On this equinox, March 20, join us in acknowledging the consciousness of water and in remembering and honoring our sacred relationship with water. All life emerged from water and water sustains all living processes. Equinox energies provide a potent opportunity to realize the reciprocal balance this essence of life provides. As we confront an ecological emergency and social crises, we are urged to remember a balanced relationship and reverence for water as a vital key of resilience, abundance and thriving life.
Rooting in our local watersheds
We will go — alone or, if possible, together with others — to our local springs, streams, rivers, salt marshes, wetlands and seas (if accessible) for a shared moment of prayerful being beside waters for a blessed courtship, listening and relating in your own love affair with water.
Each individual or group may sense for themselves which form of expression feels appropriate in their context, here are some inspirations:
Resting: laying down by the waters, allowing ourselves to slow down and be, so we might become able to resonate with water.
Expressing gratitude through songs, offerings, words, allowing our hearts to feel and express our relationship with water.
Listening for what water, in her epic powers of memory, intelligence and creation, wants from us and for us. We invite water to help us imagine what an intact watershed with healthy water cycles would look like.
Walking with water: moving with a river or a stream near to us, perhaps acknowledging our interdependence, opening to what flows through us and where to be and what is ours to do.
Repairing: Opening ourselves to what water wants, we’re ready to commit to take action in watershed regeneration.
Sharing a planetary intention
Water expresses itself uniquely in each place and yet all water is one and holds the memory and intelligence of all life that has been. So after honoring the ties of reciprocal relationship to our local watersheds, we will join all of our local prayer fields into one shared prayer field of planetary intention for restoring water’s natural flow.
United in our intention to harmonize and balance with the waters of love and life within and around us, we will come together for a synchronized prayer between 4:00 and 4:20 PM UTC. Our prayers, each expressed in their own devotional ways, will focus on:
Our gratitude for water
Envisioning healthy free flowing water cycles and
Calling in our readiness and determination to be in service of what water wants.
See Resources Global Water Prayer for additional resources and support.
The day after, on Friday, March 21, 4pm UTC, we will gather for a heart circle to share our experiences on a Zoom call.
Celebrating World Water Day
Finally, we will celebrate World Water Day on Saturday, March 22, with the global release of the powerful documentary, Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration on the wings of this prayer.
The film follows a group of young people grappling with the climate crisis and tells inspiring stories about the transformative power of ecological regeneration from around the world. But above all it highlights the crucial role which water plays for our climate — and why a sensible response to climate breakdown must put care for water front and center.
There will be over 100 local screenings around the world. Please join one of them or organize one in your area.
We pray that millions will rise to protect and repair waters. To love the waters.
We pray that this love will flow and contribute to what is needed for humanity to be reunited in kinship and belonging with all of Life, to re-place humanity into the hoop of life and to live with hearts and minds of reverence and reciprocity for the coming generations of all beings.
With Love the way of waters,
Lynn Murphy, Sabine Lichtenfels, Gigi Coyle, Skeena Rathor Kashmiri, Tracey van den Brand, Sol, Uma Dinsmore Tuli, & Martin Winiecki
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