EP 29: Water Element

Welcome to my series on the elements, these are fundamental building blocks of spell work and ritual work.

I’m starting this series with water. For a few reasons… first is my obsession with water.

Any one who has been on my Instagram @sprite.made.soaps will see that many of my posts are me out on the water, near the water or chasing waterfalls.

The other, is that this whole idea of doing an episode on the power of water has been percolating in my mind for a while. Since a beautiful morning beach walk with my friend. The beach town I visit on the far side of the island, had scads of logs that had washed out of the river mouth and into the bay. An atmospheric river event had happened (these are a crazy new weather phenomenon) and then were all across the beach that morning.

I had never seen the beach like that

The full moon tides had tossed hundreds of logs that had been in the bay up on the shore. And they weren’t just logs, there were whole trees and root balls. Our mighty cedars pulled from the shore and into the ocean. Tossed about for a few weeks and then discarded onto the beach. Littered like bones across the beach. Sometimes the deadfall was 3 or 4 feet thick. 

And it got me thinking about doing an episode on the power of water.

See we often think of water as beautiful healing waters, we have seen memes about going with the flow and how water finds the easier way. 

Looking across the beach that day I was struck by the power of water. 

All that the ocean can contain and move. 

The power of our emotions and what they can clear when we let them flow and allow them to move through us. 

So through this episode as we talk about water try and remember the power as well as the beauty of this element. I don’t want us to romanticize this element and focus only on how it relates to love and creativity or nurturing, let’s look at the water from a holistic and expansive view. 

Correspondences of water

• Healing
• Clearing
• Emotions
• Moon
• Planet Neptune
• Motherhood
• Creativity
• Divine Feminine
• Astrology signs
  • Pisces 
  • Cancer
  • Scorpio      

Most of the correspondences to water are straightforward and make sense… a few of them are a bit more abstract.

Water corresponds to healing, this connection makes sense, from the very mundane idea of washing our wounds. Our tears are made of water so that is another obvious connection between water to emotions. 

The element of water is considered a feminine power corresponding to the mother aspect of the Goddess through the waters of childbirth and breast milk.

Connection flows from there to the idea of creation, both literal life flowing from the ocean up onto land and the idea of birthing our art and creativity. It represents creation in its many forms, creating art, the flow of dance, and imagination. From creativity and emotion, we get the connection to our subconscious mind.

I like to think about our subconscious mind like everything that is below the surface of a lake.  

When it comes to planets moon is another obvious correspondence, as she controls our tides. As is Neptune the planet named after the sea God.

Lets Talk Goddesses

There are many water Goddesses, some that I work with and feel close to me when I am in the wild waters and the rocky beaches I live near are:

Oshun – (Oh- Shoe –nnn)

She is a River Water Goddess of West Africa, and the river Osun in Nigeria is named after her. She has been adopted and worshiped throughout Afro-Brazilian religions.
She lives in pure and fresh water, rivers and waterfalls. She is a Goddess of divinity, femininity fertility beauty and love. She is associated with the colours white, yellow, and Gold.
As a deity of water, she receives prayers from pregnant women for protection. She protects small children and is affectionately called “mamae” by her devotees

Pacific Ocean Mother Goddess

There is a loving and deeply compassionate Ocean Goddess that I feel when I am out on the Northern Pacific waters near my home.
She is cold and grey, deeply soothing to the soul, but a Goddess who does not suffer fools. I have not been on the receiving side of her cold shoulder or slapped by her coldness (I am sure deep sea fishermen would have some stories) I have done some of my deepest healing work paddling on misty mornings.

I have not found lore that fits the energy that I feel. Both prominent norther sea Goddesses I have read about have tragic stories and are personified as vengeful or menacing.

Neither of these Goddesses fit the beautiful energy I have found in the cold waters of BC. So my dear coven… if you know of a Goddess or legend I am all ears to learn form you.

Aphrodite

Greek Goddess of beauty, love, sexual pleasure and fertility. She was called Venus by the Romans. Daughter of Zeus, she was born of sea foam. There are many art works of her naked form rising up out of the sea.
She is one of the most well-known water goddesses and a pivotal personality in Greek Mythos.

It is true that she is known more as a Goddess of love and beauty, her personality aligns closely with the aspect of water. She represents feminine pleasure, passion, emotion and love.

Working With Water

One thing that can help you to level up your work with water is that all water is wild water.

Energetically it is Connected

The water in your kitchen tap is the ocean, the rivers, the rain and lakes around us.

Once I got my mind wrapped around this it leveled up my spell casting.

When you place a cup of water on your alter, think of it as the ocean. The water molecules inside the glass have been in the rain that fell into the reservoir that your tap water comes from. The drinking water reservoir in your home town is connected to the water cycle in the ecosystem of your region.

• A great way to work with water is to go to a body of water. River, lake, ocean what ever is near you and give an offering to the water. I often use flowers. I give the flowers to the water as a gift of gratitude and thank the element for all the healing I have done.
• Have a ritual bath, you can prepare this with bath salts, place crystals in the water, candles, essential oils. Choose items that align with your intention:
  • rose quartz and flower petals for self love
  • citrine and sweet orange for abundance
  • Amethyst and sandalwood or your favorite incense for a pre-ritual cleanse
  • I always bring a journal with me when I have a sacred bath and let the work flow
  • (going to remind you that I do make ritual bath products)
• a smaller, and quicker, version of the bath is a ritual shower. Envisioning the water as a waterfall that cleanses your auric field, because all water is connected to the wild waters, you can employ your tap water in any work you do
• Take your journal work or healing letters that you write to a body of water and release them

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