Water Blessing Ritual
the following water blessing blood ritual was originally created for the In Her Blood Online portal as part of the Inner Temple Membership.
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Water has memory & responds to our words & intentions. It is easy to forget that we are walking, breathing and flowing bodies of water & that when we speak love into ourselves & those around us, our bodies will respond to that just as external bodies of water do. When is the last time you sat by the river & lost track of time? When is the last time you floated in the ocean with no where else to be? Being with external bodies of water can support us to address can internal waters, but we may not always be able to catch these moments in the spaciousness we would hope for… we are busy, we are mamas, life gets full. And that is okay. So here we gently build enough trust with Self to open our own internal doors to allow this nature and the natural world around us to speak to us.
This monthly ritual is an accessible, simple and powerful way to connect to and access the waters & the wisdom and guidance that awaits us here through our own blood. Ancestral codes await us each & every month through taking a moment to sit & create ritual around how we attend to our blood. Our blood carries the water element in our bodies, and so when we bleed as Women we are connecting up to the memories that are held within the Waters of our wombs, as well as the old cellular & nutrient matter the blood contains, symbolising the physical cycle gone before.
When we connect physically & reverently with the blood itself that leaves our bodies, we begin to feel held within the greater cycles that we are apart of through our lineages & soul memories, discovering & recoding a deeper sense of belonging into our bones. Alongside this, when we bleed into the earth through the Free Bleed ritual each month, I believe we start to be able to actually feel & receive our own essence & purpose reflected back as the earth gains more of a sense of our walk here & begins to speak back through us.
Through this we access the memories, dreams & pain held in our womb as well as the Ancestral codes through our DNA & the patterning that has come down through the line of women–womb to womb to womb to womb. For most of us, our placentas were not planted upon birth & so we lack this rootedness when it comes to our rights of passage. I believe when we begin to bleed onto the earth we can begin to create this anchor for ourselves that can often feel intangible but the difference in tethered-ness can be palpably felt.
As women if/when we birth our babies we can change this for them, anchoring them into a special place on earth that recognises the imprint of their soul & their incarnation here. There is a difference that is felt & it’s beautiful as Mamas to see this changing with these simple, grounded, connected actions for the future generations. Does it mean pain will not come for them? Absolutely not but it does mean there is an anchor for them to root down deep & to have a place to go to remember & have their own journey, essence & purpose reflected back to them. & again we can change this for ourselves through free bleeding & sitting this water ritual monthly, or just as often as possible.
The blood we do not bleed into Mother Earth we can shed onto re-usable pads, & can be sat with and fed back to the Earth through ritualistic soaking & pouring the water onto plants, meaningful trees. I use Wemoon Pads, and this ordinary ritual of soaking and rinsing has become something I look forward to and very much grounds me each & every month. When my daughter grace was born last year, we buried her her placenta under a Japanese Maple tree within our front yard, & I would soak & pour the blood over the next 6+ weeks from my postpartum bleed to support feeding the Earth & at times still pour my blood from subsequent cycles once my bleed returned post-birth. Maybe one day when I am not here, this will help her feel and connect to me to.
I have created a playlist for this ritual, to anchor in the letting go of the cycle before through the free bleed. Where-ever we bleed into earth we create a memory of ourselves, which makes remembering our truth and essence easier and easier each & every month.
In his studies, Emoto found that water exposed to positive words and intentions formed beautiful, symmetrical crystalline structures when the water was frozen, while water exposed to negative words and intentions formed disorganised, asymmetrical structures.