WATER Meditation – Journey to meet Niksa
by Blayze

Relax...Make your self comfortable and close your eyes. Feel yourself begin to still. Become aware of your breathing, in and out, in and out (cont...) Now slow your breathing down, IN 2 3 4, HOLD 2 3 4, OUT 2 3 4, HOLD 2 3 4, IN 2 3 4 (cont...). You feel yourself relaxing as your body slows. You concentrate on your breathing and you feel yourself slowly becoming one with the earth beneath you. With each breath you feel yourself slipping into trance. Continue breathing as you become more and more relaxed...

You find yourself surrounded by red gold light. You feel cool sand beneath you as you sit on the ground bathed in light. You can hear the sound of water near you, the soft lapping of waves on a shore. You smell sea air, salt on the breeze and on your tongue.

Gradually the blaze of light begins to sink downwards in your vision. As the light sinks, it reveals a darkening sky shot through with a red sunset. You are sitting on a beach, sand beneath you and before you are waves, glowing with the light of the setting sun.

You stand up and turn around to see that edging the shore are rock pools teaming with life.

You look back across the sea towards the setting sun. From out of the western horizon you can make out a small speck, a ripple in the water, it becomes a great V shape that is pointing towards you. As you watch, something leaps out of the water and dives deeply. As the creature moves ever closer it leaps again and again, rising above and diving beneath the waves.

A giant fish comes into view, glinting metallic in the sunset. It nears the shore and you see it leaping to fall smoothly beneath the waves. You move into the water, into the shallows and the fish circles in the deeper water before you. You move further in so that the water laps your waist. The fish circles around you. It leaps over you and with a flick of its tail it angles the leap to land in the deep water once more. You follow the fish and dive down deep into the water.

You see the fish circling a large sea shell. As you swim down you grasp the shell in your fingers and break for the surface facing the shore.

By the last light of the sun you see the fish swim away into the gold kissed waters.

You move into the shallows near the shore and stand up. You look at the shell, examine its shape and colour. Its texture.

You fill the shell with clear sea water and step back upon the sands of the beach.

You walk along the beach until you come to a large rock pool. You see small crabs and tiny fish that dart and hide at your approach. You take the shell and pour the waters of the sea into the rock pool. An offering from the Western Shore.

As you pour your libation you feel the powers of the waters surround you. You stand between the sea and the pool, the macrocosm and microcosm of the wild water.

You can see every drop of water on the rocks, see the shimmering energies of the pool. Water droplets still cling to you from your swim in the sea.

You place the sea shell in the bottom of the pool and watch the ripples as you remove your hand.

The waters are still tinged with gold but deep blues and greens hint at the approaching darkness.

From the depths of the pool comes a jet of water, rising up into the air. As it falls back into the pool it forms into the shape of a man, not mortal, but ancient and powerful.

He is NIKSA, King of the Element of Water.

You bow before him in welcome and say, “Hail Niksa! King of Water!”

You ask him a question about the element of water. A question will come to you.

PAUSE

You receive an answer.

PAUSE

You thank Niksa for speaking with you.

You find that you are holding in your hands a gift for Niksa. A small token of thanks.

You place the gift in the pool. As the gift touches the water, both Niksa and the gift disappear in a spray of water droplets.

You see that the shell is still at the bottom of the pool.

You retrieve it and hold it in your hands once more. You fix the image of the shell in your mind and close your eyes. You see the shell behind your eyes. You feel yourself floating upon water. Gradually the image begins to dim and it fades away. When the image is gone from your sight you become aware of the sounds around you, the sound of breeze and the trees, the sound of my voice. You become aware of your body sitting upon the ground, you feel your breath and the shape of your skin. Let that awareness fill you. When you feel that you are back in your body and in the here and now, open your eyes.