Water Seed of Fire: Creative Tension

8.18.10

* The following collages are new work for our book, "The Root Child and the Coming of Fairies", that's now in process.

The timing on this is so exact, and the final whisper of its struggle was revealed, in a way that became so clear.

Water seed of fire is usually quite a competitive relationship, it can be so interior, as a conflict between what we feel and what we think or do. This conflict is not necessarily a conflict between what we feel and what we know.

What we know is part of the clarity of who we are, and what we think is often what we are conditioned to conclude. I’ve often found the primary reason for this is the lack of ability to assimilate our lives fast enough, to keep the knowing and feeling balanced.

When fire and water are balanced within us, we are able to take this creative tension and be productive in the outer and inner worlds. Where the need for each is recognized and the differences honored, the intuitive ability of the Water element is combined, with the cognitive ability of the Fire element, and there is an evolution of the productive life in the outer world.

My life has been the learning of a fine-tuned balancing between these two, so that the air of my own inspiration can be grounded. In these times I need to make sure I drink plenty of water, so I don’t burn up, but not so much I drown in the deep period of my intuitive beingness.

Today I balance-- between water and fire, and bridge them with the full breath of my creative imagination.

I’ve been more tired this week, and actually many have told me that they have felt this tired also. 

Letting go of the concept of exhaustion, I embrace re-calculation. Yes, that is more what it is, and I need not compete for space, because as Raven, I am ether-- space. 

I now take up a room between water and fire, and build a bridge of this evolution.