Forgiveness is an Alchemy with the Natural Water of Planet Earth and the Moon

Forgiveness

By Ivy Integration

Forgiveness is acceptance. Forgiveness is a soothing, humble and calm state of being. Unforgiveness is ridged, prideful and controlling. Unforgiveness attacks the life with judgment, stubbornness and resistance. Emotions are as a river. They bend, shape and reshape the land as time passes. Emotions can be sharp, vigorous, dangerous, slow and spacious. Like the great river, emotions provide nutrients to the land and carve into land. Emotions change the landscape by reshaping what was into something else. Acceptance is a gentle reminder that feelings are the ebb and flow of water. The tides of the sea, the waterfall, the morning dew on leaves, the rainfall are the emotions of humanity and like the natural waters of Planet Earth there is a rhythm.

Our first home is a sack of water that flows with the movement of the mother. In the sack of water, we are vulnerable and receptive to the vigorous and serene emotions of the mother. We may even agree to be helpless to the powerful movement of the mother. Regardless of the water flow, like a storm of heavy rain or a still lake, we accept as a baby in the womb the emotions of the mother. We must accept the mother’s emotions as a child in the womb because without our acceptance we are unwelcoming to the maturity of our baby body. To mature as a baby in the womb is to allow the waters of the mother to nourish and shape/reshape our baby body. The landscape of our baby body is shaped and reshaped by the waters of mother. She is the encouragement to surrender to change. Like the natural waters of Planet Earth encourage us in storm of rain and drought that water is constant movement.

Connecting with the rhythm of emotions is relearning the moon that pulls on the natural waters of Planet Earth. The moon is the mother of Planet Earth. Her sack of movement like the sack of water in the pregnanct woman is the ebb and flow that matures our bodies. The moon moves us like jazz and poetry moves us to mature our emotions. The moon is the rhythm that brought about dance, chant and yoga. The natural waters of Planet Earth, the waterfall, still lake, powerful rain storm, morning dew, is the Planet Earth holding us in a sack of water to protect and safeguard our maturity.

Humankind can deny the natural waters of Planet Earth shaping their maturity with each ebb and flow because humankind has controlled emotions. The natural waters of Planet Earth even the pregnant woman’s water sack breaking are not controlled by the moon but encouraged. We encourage emotions to calm when anxious. We encourage emotions to be still when chaotic. We encourage emotions to forgive when angry. But, emotions ebb and flow in their own time. Emotions cannot be forced to be calm, still or forgive when emotions are not yet available to move in that rhythm. Like the season of drought cannot be forced into raining season. Humanity encourages downpour and many times downpour arrives in the time it is ready.

Forgiveness is a practice of patience and tolerance. Like the great famer who patiently awaits the rain to nourish his crops. He encourages the rain with prayer and faith and many times the rain arrives in the time it is ready. Forgiveness cannot be forced but encouraged through prayer and faith. When there is unforgiveness, a storm of rain or a vigorous ocean, acceptance joins the rhythm of such motion and make it into a remedy. The moon no matter how heavy she pressures the waters of Planet Earth or calm she remedies. When humanity returns to the moon and her cycles of pressure and ease, remedy is motion of water regardless of the high or low tide.

Forgiveness is passing through the drought and the never ending rain storm with remedy to receive. The natural waters of Planet Earth and the moon are receptivity. They give to humanity. We take from the natural waters of Planet Earth and the moon. When we allow ourselves to take from the motion of water we give thanks to the emotions like a child giving thanks to a mother who brought her to dance class. The emotions, high or low, become a journey of insight like the farmer mapping the seasons of heavy rain, low rain, drought and calm rain. We are farmers to our crops of insight.

We plant prayer and faith into the soil such as to heal emotions or release emotions and encourage the rain to move through us. We map our emotions, the heavy rain, low rain, drought and calm rain, by accepting emotions are the natural waters of Planet Earth and the moon. Forgiveness becomes alchemy rather than a forced effort or premature arrival. Forgiveness becomes the baby in the water sack receiving the motion of ourselves without judgment but total surrender making the best out of the motion of ourselves. We too can make the best out of the nutrients of emotions. We too can become insightful like the farmer to his crop. We too can map the moon and her cycles into our emotional storms and stillness as alchemy and we are the jazz player to our sorrow, breakthrough and release.