FLUIDI-TEA SOUL SALON
Fluidity: the ability of a substance to flow easily. “lead especially assists in the fluidity of the molten metal”
smooth elegance or grace. “They moved with supreme skill and graceful fluidity”
Smooth and flowing; graceful: the fluid motion of a cat.
The state of being unsettled or unstable; changeability. “Tactical considerations can change rapidly given the fluidity of the situation”
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a fluid. Readily reshaped; pliable.
Changing or tending to change; variable: a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty.
Characterized by or allowing social mobility: a fluid society.
Spiritually speaking when one speaks of someone having fluid awareness, what does that mean? As one evolves spiritually, it is a natural progression to move from impartiality, non-separation, non-judgement, into non-dual consciousness and finally into what can be called fluid awareness. What characterizes that state of consciousness? Fluid awareness implies maintaining a more holographic position in consciousness, wherein everything is viewed more fluidly because depending on where/how you are looking at the hologram, your answer/response will be entirely different. (Like the traditional five blind men describing an elephant, all holding different perceptions of what an elephant is, due to their differences in perspective on the elephant.) If you are working through your perception that there IS actually an “other”, separate and unconnected from yourself, working on being more fluid in awareness will significantly speed the process of moving through that limiting perception.
What does that look like in actual practice?
Try catching yourself when you separate and judge an “other”.. to stop and look at how in that moment, you could hold that being as “part” of the greater Self.. Or even more growth engendering for your Self, be willing to look at how your judgment of them is actually showing you where you have separated and then projected some part of self on to them.
Practice responding to any inquiry from a non-rehearsed, unautomated, fresh, spontaneous perspective an unrehearsed response..especially one that you have never heard yourself say before. This one practice develops fluid awareness and in the end, wakefulness.
Another means to open up fluid awareness is to respond to someone with a metaphor rather than a predictable, rational, linear response. Let’s try that to get a feel for what that fluidity feels like, to get a “get out of jail free card”.. to not be so constrained and limited in your awareness by a singularly linear use of language.
We have all experienced altered state realities where we all of a sudden see the larger pattern that holographically connects things that seem so utterly separate and different very easily in that fluid state, whether that expanded state was created by a near miss brush with death in a car accident, a deep meditation or a plant medicine journey. What makes the difference that allows this expanded perception of reality to be possible? How, in this state, do we all of a sudden perceive the bigger picture, the connection of parts to the whole? What is happening with how we hold our awareness in that expanded brain state?
Under what circumstances are you able to hold reality more fluidly? What attitudes or qualities make that more possible?
To be able to navigate through the difficult and challenging waters of initiation in which we are now required to flow at this time on Earth, the attribute of fluidity is not a spiritual luxury we will get around to at some point of our spiritual journey, it rather is now an essential survival skill. So what does that look like to be able to be fluid and flow amidst challenging circumstances?
One thing that arises for me is looking at how water moves.. when water is flowing, if it hits a rock, or an obstacle, it flows AROUND it, rather than arguing with it or resisting going around it.
Let’s look at the element of water more closely by taking in the Evocation to Water from the 13 Moon Oracle, as to how fluidity operates in water.
I am water, Mem, Mother, Mem, I am
I hold the power to cleanse, dissolve, sublime
I am the self conscious intelligence held in elemental resonance
Allow me to serve your awareness
I am the fluid container of feminine consciousness
I hold the power to heal through purifying release
I am the magnetic, vibrational potential of surrender
I am the receptive nature of the Goddess
I am the eternal flow of moonpower
I am fluidity, non-fixity
I am the salt of intuition,
I am the sacred chalice of the emotional body
I am the medium of transduction of the magnetic frequencies of the Mother
Receive me,
for I am water, Mem, Mother, Mem, I am
The Goddess sees everything in cycles of flow. In the Feminine view there is no beginning and no ending, simply flowing in different parts of the natural cycles of nature operating in the appearance of time. The Divine Feminine actually operates in the non-linear flow of Timelessness. In the Divine Feminine, there is only the requiredness of the truth of each moment around which to stabilize, in a non-fixed, dynamic equilibrium that is always moving and re-balancing. You can easily see why the Divine Feminine in water says “I am fluidity, non-fixity”. Water is always moving, reforming, changing states, pooling, re-directing, flowing in the moment. We would be wise to be with water, to more clearly embody its constantly changing, non-fixed qualities.
As to shadow, what water demonstrates and embodies is purifying release. We are being strongly called to not struggle against the current of What Is occurring in our lives, to stop resisting, to rather let go and surrender our outmoded limiting patterns and beliefs, making the changes that are required to remain in the grace of being in the Divine flow! To do this requires that we learn the seminal skill of fluid awareness.. which demonstrates the ability to re-frame our experience out of dualistic positions of good or bad, right or wrong.. into what serves to navigate in THIS unique moment.
What current do you find yourself struggling against, resisting in your life? What limiting patterns and beliefs are you being called to surrender and release?
