The Labyrinth of Destiny: Kidney 7

ByThea Elijah

I have a CEU on sale right now called Kidney 7-8: To Thine Own Self Be True. I thought I’d give you a small taste of it. The CEU is an audio and a written transcript, but I had a fabulous time making this video about it. The subject matter is quite serious, but the video also made me laugh out loud several times.

“For every dream that is lost there is a secret dream that takes its place — secret even to oneself. The task, when you lose a great dream of your life, is to begin the discovery of the secret dream. Trust what whispers to you. Your life is a labyrinth, in places it runs underground and in places it is open to the sky and seems to have no walls, and in places it seems nothing but the streets and malls of your many and conflicting obligations (which always began as invitations, which you accepted, whether you admit your acceptance or not); parts of your labyrinth you have built yourself and parts of it seem set there for you in advance as a test (and that test is a form of welcoming); and in every single act of this life you participate in the ongoing Creation of the universe (yes, you are creating a bit of the universe — some small part has been entrusted to you alone). Why does it frighten you so, the possibility that there’s a reason that you are here? Is it because the condition of that reason is that you will never know it? If you’re looking for something to remember, remember this: Your life gains strength most from your openness to what you will never know. And when your secret dream (secret to you) suddenly manifests in moments of the day — then something is whispered to you. It is not whispered in words, which makes it harder to hear; yet upon the hearing of these whispers the fragile word “happiness” depends.”

Michael Ventura

By the time we get to KI 7 FU LIU Returning Current, we’ve come quite a journey already. Here I am at KI 1, feeling the bubbling of life. Here I am in KI 2 committing to it with heart, and at the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you, because you’re the other half of a debt to be paid. Not for you, the crime of hiding from heaven; in fact for you there are matching funds. This gathers in KI 3, this power that I hold and can deploy; next in KI 4 comes the beginning of wisdom as I look at “How do I expend my reserves and use my power?” which leads in KI 5 to a deeper mastering of the forces; and from that place of self-mastery comes being able to take a step back into the depths of KI 6 and reflect: “I might be a bit like Curious George.” As I sit with myself in the dark, I come to sense the self, and from here once again there is a wave that rises up to Kidney 7. 

Usually in order to locate KI 7 FU LIU Returning Current, I double-check for KI 8 JIAO XIN Exchange Pledges right next door. KI 7 is the one that’s kind of out on the range, and then KI 8 is right there when you move in towards the bone. I always want to check that they’re both there, to let me know I’m in the right place. I tend to think of them as obviously quite related to one another. 

KI 7 FU LIU Returning Current is the Metal point on the Kidney meridian. As Elizabeth Rochat de la Vallee says about this point, “Metal stops what might be scattering, brings it in, and diffuses it down. What is strong is able to resume its ascending movement assured.” 

Because of this, KI 7 FU LIU Returning Current is also the first point done for the Worsley protocol called the Husband/Wife Imbalance. There are many ways of speaking about Husband/Wife Imbalance. One way of speaking of it is to say that a person is split at the root. Their two kidneys are not communicating. The left kidney (the yin kidney) contains the fundamental essence nature, and the right kidney (the yang kidney) contains the will to live. When my two kidneys are not communicating, my will to live is not in accordance with who I am—and so I am trying, with my will, to be something other than myself. My innate constitution is what I actually am inside of me that I cannot consciously will, that I simply must accept. I cannot will who I am; I must be willing to be who I am. That is the task of the left kidney, or kidney yin. 

All my passionate desire in life, all of my yang will, in order to be healthy, must be based ultimately on willingness. All we can do is say yes to the cards we’ve been dealt (yin), and play them to the fullest (yang). 

When we are trying to be something other than what we are, then the harder we try, the sicker we get. Everything we desire that is not of our proper nature, anything that we desire that is not the desire to say “yes life” on the terms that are written in us is going to take us off course. It is going to take us in a direction where we are fighting ourselves, we are depleting ourselves, and finally there’s a breaking apart that can happen. 

A lot of the trouble rests upon a misunderstanding of what our destiny actually is. There’s a real importance here in understanding what the Chinese meant by destiny, which Elizabeth Rochat de la Vallee explains very carefully is not what most Americans mean by destiny. Most Americans mean by destiny a specific outcome that looks a certain way – to be a doctor, to be the wife of so and so, to be a dog trainer, to be in Africa doing something or other, and then if that doesn’t happen, people feel that they have not fulfilled their destiny. They think that destiny is a particular storyline, an external result. 

Is destiny what I want to have happen? Oftentimes we think something is our destiny, but it is not our destiny. It’s our fantasy. It’s our desire. And where did that desire or come from? Well, it could from many places. It could come from external places or it could come from a lack of clarity in understanding our own nature. We might have gotten close, but not close enough. Example: not making it into medical school could be the great tragedy of someone’s life until they stop and figure out ‘why did I want to go to medical school?’ only to discover that they really want to be a healer.

Elizabeth Rochat de la Vallee makes very clear that your destiny is not about an external result. Your destiny is to be true to your nature under all life circumstances. That is Ming. That is Destiny. 

Elizabeth Rochat de la Vallee says, for instance, that an oak tree’s destiny is to be an oak tree under all circumstances and respond as that oak tree would respond. That will come out looking different than the beech tree next to it, responding to the same circumstances. If you are an oak, be an oak in all circumstances; let the beech be a beech under the same circumstances. 

It also means that the oak tree is fulfilling its destiny whether or not it is hit by lightning, whether or not there is draught, whether or not there is pestilence. What the oak tree’s destiny looks like on the outside, depending on whether there was drought or not drought, lightning or not lightning, looks different, but if the oak tree is responding to lightning as that oak tree would respond to lightning, it is fulfilling its destiny. If that oak tree responds to drought as that oak tree would respond to drought, it is fulfilling its destiny, and it does not matter if there was a drought or not. What matters, whether or not there was a drought, is that the oak tree did not try to be a beech tree. 

Just so, your destiny will come out looking different, says Elizabeth Rochat de la Vallee, if you are born into a rich family, or if you are born into a poor family. Your destiny will come out looking different if your country is at war or in time of peace. Your destiny will come out looking different depending on who got elected president. 

It’s going to come out looking different. It’s the same destiny. 

Your destiny is to respond to every circumstance presented to you as you would respond. That is Ming. That is fulfillment of Destiny. That’s it.