A point of departure

While I was PetMassaging Maxwell, a golden, my hands paused over at the transition between the last thoracic vertebrae and the first Lumbar vertebrae. There is a point, an acupressure point, that is significant here. It has a strong connection to the GV20: called, Bai Hui that expresses in humans on the crown of the head. We are entering the “Meeting in Grand Unity.”

Debra Kaatz, author of Characters of Wisdom: Taoist Tales of the Acupuncture Points writes, “Everything is a part of the whole and this is the meeting place of that unity. It is the point of balance between the posterior and anterior, the yin and the yang, and the light and the dark. It is where everything can be directed from a place of wholeness and the one. Here is where all the rivers and seas can be directed and guided from the original source of all life. The grand unity for the Chinese was the number one hundred called Bai and drawn as the number one over the sun. Hui is a meeting of words brought together and is drawn as words under a roof. It means to meet, assemble, collect, co-operate, to understand and to be in the habit of. This point is also one of the points of the sea of bone marrow giving an inner strength of vitality to the system.”

Max developed a severe anxiety when his housemate of 13 years passed. His grief presented as excessive panting and perpetual restlessness. As my hands lingered over this point, I felt the sensation of a cloud dispersing in the back of my brain. Max looked at me, looked away, yawned, and rested his chin on his wrist. I replaced him on the floor and observed. For the first time in several weeks (his owner stated) he was resting and breathing with his mouth closed. When he heard someone at the door, he rose and, with tail wagging slowly, strode over to it to investigate.

One hundred pathways indeed!