Jude Ponton, DC, LAc, MAc. Senior Acutonics Practitioner & Teacher
Autumn marks the end of the growing season - a turning inward and falling away of outer-directed energy. Nature instructs us about our own cycles of creating and letting go. The energy of this season, more than any other, supports letting go of the waste, the old and stale in our lives. This leaves us receptive to the pure and new, granting a vision of who we truly are in our essence. Through a process of discernment, with heightened ability to eliminate what we no longer need, we gain a deeper awareness of what is most precious in our lives.
The coming of Autumn provides a special opportunity to create resonance with the archetype of the Metal element. This archetype, the Alchemist, transforms and distills baser vibrations into more refined expressions of energy. The external alchemists of old were engaged in finding a process that turned lead (#82 on the periodic table) into gold (#79 on the periodic table). Masters of inner alchemy worked on a different level of refinement. They focused on the refinement of denser forms of physical reality into the higher frequencies of spirit. From the quantum perspective, this is the process of moving from particle to wave form reality.
The metals of the Earth, such as gold, silver, nickel, and copper, among others, are things sought out for their value. Though, there is nothing inherently wrong with striving for these riches we often find, in the end, that this is ultimately unsatisfying. The Inner Alchemist engages in a process of letting go of the dross objects of value in favor of refinement to discover the pure substances of life experience. These are the gifts of intrinsic self-worth, manifestations of our spiritual Source nature.
The spirit of the Metal element, the Corporeal Soul (the Po) resides in the Lung and has a direct relationship with Essence or Jing, one of the Three Treasures. This connection creates an opening to the essence of experience through the Metal element. It provides a gateway for appreciating what is of real value. Autumn (Fall) is a time of returning to our Original Self, our higher self, our more evolved self. Each of us is a miracle of creation and we each have a unique and priceless contribution to make.
At this time of letting go of the old we can access a matrix for new creations to come. As with the organs of the Metal element, we let go of the old through the process of releasing waste through the Large Intestine, and we breathe in the pureness of the new, through the inspiration of the Lungs. The Lung energy is connected to grief, loss, and melancholy. We can support the lungs to inhale new clear energy and exhale to release the stagnation that grief creates. This opens access to our ability to transmute frequencies of grief and loss to experience love and appreciation for those we’ve lost or mourn.
Acutonics tools provide connections to these alchemical and organ correspondences that assist this process of distillation and refinement through the acupuncture system.
Mercury has an ancient correspondence with the lungs. Pluto not only has an organ correspondence with the intestines and anus but is also archetypally connected to the depths of the underworld and to the caves and mines where deeply buried treasures are found. It also holds the energy of transformation and transmutation through the natural cycles of decay and rebirth.
Both Mercury and Pluto are frequencies in close proximity to our home tone of Earth. They each can be used as the tonic with other forks to create familiar intervals and actions.
LU 1 (Central Treasury) - Mercury/New Moon 5th interval can be applied here to go deep and gain access to the riches of our true nature.
LU 3 (Heavenly Residence/Celestial Storehouse) is a Window of the Sky Point. Mercury/New Moon 5th opens us to release grief and longing. Mercury/Hygiea allows us to transcend the many dimensions of grief.
LU 7 (Broken Sequence) - Mercury/Full Moon 6th can illuminate and bring to fullness what is useful, follow with Mercury/Pluto microtone to release what no longer serves us.
LU 9 (Great Abyss) is the Source Point of the Lung meridian. Mercury/Earth Day 5th can be used here to support the energy that provides deep access to the energy of the Lung. Mercury/Nibiru 3rd allows an access point to connect with the expression of Source and a new matrix through the spirit of the Lung.
LI 4 (Union Valley) is the Source Point of the Large Intestine meridian. Pluto/New Moon 5th applied here provides deep opening and purging of what is no longer useful.
LI 18 (Support the Prominence) is a Window of the Sky Point: Pluto/New Moon 5th can be used here to access new possibilities for transformation into our divine nature.
There is a great opportunity to study Harmonic Alchemy with Jude. She is offering this powerful elective, November 4th-5th, 2023, live on Zoom. The class explores alchemy as a process to raise vibration using sound instruments to achieve coherence with the unified field.
Jude Ponton, DC, LAc, MAc is in clinical practice in the Seattle area offering in person and remote sessions. She teaches the full Acutonics curriculum, several electives, and one-on-one tutorials in person and on Zoom. She can be reached at 206-706-2836, resonate@whispering-dragon.com, http://www.whispering-dragon.com.