Eating the Elements 4: The Power of Water

In the final part of a four-episode series, the discussion centers on water as a spiritual element, with insights from Samael. The session begins with a song embodying water's vibration, followed by a thoughtful analysis of water's importance. The speakers explore water's unique properties, its role in human life, and its symbolic meaning in emotional, spiritual, and practical contexts. They address the need to let go of control, using water as a metaphor for surrendering to divine will and allowing life to unfold naturally. The conversation delves into the idea of not containing water (or life) in human-made reservoirs, emphasizing trust in divine timing and outcomes. They conclude by contemplating how challenges and perceived endings can be opportunities for new beginnings, closing with the reflection on what new realities we choose to birth in place of the old.

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Transcript

Water 4/4

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Jennifer Taylor: Thank you for joining us for the fourth part of this four episode series. Thank you for hanging in there with us as we go on this wild and crazy ride, with Samael and learning more about the elements as he sees them and how it is that he is encouraging us to work So today we talk about water and the opening song is a song that was really in the vibration of water in the Since that Samael is talking about it, and so we'll go kind of right into that.

Jennifer Taylor: We will hear that song and then a discussion of what it is that he tells us about water. So I hope that you really enjoy this and without further ado, our opening song of water. ​[00:01:00] 

Jennifer Taylor: [00:02:00] [00:03:00] He,

Jennifer Taylor: he. 

Tava Baird: water's a little different. 

Jennifer Taylor: [00:04:00] Interesting. 

Tava Baird: It's interesting that he saved this one for last because it almost feels like a culmination of the others. Almost. I don't want to say it feels more important because all of the elements are, they're balanced. He says all of the elements are balanced, but there's something about this one that has a gravity to it that the others don't. Or there's an understanding of it that's a slightly different than how you go about the others. I'm going to do my best. Water, the place of becoming for the human form. There are many things carried in the water. Life, salt, stones, A pulse. It is the flavor in the blood, the flavor of the kiss.

Tava Baird: Without it, the living curl into a husk [00:05:00] and a spirit leaves. It is the element that ties you to your body. When the breath passes, the water seeks the eternal channels in the earth once more. Water. It is tears, emotion, the first cry of the infant. That which carries the seed, that which unites, we all flow to the same level.

Tava Baird: it is the unfathomable depths of nightmares and the wave of dreams seeking the sun. It is a lullaby in itself, a remembering. Poetry, magic, prayer, art, all of these met to become water. It is the choking sob of release or loss gushing through a human's chest.[00:06:00] 

Tava Baird: The first remedy and the last. When you feel alone, it is the remembrance of divinity. When you grow too big. It reintroduces awe. Swim in its mystery. It will wash away everything that was never meant to be you. The great balancer. It cleans the aura and settles the chakras. 

Tava Baird: Let yourself float and sink in it to remember that even in this incarnated body you are still music still Vibration even in this foreign world. We hold you you are always home 

Jennifer Taylor: Wow,

Tava Baird: I was thinking about that as it was happening and I was thinking there's nothing that puts you back in your place, like the power of the ocean. You know? you can think [00:07:00] you're so self important or so powerful and that can be the same for.

Jennifer Taylor: cities and civilizations and things built near the sea, but the water, the, giant waves of the ocean, the power of that instantly put you back in a place of awe. 

Tava Baird: We think we are masters of the earth until we are underwater and running out of air or until we are in a tiny boats.

Tava Baird: On an ocean during a storm, and we realize we can't even conceive of what is below and around us anymore. 

Jennifer Taylor: So it's something, and I would be interested to see if Samuel has anything to say about this. The, so the first song was, it was like, this is the song that's supposed to be at the beginning. The one that I just sang.

Jennifer Taylor: And then this next one was, supposed to be. Water and we're helping to bring through the water, but it wasn't it was very specifically like the other was this mixing of elements and [00:08:00] Integrating of the elements, but it was this is water and the end I was making this form I was like shaping this thing in front of me that felt like It was this oblong sort of thing and I had in the word reservoir came in And I was thinking, okay, and then I had a little bit of mental chatter for a second about well, what might he say about reservoir, but reservoir is a place where we damn up and try to, confine water for our own use.

Jennifer Taylor: And so I'm thinking, okay, I'm making this. Reservoir in the air. And then the last motion was this dispelling. It wassending it blasting it apart and sending it out into the ether and out into the air. And, I thought, I would love to know what Samuel has to say about that.

Tava Baird: Let me ask. Okay, here. He is very [00:09:00] chatty today. 

Tava Baird: I put out the word reservoir and asked him to speak on this. And I think this is interesting because he's roping back in things we started to talk about at the beginning of the podcast. Often humans seek to stop the flow, but, as you said, what looks like an end goal for this day may not be the path that will benefit and heal.

Tava Baird: Drop the wall. Laugh like the trickster. And let yourself be carried away from the broken stones towards the outcome you may fear. We will catch you, Umshala. You think you can see the plan. Your sight in this body is limited. Instead, be carried away. Follow the tide, the godhood.[00:10:00] 

Tava Baird: He's ready to break down that reservoir, I think. 

Jennifer Taylor: Yeah. Well, it was interesting because I'm seeing in water. And then it was like, what is this? What is this? And then all of a sudden it was reservoir. And then there was this strong thought of, yeah,reservoir.

Jennifer Taylor: And then I was thinking seems very counter to water, which is all about flow. It's like us trying to Contain something and hold it and shape it and keep it still keep it from flowing and but that's against it feels like the very nature of water and then all of that sort of happened probably within I don't know seconds and I had then I had this impulse to just dispel and it was like it just dispersed it out into everywhere 

Jennifer Taylor: I am at this very, very strong urge, like the motion is definitely take it and just, it,dispel it. I think that's really fascinating and it does, it ties back into the beginning of what [00:11:00] now will probably be at least one episode, possibly two episodes before this, of our idea where we were talking about, holding our lives and our everything in this state of compassion and asking for what is in the highest good and greatest well being as opposed to trying to will our intention and, shape things in the way that we think they're supposed to go and instead, surrendering our will to the divine and to whatever is really in the highest good, no matter what that is, and starting to surrender to not having so much of the fear of what that is.

Jennifer Taylor: And I find that that's where the resistance in me comes up when I start thinking about, I'm, sending Reiki to this event, I'm calling in angels, and I'm asking for support for whatever this event is, and I want to say, make sure this happens, make sure this is what happens.

Jennifer Taylor: And I stopped myself because I know [00:12:00] that's not how this works. And that's not how you get the highest possible outcome. That's through surrendering and asking for, please allow what is in the highest good to come through. please, protect those and keep them as safe and healthy, as possible while still allowing in that which is in the highest good.

Jennifer Taylor: And then there's that fear of, but if I open up to that, what might happen? And I feel like that's what he's Addressing what could happen that I might label as bad or terrible or catastrophic or whatever it is, and that fear, causes us to create energetic reservoirs instead of allowing it to flow and going over the rapids and allowing ourselves to be carried and knowing that we're being supported by the divine and allowing that, but ultimately that's really always what is going to be truly in the highest good, whether our limited perspective can see, whatever that [00:13:00] outcome is that we think is the worst thing, oftentimes is really that most important catalyst that shifts everything towards, our growth and evolution.

Tava Baird: Absolutely. we often, very much buy into this illusion of control. if you think about how much time as humans, we try to predict what will happen. I mean, just think about that's basically what the news is, right? The news is, and the 

Jennifer Taylor: weather, 

Tava Baird: and the weather, how often are they right?

Tava Baird: and traffic and all these other things. We spend our whole day trying to figure out, Oh my God, we just saw this thing happen. How can we extrapolate from that the future? we are spending, we spend all of our time trying to divine the future and we'll talk about this when we get into divination.

Tava Baird: It seems that divination may better serve us as an opportunity to commune with the divine rather than a way to predict the future, right? Yeah. Absolutely. Because the thing is there are too many factors to [00:14:00] predict the future and, what often factors into that, the reason why people go and want to do divination a lot of times it's, am I going to get the job?

Tava Baird: does she love me?It's this illusion of control that we want to hold on to. the reservoir is the same thing. We've put an extremely powerful element in a contained space. And said, look, we are humans and we have done this thing. And, The reality is, is that we will spend all of our time fighting that water to keep it where it is because, we don't have control over the weather.

Tava Baird: We do not have control over the elements. We do not have control over human thought we spend so much of our time trying to predict it. Samuel wants to add support has many faces. It may be unrecognizable. at first. So we often think, I want to be supported in this and that looks like X.[00:15:00] 

Tava Baird: But then when X doesn't happen, we're angry and we're disappointed and we're ticked off and we get on social media and we post about, we have been wronged and this is awful. And yes, it feels awful. But sometimes in our short sighted bodies, we cannot predict that what we are actually experiencing that seems so awful in this moment.

Tava Baird: May actually be beginning, maybe a kernel of lasting change that is coming to us. And if we can set aside our fear and our hurt and our upset andSince that we've been wronged and I'm not saying we haven't been wronged a lot of times We have definitely been wronged if we can leave a little space in there for the possibility that something divine beyond our wildest dreams [00:16:00] may Happen then that's that little space is hope And that's what we have to keep in there, no matter what, because, I mean, think about the last time you got an argument with an office mate, right?

Tava Baird: or an argument with a friend and you go home and you spend hours going over it in your mind, what you should have said, what they should have said, how upset you are with them, blah, blah, blah. It's messing with your sleep. It's messing with how you eat. It's putting you in a bad mood and you make this whole big plan for what's going to happen the next time you see that person.

Tava Baird: And then the next time you get to that person, circumstances have changed to such a degree that none of the outcomes you spent all night worrying about are even on the table. Right? And you go, Oh my God, I spent all Tuesday night feeling like that was the end of the world. I didn't eat dinner. I [00:17:00] cried. I snapped people's heads off only to discover that things have changed and that issue Now it looks completely different.

Tava Baird: this is what we're talking about here is that there are elements bigger than all of us and there are things shifting and moving that are beyond our control. And if we can leave a little space in there for hope, and leave a little space in there to look back and say, things are rarely what I predicted they would be.

Tava Baird: And if I can leave open a chance for hope and ingenuity and the unexpected to come in, and just surf those rapids out of the reservoir, and understand, That there are wonderful things happening, even in the face of the most awful things, not only will allow us to endure [00:18:00] and survive difficult times, but it is going to open possibilities that may reach much further than we could ever see on our own.

Jennifer Taylor: Yeah, absolutely. those difficulties are often also the things that make us grow and make us stronger. you don't get bigger muscles by not. Using them and that the using them is actually a tearing of the muscle fibers so that they can come back together and rebuild in a different way.

Jennifer Taylor: I think that so much of the time we want to try to avoid those difficult times and those things, we can ask for mitigation, you know, divine mitigation of those things as much as possible to help to soften or shape those in our highest good as much as we can. But it's through going through those things, the breaking down, the element of fire, as he was talking about.

Jennifer Taylor: Sometimes those really challenging, difficult things are like that element of fire. They cause some of this [00:19:00] breaking and tearing that then opens up new possibilities and new, healthier ways for things to come together. And, stronger, better, more, sustainable kinds of ways of moving. one other thing I wanted to add was that I was thinking, we're talking about trying to put out there for what is in the highest good.

Jennifer Taylor: And it was interesting, an article that was written by, William Rand, who started the Holy Fire of Reiki, in the Reiki News Magazine was talking about and mentioned that, studies done by the Spindrift group in which prayer was studied for its effect on plants, which are, not affected by the placebo effect.

Jennifer Taylor: And indeed, what they found was that praying for a non specific beneficial result was the most powerful. So, rather than praying that a person be cured of cancer or praying that this I get that job or this court case goes [00:20:00] a certain way or this is founded a certain way. But rather than praying that or, in our case, intending or sending intention or sending Reiki or healing energy towards that which is in the highest good and that the highest good be accomplished for them will actually produce the greatest health benefits or the greatest benefits in general.

Jennifer Taylor: And It's funny because we think. That we're shaping things in the direction of the way of the of what is the best by controlling it by creating that reservoir and really we're opening by allowing it to flow without our control, but simply asking for. Things to be shaped in the highest, good and greatest well being that actually opens up the possibilities for so much more, so much more health, so much more healing, so much more transformation and [00:21:00] ultimately what we really want, it's like as much as I think I want things to go the way that you know, I would say, yes, I want this to happen.

Jennifer Taylor: What I really ultimately want is to evolve as a human is to meet, my, potential, my soul's purpose in this life. I would like for that to have it be all roses and sunshine and beautiful things, but ultimately that's what I really want underneath everything else. And if we can tap back into that, it helps us.

Tava Baird: in that letting go and breaking down the dam. Samuel has,a closing thought on this for us. He says, It has been said, necessity is the mother of invention. So when you hear yourself say, The world is ending. Think next on this. What will I birth in its place? And I think we do a lot of that.

Tava Baird: This is awful. This is awful. The world is [00:22:00] ending. The world is ending. But now he's challenging us to add, what will I birth in its place? So let's roll up our sleeves together guys and figure out if the world is ending, what do we want the next incarnation? 

Jennifer Taylor: I absolutely love that. What will we birth in its place?

Jennifer Taylor: And I feel a quick ending song, coming in. 

Tava Baird: Wonderful.

Jennifer Taylor: [00:23:00] [00:24:00] [00:25:00]   [00:26:00] 

Thank you so much for joining us everyone this week. As we wrapped up our discussion of the elements with water, we look forward to being back with you next week.