Cody’s Column: Water is Life

Greetings readers!

 

This column is an absolute pleasure to write each month.  I explore land spirits, rune whispers, animal and plant wisdom, divination tools, nature love, dragons, ancestors, dahlia farming, tree spirits, mental health tools, Cernunnos, and beyond to find the words to bring you each month in a moment of your time.  I am grateful to have a place to share and explore with you.  Your conversations with me inspire these articles and this month I want to explore why it is we even get to have these moments.

Water is life.

Every cell in our body contains water.  Every cell!  Gerald Pollack, a University of Washington Professor, will say “Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.” (The Fourth Phase of Water, G. Pollack, 2013).  Have you ever seen waves ripple across a lake or swirl in a river and mesmerize your subconscious?  What about photos of snowflakes, holding on to a geometric reality at the smallest of scales?  Now imagine water organizing itself to perform important functions for your cells.  Add sunlight to water and watch water begin to move in response.  These are not obscure Hadron Collider experiments.  You can perform and watch these happenings every day.

The way water is structured, slightly polarized, comprised of two of the most reactive substances known, yet stable enough to wash your hair without melting it off.  The way water reacts in the environment, shapes our reality on multiple levels.  As a cosmological substance, water is abundant in the universe, yet the exact conditions our lives depend on is a little less common as far as we can tell for now.  There is another unique property of water.  It remembers…not on it’s own…but in correlation with the solids it interacts with.

I want to ask you to tune into the water in every one of your cells.  Listen to the humming of the water taking care of all the actions your cells need to function, hear the rhythm of water as it coats your DNA molecules giving them structure and stability.  Perceive the circulation of water through your body as it travels many paths much like it does on earth.  Now open your eyes and look at the first thing you see…How has water been a part of that objects’ journey?

We live in the delicate balance of water in the cosmological universe.  It is our life.  Go on a search for water deities across the world.  Isn’t it telling that every continent and people group has water mythology?  How can we separate water from our lives?  Distract, hide, forget, ignore maybe for a short while…but sooner or later our psychology finds itself circulating on thoughts, motivations, and actions that circle around water.  Why?

Water is life.

Well, now that the flood gates are open, now what?  That’s it!  We must tune in to water, our life source, ponder, find a way to live along its paths not because of these words you read, but because your DNA resonates this truth along with all life.  Water connects us all, and water does not perish with our mortal bodies…

Let us be present in this moment, on this pale blue dot, in a spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, right down to the rain drop that falls back upon the earth releasing the petrichor aroma of life itself resonating with each and every cell in our body.  This is music, medicine, dance, spirit and you are aware of all this because of water.

Just a friendly encouragement to reflect on your practice as it relates to water, your intuition as it resonates quite possibly with water itself and the story water tells.