our labour, our harvest. It is a secure time of peace and plenty. A time of harvest. Not only is it  a time to share and incorporate the FOOD from our food harvests, but it is a time to incorporate the 'harvest of our experience' into who and what we are, both as individuals and as communities (try doing that when communities and individuals are reeling from the last terror attack, or mourning in memory of the one before......just sayin', Michaela.)


So anyway, back to the book, which although for me in my foggy brain condition,  has been somewhat overwhelming, I have been reading it and having so many "Aaha" moments.

Which brings me to today. This morning after the usual madness of getting teenagers off to their various places of education, and getting some washing out on the line to dry in this last of the late summer sunshine. I try to spend an hour with me, myself, no gadgets or distractions, just getting back to me and knowing myself. I had the intention of building a relationship with me, again, or anew, because if you are are sick, there is a problem, OBS.
The old "Huston, we have a problem." comes to mind.

So if you cannot solve a problem by the energy in which it was created, then you have to think about differently.

I picked up the aforementioned book and turned to the section which helps you figure out what 'type' in Chinese medicine you are. Paper and pen in hand,  I got to the chapter's list of questions.  I methodically spent a lot of  time answering honestly the many many questions and it was during  this time that I actually got a chance to reacquaint myself with me.  I was rebuilding a relationship with myself.

 I also, eventually, got to learn the type I am considered to be in chinese medicine.

I am an EARTH type. I cannot tell you how accurate it is. So not only am I rebuilding my relationship with myself but I am  EXPANDING my knowledge on how and why I do things.

It is this that tells you about your inner organ relationship  network and Qi flow.
What obstructs it and why.

More importantly how to prevent ill health and maintain balance by managing the impacts from "Life's" load of change.

 Life is change, it is flow.

It will bring change and challenges in that flow. Specific pronness to reactions and responses to change and challenges are atypical for each type.

How they are looked at and managed will decide how each type reacts to challenge, stress, conflict, etc.

I am EARTH, and it all makes sense to me now. I love September, it is my power time. the time of the EARTH type, the time for the EARTH PHASE.

One hour plus, reading this book today has helped me de-mystify myself.

I have posted links to you-tube videos from the authors. Hope it helps.

Ripening.
Michaela.