We are all well aware of the necessity of water. From keeping us alive to washing our bodies and our food, not to mention its role in producing that food, to general life on earth, all of our survival depends on water.
The wettest winter
However, it feels recently that there has been way too much water. Or at least it feels this way in England. It’s been confirmed that 2023–2024 is the eight-wettest winter on record, and numbers say that in some regions, it was even the wettest one since 1836, causing widespread flooding across the country, including farmlands, and lots of damage and loss.
I want to look at it from a spiritual perspective. What does the water symbolise, and maybe it will answer some of the questions? What is the time that we need it so much for it to happen now?
Imbalance around us
Whatever your religion is, if you are a spiritual person, or even if you don’t believe in anything but watching the news and what is happening around you, you can clearly say that we live in an interesting time where change is happening. Maybe we don’t know the final outcome yet, but we feel and hear a number of times that something is happening that has never happened before or that has never happened in years. To sum it up, there is too much imbalance around, which causes the battle of powers.
What can water teach us?
The spiritual symbolism of water relating to emotions, abundance, purification, and renewal can be represented by an overflowing water faucet. It may signify the release of suppressed emotions, good fortune or distress, or a reminder to pay attention to dreams and intuition.
Maybe we are holding onto something too much that is not serving us anymore—our thoughts and habits.
As a symbol of life, water represents divine generosity. Indeed, it’s a personification of healing and suffering, protection and vulnerability, change and constancy, stillness, and rage. Water, in all its glory, is considered a purifier of the soul.
As Bruce Lee famously said,
“Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
This depicts the flexibility and changing nature of water. To be like water, we need to be fluid; we need to change and grow from the circumstances of life. Furthermore, we need to imbibe the formless, calm, and conscious nature of the water.
Does this water overflow push us to change ourselves or to become unique ourselves? As once, years and years ago, the one famous flood brought a renewal to the world, does it point to a need for us to look at our lives and see what has to be changed and adjusted? It pushes us to step out of our comfort zone to face the discomfort and start over. I hope so.
Hope for a new spring
I hope that by being part of nature, by reading its signs and communicating with us, and by constantly adjusting and improving ourselves, we will manage to live in harmony.
Nature is not sad now because of the rain. Look around; all plants are trying their best to catch a moment of sunshine and be ready to bloom. Maybe it is not going to be the best harvest this year for some, but it won’t stop them from doing their best.
Don’t let yourself become a swamp; don’t be sorry for yourself. Let the sun and wind dry your tears. Let this spring bring us renewal! A new taste of empowering ourselves. A fresh smell of true living. The spring is here. Be ready to live life to its fullest.