Water Element

As I’m driving home tonight from class, in a downpour of winter rain, I am reminded of my dreams of late – which have been mostly centered around or in the water; sailing across its expansive body, swimming deep into the depths without need of mask or oxygen… but with clarity and peace.   It is said by many dream interpreters that water is a symbolic reflection of your emotional body, your feelings.  Water is also a symbol of cleansing, healing, new life or spiritual rebirth, creative potential, the unconscious and the feminine.  I began to laugh as the realizations came flooding in.  You see, my father’s lungs are filling with water, and his kidneys (organs associated with the water element) are failing.  Meanwhile, back at the farm, the dishwasher has broken, the washing machine is overflowing for some unknown reason, and as of yesterday – my parents water bed sprouted a hefty leak that we attempted to recover with pots, pans, two thirsty dogs, and every dry towel in the house.  As I am flooded with emotion internally, the universe has provided a beautiful and perfect external reflection of my emotional storm.  I seem to be, quite literally, drowning in my sorrow, and the sorrow of my family.  I am strangely reminded of Dory, the spacey yet unexpectedly enlightened fish from Finding Nemo, “Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming! Swimming, swimming…”

Swimming for Dory, is like breathing for us land animals.  “Keep swimming!”, I tell myself.  Having not charted these particular waters before, I am reminded and comforted by the faith of so many before me.  But how beautiful is all of this, really? How perfect!  What an incredible opportunity to bathe in spiritual rebirth, to cleanse, to heal, to create, to give new life to myself and swim confidently – head above water – through the currents of my own emotions.  Or to float peacefully upon them…without struggle or force.  “Honey, you are the sea upon which I float…” Thank you Chris Martin for your continuous emotional education.  For those of you with your head tilted to the side, Martin is the lead singer of Coldplay.

I am so grateful for everything in my life.  Gratitude is the canoe that drifts by to give you a break from ‘treading your emotion’.  “Hey!  Hey you, swimming in the same spot! Climb inside and dry off!”  Grateful for a mother who provides me with new ways to grow every single day.  Grateful for a partner who gives unconditionally, his love & the mirror for my own evolution.  Grateful for a family that extends far beyond my immediate, and has given to me the knowledge, support, and fulfillment of one hundred lives.  Grateful for God.   I am Great Full for God – who has been the unquenchable thirst of my life, the Ultimate provider of spiritual abundance and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. 

Be grateful – your gifts are abundant.

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Sweet Dreams