I have noticed lately that we, as magic workers tend to distance ourselves from power by adding complexity. We take directly powerful things and turn them into concepts sidestepping their innate power. And I wonder if this is because we’ve forgotten how to directly interact with things. I wonder if it is a side effect of the culture we live in.

In working with our gods and guides lately we have been redirected back to what is – away from what it means and back into direct engagement with the forces of nature as they exist. Water is not an idea, not a set of characteristics applied to things without anchor in the physical. Water is a THING. Water is WATER. It makes up some 75% (give or take) of the planet. Without it you will die. Water can soften the earth, all living things need water. Water can cut through stone over time. We can touch flowing water. Flowing water can carry us along or drown us depending on the force with which it moves. Water is not “west, emotions, ancestors” though it speaks to them and of them. Water is not a concept. Water is a powerful elemental force and being.

When we do magic we can work with the idea of the concepts of the characteristics of water, or we can work with Water. Doing our magic in the physical, using the forces of nature is simple, direct and powerful. It is not for the faint of heart. What would it mean to your magic to engage in it directly, anchoring it in the physical? Astral work is helpful and often powerful, but when it is not balanced with the physical, we lost touch with the powers that surround us. More and more nature shows us her power. Are you willing to touch that power in your magical work?

And more, I wonder, what would happen – how would the forces of nature react if we began to engage with her again in wonder at her power as we do our nature? Will you find out with me?