June 20, 2021
The Seven Nations
Shoka/Stone
Kata/Fire
Loma/Water
Arrai/Air
Prana/Plants
Asharaji/Creatures
Asha/Earth
Loma is the grace of fluidity and essence of change.
Of all the Nations Water, together with Air, is essential to all life. Of all the Nations, Water is the most dynamic. It exists in many different forms that transition easily from one to another. We can walk on ice, we can be surrounded by a soft mist, crashing waves can alter lives and landscapes. Warm water can soothe our bodies, hearts and minds. Cold water invigorates us. Loma can cleanse, heal, and destroy.
We may not consider all of this a particularly graceful fluidity. But there is grace here. There is the grace of wisdom that lands when we merge with the Loma Nation and are able to more clearly see and manage the fluid states of our lives, especially our emotions.
There is the grace of wisdom that comes from considering how, like Loma, we move from one form to another, how we flow through life, how fluid are our relationships, decisions, and choices. Perhaps most importantly, Loma invites us to consider how we relate to change.
Your emotions are like Water, ever changing.
If you don’t try to dam them up to control and contain them,
they will seek, like Water, to flow and settle,
just like children express them and then calm down.
Mukanda Dawe
Beannacht,
Judith – judith@stonefires.com
Note: Mukanda Dawe is an ascended master and one of my spiritual teachers. These are his teachings. The Shakti Tao book that holds these teachings and insights to a practice of connecting with the Nations is available online.