Energy pattern analysis for 2012 according to "Huangdi Neijing" and how to act accordingly Pt.1

      First of all I must apologize that I was not able to post this New Year article soon enough, and for those who are not very familiar with this or didn’t read my post for last year, please read this article to have a quick warm up. This traditional energy pattern theory is a very complicated holistic theory that people have been using to explain and predict universal matters in order to survive and live better. Too many subjects such as astrology, geography, geometry, mathematic, chemistry, physics and of course medicine as well, are involved so it requires the user to be extremely knowledgeable in order to better utilize it in real life.

     Obviously I’m for sure NOT knowledgeable enough to draw a nice picture of it, but I will try my best to provide whatever I’m capable of to give a general idea of this year.

      AGAIN,Many words in the following article are my awful direct translation from the ancient text. And please be advised the original text was written more than 2000 years ago, and some details are NOT necessarily accurate. Ancient Chinese had their ways of understanding the universe and themselves. We are here to share their wisdom with our own feeling and conscious. Or let's put it this way: if we are seeing what the text is describing when the time arrives, we know what's going on and know what to do. If it doesn't happen, then enjoy the following as an article about ancient Chinese medical literature.

      Before we getting into 2012, let’s review the last section of 2011 and get a better idea of how the ancient energy pattern works. The main energy pattern for 2011 is “lack of water”, and for 2012 is “excessive tree wind”. When less water (winter) meets too much tree (spring), it gives us an early spring energy, AKA warm winter.

      However we have been reading news about many areas in the world have been getting extreme cold days. Let’s keep going through the year of 2012, we may get some ideas.

      The chart below shows the general energy pattern of 2012. (Please note that we are talking according to traditional Chinese seasonal year, so the year of 2012 is actually January 21^st,2012 to January 21^st 2013). We can see the main pattern is excessive Tree Wind; first half of the year we will under strong cold water energy, second half will be Wet Earth energy. The whole year is divided by small seasons into 6 sections.

Excessive Tree (wind)
Cold Water			Wet earth
Main：Tree Wind Guest: Old fire	Main: Young Fire Guest: Dry Metal	Main: Old Fire Guest: Cold Water	Main: Wet Earth Guest: Tree Wind	Main: Dry Metal Guest: Young Fire	Main: Cold Water Guest: Wet Earth
01.21/03.20	03.20/05.20	05.20/07.22	07.22/09.22	09.22/11.22	11.22/01.21.2013

Excessive Tree Wind (year):

    The Ancient text stated, when under excessive tree wind energy, wind is strong, spleen is the vulnerable organ. There will be symptoms like diarrhea, bad appetite, body feels heavy, stomach upset, intestinal issues, gas and fluid swollen, chest (rib) pain, nauseous, irritable, dizziness. Like the cloud moves fast, everything on the earth changes fast, grass and tress swings fast or even break. To prevent these, we should focus on supporting the spleen energy and spleen-liver relationship by cultivating our emotion, especial anger, to maintain a solid and balanced condition. Eat more yellow color grain, black color food and bitter taste food to help the body remove the excessive fluid.

    

    For business and profession, tree or wood related business like herb and lumber may do well. In contrast “earth” related fields such as land and property development or construction may be tough. But Since the second half of the year we will have strong earth energy back, there may be some improvement for these fields near the end of the year. Besides, “metal” business such as mining, stock market may be low.

    

    Tree Wind represents the East, so at least the Chinese people believe this will be a great year for China. For the USA, does that mean that the east coast will outperform the west? We’ll see.

    For the nature, if the Tree Wind “abuse” and press the Earth energy too much, whenever there is a chance, more like during the 5^th section when metal energy is strong enough to hold the tree wind energy back a little more, the earth will fight back hard. This may show as earthquake or flood.


First Half and second half (half year):
    First half we will be under Cold Water energy and followed by Wet earth in the second half. When this combination happens, the Spring of the year will arrives early but the winter may be colder and damper than usual, and this will directly affect the kidneys thus may cause kidney related issues. The cold weather can appear in any other seasons unexpectedly, even in spring or summer. Cold freezes the water, slows down people’s blood circulations, and it may cause blood related issues such as heart pain, carbuncle, nosebleed, hemafecia. Or sinus, running nose, sadness, vertigo, chest pain, hot flash, joint pain, or dry throat. These symptoms are rooted from the heart (pericardium) system. Also there will be aurally symptoms, throat pain, fluid swollen, lower belly pain and bloating, urinating pain, headache, pressure behinds the eyes, stiff neck and back, hip, knee and calf hardness. These are rooted from the kidney system. These can be treated by herb or foods that are mild hot, bittersweet, then using saltiness to remove the cold from inside through urine.


To be continued...