Boundaries

All this rain is just one more incident on how the element of Water has been entering my life so strongly these last few days. I need to take in more water physically so I can stop having all this water enter my life in other ways. I’ve watched emotion documentaries, had passionate conversations with co-workers, and consciously overstep my own boundaries in regards to my sisters healing process.

A little witchcraft 101:
The cup is the tool of the Water. It has clear boundaries in which the water is held. I have to remember that the size of my cup is determined by me. The waters can run clear or muddy. They can be slow and lazy or torrential and become overwhelming. How we swim in and paddle though these currents is all determined by how well we know our own abilities to handle what life has to offer.

The waters are turbulent right now. I feel like I can’t paddle with the current. I feel the pain of those whose boats are bashed about by life’s currents. And in doing so my boat gets filled with water and I fear drowning. So I have to re-center myself and do the work that is laid before me. Perhaps if I can swim in my life’s waters with grace and power then I can lead by example. I have clear boundaries around myself. I have to keep them there in order to protect myself from drowning in other peoples emotions. They are there for me to remember that in times when I worlds problems seem to big and we aren’t doing enough to fix them that I’m not meant to drink the whole ocean. I can put down my glass and return to it when I can hold more.

I want to have compassion and I do. Empathy was a skill that I had a child and for a time in high school, I replaced my soup tureen with a champagne flute. This severely limited my emotional connections to others. Now, realizing that as a human, I have the capacity to truly feel others pains and happiness’s. At the same time I’m not meant to hold their emotions indefinably. There are times in which we can commiserate and have commission and though water we heal and transform.

When I’m grounded and well fixed in earth (I have to do more grounding work), clear on my work at hand (see my post on True Will) and have open awareness about my senses, then I can hold more water and help others with their emotions. How is this? When I’m secure about where I am, what I’m doing, and how I’m doing it than I don’t fear that I’ll get caught up in others egos and like a old oak or ancient willow, I can withstand the floods. I get really clear about what I can handle and how much I’m willing and able to give and take.

Water keeps us alive. How often is it that you go outside in the pouring rain and feel each drop as it wakes your skin? When was the last time you went puddle jumping. If you haven’t gone cliff jumping/diving, imagine the rush of fear and excitement you would feel in doing so. Water keeps us alive. It enters us, leaves us, and connects us. The world is 75 percent water and so are humans.

What are your boundaries?
What are you capable of holding without drowning?
Are you sailing with or against the currents of life?
Are you able to hold someone while they cry or conversely, share in their excitement?
How big or small is your cup and how full is it?

These are big questions, I know. But when you answer them, in either a large global or life long context or within a particular situation, I hope that they are able to help you gain clarity, hold and transform the world around you into something beautiful or at least know the way to find better waters.

Blessings,
Charles