Glastonbury's Waters Teach Us Wise Lessons
““If you know water, you know life. When you understand water, you understand Love, Life & Creation””
Water, water, everywhere, it's that time of year again, we are reminded of how far we've come since 2012, 2013 and 2014, when many people's lives were turned upside down, through no fault of their own.
The Angels of Awakening ask "How much do you have that you take for granted?"
Just ask yourself "What do I have that I don’t use?"
Four years ago today the land around Glastonbury was badly flooded, roads were impassable and agricultural land laid deep underwater. The next year, in 2013, the area around Burrow Mump got the deluge, and many homes and businesses were flooded, leading to months of work for the whole community.
If you don't use it you will lose it ~ Use it or lose it!
Just look in your cupboards, around your home, see how many things have you put away because they are so precious you are afraid to spoil them or you may need them for a rainy day!
Ask the Angels of Awakening to help you to prioritise those things most important to you on a physical, material and practical level, then on an emotional, a mental, karmic and spiritual one.
Physical
Do you miss out on the experience and opportunity to fully realise how these objects will give you love if you use them every day? How the perfume smells best when it is fresh? How the dress you loved is no longer in fashion or doesn’t fit? How the photographs are still in the album, or worse, still in the camera waiting to be downloaded, rather than shared, or printed to hang on the wall, for everyone to appreciate that loving family moment?
Highlight those material objects that make your life flow easily, the items filled with love. Keep them and utilise them when required, they will wear out but that’s okay, they will have done their job and given so much satisfaction and love in return.
It is often only when a disaster occurs (such as the flooding that happens periodically here on the Somerset Levels) that we realise how quickly things can spoil and have to be discarded, how much sorrow, regret and pain arises through loss.
It is amazing how much emotion is invested into physical objects, our houses, cars, computers. until circumstances reveal it is the connections to those we love that is much deeper and meaningful.
This is the gift of loss, the miracle of lives saved, the animals rescued, the realignment of that which is so important to us emotionally. The true divine order of what we love most. The sense of community and camaraderie in the villages and towns in and around Somerset and the South West that arose when parts of Somerset were under water is another amazing gift of Humanity. The victims of the flooding required assistance long after the waters rescinded and the friendships forged continue with lots of love.
Outside circumstances often cause everything you have worked for to be lost, through no fault of your own.
This is the time to ask the Angels of Awakening for guidance, to help you know what is best for you as you take your next step forward - out of the ashes the phoenix arises.
Emotional
Water in the metaphysical world translates to emotion, so the more the rains come to wash away the excesses, the injustices, and the tears flow to clear the anger from your system, the clearer and freer you will feel.
The Angels of Awakening have Reminded Me of this Ancient Teaching:
An ageing master grew tired of his apprentice’s complaints. One morning, he sent him to get some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master told him to mix a handful of salt in a glass of water and then drink it.
“How does it taste?” the master asked.
“Bitter,” said the apprentice.
The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Fresh,” remarked the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.
“No,” said the young man. At this the master sat beside this serious young man, and explained softly,
“The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
~ Meditation Masters
Mental
Outside circumstances often change the way you think, this in turn changes the way you act. When did you last think of your Mum, Dad, Brother, Sister or friend and then pick up the telephone and call? Do you wait until a fall or illness to make emotional contact again? Use the power of thought, the idea that flits into your head, or lose the connection.
This is the time to ask the Angels of Awakening for assistance in managing time to be with those you love.
Karmic
How many services do you say you will use when you get the time. How many magazines have you promised to advertise in but don't go through with the commitment because of financial fear? Or events you say you are going to but decide to stay in the warm instead of venturing out? By the time you get around to it they will be gone, lost through no fault of their own. They are trying to stay in business with all that effort failing to link with those who say they love it. You may mean well, but still wait until another time, that may not ever come. If you have a favourite healing retreat to go to, call them up and make a date to enjoy yourself at a place you love, you deserve it.
Invite the Angels of Awakening to release any fear or procrastination to bring abundance into your life right now.
Spiritual
If you don't use it you will lose it ~ Use it or lose it also relates to your spiritual beliefs and wellbeing. How often have you said to yourself I will meditate more or join a gym or that yoga class, but something else more important takes over your time?
We all need us to ask ourselves the questions of the moment, what is important to maintain the optimum level of love in our lives so that we can awaken ourselves and be more conscious and aware.
Request the Angels of Awakening are with you at all times, guiding, healing and holding the space of love all around you. Use this love, as you really don’t want to lose it once you have found it.
If you are called to join in any of the ceremonies, classes or celebrations all the information is on my website. I will be delighted to see you, or you may just appear, just like Merlin’s Magic.
Much love and many blessings from Daisy
Flooding around Glastonbury photos all taken by, and copyright of, Vicki Steward in 2012. For permission to use see www.normalforglastonbury.uk