SJ-5 Waiguan - Outer Frontier Gate

The Outer Frontier Gate shows how much harmony matters between our inner and outer environments. It opens the gate that lies between them and balances the two, letting energy in from outside and letting energy out into the world. Think of the Three Heater as a social ambassador, going out and reaching toward the world, broadening our point of view and harmonizing how we see the world. Outer is about us and the outside: the ability to communicate with the outside and let the outside in. It lets love in; sometimes it gets stuck and the person cannot receive the love all around them. It lets the Emperor's love be shared, balancing the two worlds, and relieves constraint in Wood through opening and sharing, so warmth can flow out to the world outside. It supports having a purpose bigger than oneself and sharing without selfishness. The face we show the world should be fitting and truthful, reflecting the God within, rather than a role out of tune with who we really are, our true nature that follows where the Heart leads. If we want love, we have to give it: we reap what we sow.

Lets us fully experience the sacred, essential unity of every part of ourselves, and inspires us to reach out with love, joy and enthusiasm to the world around us.

• The Inner Frontier Gate is about being able to take things into oneself; the Outer Frontier Gate is about whether one can extend outward into society and see harmony on a broader scale. With the outer gate open, a person can be responsible for others as well as themselves. What goes in must also be allowed out.

Location: On the back of the forearm, 2 ACI above the wrist crease, between radius and ulna.
Needle depth: 5 fen
Moxa: 3-7 cones

• When someone has mentally shut the gate and has no wish to see, hear or know
• When joining in and being part of what is going on takes too much effort
• When a person has problems with relationships
• When warmth is badly lacking, mentally, emotionally or in the body
• When things on the outside, other people or life circumstances, are bothering the person; not deeply personal, but troubling
• When the face a person presents to the world is not who they really are or how they are feeling, and the inner and outer lives do not share a reality
• When someone feels others have led them astray into a life that does not feel right
• When there is vulnerability and fluctuating moods
• For violent fear and a sense of being mentally torn apart, tending toward suicide
• When the person can't give of themselves
• When the gate is stuck open and the person shares their warmth and confides in anyone at all
• For someone looking for excitement rather than intimacy, or who jumps into relationships
• When a person has to take on responsibilities larger than themselves and needs clarity about their intentions

• PC-6 Inner Frontier Gate with SJ-5: often done together, the junction between the inner and outer gates, for communication with the outside world

• Junction (Luo) point with the Heart Protector
• This point protects the person and allows them to be stronger
• A poetic treatment: be careful not to overuse it
• A source of power and mental strength
• Traditionally a first aid point for fever
• The consequences of dishonesty are painful
• The Junction points on the Yang meridians can drain the outside pathogen that harms their Element; this point is a gate that can vent inner pressure for the whole range of the Fire Officials