Secular paganism post: grounding into things that aren’t the ground

[flamingsword]

So! Secular paganism: Have you ever been taught to ground into other elements than Earth? You can ground into any or all of them, depending on your needs. Here’s how I do it, though YMMV.

Earth -
• align yourself with the gravity that pulls you down toward the solid surface you reside on.
• feel the strength of the force holding you to the world we live in.
• ground your energy into that stability.

Air -
• align yourself with entropy that disorders, but also connects all things, without which no life is possible: the air you breathe and that touches your skin with gentle barometric pressure, the fluctuation that produces randomness and therefore motion and stirs everything it touches.
• feel the breath of the world on your skin.
• ground your energy into variability.

Fire -
• align yourself with light, with the electromagnetic vibrations that bathe everything on and inside of the planet we reside on. The neutrinos sleeting past us, the hum of electricity as it courses through the wires around us, the WiFi that you are probably using to read this right now.
• feel the heartbeat of your body, mediated by electrical signals, which echoes the heartbeat of the world in its long, slow vibration of changing magnetic poles.
• ground your energy into vibration.


Water
• align yourself with the push and pull of decay and synthesis, with fission and fusion, with the weak nuclear force that splits things and the strong nuclear force that binds them. The dance of separation and unification is the oldest dance there is, predating matter itself.
• feel the diurnal cycles of day and night, sleep and wake, being and unbeing.
• ground your energy into the dance of opposites.

Spirit -
• align yourself with consciousness, the as-yet-unexplained emergent property of these forces, with the unknown and incommunicable existence of the mind.
• feel yourself existing.
• ground your energy into awareness.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

These are really helpful; thank you!

[flamingsword]

You are very welcome!

[skytintedwater]

This sounds great! I'll try them :)

[flamingsword]

Feel free to riff off of them, too! The decision that “fire” means only one certain thing is weirdly inflexible to me, even though most Wiccan traditions try to all agree on a single set of meanings. But the Bards and Druids only use three elements, and they do fine! It’s just a set of symbols, so use what is important to you.

[phonographic_memories]

I wonder what happens if you try all these at once, or sequentially.

There was a old Tumblr post where they described the oxydation of our cell as we age as us burning, very slowly.

Combining that and the electrical pulses of our brain and nervous system, being composed of portions of dead stars, mostly water, and consciousness... grounding in all of the elements at once seems overpowered. XD I gotta try that sometime.

[flamingsword]

I have traded them off one for the next, sequentially, but never tried grounding into multiples of these at once the way my HPS used to have us practice doing with the Wiccan-standard elements.

If you manage it, do let me know! I would be super into hearing about it. ⭐️

[phonographic_memories]

If it doesn't knock me on my butt, you'll be the 1st to know how it went XD