Fire is Finished...Onward to Water

[Labrys]

Water is more of a reach for me.  Specially since it began in the symbolic 'bawl all night' way.  I was suffering considerable resentment at the sensation of being so thoroughly immersed in water within!

So, to externalize and balance it, I built a fountain to focus more on elemental forms of water.  I used found objects from around the house---a big bowl, a basket of shells, fossils and crystals.  All I bought was a tiny pump.  It sounds nice and will make me think of free water in nature, instead of tear ducts and insomniacal drama!



And these are my finished "fire" project...the wooden shoes I wood-burnt and colored fire red:

[Brijrian]

Wow, you are the mistress of making creative, beautiful, meaningful art. Someday perhaps I will be half as skilled! You are very inspiring.

Have fun with water. When I was doing a week meditation on water, I enjoyed sitting in my open window (sills are 10" deep) watching the rain come down and cool and puddle and nourish and make music and fancy designs.

I hope that you enjoy it!

[Labrys]

I am actually fairly hating the water meditations.  Emotions are not my favorite thing.  Apparently Water thinks I need to deal with this.  I am still fighting...and yes, I am utterly certain that my astral self strongly resembles a drowned rat right about now.

My husband, who is likewise unhappy with emotions, looooves the fountain.  I think he considers its inane burbling to be doing the job for him.  I am having reaction enough that I have been known to take the largest heaviest shell and SMOTHER the sound while working on the accompanying custom tarot work.  (Trumps and cups cards only)

Urk.  Water.  Is it July yet?

[Hornedgod777]

nice.

[MyValenwind]

Oh wow, those are so amazing! Great job. 

[Labrys]

My elemental attunement year continues.  I began with Fire in January and that went wonderfully well.  Then three months ago, I began with Water.  Yes, Scorpio is a 'water' sign....gods know why, since the desert borne beastie wouldn't be caught anywhere near water!  And aside from trips to the Olympic Coast, nor would I.  Water with its correspondances to emotional life, is my least favorite element.  But I gave it a go....and now feel happy and relieved to move on to Earth beginning today.

The watery emotional months are done. My tarot deck is back together. The glass bowl of seashells and bubbling water is emptied down the sink drain. The pump is cleaned and stored, the bowl steel-wooled free of mineral deposites and the shells are in a pretty pile in the giant abalone shell.

Pouring it out evoked an emotion. Happiness! Was my water attunement a success? How to measure success? Did I recognize and deal with emotional issues I had been fleeing down thru my many years? Yes. Was I content with this? No. Do I feel more at peace with emotional issues and reactions? No.

I live in my head. I like it there. I don't trust emotional decisions....mine or anyone elses, generally speaking. Going "with my gut" is different that going with my heart. That damned heart bit fraks up everything. My gut has a hotline to my head. My heart hangs there like a disconnected rib and it flails about. So no, I'd say three months of water attunement was not a total success.

I may have to dedicate a quarter of EVERY year to this effort for a while to come. But I am done for 2009! Onward to EARTH! It only seems right that when plucking weeds and seed-gone salad greens from the Minotaur's neglected garden to feed to the geese, I recognized black nightshade coming up all over his little bit of Eden. So, an emergency weeding session is on my day schedule.

Today is the first day of "Earth" attunement and I will be out standing in the dirt laboring away soon, to make sure I don't have a thousand black nightshade plants next year.