Qi Transitions of Autumn 2025
Alchemical White Tiger
Tao te Ching #77
Heaven’s Way is like stretching a bow.
The high is lowered and the low is raised.
Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished.
Heaven’s Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency.
People’s Way is not so.
They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.
Who has excess and supplies the world?
Only the one who follows the Way.
Therefore, the sage acts without taking credit.
They accomplish without dwelling on it.
They do not want to display their worth.
White Tiger Qigong in the Mountains
Connecting with the Metal Element of the mountains and the internal organs of Lungs and Large Intestine
Autumn welcomes release and surrender as we begin harvesting our Qi, packing it in the deep Lower Dan Tian Alchemy cauldron. The Metal Element teaches us to trust that as we release, we will sprout and grow again. Leaves are falling in order to re-mineralize the earth, as we too need our essential minerals, that are absorded in the often maligned Large Intestine, the Yang side of Metal Element. While it is working to let go of the impure, it is simultaneously absorbing the purest of pure minerals.
The Lungs are the Yin aspect of the Metal Element, also releasing the carbon dioxide as inhaling the pure of air to oxygenate our systems.
Daikon radish and juicy pears are good foods to help the lungs and large intestine with healthy moisture. Neither like to be dry. Start keeping a light scarf on hand to wrap around neck and shoulders for the chill of morning and evening. Gratitude for the harvest and the descent of autumn’s gifts.
The Autumn is associated with the strength and power of the White Tiger. The element of Metal gifts us with our sense of inspiration, especially through times of grief, despair or melancholy.
Release of autumn’s leaves to enrich the earth
Release in autumn to replenish in Winter and to Receive in Spring
THE GIFTS OF THE AUTUMN
Release, Enrich, Inspire
Allowing spaciousness for processing endings, for new beginnings to arise
CONSIDERATIONS FOR the SEASON OF AUTUMN
Take time to walk in the richness of autumn’s glory of colours
Begin to change your diet to warming soups and chowders
Create rituals of gratitude and reverence for the gifts in your life
Finding Breath of Tranquilty
Stillness, surrender, connecting with the exhale to fully release in order to be fully inspired is the magic of the Metal element within and around us.
In compassionate Qi
Cal