December 12, 2010

On the third Sunday of Advent, we lit the green candle, representing Water.

We put Mother Mary in the creche.  She represents Water because she is like the goddess Isis, whose symbol is the River Nile.  she is the Water of Life.  She refreshes and activates whatever she touche, just as water revives and activates the earth and the sleeping seed within it...and just as baptism welcomes and signifies the new life our souls have taken on.  She was given a message by the Angel Gabriel, who is the Archangel of Water.  Her milk kept her baby alive.  He foated in her waters before he was born.

Water signifies the soul, dreams, the psyche, emotions, intuitions, and feelings.  Water is not as bright as Fire and Air, which correspond respectively to South and East.  Water corresponds to the West, the sirection of the setting sun, and also the land where our sould go after death.  It is a place of the two lands, where we must control the light and the darkness, especially as the darkness gets stronger as the sun goes further west.

Here is a story about  Water:  "The Christmas Spirit," by William W. Hassler.