W06

Water Temple

Wednesday 22nd March 1995 (9:35pm)

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Barry: It is bright day, the sun reflects off the water. The sound of pipes and hall wind chimes sound behind us.

Rob: When water flows it rises over or flows round any obstacles, but silt can build up and choke it. If too much water passes, it can cause a flood. So with life, one becomes too attached to things, silt accumulates and stifles life. If one takes too much on board, on is flooded.

Things are not just objects; they can be ideas or prejudices, kinks etc. Water may wash these thins out. Take care also against flooding, having too many ideas or projects is not desirable.

Barry: I don my robes, take my staff and then drink from the spring. The water is ice cold and challenges me. The spring from the altar stone is the head of the river. The link from the earth where water is collected, channelled and issues forth.

Will you join me on the raft?

Rob: I don my robes, but will not use my staff.

Barry: The river is strong. I hold tightly to the oar, which holds a green stone. Guiding us through the silt and rocks is the serpent. His way is rough and quick, we tend not to look around us much on the water journey.

Rob: Maybe we should. We should not be in such a hurry.

Barry: We ignore the effect that water has on the things around us. The serpent leads us to a deeper area of open water. The raft stops.

Rob: I see two women. One is blonde with a hard face. She is dressed in virginal white and is aloof and powerful and unreachable. The other is dark. Her ayes are also dark, and show fear. She looks as though she is about to flee. These two should be united, their opposites reconciled, the hard edge blunted, and the vulnerability rejected.

Barry: Stone steps have appeared leading down. I step off the raft into the water which is ice cold and swirls about my legs. I go beneath the surface and am suspended in the dark deep water. The staff is useless here.

Rob: I form part of a circuit with the two women. I fear the blonde and have the desire to make the dark one fear me. The pivot or fulcrum is my inadequacy. The key is acceptance. Everybody is vulnerable.

I too step from the raft into the water and am quickly submerged. I feel it stinging me, downriver from me the water turns black and then forms a large tear. It curves and becomes part of a yin-yang symbol and floats away.

Barry: I have been floating in the water all my life. The staff has allowed me to raise my head from the water, only to disappear again. Ahead is a green light and I grasp the hands of the dark haired woman who pulls me from the water.

I am bathed in water droplets and moonlight washes the remainder of the river water from me. Moonlight and river drops enter my body giving me the power to float myself in the water without help from the woman.

Rob: We do not need to travel unaided. If we appealed to the God and Goddess they would help us. We should cultivate a sense of wonder in worship, and allow those bright life forces to aid us.

Barry: I do not now need the staff. The snake has become a part of the green amulet. The moon is high in the sky above us. The sound of the drums of the Horned God dance beat from the woods.

Rob: When one drowns, air is eliminated, so one of the dangers of the water element is to become wholly concerned with emotions, air the intellect goes.

Barry: Another danger is being sucked along too quickly with the flow to avoid dangers. We need to steer well through water at the right speed.

The quayside is close.

Rob: Time to return. I swim to the quayside and climb out.

Barry: We walk for a short way, back to the water temple.

Rob: I drink from the cup.