Nine of Water
The Nine of Water energies prompt: Celebrate the pleasures of life. Delicate blossoms ripen into succulent fruit. Enjoy your own sweet company.
Nine of Water: Cups
The Nine of Water energies manifest in the Peach.
Peach
Emotional nourishment is food for the soul. Invite comfort and happiness to fill your heart and enchant the senses. Peach trees are messengers of delight; watch flowers dance, taste sweet fruit, smell fragrant blossoms, feel cool leaves, listen to birds sing from branches.
Let yourself be immersed in the waters of life, touched by grace.
Peach tea cools inflammation; wash away the heat of negativity and disharmony. The luscious fruit of the peach brings the slow gift of summer to life. When your deepest wishes come to pass, enjoy them fully and offer gratitude for your blessings.
Qualities
| Positive | Negative |
| wishes coming true realizing dreams happiness cheerfulness joy fulfillment positivity optimism satisfaction success abundance prosperity achievements rewards confidence high self-esteem triumph | shattered dreams nightmares unhappiness devastation misery lack of fulfillment |
Crafting With the Nine of Water
The Nine energies feature fruit bearing trees. They are the treasures of the sustainable food forest. Fruit trees are often the central point on a guild, a permaculture term used to describe a grouping of plants grown together to increase longevity, production, and sustainability. The trees are supported and surrounded by ground covers. understory herbs and vegetables, pollinators and more. These trees are beneficial to all beings. They stand by themselves yet in service to the whole.
The plants of the nines celebrate the herbcrafter’s triumphs. She is now able to enjoy the fruits of her labor. She is able to handle her grief, is nurtured and taken care of, and is able to nurture others without depleting herself. The maturity of the Nines is made possible by saying “yes” to the invitation of the Sevens and overcoming the challenges of the Eights. The Nines also represent the culmination of the herbcrafter’s adventures through the three minidramas. She has been introduced to the ways of the healing plants and learned to work well with others. Now, she revels in the completion of her journey. In the Nines, the herbcrafter awakens to the power of the soul.
Craft
- Enjoy a cool peach on a summer’s day. Let each juicy bite be a meditation in joy.
- Honor yourself with a sacred bath of peach blossoms, sensual oils and perfumes.
- Craft a peach flower essence to celebrate your majesty. You are sovereign unto yourself.
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.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell