Do you ever feel buried under commitments and obligations, or like life is just a series of waves crashing on you, tossing you around, leaving you gasping for breath, or like your fire has gone out?
A few years ago I started to ache for balance. My intuition told me there had to be another way. I had worked hard to build a life that I wanted, so why did everything feel so unmanageable? My question was answered (as usual) with a book.
“The Missing Element” by Deborah Silverman taught me about the four elements, to understand how they function in me, and what I could do to balance them out.
In ancient astrology, the world is divided up into four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Understanding how these elements exist with in us helps us understand our own tendencies, and how we might help to to balance ourselves when we feel off.
Creativity too can have elemental expressions.
Fire burns through us to express our vision.
Earth grounds us and awakens the senses.
Air gives us an intellectual approach to creativity.
Water opens us up to let new ideas flow from intuition.
As I began to study the elements, observe and play with them in my own life, I began to have a language for what I was experiencing, and what I needed. I had always identified especially with water. I love to be in water, near water, look at water, smell water, drink water. Remember, Bruce Lee told us to be like the nature of water? Water is soothing and renewing. But the problem is that too much will put out fire. My fire was just a flicker, I needed to do something to stoke it so that it could keep me warm, curious and alive.
I created my program Elemental Magic to guide women through the four elements and to share the tools of transformation. You don’t need anything you don’t already have, and you don’t have to live out of balance.
That being said, everything in life is in motion, so balance is an ongoing experiment. Sometimes we burn ourselves out, sometimes we get lost on social media or weighed down with obligations, but we always have choices as to what we do next. Creativity is how we re-imagine our lives and experience more joy and freedom.
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Don’t dismiss the elements. Water soothes and heals. Air refreshes and revives. Earth grounds and holds. Fire is a burning reminder of our own will and creative power. Breathe them in. Swallow their spells.. There’s a certain sweet comfort in knowing that you belong to them all. — Victoria Erickson