The Gift p1.5 Summer Solstice 2014

In my last post I talked about how I had used the Earth as an Anchor so that I could gain the Depth of the Water Element as past of my Elemental Quest (that was a long sentence).

I left out (for the sake of continuity) an experience that I had within that one. When I first began to resonate with the Water Element I became overwhelmed, even though I had successfully anchored myself to the Earth.

Cailleach had driven a stake into my consciousness with a command, “Use the Gift” What the heck was that? What Gift? And how was I supposed to use it?

I recall that it reminded me of Gandalf’s advice to the Dwarves at the Gates of Mirkwood, “Don’t leave the path”.

As I struggled with the Water Element’s depth I sent a shout out to Cailleach, “What Gift?” Imagine if you will, a troubadour hanging on to the horns of a bull whilst shouting for help.

“The Gift”, Cailleach admonished, “The Gift”

I don’t know about your experiences with other beings (even humans in some cases) but the interactions can be exasperating. I suspect that it is because much of other worldly communication is lost in translation (pun intended).

My attention split. That in itself has to be a feat of enormous proportions because it wasn’t a dual split, but a four-way one.

1. I was attending the Water Elements depth that was suffocating me.
2. I was holding onto the anchor in the Earth
3. I was calling out to Cailleach for help and understanding
4. and now I was being given instruction on the Gift.

“You are trying to balance out the energies of Earth and Water,” Cailleach patiently instructed, “Don’t, you cannot balance them, you must ‘flow’ between them.”

If I didn’t have a look of puzzlement on my face then I certainly had one in my thoughts.

“You must flow between them” Cailleach said again. Repeating the same sentence doesn’t add anything to…I began and stopped. Cailleach had taken over my perception, I knew it because she let me know it. Again, wow!

It was as if she had grabbed my head and was turning it, but instead it was my ‘focus’ she had grabbed. I was seeing/experiencing the Water, then it was the Earth/Anchor then the Water.

Before I had tried to ‘balance’ the two in my mind. Now I was ‘flowing’ between the two. Is this the Gift I asked? Flow?

“No,” she responded, there was a pause, “The Gift, the Present, the Now, the Moment, the Point” She said, giving me similes.  Focus? I tried. “No,” Focus is what you are doing with the Moment.”

I kind of got what she was communicating. But within that experience I didn’t have time to consider it more. I ‘took’ control of myself again and replicated what she had done. I flowed between Earth and Water. One ‘moment’ I was resonating with Water, the next I was resonating with Earth.

And then, it hit me, of course. The “gift” like a gift, like a “present”, like “The Present”, like the “Present Moment”. I was shifting the Present Moment. What a lateral consideration!

That was the Gift that Cailleach was talking about. But it gets more interesting. What she was saying is that I should use the Gift to move inside myself. Earth is a Root energy and Water is a Sacral energy. She was telling me to shift my focus, my present moment to MY root chakra and MY Sacral chakra instead of the Earth and the Water.

Hope I am getting this across clearly. Nevertheless it was a huge insightful moment. Expect to hear more about this “Gift” and “Flowing” rather than balancing.

Kal Malik