278 Digging the Earthly Branches • Deborah Woolf
Cosmology Heaven and Earth, the creative and the created, micro and macrocosm. All ways of saying there is a reality we inhabit, and beyond that a lot of mystery. And mystery is something us humans have, at best, an ambivalent relationship with. We seek to find some sense of...
271 Cycles, Nodes and the Spaces in the Seasons • Sheri Lee
Cosmology Life is built on rhythms, the natural world is constantly in a state of transformation. A cyclical flow of growth and decline—manifested in the turning of the seasons, waxing and waning of the moon, and the oscillation of day and night. The intertwined correspondences...
255 Puzzling Through the Heavenly Stems • Deborah Woolf
Cosmology Everyday we sit with people in our clinic and puzzle through the questions of “What is going on for them,” “Can I see clearly what they need,” and “Do I understand how this person is an expression of yin/yang, heaven and earth?” Our patients have a story. And so do...
162 Spirals, Stems and Branches: The Structure of Unfoldment in Time and Space • Deborah Woolf
The Classics Stems and Branches are old Chinese science. Our medicine touches on it, but most of us rely on the more modern perspectives for our clincal work. The Stems and Branches speak to a perspective of the universe and our place in it that is foreign to our minds not because...