From the indistinct waters of the ocean, we now lift up our eyes to the unseen and omnipresent winds.
Symbolically, the Winds are first and foremost supernatural manifestations.
In Ancient Cultures they were identified with specific deities or wills of the gods. In Ancient Greece for instance, the harsh north wind Boreas abducts the daughter of the Athenian King Erechtheus - Oreithyia - and takes her to the Thrace, whilst the soft western wind Zephyr brings Psyche to Eros, the God of Love.
In the Bible, in the Ancient as well as the New Testament, the wind is often identified with the breath of God - and consequently his voice.
In the beginning of Times, it is said that the voice of God hovers over the surface of the indistinct primeval waters and that it is this wind that fertilizes the waters - the verb enabling the rest of the creation to manifest itself.
Yet, in many popular cultures, also emerges the view that takes the wind for the embodiment of transience and frivolity of men.
We seem then to see two visions collide : the vagabond winds of passion against the powerful verb of God.
Now you take the floor : what do you associate with the Winds?
Winds bring change. Whenever a storm rolls in, the winds precede it, giving us a signal of what lies ahead. That way, we can prepare for what is to come. Same as in life.
The wind as an element, is just as important as all the others… except that it has the ability to carry answers… all we have to do is feel them in our hearts…
The answer my friends, is blowing in the wind, Love Paul
I associate winds with complete freedom.
A windy, gusty day is the earth in a bad mood.
I agree with Paul in that sometimes, when you listen to the wind, it is as though it is speaking. Whispers on the wind. Somewhere in the whirling and whooing, something was said and you have to listen carefully to catch it.
When you think about it, nature and all its elements is fascinating and mesmerising.
Kathleen xxoo
with the answer which is an invisible and as omnipresent as the wind. Just feel the wind and u will know what u need.
Peace
Damien
… Hyperborea…
I happened to come upon your blog while reading Brida and this question of yours particularly interested me.
The Wind is like a friend to me, I don’t know what else to call it. As a child I would talk to the wind, and to prove its presence, I would ask it to move in the trees and through my hair, and strangely enough after a couple of minutes it did, as though it was eager to stay in my company. I would love to sit outside and watch it play in trees, I would show my friends how to call the Wind, and they would be awed and fascinated. I was really proud to have a “friend” like it, something I knew was always with me.
It is still with me, I still feel it complaining to me when I stand on the balcony about how I have forgotten it, neglected it. Though it is true that I don’t want to believe in such childish things anymore I can not deny what I feel and I can not help but feel grateful to be blessed with such a friend. Though it hardly responds as often as it used to when I was a child, I am grateful to God to have given me a clearer sign that He is always watching over me.
It gives me one of the most beautiful feelings I have ever felt, the feeling of not being alone in this life.
Loving your writing, Sabreena.
Wind, as sometimes so powerful and sometimes so gentle, is like a touch of God :)
anjos! aventureiros! mensageiros! Mercurio! cherios de outros lugares! estórias de outros sitios! colossos!
Freedom
Wind.. is a charmer, a teaser, sensual yet powerful, unpredictable yet gentle, crazy yet calm, afraid yet brave; magical dancer, constant transformation, powerful love, untamed freedom and passion.
love
Agnieszka
I associate the winds with Power and Freedom. There are as many winds as there are people in this world. Each of them with their own special Power and Freedom. The winds can be tornadic to soft and gentle and each one should be honored in their own right. Each one is a lesson if we just stop for a minute to receive it. I was so glad to see the “S” at the end of this word.
Love & Light
Bridget
The wind to me is a physical form of love from God. It reassures me that I am not alone. It encourages me to keep on when things seem futile. I have always loved the wind so when a breeze comes up, I feel God’s arms of love wrapping around me. Pepper
They can be furious, blowing with a rage, but also tender like a kiss..So they are like Feelings to me.
i dont know why but i have associated the winds with the flute…and i see them also as Messengers..they bring a message, which we may not understand..
I also see them as compassion to those who dont have a home.
And also a ‘good morning’ with a breeze..
Love and Graditude
Annie
I associate it with freedom, with joy, with purity, with Christmas, with lone seagull, with force… and I respect it just as I respect The Sea.
Luce
I associate winds with mental energy and “knowing”. As with the mind’s thoughts, winds are fleeting and sometimes difficult to capture and harness. They serve as an important reminder that we humans cannot control all that surrounds us. An important reminder to heed. I once wandered into the jungles of Mexico to attend a sitting at a “sweat-logdge” (tent). It was there that I discovered that the Mayans, (similar to other indigenous peoples) had “meanings” to their calendar, and dates of birth. The description that followed my birthdate was, “self-existing wind”.
Wind - invisible, moving, strong, gentle, feels good on a hot day, sky, all around us.
Silfides, Ariel, fuerzas, transformación, cambio, viaje, libertad, dominio…El Alquimista.
rosa de los vientos.
PEACE. I’m a little bias regarding wind because I’m a Libra and this is my element so wind to me is the essence behind everything even though you cannot see it. It’s what fuels the fire. And the reason I associate it with peace is whenever I’m completely present I can always feel or hear the wind.
My companion, my brother, my beloved
Always present!
I am the wind!
We are one, bringing life and renewing life.
We are one, traveling to different dimensions.
We are one, touching the leaves and kissing the ocean.
Listen to my song, close the physical eyes and let the heart guide you
I am in you, dancing in your cells, navigating in your veins, expanding and contracting in
your heart.
Feel me, I am in you!
Maria
The Wind
Oh powerful Angel of God
Open your wings, like our hearts
Embrace me, shake me like you do with our crops
Carry me on your back,
For I want to see the world…
And before you leave just whisper the message you have.
N.I.A.
W.I.N.D.
*blowing the lightning with the winds of god*
*raphael*
*seven storms live alone…*
feel, be, tough, see, fallen down, crying found, watching deep, now we are the sheep…
*and the holy ghost will blow the wind*
so bring the wind under the feather so the eagle can fly…
Nia
The east,
Archangel Raphael, Hermes, Thot…
Oyá
Movement…
And above all…Communication!
Com admiração
Taíka
if you want to remain fresh, you got to move on.. wind.
I really enjoyed reading everyone’s post. I love the idea of the wind being a friend or God’s arms wrapping around us to let us know we’re not alone.
Sabreena, I was so captured with your story.
Kathleen xxoo
I associate the winds with the cleanning of ones soul, the purification of the earth and the flight of freedom, as birds fly into the hoirzont and get lost, also It rasambles me the playfullness of a kite while a kid is pulling and letting it go back and forth shile he or she gigles, and that souns rejoices inside me… The winds for me are purification
Well, Wind is not to be associated with. It cannot be associated with anything. It is the most vital of any thing we need to survive. Wind, water and heat are the three fundamental elements for the human survival. Without wind there could be nothing. Imagine the situation of living without wind.
Wind has a power and the power it possess are tremendous. It gives us momentary pleasure at the same time it also gives us cool and calmness when we get more heated up.
Wind is something related to change. The constant change cannot be easily felt with the help of wind. Wind can have many meangings in different culture and country but at the same time it does not mean anything at all too.
Wind has power to blow everything it sees, it is intelligent to see that whenever the environment needs it , it occurs. The wind is related to some extent with the change in the Environment.
To humans, wind is somehow related with the mood. A mood of the person changes depending upon the time and moment. Depending upon the context and situation. Depending upon the stress and anxiety one feels inside the body. Similarly, for a human wind can be related with the mood.
To Nature, wind can be associated as if it is the brain of the nature. One cannot live without the brain. The brain is vital for the existence of the Nature. May be when God existed; at that period, he build everything except the wind and then he realized later that there is something missing in the Nature. He then wanted soemthing to make it more romantic and more pleasant.
From the suggestion of other gods and from his own realization he saw the water but with no movement, he saw the trees but none of the leaves of the tree moved, he saw the clouds but none of the clouds move. He might have felt that, there is something missing- some music to the Nature.
For Nature, wind can be then related with the “Music”. Wind gives music to the environment. Without the music there is nothing existing in the Nature. With wind in Nature, leaves of the trees starts to sing, water in the lake, ocean and sea start to dance and clouds in the sky start to show the romantic color with rain, every now and then…
Wind can be easily broken down where “w” could mean weather, water, wonderful etc. “i” could mean investigation similarly, “n” could mean “Nature” lastly, “d” could mean dreams, darkness and destiny.
Therefore with the operation of the word “wind”, it can be concluded that- Wind is associated with the wonderful investigation by Nature to dream, to dance and to find destiny for humans.
We can learn a lot of things for ourselves by only observing the wind that puts the song in the lake,the wind which helps sail the boat in the ocean and the wind that takes dark cloud to its beautiful destination to show romantic climate of Nature.
Movement, change, transition, control (being able to control your power where it can be gentle and loving, or violent and destructive), loneliness…
The Element of Air, the Winds. In astrology, the ruler of my …starsign. A Libra.
Wind is movement.. It is sound.. The voice of God, the voice of the Universe, the voice of our Souls…
Aeolos, in ancient greek mythology, was the ruler of the Winds.
‘Gone with the Wind”….A classical and wonderful, romantic book and film! LOVE, THELMA
Iansã
It is true that the wind is an essential element for life to be created, but not the only one! On Mars, wind exists but yet they didn’t find life up there! So the wind is essential but not enough by itself. Some believes that it holds the voice of God, I say everything holds GOD in it, the voice of God is in all matter, God is the light itself, and as we all know Light needs nothing to travel, light needs no wind to transport it! The wind is simply a monitor showing all what we type on our keyboard! It reflects nature moods, it reflects our own moods! When I’m happy I love to drive and just let the wind play with my hair, it makes me feel free, it makes me feel connected, it means that the entire world is sharing my happiness, it makes me feel united with the universe. But then again when I’m sad, I feel like the wind will transport my feelings up high and get rid of them. The wind or more precisely air is essential for the sound can propagate, therefore the wind can be seen not as the communication tool such as the phone, but as the cable and the wires which transport the signals. Therefore the wind caries our sounds, our feelings, our memories, our history, and it can be harmful and helpful, it can be gentle or not, it can be sad or happy, it can be strong and weak, it can carry the cries of a defeated army, or the sounds of courage of a winning army, it can carry the tears or the smiles… the wind doesn’t carry God in it, the wind carries us, and God is within every one of us!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg&feature=related
LA DONNA E MOBILE…
LOVE, THELMA
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xToxhv_Y9nc&feature=related
The breeze will carry my loving sighs to you…..
LOVE, THELMA
To the winds of the south, great serpent, mother of the waters…
To the winds of the west, mother, sister jaguar, protector of the rainforest…
To the winds of the north, hummingbird, great journier, ancestors, ancient ones, keepers and guardians of this land…
To the winds of the east, great eagle, condor…
These are the first lines of a simple invocation of sacred space that I use in my work which originates in Peru but has many versions around the world.
The winds and their associated power animals invoke the forces through wich everything manifests - gravity, electromagnetism and weak and strong nuclear force.
If you want to know more about this I suggest going to http://www.thefourwinds.com.
Love and blessings
Rebecca
Quando ouvimos a palavra “kamikaze”, logo lembramos dos pilotos suicidas japoneses, que arremessavam seus aviões contra os navios inimigos, tentando provocar o maior dano possível.
Na verdade, kamikaze é a junção de 2 palavras japonesas, que são: Kami = Deus e Kaze = Vento, ou seja; tem o significado de Vento de Deus ou Sopro Divino.
Para sabermos a origem da palavra, temos que reportarmos ao ano de 1274, quando uma armada de 900 barcos, transportando mais de 44 mil soldados e marinheiros, compostos de mongóis, chineses e coreanos tentaram invadir o Japão pelo mar.
Quando os invasores já estavam próximos do litoral, ocorreu um forte vendaval que afundou praticamente toda frota invasora. Então os japonêses batizaram esse vendaval com o nome de Vento de Deus (Kamikaze).
Na segunda guerra mundial, quando todo o estoque de bombas, já estavam acabando, só restava aos pilotos dos aviões caças, o ato derradeiro, que era fazer do proprio avião, uma enorme bomba. Antes dos pilotos embarcarem no avião, era realizada uma cerimônia em que o comandante discursava com as palavras: “Agora vocês serão o Vento de Deus (Kamikaze), que irão salvar o Japão”.
E os pilotos levantavam vôos, já sabendo que seria a última missão de suas vidas…
Everytime you come across…
the scent of you shall make me pause!!!
You huddle me, you fiddle me…
with the touch of love that riddle me!!!
I shall wrap my arms around…
To embrace you for a stound!!!
you clasp to me with a smile…
and ponder me for a while!!!
I shall remain shut my eye…
for the fear that you may fly!!!
you kiss me bye in your own way…
and leaving me, you crossed the bay!!!
you are my love, you are my soul…
for without you, am no more a whole!!!
Everytime you come across,
I hope I ll confess my love before you pass…
I remember with great pleasure a poem of P.B.Shelley,Ode to the West Wind.I loved it.I found that the poet linked the power of the Wind to the idea of Liberty,one slave cannot be mighty,the wind was seen like a greek god,worshiped by the other elements of the nature.Also he talked about the infinite,the wind cannot vanish,it has no beginning and no end.bye
Freedom, magic, and space.
Rough northern winds…Ruined hair!
The gentle breeze…We’ll find God.
extra shot of happiness
The active part of the air element in Nature.
Sometimes we experience it´s destructive, sometimes we experience it as cleansing or whatever we experience. The Winds catalyse a letting go that creates a balance that needs to happen from Nature´s perspective.
Remember the song - “Dust in the wind” - in the end that is all we are.
To me the wind is what brings changing seasons and emotions…everything positive… :) I think it takes away all worries and heart-ache, and the feeling of being ’stuck’ that one feels from time-to-time… It reminds us that there’s something greater, something that’ll help see life afresh… that it just requires a little something to shake it all up … a gush of wind does that; always makes me happy, in the middle of no-matter-what… even if just for a moment… :)
Like Sabreena, I too associate the wind with childhood memories, and most recently as the co-creator with the power I also have. When I loudly requested that a change be made, a windstorm, a rogue gust of winds beat on the branches of the trees out the window that I was looking upon at 3 am one morning. It was as if to answer and transform the very thing I asked to have changed. I could almost say that I evoked the winds to alter this particular outcome in my favor! While some could say ‘that’s nuts!” I have captured the memory in my minds eye as if it were the truth, and I believe it! Since then, whenever I pray, or make a request or have a conversation requiring an answer, I’ll see the presence of the wind, through tall grasses or waves on a lake or always through the leaves of flowers and tree brances, and I know that I’ve been heard and answered.
The wind moves us to change
it can bring great Flux into our lives or leave us speechless in it’s power to move things along as it should…..
When i Hear the wind—it makes me feel safe- strange huh? It makes me think that everything is happening as it should be…….
I associate the wind with God moving things around ….and He has many reasons - we will never know about…To me The Wind is like a Thunderstorm, I feel safe in knowing that God and Our Universe have important things to say- Mother Nature knows best!!!!!
ALL LOVE=cat
xx
Life’s Breath.
In and out. Contrary but complementary.
wind ist ein treibende Kraft ein Chaos und gleich ein gegenmitel zu Chaos.
Ein Paradoxom und dadrin liegt die essenziele in unserem Leben Alles was uns in erste Linie als Paradox erscheint ist das was uns ausmacht.
Der wind ist ein Paradox. Physikalisch gesehen ein Versuch der Natur zwischen unterschiedliche Kräfte ausgleich zu schaffen, jedoch in unsere Seele ein stillende Mutter , ein Kraftstofftank ,scheinbar alles hinwerfend, vernischtend dennnoch was gutes schafft.
Yo lo relaciono con cambio, movimiento, certeza de que se lleva mis problemas, libertad, música del movimiento de la tierra.
Saludos
Yahaira
My family travels a lot,one summer my mother told me to closed the car window, i heard my uncle stop her and said to her let her be and told my mother how he wished he can read my thoughts. I remember i like to feel the wind in my face and think of all the story my grandfather told me. Twice i experienced a typhoon,all my friends were praying that it will stop. Believe it or not i felt excited when i heard its powerful whistle and thunders. And i like to think of myself like a bamboo wristling with the wind.
Wind of change, Scorpions, happiness, hope…
voice. or simply words. several years ago, i had a spiritual dream. the voice said ‘do you believe in God?’ before answering, i opened my eyes because i felt wind on my right ear. very soft wind though. like whispering. so i associate wind with voice. also i am taking voice training now. before singing, i have to practice breath control. i feel like i am in harmony with air while doing so.
The enveloping wind is for me a source of wonder and comfort I don’t anticipate or fear it just have a complete respect for it’s mighty powers, I love the sounds, movement and energy of it I like the vulnerability of being encircled by it, the cold winter chills the warm spring breezes the hot summer blows and all it’s other hues
Born out of genesis this captive energy has been roaming the earth ever since reveling the sounds of past and present, the whispers of birth the pleas and laughs of countless generations.
The winds bring the echoes of times to our reality and if we listen attentively we can hear the rushing of the first waters grooving the earth forming the rivers and seas we can hear the sound of the first light exploding into existence.In constant transformation and evolution the wind never dies just merges and renew earths energies ,like a breath to a heart beat.
In perpetual movement this movers and shakers in nature are the guardians of the invisible world where all possibilities are a reality .
It is a merciless implacable force but I love the wind ,it’s ever present in my life, just same days again I was whirled all night in winds up to 120 klmh which unfortunately brought the death of one of my peacocks, such is the price of our existence.
♡
Saravá
Milou
Forgive me for digressing somewhat from the specific subject at hand, but I would really appreciate some views and opinions on an observation that I have made. While we are repeatedly told to think positively, to visualize our desires and in general to assume that our wishes will be granted, I have personally not found these techniques to work for me. Specifically, it is when I imagine the worst, and when I am worried or pessimistic about an outcome that all turns out quite well. I have used this technique all my life and achieved quite a bit of success. Has anyone else made this observation ?. Again, any views and opinions would be very much appreciated.
Best regards from Malta
Gyspy winds whisper fortunes, breathing into the landscape so that it dances the dance of life or marching ashore like Katrina bringing the black procession.
Wind is a force; Its only constant, change.
Diane
Acho que estarei eternamente em busca do prazer em qualquer tipo de trabalho que esteja fazendo, já que eu não posso trabalhar naquilo que mais tenho prazer que é o palco. A procura do prazer em qualquer área que esteja atuando é muito prazeroso pois os desafios diários deixam-me exitada!
I associate wind with Tara - Buddha of wisdom and compassion. She is very swift in her actions, like wind. She always helps very quickly whenever I turn to her. She is a Mother, or maybe it is better to say she is one of the many manifestations of the Great Mother. The Great Mother manifested herself for me in a form of Buddha Tara. The compassion of the mother for her child is so great that she immediately responds to the cry. She can not bear a thought of her child suffering. Her action will be swift like the wind to take away any pain.
I was looking at the trees I can see from my opened window one night. I felt like talking to them, so I concentrated on one at each time, said hello and the wind made them wave back at me. So I suppose wind is like the voice of the world. How ever mute or loud, and even if we can’t hear it, we can read its language through movement.
Wind is also like time, you can’t see it, but you can see the causes of its touch. Wind is like the neverending movement that keeps the universe going. The energy of creation. Life force. Then what keeps the wind moving? Magnetism, I suppose.
Keanu
change
I associate wind with the ultimate love and wisdom. All the words of wisdom and love have already been said infinite times on earth and the words are still carried around by the wind. Our consious mind does not recognize them anymore but unconsious still hears and understands them. The stronger the wind is the more concentrated the wisdom and love are. Hence, the harder the wind the more I enjoy it.
Winds whisper the memories of past years, and most often, when they blow ever so softly during afternoons when the Sun is just about to set, my heart aches for long ago, to the time of my childhood, of wide horizons and carefree days.
I think that the wind is great! Have you ever been to Medugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina? I love your books!!!!
I associate emotions expression with winds. Wind is how the air expresses its emotions.Happy, fresh, sad, angree,….
I also feel that winds pass through angles !!! Blieve me, L have talked to my angle.
wind is cleansing…open vast and filled with
tumultous turns…winds are about air power
vs gravitational earth secutity. Going with the flow and leaving the known to be swept ready or not by the power of force! Like spirituality,dreams and passion.
oi, acabei de ler uma entrevista sua e levantei da cama (agora são 21:49 hrs, em BH)para descobrir mais sobre você.Eu confesso que , apesar da entrevista ser sobre o seu novo livro,o que motivou a minha pesquisa foi ter lido ” sou mais dependende da internet do que eu assumo” … acho engraçado como pequenas coisas despertam nosso interesse.Comecei aprocurar um blog, e achei este em inglês … posso comentar em português ?? Penso que assim é mais espontâneo.Acho que a curiosidade vai me trazer aqui mais vezes …
Grande mago eu sou um grande fã seu
meu livro favorito é diario de um mago
na minha opinião seu melhor livro
;Se teu-es brilhante com as obras de
arte que tu escreve tu és brilhanre
na maneira de ver a lus que te ilumina
e te mostra a verdade.E segue teus sonhos
como o brilho dos teus olhos au selencio
de o brotar de uma rosa.
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minha pequena homenagem para um grande homem
UM ABRAÇO E FICA COM DEUS ELE ESTA COM NOS
TA COM PEQUENOS ERROR MAIS Ñ ESTOU COM VERGONHA
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As a child the wind carried the smell of the Sea for me. It was the dinner bell as the smell of food floated softly down the hill to where I would play outside. A gust of wind would bring the heat closer as when I would sit near an open fire. It is a magic catalyst that intensifies everything around it.
“What do you associate with the Winds?”
Indigestion?
The winds are very strong entitys.They transport sound,seeds,etc.They bring cold and warm wether.I remember that grandmother had in Romania for the northwind the name Crivatul(she feard him),the westnwind name was Austrul,I think the easten was Baltaretul and suden i forgot it.Important for me as a child was the feelig what she gave to me when she spoke about them :very respectful like she spoke about high personalitys.
love Mirela