Revisiting Emotions and the Elements
Moments in the Flow...Ancestral Wisdom and Announcing the Online Workshops
Hello again,
After September 21st 2024
As we found out after I posted this last September, the area where Hurricane Helene hit was severely damaged and many areas and roads have still not recovered. There was loss of life, as well as property.
I was working away with my weather tools both during the day before and all the time Helene was visiting my area. I can tell you it took a lot of my time, but when this system passed, our area had minimal damage. I am grateful.
Weather Workshop Information
I ended this post with a promise of Workshops on How to Work with Weather. On Wednesday, September 24th, during the anniversary week of our personal Blue Ridge Mountains tragedy, I will begin a series of 3 Zoom classes that will cover the techniques I learned and allow you to share your own experiences and ask questions.
The live event will be at 7:00 p.m. EDT with a waxing Scorpio Moon, perfect for our discussion of Water Weather.
The week, Wednesday October 1st, at 7:00 p.m. we will have a waxing Aquarius Moon which will assist in our discussion of Wind, Lightning and Thunder.
On Wednesday, October 8th at 7:00 p.m. we will talk about Fire Element, we will breifly review the techniques for Water and Air and have time to ask questions and share any experiences we’ve had with the tools we discussed.
This series of workshops is free for Paid subscribers and others who would like to join can do so with a minimum donation of $5.00 per class. An easy way to do this is to use my Buy Me A Coffee link where you can choose the amount. Please message me here or contact me so I have your name and email address to send you the Zoom link.
Classes will be recorded and available for Paid subscribers and others who have made a donation but could not attend in person.
For now, I hope you will read (or reread) the information below.
All Our Relations
In the late 90s and early 21st century, a group of Native American teachers visited southeast Florida. They were at the tail end of a host of teachers like Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden and Don Miguel Ruiz. But the appearance of this group was the answer to a prayer I’d had since I encountered Native American philosophy in a book that called to me in a St. Louis bookstore, Medicine Woman by Lynn Andrews. I went on to read Voices of our Ancestors by Cherokee teacher, Dhyani Ywahoo.
One of the amazing things I discovered when I had the opportunity to experience and study with this visiting group was that Native Americans considered each part of manifestation to be a ‘nation.’ They were to be honored and revered. We were part of that, the ‘two leggeds.’
The famous Lakota phrase Mitakuye Oyasin, ‘all my relations,’ was not relegated to humans, but realized we are connected to all kingdoms (nations) on earth. That’s a concept Plato and his Hierarchical order of life, the Roman Church, and the Industrial Revolution have successfully removed from our current way of thinking. But it is alive and well in our ancestral consciousness.
The Nations of Weather
I learned a few Lakota prayer songs, which are in essence gratitude and expressions of love. I learned the words for many things, including the ‘nations’ we consider weather elements: water, wind, lightning, and thunder. Gratitude is for the gift of each: the rain that brings water necessary for all of life, the wind that clears the mind and air, the lightning that energizes the air, and thunder that clears emotions.
I discovered over the years that some emotions could increase or quell these weather elements and that they, too, could be addressed with gratitude prayers. I understood that these emotions had impacts on my own body and on the wider energy field surrounding me.
· Fear is related to the Water Element and affects the kidneys and bladder.
· Anger is related to the Fire Element and affects the liver and gall bladder.
· Worry relates to the Air Element and affects the stomach and spleen
Fear calls the scarcity or overabundance of water, Anger creates higher temperatures, dryness, and adds to dynamic activity around us and in weather systems. It is a component of geophysical eruptions. Worry creates either stagnant air or stronger winds. Put them all together and we can have a weather forecast like the one for my area that day.
In our modern world, these three emotions are being activated many times a day by the news. We have instinctive reactions, but we can choose to calm these emotions. Bach Flower Remedies are helpful, as are deep breathing and toning. Doing so helps us while it eases the energy field around us. This helps all the conditions in our environment.
How to Ask for What You Want
We can also use our positive relationship to these elements and emotions to call rain-in where needed, to get a breeze to stir, and to feel warm in colder weather.
It’s important to recognize that when we call for something, it must be complete in the description. Just calling for rain without gratitude delineating the qualities we desire can result in downpours and flooding. I have found the best way to make the request includes gratitude that this weather arrives as “a blessing to all things in this area.”
Weather Karma
A very important aspect of working with troubling weather: do not send weather away from you and toward a desired direction. You will see people asking for this in posts on social media and they don’t realize there is huge karma in doing that. Your prayer makes you responsible for anything that may happen because of that weather in those areas. You have ‘wished it’ on them.
It is far better to work on using your relationship to the elements right where you are. You can thank the water and wind nation for giving a blessing and sufficiency there and releasing it to bless other areas who may need it. Then it will go when and where it is drawn.
Of course, we may not always be able to eliminate some weather episodes and there could be a reason for this that is unknown to us. After seeing certain trees go down after a hurricane, where many fell parallel to a home, doing no damage, I asked my teacher if there were arrows in the wind.
He laughed and said, “Yes, and it can have to do with the nature and energy of the people in the homes themselves where and how the arrows hit.”
Being the Guardian
And from both the Native Americans and the training of Anwen, the Muse who inspired the Revealing the Druid Legacy series, I learned we are or can be empowered with tools to work as a guardian of the area where we live. Anwen tells us that the Priestess and Wise Woman of an area were responsible for this task. She said the effects for the region lasted long after these women had to withdraw their presence. But in the current world, without knowing it now, and without having to be a designated Priestess, we are often placed in a location for us to be this steward and stabilizing presence.
Wishing all in the path of extreme weather systems safety and a secure space with all that is needed…and clear skies ahead.
If you find this topic interesting, you may wish to read about the ancestral world of Anwen and Merlin. Receive his profound teachings in The Last Priestess and journey with her to the Priestess Isle where she gets the tools of her training in the Elements in Books Two and Three.
See you next time!