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Welcome to the wisdom and magic of water. Fall is the season on the ancient Celtic wheel of the year associated with water which makes sense with Scorpio season starting on October 22nd and moving through until November 21st. So I figured this would be a great time to share some of my discoveries during my studies with water. A few years ago during my shamanic mentorship studies, my teacher and mentor asked me to spend the entire month studying water. By simply spending time with different bodies of water and allowing them to speak to me and what I learned from being with water and it profoundly changed my life, my world view and forever changed how I see and interact with water.
I never realized that I would become so fascinated with water as medicine and now, I find myself talking to water everyday, every time I interact with it—it has become my normal routine and second nature for me. Its so normal in my household that I even catch my partner talking to water everyday as well. Where we live is a very water-rich landscape, living by the coast with the Gulf of Mexico and being surrounded by numerous lakes, rivers and fresh water springs. Central Florida is famous for its stunning fresh water springs and, water is an important nature spirit that influences and literally shapes the land I now call home. When I think about home, it’s no surprise I ended up here in Central Florida because when I look back through my ancestry we have always lived in water-rich landscapes.
Left: Florida wellspring
Center: Celtic Wheel of the Year
Right: Florida Gulf Coast
My father was a Navy soldier and spent his entire career out at sea, living on the water and going weeks without ever seeing land, just like his father before him. In fact, my entire father’s lineage comes from a massive sea faring archipelago, known today as the United Kingdom, famous for charting and dominating the seas around the world. In my mother’s lineage we also come from water-rich landscapes originating from the Puerto Rican Archipelago in the Caribbean and the Korean peninsula which is not only surrounded by water and contains over 4,400 islands but its also famous for their fishing and seafood.
Scotland
Korea
Many tribal and indigenous communities consider water as the first medicine and after my studies of water I couldn’t agree more which is why I deepen my appreciation for water as medicine each and every day. And if there is magic to be found anywhere in our world it is most certainly found in water. Water is the foundation of life, without water life as we know it wouldn’t exist. Water, itself, is a form of creation, water is needed to bring something to life, it is life force energy manifested, it contains life, it nurtures life and, we are all birthed from the waters of our mother since the beginning of time—and, what is more magical than that?
Let’s think bout how abundant this magical substance is. Our planet is over 70% water and our bodies are approximately 65% water. Water is also the only natural substance that can be found in all 4 states of being, liquid, vapor, solid and plasma. With this in mind, we can see that water is a shape-shifter and, just like us humans, water has the ability move, grow and change depending on its environment. One thing that unifies water in each of its different states of matter is that it is always moving and changing, whether it’s raining, snowing, floating across the sky, flowing down stream, melting, vaporizing, freezing, gracefully dancing in the tides or glaciers reshaping entire landscapes water is always in a constant state of transformation and movement.
Water is a building block of how we function and how all the beings on this planet function as well. For example, plants use water to create photosynthesis with their cells which, in turn, creates chlorophyll, juices and syrups. As humans, we use water in so many different ways: cleansing, cooling, detoxifying, rehydrating, lubricating, rejuvenating and even refreshing our mindset. As you can see water has a profound influence not only over our physiology but also our mind, emotions and our auric fields. Our bodies also use water and turns it into highly conductive and charged liquid plasma—the sacred waters of our ancestral lineages that run through our veins, our bones and every part of our body, we know this sacred water as DNA which also happens to be our built-in unique access code to connecting with different fields of consciousness and, communicating and collaborating with the divine. The waters of our body is also where we embody the frequency of our being and where all of the emotional memories are stored which is why when we experience certain emotions our bodies shed tears of sadness, grief and joy.
Water is also the universal solvent—water dissolves more substances than anything else. It is so incredibly responsive. We see this every time we make tea. Water has this ability as a universal solvent to take up the medicinal qualities of the herbs but water is also responsive to things as well, like the moon. We see this with the tides, the change in the emotional waters within ourselves during full moons and even in women’s menstrual cycles. We also know that water responds to the Earth’s magnetic fields and solar flares. It even changes frequency, charge, shape and, cymatic structure according to its surroundings. Therefore, water is so much more sensitive than we ever thought before and, just like all sentient beings, water has been proven to have a conscious memory and retain images and emotion.
On a scientific and academic level I loved learning about the studies of Dr. Masaru Emoto and watch his work reach a worldwide audience. So if you haven’t heard of him, Dr. Masaru Emoto is a Japanese scientist and researcher who studied the way water interacts with thought, intention and music. What he did that was really interesting was he took pictures of water as it crystalized, and he found that the same water would crystalize in totally different formations depending on which thoughts, intentions, or music it was exposed to. He showed how water would artistically “recreate" images as it was crystalizing over a photo showing that water also embodied artistic creativity and expression. It’s a really beautiful set of experiments that he did which, really inspired me to see water more as a living conscious and sentient being rather than a substance.
Discovering that water has the ability to respond to our moods, our thoughts, and the subtle energy meridians and ley lines that weave throughout space and time of our lives makes water not only magic but also quite mysterious and humans have known this for centuries. Water, of course, is foundational to the belief systems of every civilization on Earth because water is very literally, life. Even today if you visit sacred sites around the world, you’ll find many of these sites were built to enshrine a spring, waterway or body of water. Natural springs and bodies of water are the original sacred sites. They are the first sacred sites that humans truly observed and honored which makes sense since water is a bastion of life, the birthplace of life and the magical ingredient to all life. Where I live I’m surrounded by so many gorgeous fresh water springs and, wellsprings are places where we know, no matter what is happening in the world, we can still be nourished and fed by Mother Nature.
For a few years during my shamanic and Family Constellations trainings I found myself spending time in the sacred Cherokee lands of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Naturally being a passionate student of life I was intrigued by the Cherokee cosmology and I began studying the Cherokee wisdom traditions. And one of the things I learned is that the first medicine in the Cherokee healing arts is water. Even today, in Cherokee culture, the first medicine is always “take it to the water.” Whatever you’re experiencing, whether it’s heartache, headache or an illness, the first place they go to is the water. Water is a vital part of our everyday life and reconnecting to the sacredness of water is a soul retrieval calling us back to our True Divine Essence, our divine capacities, and the divine healing magic and medicine of water.
Angkor Wat
Blue Ridge Mountains
So now whenever I find myself stuck, struggling or uninspired, I first go to the water and let Mother Nature’s first medicine heal me, restore my flow and reinvigorate my creativity. For me its like bathing in God’s pool of life-force energy—the source of all creation. The more pure and natural the water the more potent it’s medicine. In my divine communion and baptisms with the water I found myself super sensitive especially to its temperature, much more so than the temperature of the air or earth beneath my feet. That is because when we immerse ourself into water there is a physical, emotional and mental and energetic merging that instantly recalibrates our nervous system throughout our entire body and being. Therefore we would naturally be quite sensitive and receptive to our immersion into a body of water.
In my personal experience, I have found hot water to be very energizing and I can’t stay in it for too long unless I’m under the weather and really need that energetic cleansing energy—think of steamy, piping hot showers. Warm water, on the other hand, is relaxing and soothing. I could bathe in warm water all day long because it is so comforting it calls us back to the warm waters of our mother’s womb. I also love temped water because it is refreshing, restorative and invigorating. Cool water is highly therapeutic and healing—think of the temperature of ocean water, natural springs, streams and rivers they tend to be cooler in temperature. And, cold water is fortifying and strengthening—think of ice baths and polar bear plunges.
Icelandic Hot Water Spring
Ice Swimming
Some magical practices that you can do to work with water is Water Whispering, imagine sitting by the ocean or a babbling brook and bathing in the sound of moving water, you will quickly discover that there are many voices to water and we can receive messages just by sitting with the water. So in water whispering, I go and sit by the fountains in or pond outside my house or even out in nature where I can hear the water in motion and I simply voice my concerns and my questions out to the water and then I listen in presence and stillness allowing myself to be open and receptive. Now, in my experience, I don’t physically hear words from the water hitting my eardrums—it more like an inner state of communication. My feelings change, I receive and download new insights and perspectives, sometimes I even receive images that play out like a daydream. I’m always amazed by what I receive, innerstand and feel just by sitting with the water and listening to its magical melody of its divine wisdom.
Now if you don’t have any running water where you live or you don’t live near any large bodies of water, you can try this exercise in the shower, bathtub or even with a bowl of water. Gazing into a bowl of water is an ancient technology and art form used to connect with the divine called scrying. In order to be proficient in this ancient art form, you will first need to get into a meditative state and stare onto the surface of the water, and just notice if you can receive any kind of message or input from the water as you let yourself sink into this relaxed state of being and altered state of consciousness. I always like to add a little bit of salt and liquid chlorophyl to my scrying water but in ancient times it was customary to offer some of your blood into the water.
Left: Babbling Brook
Center: Sacred Water Scrying Alter
Right: Ocean Wave Whispering
The next water magic ritual is water elixirs. So we’ve already explored how water can be a medium for taking on the healing and energetic properties of plants, words, thoughts, ideas, music, pictures and intentions. So the easiest kind of water elixir you can make is to write an intention and tape it onto a container of water and let it sit outside in the sun to be structured by the divine solar light codes and then overnight to be charged by the moon, especially a full moon, so that the water can also receive the therapeutic lunar energies in all of her fullness. This is also a beautiful way to get clear on what kind of magic you want to manifest in your life. Ask the water and the cosmic forces that shape our reality to support your intention and then of course you can drink this water elixir.
My favorite water elixir that I do each and everyday is charging my purified water in a copper vessel and adding freshly squeezed organic lemons and trace minerals and I voice my intention into the water.
“Dear divine scared water, thank you for your divine healing magic and medicine and blessing my body with your divine magic and medicine of inner peace, unconditional love, joy, vitality, rejuvenation, rehydration and purification, thank you dear divine sacred water.”
I also do this with my animal’s drinking water and my shower water each and every morning. This truly helps me anchor and embody the divine magic that is all around us that I never fully recognized, noticed or harnessed before. Water is a form of divine natural intelligence that interacts with the world around it to create, carry, connect, charge, cleanse, feed and flow. It is has an emotional intelligence all of its own and we also have the capacity, as divine creators, to calibrate with the magic of water and increase its potency by using our written and spoken intention and blessings.
We can even get even more creative with our water elixirs by adding crystals and making a stone elixir. Now not all crystals should be allowed in your drinking water however, working with any stone in the quartz family is a safe way to make a stone elixir. I personally enjoy using clear quartz, shungite, jade and copper. Clear quartz is great because it is a highly programable master stone— this is why we use clear quartz in all of our modern-day technology. Shungite is excellent for detoxifying and purifying the water, our bodies and our energetic fields. Jade is what I have in my animals’ drinking bowls and it promotes good health, vitality and good fortune and, of course my favorite, copper gives water a healing electric charge that rejuvenates all the cells in our body. I also add in salt crystals which helps to crystalize the structure of the water which also aids in the coherent crystallization of our bodies by adding a more crystalline-structured energetic charge within the frequency of the water. Even batteries are made with water and salt electrolytes because it creates a an energetic charge and our bodies are a bio-electric being therefore, adding a pinch of salt in to my water elixir has become my routine.
Water elixirs aren’t just for drinking, you can also use water elixirs to bless and sanctify something, someone, or some place and this is a practice I often weave into all my healing retreats, circles and workshops. Most people are familiar with the practice of flower essences. There was a British physician in the late 1800’s name Dr. Edward Bach, who was the first physician of his time who started experimenting with floating flowers in water and then using that water elixir to treat all kinds of ailments—both physical and emotional. This is why I grow, harvest, collect and create my own healing herbal bath essences and salt rituals. The truth is that you can make an essence from anything with water. If water responds to our thoughts, our intentions and our emotions than you could set a jar of water out in the middle of a gathering to capture the energy of that gathering. You could set a bowl of water out underneath the full moon and capture that energy. There is even an ancient shamanic technology that uses for water is for energetic space clearing and protection that I use in my home.
The key to success is, the clearer you express your intention with the water the stronger the medicine will be. As we’ve seen, water responds to thoughts, so if you’re clear with your intent of what you’re asking this elixir to become, then the medicine will turn out that much more potent.
I think it is important to remember that we are 65% water and if water is so programable and sensitive, than aren’t the waters of our body also responding and reacting to our thoughts, emotions and surrounds especially to what we think, say and feel about ourselves… Even in light-hearted and joking ways like, “I’m so dumb.” The waters of our body are responding to this frequency you are emitting even if it was a joke. So I love thinking about water magic because it also teaches me how to program and recalibrate myself and the water within my body to resonate with frequencies of peace, love, joy and gratitude which is why I bless my water everyday before drinking it and bathing in it.
Another magic water ritual is anointing, water anointing is a very ancient and sacred practice. It is something I like to do whenever I’m communing with a body of water. I like to get my feet and hands into the water and anoint my face and arms. When doing water anointing, make sure you get the most energetically special water you can find— so whether that is full moon water, an elixir you’ve created, or water from a sacred wellspring in the world or even wild water out in nature, which may not be the cleanest water but if you bless the water you can then use it to anoint yourself. If you ever have the opportunity to visit a sacred wellspring of water somewhere in the world you can collect a bottle of this water and take it home with you and use that for anointing as well. We see this practice in churches with holy water. Keep in mind all water is holy and we can always use it to bless ourselves and others. Some of the most powerful anointing water ever available is the cosmic dew that forms each morning especially that of the summer solstice. In fact, in many magical traditions it is customary to roll around naked in the cosmic dew of the summer solstice because it profoundly magical properties.
One of the things that makes water so magical for us is that we each have such a deep relationship with it. Water is a teacher that advances and expands our consciousness. And, shifting our collective focus to having access to the purest water would change the entire world and how we choose to participate in it. Water is the one tangible element that every living sentient being needs. Water connects all living beings in one common space because we all need it. I like to think of the watering hole at night in the Sahara dessert where predators and prey unite and all enjoy the water’s blessings together.
Connecting with and harnessing the magic of water reminds me to treat water differently. I’m more conscious of water and the water I put into and onto my body. This also moves me to be more conscious of not only what I drink but also what I eat, what I surround myself with, the music I listen too and, what I put onto my body. In these ways water is expanding and deepening my self awareness, compassion and gratitude for the magic of the divine that is all around me and within me. Therefore, it’s so important for all of us to have access to clean water and not just the illusion of clean water. For example, there is a huge difference between wild fresh spring water or well water versus chemically treated public tap water or, water stored in plastic versus water stored in glass or copper, chlorinated water versus salt water, elixir water that has been blessed and water that hasn’t, as well as, water that is in motion and water that remains still. All water is sacred but not all water has the same frequency. Salt water is one of the highest frequency waters naturally available in our world because it has a higher crystallinity—like plasma. It is highly medicinal and it maintains a high level of purification that is rich with life. Which is why swimming in the ocean can be so healing and therapeutic.
Water is infinite and can magically transform and seemingly manifest spontaneously appear out of ‘thin air.” And, after my studies with the water I began to perceive the universe radically differently than how I was educated in school. I perceive of the universe as one vast ocean filled with water in varying degrees of density and in a variety of different states of matter, with of course, pockets of earth covered with dome like bubbles that are filed with air where other worlds are formed—big and small that are filled with abundant lifeforms. For me, the universe is like an endless sea—fountain of creation— a cosmic dance of water and light giving birth to prima materia. I also consider water to be a form of liquid light because it too appears clear but also contains all the colors just like light. Water can also travel anywhere through out all of space and time. Because water is eternal and is known to have memory therefore, it allows us to reach into the past and, because of its eternal nature, it can also reach far into the future. Water is like energy, it can’t be created or destroyed only transformed and it can even traverse through different dimensions of space and time.
Left: Biblical Cosmology
Center: Potential Ocean Universe
Right: Ancient Cosmologies
If your looking to strengthen your relationship with water, start letting water speak to you, go out and dance in the rain and start speaking to your water and bless the water every time you come into contact with it. One way you can do this is by cupping the water in your hands, and during the time it takes for that water to slip out of your fingers and back into its source, pray with the water. Bless the water in whatever way makes sense for you—prayers that you call on, a song or even just a heartfelt intention that this water go back into its source bringing with it your blessings, your love and your prayer for all the waters on our Earth to be blessed. This prayer will be received as soon as the water returns to its source and begin harmonically resonating your gift of prayer and blessing throughout its travels of space and time around the universe.
So, next time you’re out communing with water maybe you can ask it to show you how water works with humans? From water’s perspective, how does it mysteriously engage us?
Connecting with nature and the elements and, working with elemental magic, such as, the magic of water is some of my greatest passions in life. I love talking about different rituals and ways of connecting to the Earth in a way that deepens our presence and awareness of the magic and sacredness that lives inside of us and all around us. So I’d love to hear from all of you beautiful water beings, what are some ways you like to work with water? Let me know and share your experiences with me.
Here is a water invocation to get you started:
“Dear divine sacred waters here and now I evoke the elemental force of water, the fluidity of infinite shapes and forms. Flowing source of adaptability, emotion and life. I seek the pure spring within that might drink deep of change, nourishment and grace. I call you fourth to wash away all that needlessly binds and to move fluidly in this world. Ocean and river, ripple and rain, water, I call thee.”
I hope you enjoyed my discoveries from water as my teacher and I wish you many blessings on your journey with water now that you have been initiated into the magic and medicine of water.
Additional Resources:
Water Knows the Answers by Dr Masaru Emoto 1999
The True Power of Water by Dr Masaru Emoto 2003
The Hidden Messages of Water by Dr Masaru Emoto 2004
The Secret of Water by Dr Masaru Emoto 2006
Love Thyself by Dr Masaru Emoto 2006
Water Crystal Healing by Dr Masaru Emoto 2006
The Miracle of Water by Dr Masaru Emoto 2007
Messages from Water and the Universe by Dr Masaru Emoto 2010
The Shape of Love by Dr Masaru Emoto 2012
Water for Unity by Dr Masaru Emoto 2014
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The Healing Frequencies of Color: Home Design
As we meditate on the major themes for the new year, healing emerges at the top of the list and, one primary healing tool that we can often over look is our home environment. In fact, we consider our home to be the most sacred, protective, and nourishing healing sanctuary spaces that we have access to and regard it as medicine for our physiology & nervous system, our mental & emotional health as well as our spiritual & energetic vibrancy. Therefore, we lovingly maintain an exceptionally clean and organized home, which is not always easy when we share our home with four animals plus the two of us. However, instead of drifting out of space and time on our phones, as we can sometimes find ourselves doing, we carefully curate our home and intentionally make time to sit back and consciously enjoy it and, offer it deep appreciation for all the nourishing support, comfort, beauty and inspiration it provides for us and our family. This often looks like making a medicinal herbal tea or, my personal favorite, healing ceremonial cocoa (organic cacao, Ceylon cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, clove and a dash of black pepper and sometimes a splash local unfiltered honey, date sugar or maple syrup) and allowing our home to comfort us as we relax into a conscious gaze around our home with profound gratitude and love, talking to our home, visiting with the cherished memories immortalized around our home, blessing our home every single night, visiting with our ancestors at our ancestor table, lighting some candles or incense or, gifting our home with some fresh cut greenery from the garden. Our home constantly reminds us to live a more intentional, grateful and healing life and one of the most potent medicinal properties our home offers us is the healing power of color!
Color is a frequency of light reflection that bears the capacity to affect our mental, emotional and even physical state of being. One of the main colors we chose for our home is teal. Teal is a mixture of greens and blues and offers the healing properties of both colors.
GREEN is the most predominant color found all over the world and, that is because it is one of the most healing colors that balances our energies, reduces inflammation and high blood pressure, soothes the autonomic nervous system and, promotes inner-peace and revitalization of our entire energetic system. It is the color associated with the heart chakra and increases our capacity for love and compassion which are two of the highest frequency emotions we can experience. Green hues leaning towards the blue spectrum, i.e. teal, can be the most powerful healing vibrations of all the colors.
BLUE is another predominant color of our world as it is the color of our sky and oceans. Blue is known for its calming and relaxing qualities. It is used to quiet our energetic nervous system as well as strengthen and deepen our breathing. Blue can also help activate and awaken our divine intuition, creativity and inspiration. To harness all of blue's healing potential it should be balanced with warmer colors.
YELLOW/GOLD is a stimulating color that exudes joy and vibrancy which is great for reawakening your enthusiasm for life. It can also be used to increase confidence and optimism. Yellow is connected with the solar plexus chakra and is known to promote gastrointestinal health, a vibrant immune systems and detoxifying our physical and mental bodies.
ORANGE is a socially stimulating color that promotes the exchange of joy and wisdom. It is great for our emotional and muscular systems but too much orange in our environment can have an adverse affect on our nervous system so it should be balanced with shades of blues, greens or purples.
RED is a warming and energizing color that activates our physical life force energy. Red, connected to our root chakra, strengthens our energy levels including our will power, passion and, courage but too much red can be over-stimulating and aggravate our nervous system therefore red needs to be balanced with grounding colors like blacks and browns.
VIOLET/PURPLE is a high-vibrational color that is deeply healing, soothing and purifying for the physical and spiritual dimensions of our being. Violet stimulates our connection with the divine including creative inspiration, expanding our awareness and promoting dream activity. Reddish purple is beneficial for balancing the energetic polarities of our body while bluish purple can help reduce inflammation and disease.
PINK is a color for awakening compassion, love and purity. It soothes emotions of anger and neglect and promotes the ability to see beyond with greater clarity and discover overriding truths. Pink also stimulates a happy and robust immune system.
BROWN is another deeply healing and grounding color that is very effective for our emotional and mental health. Brown awakens our common sense, brings us back down to earth and, promotes healthy discernment and clear boundaries.
WHITE contains and reflects the entire light spectrum and is the color of purification and creativity. White is very stabilizing for our energetic nervous system and amplifies the affects off any color it is paired with.
BLACK also contains the entire light spectrum but in a different capacity than white. Black is an absorbing color therefore it can be great for protection, grounding, detoxifying and calming. Black should be used sparingly so that is doesn't consume or overpower the energy of your space and paradoxically, every space should contain a little touch of black. It works best in conjunction with other colors especially white which can balance the energetic polarities of our being.
As we prepare to begin a new calendar year we hope to provide you with a new perspective and a deeper insight to your surrounds and the abundance of healing opportunities at our creative fingertips!