Kate Rosko
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Dandelion. Woah. Thank you!💛
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Judy, I hope your daughter is doing well and recovering from her injury! This is a late response as I am just seeing this now, but I think it’s worth mentioning.
The acupuncture points at the fingers and toes are the end or beginning of each of the 12 meridians and, like others have said, the Large Intestine or yang Metal meridian begins at the index finger. But most of those points (called jing-well points), with the exception of the Pericardium which ends at the tip of the middle finger, are located at the corner of the nail (picture below).
Traditionally this point category is bled with a lancet and indicated for clearing manifestations of extreme heat trapped in the channel, like strokes, seizures and manic episodes. Obviously as acupuncturists now we are rarely treating those conditions and I personally don’t needle the jing wells very often, but do occasionally and use moxa there as well–needling is strong and typically hurts, as our edges are most sensitive and have the greatest concentration of nerve endings.
I’m thinking that if her injury was at the tip of the finger, it’s actually “before” or beyond the meridian itself…perhaps why the body can regenerate the area “like a lizard’s tail” (amazing!!!). Thank you for sharing, this was interesting for me to think about, and I’m curious to know how she is doing!
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Awesome, thank you Lorianne : )
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Babbie! What a wildly magical place! Thank you for offering it as a space for this group, and I would love to be there, one day….
I totally appreciate your reflection about the Wood…and have been thinking lately how interesting it is that both “the General” and “the Free and Easy Wanderer” are both archetypes associated with it. Such different energies. It makes me think about the spectrum of all things, and how “what’s needed” is such a consideration…and love Lorie’s follow up that this is in each element. So exciting…
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SO abundant! Planning to make one this weekend🙏🏻🌻🌞
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Benjamin, these are amazing insights…and I am especially grateful to you for putting into words what I’ve always felt are extremely contradictory energies in my chart. As I’ve been taking this in, I’m understanding that a version of myself who wanted life to be “good”, “happy” and a steady evolution into a my best version has been dying/transforming as I follow the path where it’s taking me.
I’m in a moment of holding the tension between seeing (with an inner sight) my magic and light and how very real and present that is to me / and how it’s been buried within (and because of?) the very challenges you’re describing, especially the soul loss as a sacrifice to uphold the power dynamics and illusions of key relationships.
I can feel the alchemy here supporting me in integrating those challenges, not as distractions from the way life “should be”…but as trustworthy energies that lead me down in and deeper where the light is and always has existed. I’m also getting really curious about another way through that’s not the gritted teeth and dissociating fear of the solo Arian south node mission. Much more to say, but that gets at the essence of this moment…and your words feel like a space for me to return to be seen and explore this more deeply.
I’ll say, too, that I’m thinking a lot about how the Oneness that’s underlying creates a kind of prismatic holograph of the karmic/embodied experience…I’m hoping to have more conversations about that as the year unfolds.
Thank you from my Heart!❤✨
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Judy, thank you. Your prayer feels powerful!❤🙏🏻
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Kelli, I read your post last week, thinking I’ll just read this real quick before my first patient of the day and was SO moved I had to seriously shut down the waterworks and pull it together! I immediately got this beautiful animated image of watching a wolf and butterfly meander through the woods and adventure together, and find really different beautiful and special things to share with each other, like the wolf finding some interesting mushrooms, the butterfly leading them to a flower meadow, the other creatures they might inspire to join them… Thank you for the gorgeous imagery, yes to more conversations, excited to see about your emergence from the cocoon and I’m so happy to be part of your kaleidoscope!
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Benjamin, appreciate your thoughts and reflections…the “lone wolf” piece is definitely a major chunk of my prima materia. And “finding feet on the ground” for new ideas and ahas…expressing those in a dedicated and sustained way, feels very interwoven with my prima materia of hypervigilance around my heart that forces me to withdraw my light. The network has been a supportive place in taking small steps toward more authentic expression of what’s inside. And that feels like one way to reconnect with the pack.
Thank you for the Walnut flower essence suggestion. I’m aware of this time as a long, slow and spontaneously arising grief mixed with deep appreciation and gratitude for my current home. It’s the house I “grew up in”, where I really learned to take care of myself and become an adult (and went through major Pluto transits!). I’m also finding myself ready to transition and surrender to the change of lifestyle and surroundings that my move will bring. I’m starting to can’t help but think that it’s not a good thing for me! I’m moving from West Saugerties (outside Woodstock) to Kingston, which is close to where I am now, but a very different environment. I’ve also been telling my cat Maji about the move, and asking her what she thinks, and I think she’s pretty excited, which is very encouraging : )🖤🐈
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Kelli, I love what you said about noticing community being in small places. That is a big YES for me…like starting there rather than with an abstract concept. Thank you for that!
Benjamin, I love knowing this about you! Both your astrology placements and that early experience with community. I can only imagine the hijinks, tediousness, successes and failures of a venture like that! And regarding your reflections on the network, it is so clear to me too that it has a life force of its own…it just grows and grows, and in a way that feels very aligned. Bravo for bringing that vision into being.
What’s surfacing for me around this topic right now is the unsustainability of my lone wolf tendencies that started very early on as a response within a fragile and dysfunctional family structure, and that has manifested within some extreme lifestyle swings. I lived in NYC for 20 years with a hyperactive and adrenalized social life and vast friend group, then moved upstate to the woods where for the past 10 years I have really focused inwards, on my personal healing and practice and a few, close relationships. I’ve been able to stay separate and feeling on my own in both of those ways.
I think the network is helping me adjust my nervous system to being in deeper community with others. It definitely helped me take the leap into this mentorship. And I would love for it to, and suspect it will, help me to be more in and create IRL community moving forward. I will be moving from my little cottage in the woods to a more urban area this spring (because, covid)…so it seems like in a few ways my Tao is giving me a nudge in that direction.
One more thing: one of my greatest amazements right now, is that after a zoom with everyone at ANP my brain seems to proliferate new ideas and aha’s that I never would have imagined imagining on my own — it’s like I get tapped into a hive mind or higher consciousness and new thoughts take shape and grow freely. It is really, really, really cool🌱
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Benjamin, yes! We must have posted around the same time as each other…you know I am not shy about sharing my astro data🤩
I appreciate your bearing witness, and would also love if you have thoughts or feelings you’d like to share at any point about your own experiences. The community at A New Possibility has in many ways been an initiation for me of what a healing community looks and feels like……to be continued…💗
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Liz, I know it is a question for so many of us especially once the idealism of learning this medicine is tempered by the economic realities of practicing it! I also loved Lorie’s and Kelli’s thoughts and have been thinking about what my relationship to community really IS…and how the cracks and gaps in that question for me are an important thread of this exploration. I appreciate your reflections on pronouns, too! That’s definitely an edge for me, but I am really interested in my own gender expression as not fitting into the binary, and I know pronouns are essential for inclusivity with trans and non-binary people so I want to honor that. Looking forward to this year together : )
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Lauren, great to meet you as well! I know we’ll have lots of support this year in coming forward with exactly how we’d like to be practicing, and am looking forward to connecting more on that as the year unfolds. I am also very interested in your use of tarot in sessions! Tarot has been such an amazing tool for me personally, but I’ve never brought it into the treatment room. I would love to hear more about that from you at some point. And I so appreciate your reflection on how the issues arising for people you’re working with now don’t necessarily have language in Chinese medicine…I love where you’re going with the archetypes as a possible way towards that. I’m kind of thinking that like the element of Air, Love is just so deeply a part of Source, it’s like there was no need to be explicit about it. I really belief that our role as healers now is to bridge that gap…staying tuned : )
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Benjamin, I am grateful for that, too! I can actually sense some answers to that question percolating already, which feels like the potency of the group already in action. Here’s my most recent picture of Maji…