The Secret Is Wags

Monday, the rain came back.  Hurray!

I’m a passionate rain lover.  I’m okay with the rest of nature’s weather buffet too, but my favorite part of it is rain.  So I was excited when we got our first all-day, steady rain and wind after having two months of dry weather.

Monday morning, Ducky and I headed to the beach to have an invigorating walk in the elements.  It felt awesome!  What a rush!  The feel of the cold sheets of water on my skin, the musky scent, the relentless and energizing rhythm—walking in the rain on the beach is a 100 times better than coffee for an early morning kick start.

So there I was on the beach in the blustery wetness, and I suddenly felt inspired to invoke the power of the rain.

This whim grew from the seed of communications I’ve been sharing with a new friend I made on Facebook, a fascinating woman from Italy who has studied Wiccan traditions.  She also loves rain, which is pioggia (pronounced peeoja) in Italian, by the way.  She told me that she often calls on the elements when she wants to send an intention out to the universe.

Of course, she knows that you don’t need any ritual, Wiccan or other, to send an intention out.  Just by having an intention, it’s out there.  But rituals can be fun, and anything that’s fun is worth doing.

Summoning The Power

In the middle of my walk, I threw up my arms to the heavens, tilted my head back to get the full force of the rain and shouted something like this:

I give thanks to the universe for the wonder of rain.  I receive it with gratitude.  I now invoke the power of the rain.  I summon the power of the rain and send it out into the universe to call forth a flow of financial abundance to me.

Yes, I know that I don’t need to do this to have financial abundance.  Yes, I know that if that invocation comes from a place of lack it will get me nothing but a wet face.  But like I said—it felt good.

Water, Water Everywhere

I keep an open stainless steel water bottle on my nightstand so I can take little sips when I awake during the night.  In the early hours of Tuesday morning, about 5 a.m., I knocked it over.  The metallic clunk followed by my whispered expletive had me out of bed grabbing for something to mop the water off my oak nightstand and the books piled on it.

Then, still half conscious, I went back to sleep.

A couple hours later, I woke up and discovered I had an unhappy belly and an urgent need to use the facilities.  I’ll skim over this indelicate part a bit, but to make my point, I do need to share that I managed to stop up the toilet so badly that even my frantic plunging couldn’t prevent the overflow that cascaded over the sides and all across the bathroom floor.

At this point, my expletives were no longer whispered.  I was still plunging with all my might, and the water (not clean water, mind you) was splashing onto the floor when my previously sleeping husband, Tim, heard me and stumbled into the bathroom.  Bless him—when I explained to him what had happened, he told me to lie down, and he cleaned up the mess.

I spent the next half hour cuddling with Ducky in bed while I basked in appreciation for my wonderful husband.

And that’s when I remembered my little invocation.  I burst out laughing.

Didn’t I kind of summon the power of the rain—i.e. WATER?

Power Gone Awry

Do you see how power can be misplaced?

Now I’m not sure what happened—did law of attraction bring me more water because of my focus on the power of the rainwater?  Of course, I can’t say.  But I do know that I felt, deeply, the lesson I was receiving (for probably the millionth time):  I have extraordinary power.  So do you.  We all do.

Our power is in our focus and thoughts.  It is a power a thousand (or more) times greater than any physical power we can wield.  We can use it to create wonderful things.

And we can use it to create big messes, which is what many of us tend to do.

When we get in those messes, we tend to feel powerless.  But the truth is the exact opposite.  Within the mess is the fuel that will increase our power—the contrast that shows us what we DO want now that we’ve experienced what we don’t want.

Although calling on the rain was a kick, I don’t think I’ll do it again soon.  I think I’ll just enjoy the rain, keep my focus on what pleases me, and allow myself to align with my nonphysical self, who already lives, in freedom and joy, on a nice rainy beach.

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Tags: Feeling good, Focus, Law of Attraction, power

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