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A Beginners Guide to Water Magic · Remember Why You Are Here

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Water is more sensitive than we even realize.
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Water has the ability to respond to our moods, our thoughts,
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and these subtle lines of energy running throughout our lives.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
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a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect to yourself, and remember the most important thing of all,
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why you're here. In this audio episode today,
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I wanted to revisit one of the most popular transmissions I
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ever put up online.
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I'm always curious to see the things that really hit the most or the things
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that the most people are interested in.
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And so this video that I posted on YouTube a handful of years ago called
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A Beginner's Guide to Water Magic is one of the most popular things I've ever
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shared, and it's something I've been thinking about a lot this summer.
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So I know I mentioned in the reading for this month,
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and I talked about how we had this two of cups cardin come in for this month,
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I talked about the importance of bringing in water to meet us this year.
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So we are past the halfway point now in this year of the fire horse
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where it's just like in the Chinese zodiac. It's just fire, fire, fire, fire.
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And I've really been seeing it. I've really been feeling it.
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I've been seeing it and some of my friends are having inflammatory conditions
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kind of run away with them or having mind fire,
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whatever it is that drive that feeling of kind of burning oneself
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up.
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And I think it's really important as we are heading down the
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runway of the rest of this year, that's what I've been calling it,
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that we start to call in also these healing waters,
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also the counterpoint. It's like we've got the fire this year.
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And I think that's the reality of where we're at is that we have the fire.
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We don't need to call in more fire to make our visions manifest. Actually,
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we need to call in more water to hold us as
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we navigate having all this fire of being able to
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orient, take these steps. And I see so many of you taking so many brave steps.
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I just really want to honor you and your life and what you've set into motion
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this year.
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But working with water magic is a beautiful way to hold
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us, to hold ourselves as we are really doing
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this gorgeous work of meeting, of meeting this year.
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So water magic's the oldest magic on earth.
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Water is magic when you really stop
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and look at it. Water is what makes life possible here on our planet.
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Water has the ability to cleanse.
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Water has the ability to revive.
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Water has the ability to erode the
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unerodable,
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to erode and slowly dissolve that which seemed immovable,
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something as immovable as stone. So water as an energy,
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as a sentience on this planet, incredibly potent,
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incredibly powerful. I always feel like I'm brought back into the magic of
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water
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right around this time of the year when we are just inundated by
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the lakes, the streams, the rivers, the rain.
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We get these afternoon thunderstorms every single day here in Southern
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Appalachia.
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And I watched my garden just explode with life because of sun, yes,
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but also because of water.
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So I am re-sharing this recording
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today for anyone who's interested in working with water as magic,
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water as medicine. Water is literally the basis of so many of our medicines,
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whether you're talking about a tea or whether you're talking about a flower
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essence.
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And so these very simple tools of working with water can really open up a
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whole realm of magic and a whole new way of thinking about ourselves
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and about the world.
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So get yourself a beautifully tall cup of water
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and tune in here to this beginner's guide to water magic.
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In the Northern Hemisphere, we're currently entering fall,
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the time of the year on the Celtic wheel that is associated with water.
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When I first moved down to these mountains to study plants,
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I knew that I was interested in medicine, specifically herbal medicine.
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What I didn't know is that I'd get incredibly fascinated with water as medicine.
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Where I live is a very water-rich landscape.
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Water in many ways is the first medicine of this place.
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So while I love continuing to work with plants,
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I also deepen my appreciation of water as medicine every day.
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The American anthropologist and nature writer, Loren Eiseley,
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is quoted as saying, "If there is magic on this planet,
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it is contained in water." And really, I couldn't agree more.
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Water is the foundation of life here on our planet. Without water,
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life as we know it wouldn't exist.
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Is there anything more magical than that? Water covers three-fourths of our
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planet and it makes up 65% of our body.
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It is also the only natural substance found at all three states of being,
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liquid, vapor, and solid at the earth's normal range of temperatures.
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With this, we can see that water is a shape shifter.
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Water has the ability to move and grow and
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change depending on its environment.
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Water is also the universal solvent.
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Water dissolves more substances than anything else.
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And it's at the building block of how we function and how all the beings on this
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planet function as well. For example,
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plants use water as a medium to actually create photosynthesis with their cells.
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Water is also incredibly responsive. We see this anytime we make tea.
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Water has this ability as a universal solvent to take up the qualities of
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those herbs.
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But water is also responsive to things like the moon. We see this with the
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tides.
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We also know that water will respond to the earth's magnetic field
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as well as explosions on the sun.
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So really water is so much more sensitive than we thought before.
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On a more esoteric or energetic level,
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I've loved watching the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto unfold and
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reach a wide audience throughout the world. So if you haven't heard of him,
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Dr. Masaru Emoto is a Japanese scientist and researcher who
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studied the way water interacts with thought and water interacts with
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intention. Water interacts with music.
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What he did that was really interesting is he took pictures of the water as it
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crystallized.
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And he found that the same water would crystallize in totally different
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formations depending on which thoughts, intentions,
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or music it was exposed to.
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It's a really beautiful set of experiments that he did and something that has
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really inspired me to see how water is more
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sensitive than we even realize that water has the ability to
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respond to our moods, our thoughts,
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and these subtle lines of energy running throughout our lives. Water of course
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is foundational to the belief systems of all land-based and indigenous
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peoples. Water very literally is life.
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Even today, if you go and visit sacred sites across Europe,
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you'll find that many of these sites were actually built on top of previous
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sacred sites, many of which were there to enshrine a spring.
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Natural springs are the proto-sacred sites.
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They're the first sacred sites that human beings truly observed,
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and it makes sense. Springs are literally a bastion of life.
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Springs are places where we know no matter what's happening in the world,
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we can still be nourished and fed.
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I had the opportunity once to take a class with David Winston,
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an herbalist who now lives in the Northeast,
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but who has a background in Cherokee medicine.
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And he was down here in these mountains to give a workshop about Cherokee
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medicine,
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which is a tradition he was trained and invited into. And one of the things that
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he said that struck me so deeply before we even started talking about plants was
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that the first medicine in the Cherokee pharmacopia
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is water.
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And what he said about this is that in traditional Cherokee society, even today,
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the first medicine is always take it to the water. Whatever you're experiencing,
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whether it's heartache or a cold, take it to the water.
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Even children who are experiencing colic,
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it was traditional to take them to the water.
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And living here in these mountains,
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I can see why water would be considered the first medicine.
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So now whenever I'm struggling, I ask myself,
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can I just take this to the water and let it wash downstream?
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So there are a few practices that I've developed over time to work with water as
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the medium of magic that it truly is.
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So the first practice is what I call water whispering. If you've ever sat by the
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ocean or a bubbling brook,
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you know that there are many voices to water and we can receive messages just by
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sitting with the water. So in water whispering,
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I go and sit by the creek normally outside my house,
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but sometimes to wilder places in nature. And I simply,
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I put my worries, my questions out to the water,
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and then I listen. Now for me,
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it doesn't normally come in as words that I hear physically hitting my eardrums,
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but more like an inner state of communication.
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I've been amazed sometimes what I've been able to see and understand and
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feel just by sitting with the water and listening to how it's whispering to me.
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If you don't have any running water nearby your home,
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if you don't live by any kind of river or streams,
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you can try this exercise with a bowl of water. I actually think gazing into a
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bowl of water or gazing into a chalice of water is what predates crystal
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bowl gazing.
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So get yourself a bowl of water and enter into a meditative state staring onto
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the surface of the water and just notice if you can receive any kind of message
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or input from the water as you let yourself sink into this relaxed state of
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being.
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The next water magic ritual are water elixirs.
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So we've already explored how water can be a medium for actually taking
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on not only the chemical constituents of say a plant,
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but also the energetics of plants, but also words, thoughts,
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ideas.
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So the easiest kind of water elixir you can make is to actually make an
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intention and tape it onto a bottle of water and let it sit overnight.
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This is a beautiful way to get clear on what kind of magic you want to manifest
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in your life and ask that water to become a part of it. And then of course you
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can drink this water,
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you can use this water outside to sanctify a place,
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however feels good to you to work with this water.
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You could even put it in your bath water or wash your hands with it.
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And then of course we can get even more complex with some of our water elixirs.
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For example, you can make a stone elixir.
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Working with any stone in the quartz family,
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like clear quartz or rose quartz is a safe way to go about making an
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elixir.
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And the way that you do this is you just put the stone in a glass of water
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overnight and then you drink it first thing in the morning.
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I like to use clear quartz for this because I find that clear quartz has this
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ability to actually take on my intention. It's highly programmable.
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This is why we use clear quartz in all of our technology.
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You can also make flower essences with water.
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Most people are familiar with the practice of flower essences through Dr. Edward
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Bach, who was the physician around the turn of the century who first started
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experimenting with floating flowers and water and then using that diluted water
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to treat all kinds of ailments, both physical and emotional.
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But the truth is that you can make an essence from anything with water.
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If it's true that water responds to our thoughts, our intentions, our emotions,
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then you could set a jar of water out in the middle of a gathering to
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capture the energy of that gathering.
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You could set a bowl of water out underneath the full moon and capture that
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energy.
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I was once at an event where a circle of women were weaving and someone put a
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bowl of water in the middle of that circle to capture the energy of women
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weaving. The key with this kind of magic is the more you're clear on
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your intention, the stronger this medicine will be. As we've seen,
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water responds to thoughts.
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So if you are clear with your intention of what you're asking this elixir
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to become, then the medicine will turn out that much more potent.
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I think this is important to think about going back to the fact that we are 65%
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water. If water is that programmable and that sensitive,
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is it not the case that the water inside of our body is actually reacting to our
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thoughts, specifically our thoughts about ourselves?
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So I love thinking about water magic in part as actually learning how to program
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myself and the water inside of my body to resonate with
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frequencies of joy, love, and gratitude.
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The last water magic ritual is anointing.
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Anointing is a very old and very sacred practice,
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and it's one of my favorite things to do on a daily basis here. So
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I tend to anoint with spring water around my home.
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There's a bunch of springs that seep out of the hillsides here,
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and I normally will visit them and just dip two fingers in and anoint my
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temples, anoint my crown, anoint my heart or the back of my neck.
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I have access to this amazing spring water,
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but no matter where you are in the world, you can anoint yourself with water.
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To anoint yourself, just get the most energetically special water you can find.
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So whether that's water that you've made an elixir from or water from a sacred
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place in the world,
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or maybe water from a local stream that even if it's not the cleanest water,
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perhaps if you've worked with it in prayer,
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you might want to use this as an anointing water as well.
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I also have water that I've collected from sacred springs around the world,
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and sometimes I'll use this water to anoint as well. So the process of anointing
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is similar to how we think about anointing within the church with quote unquote
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holy water. From this perspective, all water is holy, however,
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and so we use this water to bless ourselves.
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You can also use this water to bless others.
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So one practice is actually dipping a bundle of fresh
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herbs into water like this and actually cleansing yourself that way or bringing
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it into a sauna if you have access to that and showering yourself with those
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droplets. What an amazing way to anoint yourself.
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You can also anoint the world around you.
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So I love giving back some of the sacred water,
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water that I have been a part of collecting or sanctifying to the earth.
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And so on this note,
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one of the things that makes water so magic for us is that we have such a
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deep relationship with it. So one practice that I like to do to continually give
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back to the water is to bless the water.
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And there's one really easy way to do this that gives you a beautiful container
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to create this prayer.
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And that is to go out to a source of wild water,
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to cup the water in your hands.
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And during the time that it takes for that water to slip out your fingers and
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back into its stream or into the lake, pray with the water.
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Bless the water in whatever way makes sense for you with the prayers that you
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call on or a song or just the heartfelt intention that this
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water go back into its source and bring with it your blessings,
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your love, and your prayer for all the waters on our earth.
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I really just feel soothed even thinking about working with water.
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Is it just me? It was so wonderful to revisit this.
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And I'm wanting to bring this in with me as I
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sort of enjoy this last month where I can really be submerging myself in the
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water, really fully being with the water in this way.
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So if you were intrigued about this,
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I actually have a whole free resource,
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a whole free PDF about ways to work with
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water magic where I go deeper into some of these practices,
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then I share even more practices and perspectives.
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So if you're interested in that totally free resource,
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I'll put the link down here below.
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And I created it because so many people were interested in this video and in
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this concept of water magic.
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So this feels like a perfect time of the year to start to work with water magic
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in the wheel of the year that I follow,
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that's connected to the Celtic wheel of the year. Water magic starts to come in
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as we approach fall.
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And so it feels like I'm taking the deep swimming ocean
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visits that I've had this summer that I'm currently on.
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I'm currently at the beach. When this will release, I will be seaside,
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but it feels like I'm taking all these encounters with water with me as then I
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move into sort of the watery season that is the fall season.
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So if you're interested in that,
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I will put that link here in the show notes or wherever you are listening.
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And I am curious to hear how this month is
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unfolding for you. As I talked about,
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there's a big thing on offer this month that feels like this opportunity for
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soul retrieval, for soul reunion,
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for those parts of ourselves that want to come back online.
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I've been loving hearing y'all's reaction to the intuitive reading that
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I did last week over on the Substack,
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and I just released a soul retrieval meditation over there,
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if that's something that you want to go deeper into. So I am
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just sending you buckets and buckets of blessings for this month
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ahead. May it be one of grounding in yourself,
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coming home to yourself, of drinking the tall glass of water,
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feeling resourced, remembering the magic that is in this world,
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and of also remembering that most important thing of all, why you're here.