Two Powers Meditation

As I begin I am making the conscious choice not to include the script of the meditation here.  On the surface the Two Power Meditation seems like a very druid grounding technique.  However the more I used the meditation, the more I realized that there was more to it.

So it took me many attempts to first concentrate on the images of being in a land area and making roots, then several more to envision the sky powers, and then finally merging it all together.  I admit still having trouble with the blending, but getting better.  The focus on breathing in the onset does help you ground and become calmer.  Concentration on breath pushes out the brain clutter and allows the person to slow down.  Slowing down allows us to separate ourselves from all the thoughts and requirements we have day to day, and put them aside.  In this sense it is entirely about grounding out any un-useful energies, but also all un-useful thoughts.  We can’t hope to use energies efficiently if we ourselves are in a state of chaos.  This is the function of grounding.  Casting aside all that may interfere with the goal.

The second feature, that of the nature elements in the meditation, inclined me to produce a mental image of a safe place.  A place that did not have the clutter of the everyday world.  It brought me from the dark underground calming, to the light. Working at actually feeling the moistness of the earth, and the warmth of the sun as a tree would feel them.  In doing so becoming rooting in the world, and encouraging becoming a more real part of it.  So while it promote grounding it had the offshoot of promoting awareness of being one with the world around you.

However it was in my moments of difficulty that I began to understand that beyond the simple act of grounding lays more to this meditation.  The concept is that we connect first to water (Well), and then to sky power (Fire) and we already saw the use of root imagery.  This meditation seems to be building a mental construct identifying us as the Tree.  This in fact makes perfect sense.  In ritual we use the three to make a gate, but in reality it is us, the people in the ritual that are moving the energy around.  So in practicing this grounding meditation we are conditioning ourselves to the energies in question, and making ourselves the focus in order to use the energies to open said gate.

Above that I also found that it inspired more connection to ancestors and Gods, again because we are the link between them.  Our ancestors are where we came from the Gods what we aspire to.  Again a powerful tool to be used in ritual, particularly when building up the energies.