“I am the Crone. I feel my way along paths following the energy and warmth that others have placed here. Trusting the dark, I am guided not by light, but by the flowing movements I sense. I am like the water that follows, without sight or foreknowledge, the ancient river’s channel.”

The above quote is from Susun Weed, one of my favorite menopause transformation authors. (New Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way

I have been thinking about water recently and its influences on me. I am a fond proponent of feng shui and the use of the elements to create balance in our environments. I am also in the process of rearranging our whole house. We live in a historic 1895 home and for the last 2 1/2 years have been living in the owners quarters upstairs and operating the rest of the house as a B & B. Now we are moving from the upstairs which is a quaint, rustic attic space with all knotty pine (floors, walls, ceiling-all pine!) into the lower level which is 10 ft ceilings and touches of elegant Victorian styling….quite a shift!

What was interesting was that I was not finding ‘room’ for many things and in particular just did not feel inclined to bring down any of my extensive basket collection. I am notorious for piling things into baskets! Other ‘earthy’ type things just didn’t seem to want to come, like I just did not need the wood and earth elements anymore or had too much of it. My feng shui instincts said, hmm, water element…you need more water element! And it is no coincidence that we have been very much in drought mode here in Arkansas for months.

Now less than a week after this moving project and my awareness of water qualities lacking in my environment we are being deluged with daily rains! Yeah, glorious rain - all of nature is lapping it up, the frogs are ecstatic, the pond is full again so the fish are happy, and the green of the grass and newly leafed trees is breathtaking. It seems all of nature is in flow again. And I, settling into my new home environment, feel again the movement within, a sense of more spaciousness and nurturing flow within, guiding me in the direction of my desires.

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