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Water is fluid, accepting and tolerant. Water overcomes difficulties by flowing around them and ignoring them, instead of the Fire sign’s head-on confrontation. Water in the body rules all those organs associated with the emotions. It brings tears of joy and tears of sorrow. It is love, compassion, the quality of mercy, which, as Shakespeare wrote, ‘… is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain of heaven upon the place beneath’. It is the sea, dreaming and broody. It is the negative side of dreaming – fears and phobias. It unites others but can overwhelm them. It can be the ‘wet blanket’.

In Celtic mythology, Water was the gate to the Otherworld. The Celts also associated Water with a return to the source. The salmon of knowledge that swims upstream to its birth place to spawn was revered in Celtic mythology. Interestingly, in dreams and symbolism, the fish often appears as a symbol of the Self, so the link with the return to the origin is appropriate.

Water has the power of erosion – it can wear away rock. It can wear away opposition. The power of Water can overcome all things – even our planet, if we insist on melting our ice caps and raising our sea levels. Water can be a deep well of knowledge – the knowledge that comes from meditation and getting in touch with the deepest unconscious part of ourselves, rather than book knowledge. Empathy is another Water quality – the ability to have insight into others and to feel their joy and pain. Zodiac signs are Scorpio the Scorpion, Cancer the Crab and Pisces the Fish.