Rising Tides
Art: Ondine by Arthur Rackham
The tides are rising. We are riding the waves as the eclipse tempest swirls toward its peak, crossing the torrenting channel to meet the shadow cast by the next eclipse. From now we ratchet in tandem, surging and swelling as the luminaries conspire to shift and shunt us through revelation and revolution.
Witches whisper the ways to wrangle the myriad dazzling facets of eclipsia. Simultaneity is her skeleton key; being able to hold more than one emotion, position and possibility at the same time. Beginnings and endings crowd the same spaces, jostling for your wide eyes. Different doors slam shut and fly open, clapping wildly in the wind as the cosmos roars sudden shocking change.
As moods rise and plummet and the undertow begs submission, we are plunged on repeat into the strongest depths of feeling, the sharpest pangs of intuition and the old griefs still unshed. All the better to truly madly deeply know our whole truths and let their alchemy sew us back into our soul's path.
Not the feint of heart, the lily livered or the soft minded, Lady Eclipsia has her way with us regardless. She wipes the floor with the change averse knowing that constancy also ails stagnation. She laughs at the clawing grip of control, knowing it holds no candle to her magics. Resisting her dark arts only means you pay the piper down the track, which could be right about now. She smiles in wild chances, plants you unwittingly and leaves.
Life unfurls in her wake with uncommon brashness and audacity, supplanting a myriad of chances to just grab change and run with it. Follow where the heart leaps. Trust yourself beyond what you think you know for sure. Pay close attention to what shimmers from the spaces between and your dark materials.
In burning times everything is transmuting, shifting form and function to shape the new world. All tides twist and then turn again. Let life breathe you in and all the way out.
Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.
~ Elif Safak
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023