Are you familiar with the four elements?
You know, Fire, Earth, Air, and Water?
This is the last 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 three elements, you can do so by following these links:
Last up--earth!
The alchemical process associated with earth is conjunction, because all matter results from some sort of conjoining, or coming together. It is the final step in the transformational process and is the most nurturing and creative.
Earth is the archetypal element representing divine fertility and sustenance. Coming into contact with earth means encountering immense creative power, and is best done with humility and humbleness. (The word humility comes from "humus," meaning earth.)
Whether we are walking upon the earth, planting in the earth, or making mud pies from the earth, coming into contact with the earth is an act of co-creation. Psychologically, the conjunction of two things occurs in order to create a new state of consciousness. According to alchemist Dennis William Hauck in The Emerald Tablet: “From an individual’s viewpoint, conjunction is the birth of a new reality through the union of thought and action that [creates] a completely new way of looking at things.”
Conjunction is the final step that we all take along the path from Accidental Pren-her to spiritually conscious businesswoman and with it comes the permanent state of enlightment of our Inner Samurai. The first step, fire, forms the foundation, the second step, water, forms the inner wisdom, and the third step, air, forms the inner truth of our Inner Samurai. With the final step, earth, a co-creative partnership with all the rest of the elements completes the transformational process, thus forming the philosopher’s stone of our Accidental Pren-her.
Often preceded by an activating or life-changing event, conjunction is the natural process that occurs when we have taken in and fully integrated all that has happened along our journey. As a result, the life-changing event that rocked our world and turned everything upside down becomes the instrument of change that transmutes our lead into gold. As a result, we have been changed from the inside out and in the process become more of who we really are.
Have you had a life-changing event that rocked your world?
What was the transformation 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.
Susan L. Reid
The original Accidental Pren-her™
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