| Our minds, bodies and souls watch the hypnotic wave | | | | There are seven heavens, seven major planets, seven |
| patterns on the sea and are soothed to our core. | | | | circles in the universe, seven continents, seven seas. |
| The sea awakens the place in us that is beyond us, | | | | There are seven sins, seven virtues, seven ages of |
| because it is paradise regained. Paradise is the oasis | | | | man, seven colors to a rainbow, seven wonders of |
| of perfect harmony, beauty and abundance that all of | | | | the world, seven days of the week, seven notes on |
| humanity, throughout all time seeks. Where time stands | | | | the scale. Many gods and goddesses are associated |
| still, the senses are immortal, and there is connection | | | | with the number seven. The point is the order of the |
| between all living things and the Divine. | | | | cosmos is not random or accidental, yet we befoul it |
| Rose gardens, secret gardens, lush islands, or looking | | | | and cover it in cement and obscure its truths and |
| out to the sea, the places that reach to heaven and | | | | powers from our view. And because humanity is a |
| into the heart, are paradise found. Paradise lost is the | | | | primal part of the natural world, we also erase our true |
| devolvement into darkness and duality. Paradise | | | | identity from our own eyes, too. |
| regained is wholeness symbolized by light, water, purity, | | | | Life in golden cultures was an earthly walk through an |
| bird song, flowers and bliss. We all seek this primordial | | | | illuminated manuscript filled with hidden gods. All of |
| home. | | | | existence was a holistically ritualized prayer. Every |
| The sea at sunrise enfolds us into the elements like the | | | | natural element had its own symbolic meaning or god |
| purest new dawn. At noon, the sun skips a million | | | | that sparkled with part of the cosmic story. Water |
| dancing stars upon the water, and throws some of | | | | was sacred and filled with miracle granting gods and |
| their sparkle in our eyes. At sunset, water, sky, and | | | | goddesses who brought rebirth, creativity, beauty, |
| sand envelope us within their transcendent pink, violet | | | | fertility, passion, and mystery. Rivers flowed from the |
| and blue watercolor of beauty and peace. And on | | | | Tree of Paradise and returned to that pristine state. |
| delphinium nights under a gardenia moon you can sit at | | | | Lakes were charged with magic powers, feminine |
| the phosphorus edge of the water wrapped in a | | | | wisdom and receptivity. Fountains opened the eye of |
| fairy-tale stole of a million stars. | | | | the heart to the cosmic center. |
| The silvery, rapturous magic of the cosmos remakes | | | | Most civilizations feminized the sea and believed that |
| us from the cellular level and we are home in the most | | | | life was born in the sea. The sea is the greatest |
| fortunate of ways; inhabited by the incandescence of | | | | natural force on earth. Driven by the moon, tempered |
| life and divinity, reborn with our natural universal religion | | | | by the divine breath of the earth and the universe, it |
| within. | | | | touches everything. Water is the most important |
| Religion means to link back, to connect to the natural | | | | element on the planet that sustains, cleanses, heals, |
| world where spiritual intuition, self-knowledge and | | | | and nourishes all life. Like the earth and sea, we are |
| peace are part of the numinous cosmos with the sea | | | | seventy-five percent water. Like the sea, our blood, |
| synthesizing and joining all life--teaching us all we need | | | | sweat and tears are salty, and the sea's primary |
| to know. | | | | elements match the primary elements of the earth and |
| Her waves display the inherent harmony of life. They | | | | our bodies, too. |
| roll in groups of seven; from the weakest to the | | | | We are the sea. Where the spiritual and the physical |
| strongest, then repeat the simple rhythm, again and | | | | mirror each other and wash through both. Where you |
| again. Like lines of a poem, or notes of a song. | | | | can hear Earth breathe, and see people as the |
| Seven is the spiritual primal number of the Goddess | | | | glistening forms of divinity they were meant to be. I lost |
| and the universal signifier of integration, perfection and | | | | my brother and his ashes to the sea. Then found him |
| totality. Seven represents renewal, safety, and | | | | again here, like a water god in a true and sparkling |
| abundance. | | | | eternal home. |