Hurricane Katrina and Messages from the Water Kingdom - 9/6/05

Communing With the Water Devas

This weekend I was blessed to visit a gorgeous place, the town of Lake Placid in upper New York State. It's in the Adirondacks, and it's really a paradise. Pristine lakes are surrounded by gorgeous mountain peaks.

We did some rowing and canoeing and mostly spent the weekend communing with the guardians of water, the various lake and waterfall devas who oversee the water in that area.

We received some fascinating teachings from them. At one point, I asked about Hurricane Katrina and also the recent devastating typhoons in China. There has been so much trauma over this past year coming from extreme water situations - from the tsunamis to the hurricanes to flooding that happened here in our neck of the woods, in central New Jersey on the Delaware River.

I asked about the energy behind these events. I was told that Hurricane Katrina was not a natural event (meaning that it was manmade, for whatever nefarious and dark reasons.) The Gulf deva who watches over that area is apparently a very laid-back, loving deva, and this hurricane was not induced by her at all. Various water energies are being distorted through the use of weather altering technology - not a good thing to be messing with. For whatever reasons, New Orleans was the target this time. I was given a lot more information about this but am reluctant to share it just now.

On a higher, spiritual level, however, the water devas said that all things are working together for good. Water is the most efficient way for the Earth to cleanse and purify herself, and there's nothing like a flood to clear out harmful electromagnetic pollution and psychic pollution that has taken over an area. Unfortunately, the Luciferian types who are into dark voodoo and worse have long polluted much of New Orleans with some really bad stuff, and perhaps, despite the tragedy of this event, some of that spiritual goop will be cleared out now. It's definitely an area in need of healing on many levels.

Messages From the Water Devas

One deva told us that the urgent message the water devas want to convey to us in these times is to "strip away everything that is not essential" in our lives. On a mundane level, sometimes this involves the loss of belongings or homes in a geographical area that has been hit by one of these extreme weather events. But she wasn't referring to that. She was referring to the spiritual or metaphysical point of view.

She clarified this for me. In addition to stripping away everything that isn't essential, water also clears out anything that is incapable of bearing fruit, washing away seeds that have little chance of taking root and surviving to maturity.

In a larger, spiritual sense, the message of all of these extreme water events is about learning to simplify our lives - not just regarding our possessions. The devas were NOT sending some kind of cataclysmic warning that we all need to sell everything we own, move to the mountains and live our lives in fear of the weather. That's not their message at all. They are talking about simplifying our lives by releasing our attachments to complicated thoughts, obsessions, and addictive patterns.

It's the toxic thoughtforms that we hold around our possessions that are the problem, not the possessions themselves. It's the negative attitudes that we maintain about our jobs, our money flow, and our day-to-day relationships that the devas were talking about as being "non-essential" or unlikely to take root in a healthy way.

Water Urges Us to Simplify Our Lives

So, we were inspired by our communication with the devas to return home setting a new intention. Now I'm focusing on approaching everything, from my work to my relationships to my creative projects, with a lighter, less manic, touch. This involves breathing, slowing down, living on shamanic time (being fully in the moment) vs. man-created "tick-tock" time (always racing ahead to the next self-imposed deadline, living in panic or fear.)

I've never really been a high pressure Type A person, but even I notice the difference between the calm, faith-filled feeling the devas conveyed to me, one which is connected to the stream of all life, and the more frantic pace I sometimes assume when I'm heavily immersed in the art of being busy.

Meditation on the Messages of Water

To incorporate the wisdom of the water devas into your own life, you may wish to meditate on these things:

1) What are you carrying around each day that is non-essential? Approach this idea both on a physical level (simplifying your life by ridding yourself of possessions you no longer value or need). And also look at this concept from a metaphysical level. (What attitudes, beliefs, obsessions, emotional loops, are you too caught up in? How are they serving you? Isn't it time to let go of some of them?)

2) What things are you allowing yourself to be burdened with that are time-consuming "energy stealers?" This applies to toxic relationships which may be draining you instead of giving you energy, and it also applies to self-imposed goals that are making you frantic and unhappy instead of bringing you peace.

3) Find a meaningful way to release some of these habits and things. Explore prayer, meditation and ritual and implement these powerful techniques as you focus on letting stuff go.

Here's a fun little ritual:

On a piece of red paper, write down a list of everything you intend to let go of. Red represents anger, frustration, and anxiety - states of mind you want to release. That's why you are doing this on red paper.

Then invoke God/Goddess/Great Spirit/the angels and read off the list, verbalizing your intention to release these things from your life and expel them permanently from your energy field.

Then burn the piece of paper (making sure you are doing this in a safe area and that you have water nearby!)

Afterwards, bury the ashes in the ground or scatter them in a body of water like a stream, allowing them to return to nature.

4) Notice how your energy has lifted. Do you feel lighter? As you return to your daily routine, give yourself permission to feel, think, and behave differently. Try to incorporate this lighter feeling into your activities instead of immediately stepping back into those old energies of tension.

Living Attuned to Water Wisdom

I know that after our weekend away in the mountains, I'm breathing differently. I feel less rushed and hurried. I feel extremely reluctant to get back "into the stream" of human-centered anxiety and rushing around all the time. Instead, I'm standing aside from it all, holding on to this feeling of peace and centeredness and trying to figure out how to maintain it as I return to my duties with life and work.

I encourage you to meditate on these messages from the water kingdom. The devas shared with me that the more you can align yourself with these ideas, the safer and healthier you will be, both physically and spiritually.

You see, none of Nature's helpers, or "the keepers of places," which is how they referred to themselves this weekend, intend humanity any harm. But if we are living in a distorted or disconnected way, we stand a greater chance of being knocked over by one thing or another - whether it's an earthquake or natural disaster or something more manmade. True stability comes from putting down healthy roots based in serenity, maturity, and clarity. Carrying around lots of psychic junk and emotional obsession prevents us from being here fully.

I believe it was spiritual teacher Ram Dass who wrote the book Be Here Now. He was (and still is) tuned in to something very important.

All true power and strength comes from being fully in the moment, not expending our energy projecting into the past or worrying about the future.

From the present, power prayer and creation are possible. And those creations can improve the state of things here on Earth, if we come at this spiritual work the right way.