Water

Water is the lifeblood which we hold sacred on an individual as well as archetypal basis; we speak of primordial waters, baptismal waters, and the ebb and flow of the tides which mirror our cosmos to us through the rhythms of the moon.

These are often seen as being ‘maternal, violent, baptismal, therapeutic, feminine (…)’ as they facilitate both introspection and interoception, as well as offering an ideal conduit for our affective states to reach outward.

Water precedes life in both the ontological and evolutionary sense, and Macauley reminds us that, ‘we all live downstream’ in terms of this elemental interrelationship wherein pollution and disease can be transmitted as naturally as healing medicines which utilise the waters as media for remedy and transmutation.

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The mythological experience we imbue into our waters no doubt flavours the later consumption of it, and so we must respect its intensely adaptive qualities!

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