5d • General discussion
Between Sky and Sea
I created an image (not the one you see here) for the affirmation songs for the runes, and I wanted to base the images on the elements. But for the water runes, I chose water, which of course, like in most images, turned out blue. That caused a bit of a short circuit for me, since I use green as the background in Runhäxans Tarot for the Cups suit, which represents the water element. Thankfully, in the Tarot deck I’ve stayed aligned with the right energies—there is a water rune among the bindrunes throughout the entire Cups suit.
I chose green because the Cups are about emotions, which are connected to the heart chakra. Someone commented that water is blue—but you see, it isn’t. Water has no color at all. We usually perceive it as blue because it reflects the sky. Logically, water also “alters” visible colors in light; the red and yellow wavelengths disappear first, while our eyes pick up the blue light.
But then there is also “turquoise water,” which comes from the reflection of the sky mixed with particles from the bottom. I think almost everyone likes turquoise water—it looks inviting. Which is a bit amusing, considering that turquoise energy is about change. I often experience that most people are afraid of change, at least when it’s not self-chosen. Yet my perception is that we have chosen everything in our lives—both challenges and harmony.
For me, turquoise is more of a spiritual energy, connected to the thymus chakra, and to changes that arise from an inner longing of the soul for development. But using turquoise for the water element hasn’t felt right. Still, I find it interesting to reflect on the colors of sky and sea.
In the text I wrote for the song for Issaz, there is this verse:
"North and south, the sacred line
All the force that lives between
What is still is not the end
It’s the place where worlds begin"
In that, I was thinking of blue for the sky and green for water—they belong together within the elements. North, sky, is equal to thought, and south, water, is connected to feeling. You know—“no thought without feeling, and no feeling without thought.” In the center between these directions lies the void—everything that is and is not, all the force that is both still and in motion. The deeper meaning in the text is the turquoise energy in the middle of everything—the soul’s longing to develop, to change, to evolve.
Turquoise is one of my favorite colors—subconsciously, probably because I love change (upgrades), but also because it holds both thought and feeling within that energetic blend.
My other favorite color is magenta (wine red), which is based on red, blue, and a touch of white. In it, there is the base—the foundation in red from the root chakra—and the illumination of purple, our crown chakra, which is both beginning and end. Then white, to give that extra touch—the color that doesn’t exist, yet can soften all others. So how do I see that—isn’t white a good color? Well, not really. It isn’t even a color—it is the void, a kind of nothingness. A bit like the Issaz rune—it is nothing, yet can become everything when something is activated.
This is how my thoughts sometimes move—and I like it, because it is grounded in magenta, in the experience I carry, combined with the turquoise longing for change. Though these days, I’m a bit tired of change—maybe I should stick to the word “upgrade.” Because when we release something or allow it to evolve, we upgrade ourselves and the events that are active in our lives.
Maybe you could take a moment to think—and feel—what you might need to upgrade in your own life.
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