A Daily Look Within – Day 15
A Daily Look Within Day 15
By Kathy Custren
Elemental Contemplations: FIRE and SPIRIT
As we enter our third week of the consciousness challenge, we next consider the combined elemental forces of Fire and Spirit. These are worthy of being viewed independently, as you will read. However, combined they will brighten and fill the days of this third week with a lot of creative and conscious energy!
ELEMENTAL CONTEMPLATION: FIRE
Fire is probably the most volatile element by its very personality. It holds the powers of heat and life, as can best be exhibited by our own Sun, while it can also carry destruction. Fire can be used to provide comfort, as in heat and hot water. Fire corresponds most closely with the South compass point. It can be an impetus for change, as in using Fire to melt down metals or for use in cooking food. Fire, in its being, is very kinetic…it changes shape and moves about as it takes the air and fuel source and “becomes” itself. How much like Fire are we all?
Consider the Flame…raw energy, emitting both light and heat. Once sparked, from seemingly almost nothing [Air/Spirit], it catches its home on the wick, existing in space and feeding from the fuel source (wax) below. It hovers, holding its fairly consistent shape—that being almost a triangle: stout on the bottom, but elongating and reaching up ever higher until, at its top, it succumbs to nothingness once more. In visualizing, notice how the base of the Flame is darker. It has a slightly bluer hue than the outer edges or top part. The base, or internal part of the Flame, tends to stay more constant and consistent in size and intensity. The outer and top edges are lighter in both color and consistency, and are very much at the mercy of the fluctuations of available and moving air. The outer edges can bend and may even appear to dance or twist with different air movements, even if there is only a mere hint of air change.
