Such an interesting read, thank you. I can tell you put some much energy and time into composing this.
For me, the elements have shown themselves through the tarot, which links in to the more ‘physical’ idea of how they may present themselves in daily life.
This has never fully sat right with me though; to limit each element to a particular suit and there’s the ongoing debate between which element actually sit within each suit anyway!
This has given me some expansive food for thought on this, thank you again 🤍
Thank you so much for bringing up the suits of the tarot, Kerry! I'm in the same boat as you. The more time I spend with both the tarot and with the elements, the more it just doesn't feel quite right to me anymore to lock them together. I recently read some history about it, and learned that one of the first tarot decks to associate elements with suits was Etteilla's deck published in 1789. He didn't correspond the elements the way we do. For him, the elements (earth, air, water and fire) were corresponded with the four humors of the body. I'm definitely no expert and only started really looking into the history of tarot, but it seems that the element correspondence as we know it today happened with the Golden Dawn group publishing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck around 1909. In any case, I'm kind of on the fence about tarot and the elements at the moment. Keep me posted if you get any more insights on this!
Thank you Jenna and everyone, for this heartfelt place to share. Where do you live, so near a desert? I'm 20 minutes from Anza-Borrego State Park, a high desert in San Diego County. I became lost returning home recently and surrendered to that feeling, eventually finding my way. Being lost could be another theme?
I live in Albuquerque, NM and the canyon I like to walk is only a mile from my house. It's a small canyon (only a 2-mile loop trail in it), but one of my dearest friends. The theme of being lost is really intriguing to me. There seem to be many layers there...literally and/or metaphorically being lost and sometimes, maybe it's exactly what we need. I love that you surrendered to the feeling then found your way (no doubt the desert itself guiding you).
Jenna -- first, on a lighter note, I agree that, "meditation and showers seem to go hand-in-hand." We call our shower The Think Tank. We once kept a crayon in it so we could scrawl on the walls if we had notes to make (no worries, Magic Eraser removed the crayon).
On a more serious -- philosophical note -- this essay is beautiful. I am fascinated by the whole concept of, 'philosophers,' humans who spend day and night simply thinking, mulling, considering, questioning. I am also intrigued by the idea that 'the Elements' represent the Divine and we -- humans -- are made of them all. Beautiful! I'm becoming more and more interested in the animistic beliefs of my Germanic ancestors as I've always, as you say so eloquently, "...appreciat[ed] the beauty and interconnectedness of all things..."
Interesting side note...I'd love to hear your thoughts: I was born (as was my mother) with an innate fear of water. As babies, when being bathed, we would cry (in terror), hyperventilate and eventually faint. My mom tells me it was horrifying the first few times it happened but eventually she knew I would simply stiffen, faint, and then she could continue bathing me. The fear is immersion -- and depth. For example, I love creeks and streams and swimming in shallow pools...but avoid depths (i.e., a loss of footing, my head going beneath the water's surface).
I have always wondered why an Element -- a natural, life-giving source, something of which we are made (as you say, 70%!) -- would terrorize two newly born humans? Only the two of us -- mother & daughter -- and no one else in our family? I'd love to hear any insight you might have -- I so loved this essay! ♡
The Think Tank, complete with crayons, I love it! I bet there were some amazing notes on your shower walls. 🤗 Your (and your mom's) experiences with water is very intriguing. I bet that was so scary! My first thought is that maybe you both have a past life or inherited ancestral memory of trauma related to water. Since it's both you and your mom, I would guess it's more likely an inherited ancestor memory (trauma passed on DNA). And you bring up such a good point about this beautiful, Divine being (water) acting as a source of terror. I guess all living beings have as much capacity to destroy as they do to create. This is such a great question, I'm going to have to consult with my guides for any kind of answer, which I will do and get back to you. Thank you so much for asking about this! In the meantime, I have to say that I have a fear of deep, open water. If I can't see land, I get really panicky. which has always led me to the belief that, as land creatures, we're not meant to be in the middle of the ocean. But then my seafaring ancestors roll their eyes, and my pilot father reminds me that we're able to be in the sky, so, really what do I know? Lol.
Jenna, I am intrigued to learn you connect our fear to an inherited ancestor memory. The very same notion came to my mind. You mention your own 'open sea' fear; oh my, yes...I also share that anxiety. My great-grandfather was said to be, "a ship's carpenter," and I often wonder if his seafaring experiences have anything to do with our fears? He was also struck by lightning and I was taught to pay Nature the respect she deserves when a storm blows up. Just last year I found the newspaper article describing the strike and it was made all the more real seeing it in print -- a man died -- my grandfather was the last in a line of men to be struck! I suppose that's why this post on the living elements resonates so with me! ♡
Oh my goodness! Your grandfather had such a powerful, intimate relationship with both water and fire. It reminds me of those myths (the Bhagavad Gita comes to mind) where a chosen person is able to see (at least in part) the true face of god, while most people only have the capacity to bear reflections of it. I'm sure, like me, you wish your ancestors were all required to keep a daily journal of all their thoughts and feelings. I would love to know what your grandfather experienced out on the open seas, and what he felt on a soul-level after that lightning strike. All of it does live on in you. Thank you so much for sharing about him with me!
Oh my gosh, that's beautiful, Julie! Thank you so much for sharing this! It really spoke to me. Almost daily, I take my morning walk in the desert canyon near my house and I see everything exactly as you describe here...the still vastness, the rock forms, the mountain lines. And it is all sacred and alive. ❤️
Thank you for this! “The Divine IS the material. The body does not veil the soul. The body, made of The Elements, is one part of the multi-faceted soul.” 🙏
This was both a mindblowingly new way to think about the elements, while at the same time a deeper knowing that I believe I have always carried with me. It was both a new perspective and an ancient remembering for me. Oh, if we could always just remember that all is divine. 🧡
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much for this, Liz! I think remembering is such a sacred act. I know exactly what you mean about something feeling new and also an ancient remembering. That's so beautiful!
GLORIOUS! I LOVE this post, I love your writing, your insights, your ability to harness deep complexities into simple clarity. Astounding!
I love to DANCE the elements!
And I love to greet them each morning, outside, as I move around the sacred directional circle I dance in.
However, each day BEFORE I do this, before I go outside to Play, I have a short series of actions that honor each element, at my altar.
I start with a sacred breath, consciously breathing in Love and Life, and then exhaling anything I need to release, letting the exhale be a little longer than my inhale.
Next I light my devotional candle, the Flame of my Devotion, my Wonder, Joy and Awe.
Then I take sip of water that has been charged overnight with rose quartz and prayers and blessings of restoration and healing. This same water then gets offered either outside to the Land, in morning greetings, or inside at the sink, (sometimes both, just depends...on Spirit), to bring these prayers and blessings to the Land, and to the Waters that flow through our cities and underground water works.
Finally, I sit or stand in silence, to integrate into the Body, before going outside to greet and dance.
Another variation, a sort of "spell" for when I am out and about, for quick Connection in times of need:
One deep breath, (exhale a little longer), for Air.
One clap or snap or rubbing my hands together, for Fire.
One swallow of either Water or my own saliva, for Water.
One moment of Silence, stillness, with the Earth of my bones.
Delivers me into Center, where the Ethers connect me to ALL That Is.
From Center I/Spirit can do whatever is needed next.
Ahhhhhhh, Romy, OMG, thank you for sharing this gorgeous, amazing, sacred practice! I feel deeply honored to get a peek into something so holy. I could feel it all in my own body as I read your beautiful words. You inspire me in ALL WAYS and ALWAYS. Love you! ❤️❤️❤️
Jenna this is wonderful, so much to say here. First though, YES meditation and showers go hand in hand. So powerful to have water cascading on the body, connecting, relaxing. Insight and information seems to "pour"into me doing those times.
Also I was a science major in college, Nutrition Science. Which included massive chemistry. So I related to that as well.
Mostly I loved bringing the elements back to their natural home. The body, physicality, matter and density. The sanctity in that! Don't get me going on that split when the divine became separate from its creation. I could go on forever....With that said, I love communing with the elements. They are symbols on my altar and part of my calling in the directions during rituals. This month I am engaged with Tarot spreads based on the elements. So this post is timely! Thanks again Jenna.
Thank you, Julie! Some day I do want to hear all your thoughts and wisdom about the split when the divine and its creation became separate. I'm so curious about this. After my many years pursuing science, I did a big pivot and ended up getting my degree in history, with particular focus on the history of religions. I've often thought that the shift to monotheism explained the split, but now I wonder if maybe it's not so simple, that there's more to it. We'll have to find a time to chat more about this!
Would love to do that! Yes monotheism is part of it. But so many moving pieces that also brought this split forward. Like the written word. The rise of the Abrahamic religions alongside the removal of the goddess. Patriarchy. Roman empire. Mass genocide. Witch trials, etc. Would love to chat!
I always love your description of communicating with water Jenna, it makes me smile to think of droplets of water jumping for joy when you send them so love. There is so much for us to be connected to and the idea that the elements want to be loved and held it so beautiful. Thank you! 🙏
I'm also a former chemistry gal, left pharma in pursuit of meaning! So I just adore your well researched yet magical musings. I actually have a similar post in drafts but felt called to work on an earthy piece about the lunation cycle and botany (coming soon!) sciency and creative like my Leo Virgo emphasis! 😂
Well I am very intrigued to read both the lunation cycle/botany post and your element post! I will keep my eye out for them. Leo-virgo sounds like a combination I could love! 🤗 I was pursuing pre-med, then pharmacy, for many years (MANY years ago), which is hard for me to even imagine now. I'm so glad the universe intervened and put me on a different path. I'm glad for my background, but I don't think I ever would've been fulfilled as a scientist.
Sister water-talker, thank you for this wonderful tribute to our Elemental friends. This (seeing elementals and nature as sentient) is another topic that’s up on the collective right now — am seeing it everywhere! So thank you for being a conduit. 💨 🔥 🌍 🚿 💜
Wow this is such a fabulous dive into the wonders of working with the Elements. Truth be told, I’ve never been particularly drawn to them either. I can say that I’ve longed for a connection with Water. You have provided me with renewed inspiration. Thank you thank you thank you.
Oh how WONDERFUL! Oh how simply JOYOUS! OH HOW I LOVED READING THIS.
Jenna, I do so appreciate the history you find, the "background". It invites the another part of me to get excited, and if I may say, to feel "justified." An interesting word. When one understands from a tactile deep level sometimes the "theory" helps to fill in gaps, so to speak.
The elements are so important in my life. My heart. My work. My everything. They connect me and hold me.
I have always been a water person. Once upon a time I didn't resonate with the fire within me... passion, life-force, the alchemical part of me. I have a lovely relationship with air -the wind, the breath, the song it makes in the trees and flowers, the way it makes my hair dance and leaves dance and our emotions dance within us. Earth and I have a deep holding together, a deep sharing and sense of nurturing for each other. Ether/Spirit...I quote you "We are elements. We are divinity." The acceptance of the Goddess within me helps to ground the elements even more.
Jenna thank you, once again for sharing you divine wisdom.
Me too, Sam! I used to have a deficient relationship with fire, or at least I perceived it that way. But then a few years ago I was taking a class where we were guided on a journey to be with each of the elements. When we were with fire, I saw and felt myself completely enveloped in flames, it was even coming out of my fingertips, and the weirdest thing was that I felt so comfortable in it, really completely at-home that way. It felt like being held by an old friend. I realized then it had always been with me that way, it had just been too close for me to see so I'd thought it wasn't there (if that makes any sense 🤪). Thank you so much for your kind and beautiful words here! As I read them, I imagined we were sipping together. ❤️
Thank you. I love all the elements but I directly relate very deeply with water. Both in a 'positive & negative' way. This has everything to do with a long memory of water in my life, a deep love for it & fear of it (living in hurricane prone areas). In fact, my relationship with an the elements helps me understand my fears & adoration.
This is beautiful, Heather, thank you for sharing! Truly intimate relationships do help us understand our fears and adorations this way, especially when we're open enough to see them. I love that you have this kind of relationship with water. I have a fear of being out in open water in the ocean. The power of it feels a bit overwhelming to me. But I have never been in a hurricane (I've lived in the desert my whole life) and I bet that would be terrifying. I feel like water is a profound teacher for you on so many levels.
Such an interesting read, thank you. I can tell you put some much energy and time into composing this.
For me, the elements have shown themselves through the tarot, which links in to the more ‘physical’ idea of how they may present themselves in daily life.
This has never fully sat right with me though; to limit each element to a particular suit and there’s the ongoing debate between which element actually sit within each suit anyway!
This has given me some expansive food for thought on this, thank you again 🤍
Thank you so much for bringing up the suits of the tarot, Kerry! I'm in the same boat as you. The more time I spend with both the tarot and with the elements, the more it just doesn't feel quite right to me anymore to lock them together. I recently read some history about it, and learned that one of the first tarot decks to associate elements with suits was Etteilla's deck published in 1789. He didn't correspond the elements the way we do. For him, the elements (earth, air, water and fire) were corresponded with the four humors of the body. I'm definitely no expert and only started really looking into the history of tarot, but it seems that the element correspondence as we know it today happened with the Golden Dawn group publishing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck around 1909. In any case, I'm kind of on the fence about tarot and the elements at the moment. Keep me posted if you get any more insights on this!
Thank you Jenna and everyone, for this heartfelt place to share. Where do you live, so near a desert? I'm 20 minutes from Anza-Borrego State Park, a high desert in San Diego County. I became lost returning home recently and surrendered to that feeling, eventually finding my way. Being lost could be another theme?
I live in Albuquerque, NM and the canyon I like to walk is only a mile from my house. It's a small canyon (only a 2-mile loop trail in it), but one of my dearest friends. The theme of being lost is really intriguing to me. There seem to be many layers there...literally and/or metaphorically being lost and sometimes, maybe it's exactly what we need. I love that you surrendered to the feeling then found your way (no doubt the desert itself guiding you).
Thank you for your nice comment. I like your writing very much.
Jenna -- first, on a lighter note, I agree that, "meditation and showers seem to go hand-in-hand." We call our shower The Think Tank. We once kept a crayon in it so we could scrawl on the walls if we had notes to make (no worries, Magic Eraser removed the crayon).
On a more serious -- philosophical note -- this essay is beautiful. I am fascinated by the whole concept of, 'philosophers,' humans who spend day and night simply thinking, mulling, considering, questioning. I am also intrigued by the idea that 'the Elements' represent the Divine and we -- humans -- are made of them all. Beautiful! I'm becoming more and more interested in the animistic beliefs of my Germanic ancestors as I've always, as you say so eloquently, "...appreciat[ed] the beauty and interconnectedness of all things..."
Interesting side note...I'd love to hear your thoughts: I was born (as was my mother) with an innate fear of water. As babies, when being bathed, we would cry (in terror), hyperventilate and eventually faint. My mom tells me it was horrifying the first few times it happened but eventually she knew I would simply stiffen, faint, and then she could continue bathing me. The fear is immersion -- and depth. For example, I love creeks and streams and swimming in shallow pools...but avoid depths (i.e., a loss of footing, my head going beneath the water's surface).
I have always wondered why an Element -- a natural, life-giving source, something of which we are made (as you say, 70%!) -- would terrorize two newly born humans? Only the two of us -- mother & daughter -- and no one else in our family? I'd love to hear any insight you might have -- I so loved this essay! ♡
The Think Tank, complete with crayons, I love it! I bet there were some amazing notes on your shower walls. 🤗 Your (and your mom's) experiences with water is very intriguing. I bet that was so scary! My first thought is that maybe you both have a past life or inherited ancestral memory of trauma related to water. Since it's both you and your mom, I would guess it's more likely an inherited ancestor memory (trauma passed on DNA). And you bring up such a good point about this beautiful, Divine being (water) acting as a source of terror. I guess all living beings have as much capacity to destroy as they do to create. This is such a great question, I'm going to have to consult with my guides for any kind of answer, which I will do and get back to you. Thank you so much for asking about this! In the meantime, I have to say that I have a fear of deep, open water. If I can't see land, I get really panicky. which has always led me to the belief that, as land creatures, we're not meant to be in the middle of the ocean. But then my seafaring ancestors roll their eyes, and my pilot father reminds me that we're able to be in the sky, so, really what do I know? Lol.
Jenna, I am intrigued to learn you connect our fear to an inherited ancestor memory. The very same notion came to my mind. You mention your own 'open sea' fear; oh my, yes...I also share that anxiety. My great-grandfather was said to be, "a ship's carpenter," and I often wonder if his seafaring experiences have anything to do with our fears? He was also struck by lightning and I was taught to pay Nature the respect she deserves when a storm blows up. Just last year I found the newspaper article describing the strike and it was made all the more real seeing it in print -- a man died -- my grandfather was the last in a line of men to be struck! I suppose that's why this post on the living elements resonates so with me! ♡
Oh my goodness! Your grandfather had such a powerful, intimate relationship with both water and fire. It reminds me of those myths (the Bhagavad Gita comes to mind) where a chosen person is able to see (at least in part) the true face of god, while most people only have the capacity to bear reflections of it. I'm sure, like me, you wish your ancestors were all required to keep a daily journal of all their thoughts and feelings. I would love to know what your grandfather experienced out on the open seas, and what he felt on a soul-level after that lightning strike. All of it does live on in you. Thank you so much for sharing about him with me!
I recently wrote a poem called "Matter" which seems to fit with Jenna's post.
Out beyond the city,
Full of motion,
Is the still vastness of the desert.
Architectural rock forms
And mountain lines beguiling,
Its being is all heavy.
The spirit isn’t absent;
Nothing denies the matter,
In contrast to spiritual thinking.
I can ignore the density
Supporting my airy awareness,
But this is how presence takes hold.
Oh my gosh, that's beautiful, Julie! Thank you so much for sharing this! It really spoke to me. Almost daily, I take my morning walk in the desert canyon near my house and I see everything exactly as you describe here...the still vastness, the rock forms, the mountain lines. And it is all sacred and alive. ❤️
Thank you for this! “The Divine IS the material. The body does not veil the soul. The body, made of The Elements, is one part of the multi-faceted soul.” 🙏
Thank you, Kimberly! 💕💕💕
This was both a mindblowingly new way to think about the elements, while at the same time a deeper knowing that I believe I have always carried with me. It was both a new perspective and an ancient remembering for me. Oh, if we could always just remember that all is divine. 🧡
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much for this, Liz! I think remembering is such a sacred act. I know exactly what you mean about something feeling new and also an ancient remembering. That's so beautiful!
GLORIOUS! I LOVE this post, I love your writing, your insights, your ability to harness deep complexities into simple clarity. Astounding!
I love to DANCE the elements!
And I love to greet them each morning, outside, as I move around the sacred directional circle I dance in.
However, each day BEFORE I do this, before I go outside to Play, I have a short series of actions that honor each element, at my altar.
I start with a sacred breath, consciously breathing in Love and Life, and then exhaling anything I need to release, letting the exhale be a little longer than my inhale.
Next I light my devotional candle, the Flame of my Devotion, my Wonder, Joy and Awe.
Then I take sip of water that has been charged overnight with rose quartz and prayers and blessings of restoration and healing. This same water then gets offered either outside to the Land, in morning greetings, or inside at the sink, (sometimes both, just depends...on Spirit), to bring these prayers and blessings to the Land, and to the Waters that flow through our cities and underground water works.
Finally, I sit or stand in silence, to integrate into the Body, before going outside to greet and dance.
Another variation, a sort of "spell" for when I am out and about, for quick Connection in times of need:
One deep breath, (exhale a little longer), for Air.
One clap or snap or rubbing my hands together, for Fire.
One swallow of either Water or my own saliva, for Water.
One moment of Silence, stillness, with the Earth of my bones.
Delivers me into Center, where the Ethers connect me to ALL That Is.
From Center I/Spirit can do whatever is needed next.
Laaaaaaaaaa!
BEAUTIFUL post, as ALWAYS, Jenna, thank youuuuuu!
XO
Ahhhhhhh, Romy, OMG, thank you for sharing this gorgeous, amazing, sacred practice! I feel deeply honored to get a peek into something so holy. I could feel it all in my own body as I read your beautiful words. You inspire me in ALL WAYS and ALWAYS. Love you! ❤️❤️❤️
Jenna this is wonderful, so much to say here. First though, YES meditation and showers go hand in hand. So powerful to have water cascading on the body, connecting, relaxing. Insight and information seems to "pour"into me doing those times.
Also I was a science major in college, Nutrition Science. Which included massive chemistry. So I related to that as well.
Mostly I loved bringing the elements back to their natural home. The body, physicality, matter and density. The sanctity in that! Don't get me going on that split when the divine became separate from its creation. I could go on forever....With that said, I love communing with the elements. They are symbols on my altar and part of my calling in the directions during rituals. This month I am engaged with Tarot spreads based on the elements. So this post is timely! Thanks again Jenna.
Thank you, Julie! Some day I do want to hear all your thoughts and wisdom about the split when the divine and its creation became separate. I'm so curious about this. After my many years pursuing science, I did a big pivot and ended up getting my degree in history, with particular focus on the history of religions. I've often thought that the shift to monotheism explained the split, but now I wonder if maybe it's not so simple, that there's more to it. We'll have to find a time to chat more about this!
Would love to do that! Yes monotheism is part of it. But so many moving pieces that also brought this split forward. Like the written word. The rise of the Abrahamic religions alongside the removal of the goddess. Patriarchy. Roman empire. Mass genocide. Witch trials, etc. Would love to chat!
I always love your description of communicating with water Jenna, it makes me smile to think of droplets of water jumping for joy when you send them so love. There is so much for us to be connected to and the idea that the elements want to be loved and held it so beautiful. Thank you! 🙏
Oh Louise, I love this image of water jumping for joy! That makes my heart so happy! ❤️❤️❤️
I'm also a former chemistry gal, left pharma in pursuit of meaning! So I just adore your well researched yet magical musings. I actually have a similar post in drafts but felt called to work on an earthy piece about the lunation cycle and botany (coming soon!) sciency and creative like my Leo Virgo emphasis! 😂
Well I am very intrigued to read both the lunation cycle/botany post and your element post! I will keep my eye out for them. Leo-virgo sounds like a combination I could love! 🤗 I was pursuing pre-med, then pharmacy, for many years (MANY years ago), which is hard for me to even imagine now. I'm so glad the universe intervened and put me on a different path. I'm glad for my background, but I don't think I ever would've been fulfilled as a scientist.
Felt a little tingle in the truth of this.⚡⚡⚡
Ooooh, truth tingles are terrific! I love this!
Enjoyed this read I'm a natural fire sign but I'm drawn to the beauty and strength of water
Beautiful...personally, I think fire and water together is pure magic! ❤️
It is something else isn't it? Haha thanks for the reply 🥰
Sister water-talker, thank you for this wonderful tribute to our Elemental friends. This (seeing elementals and nature as sentient) is another topic that’s up on the collective right now — am seeing it everywhere! So thank you for being a conduit. 💨 🔥 🌍 🚿 💜
Thank you, Sistar! ❤️✨ I'm glad to hear it's in the collective right now. I love reading everyone's take on these topics!
Wow this is such a fabulous dive into the wonders of working with the Elements. Truth be told, I’ve never been particularly drawn to them either. I can say that I’ve longed for a connection with Water. You have provided me with renewed inspiration. Thank you thank you thank you.
Yay! Thank you, Rikki! I'm so glad my guides kept pushing me into this connection with elements. I never would've gotten there on my own.
Oh how WONDERFUL! Oh how simply JOYOUS! OH HOW I LOVED READING THIS.
Jenna, I do so appreciate the history you find, the "background". It invites the another part of me to get excited, and if I may say, to feel "justified." An interesting word. When one understands from a tactile deep level sometimes the "theory" helps to fill in gaps, so to speak.
The elements are so important in my life. My heart. My work. My everything. They connect me and hold me.
I have always been a water person. Once upon a time I didn't resonate with the fire within me... passion, life-force, the alchemical part of me. I have a lovely relationship with air -the wind, the breath, the song it makes in the trees and flowers, the way it makes my hair dance and leaves dance and our emotions dance within us. Earth and I have a deep holding together, a deep sharing and sense of nurturing for each other. Ether/Spirit...I quote you "We are elements. We are divinity." The acceptance of the Goddess within me helps to ground the elements even more.
Jenna thank you, once again for sharing you divine wisdom.
Me too, Sam! I used to have a deficient relationship with fire, or at least I perceived it that way. But then a few years ago I was taking a class where we were guided on a journey to be with each of the elements. When we were with fire, I saw and felt myself completely enveloped in flames, it was even coming out of my fingertips, and the weirdest thing was that I felt so comfortable in it, really completely at-home that way. It felt like being held by an old friend. I realized then it had always been with me that way, it had just been too close for me to see so I'd thought it wasn't there (if that makes any sense 🤪). Thank you so much for your kind and beautiful words here! As I read them, I imagined we were sipping together. ❤️
Thank you. I love all the elements but I directly relate very deeply with water. Both in a 'positive & negative' way. This has everything to do with a long memory of water in my life, a deep love for it & fear of it (living in hurricane prone areas). In fact, my relationship with an the elements helps me understand my fears & adoration.
This is beautiful, Heather, thank you for sharing! Truly intimate relationships do help us understand our fears and adorations this way, especially when we're open enough to see them. I love that you have this kind of relationship with water. I have a fear of being out in open water in the ocean. The power of it feels a bit overwhelming to me. But I have never been in a hurricane (I've lived in the desert my whole life) and I bet that would be terrifying. I feel like water is a profound teacher for you on so many levels.