Healer of Water
The Healer of Water energies prompt: Don’t live in the shallows: live in the depths. Strengthen your bones in the ocean’s ebb and flow. Rock gently on the water, heed the siren’s song.
Healer of Water: King of Cups
The Healer of Water energies manifest in Seaweed.
Seaweed
The Healer of Water flows through life with ease. She neither hides her feelings nor lets them overtake her. She understands emotions have cycles, too, and she easily navigates their changes.
She remembers that our first home was the sea, and to the sea we shall return.
She makes times for daily rituals that bring deep healing.
She knows seaweed nourishes her body and she enjoys snacking on the salty treat. People are drawn to her open heart and comforting embrace. Her counsel brings a sense of calm and well-being.
Qualities
| Positive | Negative |
| trust wealth of knowledge caring healing good advice someone who understands unconscious motivations a man in touch with his emotional life a good friend mature, emotionally stable person | bad advice scheming fraud an alcoholic or drug addict one who looks out only for himself |
Crafting With the Healer of Water
The Healer energies feature ancient herbs that have been used by humans for centuries. They are plants that have medicine particularly valuable for elder women but are useful for people of all ages. The plants themselves are established and well known. The herbs of the Healer energies are vehicles for stories. They highlight the herbcrafter’s role as keeper of secrets. They invite her to explore the world by listening for magic.
The Healer correspond to Kings in traditional tarot decks. They represent faith in the mysterious. They approach adventures with kindness and curiosity about the outcome. The Healer call us to a time of trust and respond to questions with, “Maybe so.” Linked to the initiations that began with deeper areas of study in the Sevens, they represent the fulfillment of the herbcrafter’s higher calling. They are the keepers of the elements, showing us how to preserve and protect what we value. As guides, they offer the gift of wisdom.
Craft
- Spend time watching seaweed in the ocean, wade in and let your body feel the rhythm.
- Strengthen your bones: snack on kelp and eelgrass.
- Restore your connection to the sea: enjoy a seaweed bath at home.
Mini Meditation
Meditation
Get into a relaxing position and close your eyes, make sure you are a comfortable temperature and not likely to be interrupted.
- Take three deep breaths
- Feel your tension melting away.
Imagine yourself doing one of the crafts mentioned above. Use your imagination. Make it as elaborate or as simple as you like. Have whomever you would like to be there come and share the time with you.
Imagine what it would look and feel like, as if it were really happening. Use your five senses and imagine all the sensory details as though you are really there.
Be creative and indulge in this moment.
Spend as long as you like in this visualization and feel the benefits of crafting with nature. Think about your meditation as often as you like as you go through your day. If possible, create it in reality.
The Herbcrafter
Herbcrafter
An herbcrafter is an afficianada of the botanical realm. She is in love with plants and longs to know them more deeply.
Her approach is driven by a playful, wild spirit.
The herbcrafter embraces the plant world as her teacher and friend through observation and botany, gardening and wildcrafting, medicine and kitchen craft, fiber arts and weaving, art and magic.
She recognizes herself as part of nature. She seeks reciprocity in all things. Through the relationship with the botanical world, she learns how plants and people can be of service to one another.
Don’t live in the shallows, live in the depths. Strengthen your bones in eht ocean’s ebb and flow. Rock gently on the water, heed the siren’s song.