Water (Hydor in ancient Greece) is primarly cold and secondarily wet. Water is an element of endless moods and tremendous power: the crashing surf, the gentle mountain stream, the flood which destroys everything in its path. The story of Water is a fascinating tale of plots, subplots, life and death.

The amount of water on the earth is fairly constant. What changes is its purity, its vitaliy and its location. Water will be in one of four spots: on the surface of the earth, below the surface of the earth, in the atmosphere and in organisms. 97% of all water is in the ocean, and of the remaining 3%, 2.94% is captured in glaciers and polar ice caps. Usable drinking water represents .06% of all the water on the planet. Its journey from ocean to land begins with the Sun's energy evaporating ocean water, creating clouds and weather systems. Some of these systems travel over land, where water changes again, into either liquid or solid precipitation. This will either be trapped in an ice cap, run back to the ocean or find its way into the water table.

The groundwater cycle is of key importance to the vitality of water, and this little known aspect of water is crucial to the health of our species and this planet. Vital or "living" water contains a spin that is imparted to by the the geomagnetic field of the earth in the hydrological cycle. If this cycle is disrupted or its benefits comprimised before the water reaches us, the water will be "dead". At a microscopic crystalline level there is a profound difference between vitalized water and water that has gone through city pipes. The living water is ordered into beautiful geometric arrays, while the the dead water crystals are relatively chaotic.

The platonic solid associated with Water is the icosahedron, a 20 sided polyhedron whose faces are equilateral triangles in the case of a regular icosahedron. Bearing in mind that the association of water and the icosahedron was made 2300 years ago in ancient Greece, ponder this. Recent research by Martin Chapin, professor of Applied Science Water and Aqueous Systems Research of London South Bank University has demonstrated that water molecules can arrange themselves in different configurations based on the icosahedron. The most interesting of these configurations is one that consists of 13 smaller icosohedrons and 1820 total molecules. It is this "supericosahedral" array that supports living water, by resonating with the fundamental energy, Chi, or what modern phisics would call zero point imploding energy. Water is literally a medium of the energy of life. Your body which is more than 2/3 water, is animated by Chi conveyed through highly structured water which science has recently shown exists in a biological cells.

Water is the element of the west, autumn, the setting sun and middle age. It is an element of many moods - a glassy idyllic lake in summer, roaring rapids, a pounding surf dismantling a coastline, or a country stream. It can both nourish and destroy. Unsurprisingly it is associated with our emotions. The water astrological signs are Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces.

Traditionally the element of Water has been used to aid in the following goals:

• Communication with ancestors
• Beauty
• Childbearing and Rearing
• Family Issues
• Freindships
• Healing
• Home - comfort and beauty
• Letting Go
• Love
• Meditation
• Partnerships
• Psychism
• Purification

Psychological Qualities Of Water

Herbs Associated With Water

Gems Associated With Water

An Altar To Water

In the western part of your house, drape and decorate a table in rich watery blues and greens. Offer shells, feathers of waterbirds, green watery stones and incense and herbs sacred to water. Have a chalice or bowl of water on this altar and change it daily. Invite the Element Water to make this space its home. Light candles and incense on this altar and drink its charged water when you explore your emotions in your journal, perform acts of love, work with your dreams or work with psychic techniques.