Emotion | Art | Compassion | Healing | Peace | Receptivity | Cleansing | Intuition

Feeling. Music. Femininity. Humbleness. Aesthetic. Gentleness. Nurturing. Softness. Allowance to be transformed. Passivity. Clearing. Calming. Soothing. Non aggressive, soft strength. Love of one another. Unity. Simplicity. Calm.

Water is associated with all the organs that receive; mostly those located below the solar plexus excluding the lungs. Just like fire, water gives life to the rest of your planet. Her role cannot be diminished although it may have been compromised in the past Fire age. You may now see the results of that imbalance and you certainly will see it if you choose not to bring things into equilibrium. Your world will not be able to exist without the proper reverence given to the water element and all that it represents.

As it is Air’s job to generate an idea and Fire’s job to generate the energy of that idea, it is Water’s job to feel that idea. In this ‘feeling’, the Fire is brought into balance or is calmed. The resulting manifestation is one that serves the greater balance and harmony of all things. If the Water process is skipped, scorching may likely be the result. Your past into your present may be seen as the scorching effects of the Fire element that was not quelled, refined and passed through the Water element.

It is not what Water wishes to deprive Fire of its passion. On the contrary, the Water element, at its best, is a lover of passion and knows Fire’s heat must be there for life to exist. Water in excess is not the answer either. Water’s job is only to transform the passion into a nurturing flame and not a searing blast. When thoughts go from Air to Fire and straight into physical manifestation (Earth), you are likely to have some very dangerous manifestations. The Water part of the Bana Kuma process creates beauty, health, harmony, grace and peace. Greed is tempered. Power is quelled. The whole is looked at. Rashness is cooled. Fear is nurtured into wellbeing. It is Water that can best transform the transformer (Fire).

Many who have recognized the imbalance of Fire have possibly gone too far on the other side of the spectrum in which Water became dominant over the Fire element. Things of this nature can become flaccid, weak and without passion or excitement. It is not our suggestion that you try to create a Water force that quells the Fire; instead that you become living examples of the Fire and Water in balance.

Those of the Fire will have an intrinsic dislike for things that are not balanced with the Fire element and they will be correct in feeling this way. Two wrongs don’t make a right; or should we say, two imbalances do not create balance. The two must be combined in a balanced way to demonstrate an example of how the two elements can coexist together.

From one perspective, we see much of your Water organizations ore movements that stand against the injustices of the Fire on Earth as lacking the Fire element. The “hippie movement” of the sixties and the “new age movement” of today is filled with many aspects that are Water dominant. When the word “love’ is mentioned in these contexts it is often done so with a very over-Watery sentiment and the word itself loses its power and energy force. An organization or movement with an imbalance of Water will not have the proper force to change the world; this is why we emphasize the balance between the two always.

 Water is the feminine. It is the all-important filter of the Fire energy. It is the purifier of Fire energy. Just as water cleans you and things that you wash it with, it cleans ideas and their Fire energy. It does not put the fire out! Hence the symbol of the fire still existing in the water. Water tempers the flames of passion so that they serve the balance and the harmony; not singe all they touch.

Ancient philosophy was literally seen as the art of taking ideas and/or intentions and working them through morals (Water). Water does not allow the Earth to be scorched if it is used in a balanced way. By the Water element, one could know if an idea and action is right or wrong. When things go wrong it is because people do not intuit with their Water element.

Water, as a pure element, will not lie. It is a good monitor of truth and what the result of an action will be. You will be able to feel the outcome of a certain thought or idea before it becomes manifested in action. Let your ideas be passed through your Water first. Listen to a beautiful piece of music while you decide to do something of importance. You will know if it is right or wrong for you and if it helps or hurts others. Your Water element, in the process of Bana Kuma, does not over intellectualize ideas and justify the bad ones. It simply is and will tell you what an idea is. The Air and Fire, left to their own devices, can justify any action with enough manipulation. Not water. She tells it as it is.

Water in its positive state is sensitive, flowing and adaptable. In its negative state it can be fearful, constricting and easily tainted.