@Rowan and @berta, thank you for the lovely photos. Tamera, I always enjoy seeing photos from near your idyllic home. Berta, Alaska is on my bucket list. Looks awe-inspiring.
@Haley, a warm bath in salt sounds like the perfect way to refresh and reset. While not the same, I enjoy the sensory depravation tanks in my town. They are filled with body temperature salt water and I can float in them for an hour or more as time just passes by.
Thank you for sharing the infographic, @Missa. The artist that made it is certainly talented.
@SilverBear, your videos never cease to impress and inform me. Thank you.
@BryWisteria, my friends from Japan have sent beautiful photos from the cherry blossom festivals they attend. Still jealous you lived in such a wonderful land with rich history and culture.
Your meditation sounds perfect for the occasion. I might need to try that myself.
@Jeannie1, scrying with wax and water? So interesting. Thank you for sharing. Self love is incredibly important and it will indeed help you reach your full potential.
As a cancer , I am drawn to my water sign. It certainly gets the most love when Circle Casting. Because the worship of my Goddess replaced my Christianity, I visualize a river flowing from her. This river can be refreshing and nourishing bringing abundance to my life and the lives of my loved ones, or it can be a roaring rapids that sweeps away the negative and dead in my life.
Before Allah, before Yahweh, before Ba’al, Ancient Near Eastern peoples worshiped El. El was the creator of creatures and the head of a pantheon of Gods. El lived on a holy mountain from which two rivers flowed. These rivers were the source of all fresh water in the world. Religions based on, or borrowing from, ANE beliefs would eventually run with the idea of a river(s) running from a mountain of God.
(Later, the sea and the river were thought of signs of Chaos, also known as Yam - a dragon/god for Ba’al to defeat on his path to becoming king. This is all part of the Ba’al Cycle. As an aside, the Ba’al Cycle is seen as either a seasonal cycle predating cycle of The Lord or as the infertility and fertility of the land. If you are at all interested in any of the ANE beliefs, I strongly reccomend the YouTube channel Digital Hammurabi and any of the books from Mark S. Smith as a start.)
Knowing even a shred of this information led me to the beliefs I hold today. I see my Goddess on her holy mountain providing the kind of river I need in each moment of life. (Imagine the Himalayas at night, a full moon shining brightly above them as she starts to ascend into the sky. A river flows down the mountains you are looking at and you realize this water can either sweep you away or it can provide everything you need to survive. Which will it be? Only she can tell.)
I don’t know if this qualifies for the weekly witchy challenge, but this is what I think of when I think of my water sign.