Are you familiar with the four elements?
You know, Fire, Earth, Air, and Water?
This is the second blog of a four-part blog series on the four elements and their transformational power and importance to the Accidental Pren-her.™ If you would like to get caught up by reading about the first element, fire, click here.
Second up--Water!
The alchemical process associated with water is dissolution. It is the second step in the transformational process, and often the one that is the most empowering.
Water represents the unconscious and is symbolic of the impermanence of all things, and the glorious power of change. Psychologically, dissolution represents the cleansing and dissolving away of the old, outmoded ideas and ways of being that no longer serve us. Water provides the important transformational element needed to let go of the old in order to make way for the new.
Karen Mattern has placed her master's thesis, divided into neat, easy to read segments, up on her blog. I found her description of water's transformational quality during grief particularly relevant to today's blog, find it here.
It is the second step that we all take along the path from Accidental Pren-her™ to entrepreneurial woman and forms the inner wisdom of our inner Samurai. With the first step, fire, forming the foundation of the inner Samurai, and the second step, water, forming the inner wisdom of our inner Samurai, this is the first half of a transformational process that will eventually form the philosopher’s stone of the Accidental Pren-her.™
Often preceded by an activating or life-changing event, dissolution is the natural process that happens as part of the integration process we all go through after the occurrence of a major life event. Effecting our finances, relationships, health, family, work, career, and living situations, the water of dissolution helps us to let go of what was, in order to become what is.
Have you had a life-changing event that rocked your world?
Now that you know about the dissolution process that occurs after such an event, what were some of the things that you had to let go of in order to become who you now are?
What was that letting go process like for you?
If you’ve had a life-changing event, or are currently having one--this is the place to talk about it.
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