November 15, Great Shuttle, BL 11

Great Shuttle, III - 11, (dà zhù)

     When a tapestry is woven a shuttle is used to weave the patterns of design. It is the shuttle that guides and creates the details that will weave the overall picture of the tapestry. Here our way in life can be woven in harmony with the cycles and patterns of life. This point is both the vision and organization of the inner Bladder line that contains points that have a direct contact with each of the Officials and their vital organs. Here is the first opening along that line of points of a delicate network of Qi that is both able to rejuvenate and revitalize each Official. This is the movement and force of a shuttle that is able to weave dynamic patterns that enrich the working cycles and patterns of the Officials so their efforts work in harmony.

Explanation of Point Name: In ancient China the spinal vertebrae were referred to as zhu gu, shuttle bones because the vertebra resemble a shuttle weaving in and out of the pattern formed by the posterior of the rib cage. The first vertebra, being the most prominent, is labeled with the epithet “great” (see Great Hammer – GV-14). This point is located just lateral to that bone; hence the appellation.


     There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as the expectation of something tomorrow.
- Orison S. Marden