Sink Or Swim
This article is devoted to water and its importance to our health. What we can learn about water is important to our emotional and spiritual health as well as what we’ve already learned about it in relation to our physical health. Water is a universal archetype or symbol for the energy of emotion. We find examples of this symbology throughout global cultures and spiritual systems. In earth-based spiritual systems, the elements of nature reflect the elements of man. Air represents the mind, earth represents the physical or material aspect, fire represents action and expression, and water represents emotion. In Tarot decks, the suit of cups (water container) represent emotion. The symbol of water itself in the cards also represents emotion. In the Native American spiritual system, water represents emotional energy as observed in the energetic representations of water-based animals like the beaver. There are valuable insights that we can gain into our emotional nature through exploring the nature of water as an analogy for the nature of emotional energy. Exploring the way Beaver interacts with his watery environment draws the analogy perfectly.