Ribu (日晡) and Qiyue (七月)
August 25, 2006: After Dusk
日晡 is the hour of the day for the Bladder: 3-5pm. 日 is the radical for the sun, while fu, 甫, has the modern usage of a last name. The Shuowen talks about this latter character being made of yong, 用, “to use” and, 父, which is a picture of a hand holding a stick, and implies some kind of force. Taking this together, we can see the sun being forced down in the sky. There is the separation that comes from the underlying force in the universe: gravity. It is the space/separation of the Bladder-like energies that allow this to occur.
七月 goes with the month of August. This is the time of year that the sun has passed it’s zenith and the decay of Autumn has begun setting in. At this time, the light forces must start to return to the inside of the body, in order that they may smolder gently through the winter. These light forces will be cultivated throughout the cold season, so that they can reemerge in a healthy way once the springtime comes again.
Autumn is a season of killing and harvesting. The Earthly Branch, Shen, that goes with the Bladder is a Yang Metal stem, and so this time of fall and reaping can be thought of to go with the Taiyang aspects of the Bladder as well as it’s ability to let go.
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